Just slightly over one year ago, Paul Malignaggi made his first attempt at a world title; one year and six days to be exact. In that attempt, he was battered, beaten, put on the canvas and had his jaw broken. That first run at world championship gold came against the reigning WBO 140 lb champion…
Ajose Olusegun claimed his first title by unanimously out pointing Gary Reid to win the vacant Commonwealth light welterweight crown at Crystal Palace in London on Friday night. The Nigerian born 27 year old was heavily favoured to defeat Reid, a Jamaican born Stoke on Trent resident, but was forced to raise his game to…
Photo Gallery ©Karl Stubbs/Impact Boxing When Gary Reid left the Potteries for London to meet Nigerian Ajose Olusegun it was more in hope than in expectation. The boxing intelligentsia expected Gary to last between 4 and 6 rounds in last night’s Commonwealth light-welterweight title clash. He confounded the experts however and was still on his…
Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions has announced details of “Summer Sizzle”, their next world class, action packed evening of professional boxing set for Friday, July 13 at the newly remodeled, fully air conditioned Congress Theater in downtown Chicago. Headlining the evening is a super featherweight ten round bout between undefeated Oxnard, California native Jose Aguiniga…
Cestus Management’s undefeated super middleweight dynamo Donovan George needed just seventy-four seconds to discard Cory Phelps. The fight took place this past Thursday night on the undercard of the Hasim Rahman-Tauras Sykes contest from Rochester, New York and was promoted by Top Rank, who is the promoter of Donovan George. “Da’Bomb†went into the ring…
It will be the Battle of Midway when three-division world champion Erik “El Terrible†Morales, making his Chicago debut and seeking his record fourth world title in as many weight divisions, rumbles with WBC lightweight champion and Chicago native David Diaz in the main event of “The War for 4!†Promoted by Top Rank Inc.,…
Photo ©Jim Everett/SaddoBoxing Tonight on the HBO Boxing After Dark series, Paulie “Magic Man†Malignaggi will challenge Lovemore N’Dou for his IBF Light Welterweight title at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT. This will be Malignaggi’s second shot at a light welterweight title in just over a year. Last year, he faced Miguel Cotto for the…
Photo ©Jim Everett/SaddoBoxing Tonight on the HBO series, Boxing After Dark, Curtis “Showtime†Stevens will make his debut on the network as he faces Andre Dirrell on the undercard of the IBF Welterweight title fight between Lovemore N’Dou and Paulie Malignaggi at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT. A Brownsville, New York native, Stevens…
Giant Photo Gallery ©Jim Everett/SaddoBoxing Last Saturday night on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade, Madison Square Garden was so full of success stories I don’t know what to write about first. Do I start with the excitement of the sell out crowd of 20,685 fans, the instant classic between Cotto and Judah,…
By Ben Lettman Victories For Africa’s Finest It was a great night for African boxing at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London. Along with Ajose Olusegun becoming the new Commonwealth Light Welterweight Champion, there were points victories for fellow Nigerian Tony Salam and South African Tshifwa Munyai, respectively. Munyai, fighting at featherweight instead…
Last night on a Frank Maloney promotion at the Crystal Palace in South London, flashy southpaw Ajose Olusegun took on Impact Boxing’s seasoned body punching hardman Gary Reid and came away with the vacant Commonwealth Light Welter crown with a unanimous points win. Olusegun started off the bout with his trademark gunslinging style, levelling full…
Last night in front of 10,000 fans at the Bell Centre in Montreal, undefeated super middle southpaw Lucian Bute kept his perfect record by winning an IBF Eliminator with a tough twelve round decision over the rugged Sakio Bika. Bika came to fight, having already tangled with the likes of world champions Joe Calzaghe, Markus…