The combatants for tonight’s 8 Count Boxing bill at Cicero Stadium in Chicago, IL weighed in yesterday. Tavoris Cloud, 176 vs. Jim Strohl, 175, ten rounds Carl Davis, 229 vs. Zack Page, 202, ten rounds Leo Martinez, 134 vs. David Maund, 135, six rounds Jeff Curran, 150 vs. Guadalupe Diaz, 149, four rounds
Click for larger image © Rhun Leeding / Saddo Boxing WBO Boxing Champion Returns July 7 But Dreams Of Headlining Hometown Stadium Welsh puncher Enzo Maccarinelli, 26-1 (20), has revealed to SaddoBoxing that his dream would be to fight in front of a full house at the Liberty Stadium in his hometown of Swansea. He…
“Golden Boy” Of Denmark Desperate For Victory Danish Super Featherweight prospect Kim Poulsen returns to the ring in Oranienberg, Germany on May 12, and has sent out a defiant message to whoever he fights against stating, “I must win by all means.” Poulsenʼs return comes less than a month since his disappointing points loss to…
Saturday was a great night for Michigan in sports. The Red Wings won, the Tigers won, the Pistons won and Floyd won. But with that being said, boxing was the only sport of the four that was out of the casual sports fan’s mind come Monday morning. The city of Detroit was once known as…
With just over one week to go before his big showdown against Kelly Pavlik in Memphis Tennessee on HBO, Edison Miranda, the ‘People’s Champion’, took some time to talk about his thoughts for his upcoming fight. “Kelly Pavlik is a very unlucky guy. I had a goal after I saw the horrible performance that Jermain…
MAY 5TH SUPERFIGHT BREAKS ALL RECORDS With critics threatening that boxing was in trouble and in danger of losing its grip on the American public, the sport needed a great event to give it a shot in the arm. On May 5th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, boxing got what it needed when Oscar…
Mohegan Sun, in association with DiBella Entertainment, presents live championship boxing on Saturday, June 16 as IBF Junior Welterweight Champion Lovemore N’dou (45-8-1, 30 KO’s) from Australia defends his title against Brooklyn bad boy Paulie Malignaggi (22-1-0, 5 KO’s). In the co-feature, Curtis Stevens makes his HBO debut in a 10-round super middleweight battle against…
Unbeaten middleweight sensation “Ireland’s” John Duddy headlines “Tomorrow’s Champions” in the 10-round main event against Dupre “Total Package” Strickland (18-1-1, 7 KOs) on May 18th at the famed Beacon Theatre in Manhattan. The Northern Ireland born Duddy (19-0, 15 KOs), now living in Queens (NYC), is the reigning IBA World and WBC Continental Americas middleweight…
By Per Ake Persson European Middleweight Champ Amin Asikainen´s defence against Sebastian Sylvester that was set for Bamberg May 26 has again been postponed as Sylvester suffers from a bad cold. Pekka Maeki, Asikainen´s trainer and promoter, says he was informed Monday of Sylvester´s illness. “I didn´t know that being scared is a medical term”…
Hennessy Sports are bringing their hallmark brand of competitive championship boxing to the “seni07 Combat Sports Show’ at ExCeL London in Docklands with “SENI:BOX,’ the launch event of the three-day showcase of Combat Sports, Martial Arts and Extreme Fitness that debuts in the Capital. Fittingly, the bill on May 18th will feature a raft of…
IBA world lightweight champion Stevie “Lil’ But Bad” Johnston has been training in Colorado Springs since May 1 to re-acclimate himself to the area’s high altitude for his May 18 title defense against WBC Latino & WBA FEDEBOL super featherweight champion Humberto “El Fuerte” Toledo in the 12-round main event, headlining “Rocky Mountain Mayhem: Return…
Time Warner’s HBO Pay Per View arm (formerly known as TVKO) has announced that this past Saturday night’s WBC Jr. Middleweight title between Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. has set the all time record for PPV sales in any sporting event. The official tabulation was 2.15 million PPV buys, comprised of 1,225,000…