Until his death in 1988 from leukemia, legendary boxing manager and former world handball champion Jim Jacobs was one of the world’s formost collectors of boxing memorabilia. Jim’s wife Loraine Jacobs will be auctioning Jim’s collection of boxing memorabilia at Lelands Auction on May 18. All proceeds go to Leukemia Research. Go to www.lelands.com to…
Training alongside Oscar de la Hoya has inspired John Murray and John O’Donnell to put on an eye-catching display at the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas on Saturday. The Hennessy Sports duo box on the undercard of their US co-promoters highly anticipated clash against Floyd Mayweather, arguably the biggest fight in boxing…
Photos ©Tom Casino/Showtime ShoBox Weigh-in: Eddie Chambers weighed 214 pounds, Dominick Guinn tipped the scale at 222, Chris Arreola weighed 235, Malcolm Tann 230. Undefeated “Fast†Eddie Chambers (28-0, 16 KOs) faces Dominick “The Southern Disaster’’ Guinn (28-4-1, 19 KOs) in the 10-round main event Friday, May 4, 2007, on “ShoBox: The New Generationâ€, live…
By Per Ake Persson European Lightweight champ Yuri Romanov, fresh off a third round knockout win over Tontcho Tontchev, will make another voluntary defence of the title in July in Donetsk, Ukraine. Romanov will take on Andrei Kudriatsev. It will be Brazilian Carlos Nascimento that challenge WBO Junior Middle champ Sergey Dzinziruk on May 19…
Chicago boxing favorite Angel “Toro†Hernandez returns to the ring on Friday, May 11 to battle Kendall Gould at Cicero Stadium as the special feature attraction of “Mano A Mano”, it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions. The thirty one year old Hernandez, 27-6 (16KO’s) has been amongst Chicago’s most…
Hennessy Sports lightweight John Murray is looking forward to putting on a show against Lorenzo Bethea on the undercard of the highly anticipated clash between Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather at the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas on Saturday. The 22-year-old from Manchester will box over eight rounds against the…
Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT presents “Battle Zone 3” tonight at the Mohegan Sun Arena, promoted by Alpha Omega Entertainment Group. The main event features unbeaten popular local super bantamweight Mike Oliver facing Filipino veteran Vernie Torres in a ten round contest. Chief support sees light heavyweights Rodney Toney and Anthony Russell square off…
In honor of this Friday’s hotly anticipated WBC Super Welterweight title fight between reigning champion Oscar De La Hoya and challenger Floyd Mayweather, the Mexico City based sanctioning body has compiled a large body of statistics that celebrate their involvement in the 154 lb division. How does this clash between Oscar and Floyd stack up…
The makers of not just champions, but pound for pound greats. The name of the game is Boxing. Boxing consist of two men in a square ring going at it, man to man, until either one man is rendered unable to continue or the final bell rings and a winner is declared. We all know…
Nicolai Valuev recently lost his WBA heavyweight title to the tenacious Ruslan Chagaev in an entertaining scrap held in Stuttgart, Germany. That strange sound you heard immediately following the fight was the collective sigh of relief from countless boxing fans. The 49-0 mark set by the great Rocky Marciano was safe once more. Marciano’s record…
21 year old Werrington heavyweight Alex “El Toro’ Ibbs has been mixing it with former WBA World champion Tim Witherspoon. Witherspoon won his world title by defeating Tony Tubbs on points over 15 rounds in January 1986 and successfully defended it in July of the same year when he scored an 11th round TKO over…
Floyd Mayweather Sr. loves what he sees in Sycuan Ringside Promotions’ undefeated World Boxing Organization junior lightweight champion Joan Guzman. “We just started working together, but I could tell right away that he’s got unbelievable talent,†said Mayweather Sr., who has trained future hall of fame boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr., his son, and Oscar De…