Sycuan Ringside Promotions officials expressed surprise Saturday that a proposed bout between undefeated World Boxing Organization junior lightweight champion Joan Guzman of the Dominican Republic and Michael Katsidis for the Australian’s WBO lightweight interim title is “official.†“We’re more than a little surprised to read that Guzman’s manager, Jose Nunez, has gone on record saying…
Joey Gilbert Promotions Brings Championship Boxing to Reno, NV when “Reno After Dark†Championship Boxing comes to the Reno Events Center After a successful first boxing production in Lake Tahoe, Joey Gilbert Promotions will be bringing its second professional boxing event to Joey Gilbert’s hometown of Reno, NV. The “Reno After Dark”-Championship Boxing event will…
“Dangerous” Ted Bami turned back Guiseppe “The End” Lauri last night on a Matchroom Promotions card at the K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley, England and retained his European Light Welterweight crown for the first time. This was the second occasion that Bami has beaten Lauri but the Italian visitor didn’t make it easy on the…
“I know what I’m dealing with” Tomasz Bonin, the WBC 11th ranked heavyweight who is on his way to Wembley Arena to take on David Haye, the face of British boxing, on 27 April has released his first comments from his Polish training camp. Bonin is clearly not making the journey to the UK just…
6’4″ super middleweight returns April 18 against former title challenger Robert Allen His birth name is Jameson Bostic. His friends know him as Jamie Kang. In boxing, he is rapidly becoming known as the sports best kept secret. Three-time world middleweight title challenger Robert Allen (38-5, 27KO) will find out the hard way on April…
Heavy-hitting heavyweights Walker and Butler co-headline Friday, April 6, 2007, on “ShoBox: The New Generation.†Showtime will air the doubleheader at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast). Travis Walker and Raphael Butler knocked down then WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko during sparring in late 2005, according to trainer Dickie Wood. Witnesses on those…
Undefeated heavyweight contender Kevin “Kingpin†Johnson (13-0, 5KO) made his South Carolina debut a memorable one, crushing journeyman Curtis Taylor via 1st round KO, Thursday night at the Plex in North Charleston, SC. “I hit this dude with my jab and his fighting spirit flew right out of him†said Johnson. “Once I moved my…
The official weigh-in for tonight’s hotly anticpated Virgil Hill – Henry Maske rematch at a sold out Olympia Hall in Munich, Germany took place yesterday and both ex-world champions made it under the contracted weight limit of 190 lb. Virgil Hill, 50-5 (23), weighed in 188.75 lb/85.8 kg Henry Maske, 30-1 (11), hit the scales…
Britain’s most avoided fighter John O’Donnell believes that he should be in the shakedown for the British welterweight title this summer. The standout 21-year-old confirmed his credentials with an impressive win over fellow undefeated puncher Stuart Elwell last Friday to claim the English championship on the Hennessy Sports and GoldenPalace.com “Cobra’s Hood’ event at the…
The strongest division in boxing is loaded with talent and big names as well as future and potential future Hall of Famers. Perhaps even more intriguing is the fact that boxing’s next great star could emerge from the welterweight division. Floyd Mayweather Jr’s departure has opened the door for someone to stake claim to the…
A week after they surfaced, James Toney is denying reports of potential fight being made against old cruiserweight foe Vasilly Jirov. Toney, speaking Wednesday from San Jose, CA, says that neither he nor his publicist have heard anything concrete concerning the “Russian Tiger”. “I’m fighting in July or maybe August against someone right now, I…
Tonight sees a bevy of boxing in the UK on two cards on opposite ends of England. At the K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley, Matchroom Promotions stages the initial title defense of hard punching European Light Welterweight Champion Ted Bami, who meets the man he beat for the belt, Italy’s seasoned Giuseppe Lauri. The first…