A glove dispute placed Saturday’s International Boxing Federation heavyweight championship at the SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany, in jeopardy late Friday afternoon. IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is slated to defend his title against No.1 ranked mandatory challenger Ray “The Rainman†Austin.
Click for larger image© Wray Edwards Israeli heavyweight Roman Greenberg will make his Madison Square Garden debut on Saturday night, facing Michael Simms of Sacramento, CA over a scheduled ten rounds on the undercard of the Sultan Ibragimov – Javier Mora headliner. Greenberg, 24-0 (17), has fought the majority of his bouts in the UK…
Scott Lawton insists champion Jon Thaxton’s home crowd will not intimidate him in his British lightweight title challenge on the Hennessy Sports and GoldenPalace.com “Showdowns @ The Showground’ event in Norwich on Friday 16th March. The Stoke challenger expects to have a loyal army of over 100 fans down from the Potteries for his first…
Sultan Ibragimov (19-0-1, 16 KO’s), 221 pounds, of Russia (left) and Mexico’s Javier Mora (23-3-1, 17 KO’s), 256 3/4 pounds, weigh in for Saturday’s heavyweight main event at Madison Square Garden (Thursday afternoon). Seminole Warriors Boxing and Golden Boy Promotions will present the fight Click for larger image© Wray Edwards card at New York City’s…
All tickets have been sold for the “Erin Go Brawl” pay-per-view show on March 16, featuring “Ireland’s” John Duddy and Anthony “The Bullet” Bonsante, live from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Duddy (18-0, 15 KOs), rated No. 7 by the WBO and No. 9 by the IBF, defends his IBA…
This Saturday night in Reading PA, Travis “GW Hope” Kauffman plans to kick off a major 2007 with a bang. At 7-0 with (5 KO’s), the undefeated heavyweight prospect is looking at 10 fights by December and multiple TV dates. This Saturday night at the Riversedge in Reading PA, “GW Hope” takes on the hard…
Welterweight prospect Jeffrey Resto will take on Roberto Valenzuela in a special attraction bout at March Mayhem on March 16 at Cicero Stadium, it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions. Resto, from the Bronx, New York, sports a record of 19-2 with thirteen knockouts,
Click for larger image © Cestus Management Chicago Prospect Patiently Making His Way Toward The Top Over the years I have spoken with literally hundreds of young fighters. So many, I probably could not begin to name them all if you offered me tomorrow’s winning lottery numbers. You notice something about these young guy’s after…
Perfection, life’s teleological goal. A transcendent almost mystical ideal to which mankind inexorably strives. Any fleeting glimpse of it should be cherished, for the world is riddled with fallibility. Yet modern boxing fears perfection, the fistic fraternity pour scorn upon it and attempt to undermine its presence. The holders of the flawless records are seemingly…
Former IBF light heavyweight champion Henry “The Gentleman” Maske has come out of his 10-plus year retirement to fight the only man ever to defeat him as a professional, five-time world champion and reigning WBA cruiserweight title-holder Virgil “Quicksilver” Hill, on March 31 in “The Rematch” pay-per-view event at Olympia Hall in Munich, Germany.
Former standout amateur Sam Sexton insists he can be the new face of British heavyweight boxing and give the domestic division a much-needed boost. The Norwich fighter is in Germany sparring with Richel Hersisia, the Dutchman who was out-pointed by London’s 2000 Olympic gold medallist Audley Harrison in 2004, ahead of his fifth professional fight…
Opportunity Knocks for 12 fighters who appear on the Simone Maludrottu vs Ian Napa support card at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre in London on Friday 9 March. Maludrottu and Napa meet to decide the European Bantamweight title on a card that includes the much hyped fifth professional appearance of Scott Belshaw, “The man who was…