Don King Productions’ “Super Saturday†boxing card featuring three world championships will stay in Florida and take place on Feb. 3 at the Silver Spurs Arena at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Fla. The event, originally slated for Miami, will now make history as the biggest fight card ever in the greater Orlando area featuring…
Year Of The Uncrowned Champ On February 10 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, Luis Collazo takes on Shane Mosley in a 12 round fight for the Interim WBC Welterweight title. Collazo is coming off a TKO win over Artur Atadzhanov in November and most notably of late, lost to Ricky Hatton…
“Blood, Sweat & Guts,” presented by Silverhawk Championship Boxing, features an all-star card of world-class fights with six different titles being contested, January 26 at Destiny Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. In the 12-round main event, unbeaten heavyweight Leo “Paco” Nolan defends his USBO title against Texas State champion Hector Ferreyro. Nolan (26-0, 10 KOs) has…
As One Undeserving Briton Loses His Honor, Another Deserving One Steps Up When it was revealed that former world featherweight champion “Prince” Naseem Hamed was to be stripped of his MBE award, the extremely rare action attracted massive attention in the national press. Hamed has not yet commented on the dishonour, however his former trainer…
“…do the honorable thing and face us instead of trying to cash out against one of the Klitschkos.†“The WBC title is not for sale,†flatly states Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare†Peter’s manager Ivaylo Gotzev to Dennis Rappaport, promoter of WBC Heavyweight Champion Oleg Maskaev.
Looking To Bring Hope To The Future Of The Heavyweight Division If by chance the last name Kauffman rings a bell, that could be because Travis Kauffman is the son of well known trainer Marshall Kauffman. The difference between the two is that while Marshall applies his craft outside the ring, teaching fighters what they…
Muhammad Ali turns 65 years old today. Wow! Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday my father and I were jumping around the living room, screaming like lottery winners when Ali regained the heavyweight title from Leon Spinks. The so called experts had said it could not be done as rumor had…
Junior Witter believes long-term rival Ricky Hatton is a “coward’ and a “bully’ who is “hiding behind smokescreens’ and has called for him to settle their long running feud in a massive winner takes all showdown for the sake of the British public. The two are fighting on the same Sky Sports Pay Per View…
It seems linear junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton may have a future in the world of international espionage when he finally hangs up the gloves. During his Tuesday afternoon media workout at the Top Rank gym in Las Vegas, the Hitman wowed his camp members by somehow deciphering the cunning disguises of two Juan Urango…
On the strip the high rollers are rolling, the tourists are checking out the sights, and fight fans are taking in the big event atmosphere that no other sport can compare to. But for IBF junior welterweight champion Juan Urango, this isn’t a time for partying; it’s time for work as he readies for his…
Matthew Hatton will join older brother Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas this weekend, taking on troubled journeyman Frank Houghtaling in a twelve round clash for the IBF International Welterweight title at the Paris Hotel on Saturday night. Since becoming a professional fighter in 2000, 25 year old Matthew Hatton has toiled in the shadow of…
Golden Boy Promotions is pleased to announce that the hottest ticket in sports, Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather, will go on sale Saturday, Jan. 27 at 10 a.m. The unprecedented battle between six-division world champion De La Hoya and unbeaten, four-division world champion Mayweather will be held Saturday, May 5 at the MGM…