By Simon Jackson “Junior Will Box Anyone Put In Front Of Him” WBC light welterweight champion Junior ‘The Hitter’ Witter “will box anyone put in front of him,” Dominic Ingle, the 32 year olds trainer said today. “Junior has never backed out of a fight and as long as it is WBC approved he will…
Click for larger image© Paul SpeakTeam Hatton One week before the fight and training couldn’t have gone any better, Saturday finished my usual gruelling 15 rounds on the body belt so this hard slog is now done. one more week now to wind down and then its just getting in there to do the job…
On September 15th 2006 Sky Sports kicked off their coverage of this latest boxing season with a Hennessy Sports event at the Alexandra Palace headlined by Junior Witter in a challenge for the prestigious WBC light welterweight championship. This Saturday, their coverage of boxing in 2007 begins with another Hennessy Sports promotion at the historic…
Let’s Get It On Promotions is back! Boxing’s most famous referee, television judge, and national personality Mills Lane and his two sons, Terry and Tommy, have put the company back in business and plan to start putting on fights soon. Mills Lane is regarded as one of the best referees in boxing history. Lane officiated…
On Monday, January 15, IBF Pan Pacific Light Heavyweight Champion Danny “The Green Machine” Green started a series of fitness boxing sessions with members of the Australian Football League St. Kilda Saints at Moorabbin Oval in suburban Melbourne, Australia. Following the session with the Saints players, Danny conducted his own training session on Moorabbin Oval…
Ricky Hatton strolled into the Top Rank Gym in Las Vegas, ahead of 15 hard rounds on the infamous bodybelt with trainer Billy “The Preacher” Graham. In attendance was Laila Ali, daughter of the Great Muhammad Ali. The two fighters got on great with Ricky inviting Laila to his fight against Juan Urango at the…
Silverhawk Championship Boxing added another title belt to its growing display case as Adrian “Juanito” Mora captured the vacant NBA super lightweight championship last night in Tampa, while stablemate Rubin “Hollywood” Williams retained his NBA super middleweight crown Friday evening in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
Potteries’ boxing promoters and managers Impact Boxing today revealed that Gary Reid will step down from light-welterweight and will campaign at lightweight in future. Reid becomes the latest of an increasing number of boxers who are either moving up from super-featherweight or down from light-welter to swell the ranks of the lightweight division. Impact Boxing…
World class light heavyweight contender Danny Green wowed the public during an open air training session at Federation Square in downtown Melbourne on Thursday. The session gave fans an small insight into the hard work boxers go through both mentally and physically in a fight preparation. Australia’s most popular fighter is in the thick of…
As if making his Las Vegas debut, underlining his status as the world’s best junior welterweight and setting up a pound-for-pound collision with superstar Jose Luis Castillo isn’t motivation enough, Ricky Hatton will be fighting to get his hands on a special birthday present for his son next weekend. Hatton challenges Juan Urango for the…
With the sixth and (hopefully) final instalment of the Rocky series currently doing great business at the box office in America, I recently had the pleasure of speaking with a fighter many have called, “The closest real life similarity to the gutsy Rocky Balboa.†And certainly, New York’s Vinny Maddalone is one tough, somewhat crude,…
Sugar Shane Mosley and Luis Collazo met face-to-face to officially announce their upcoming championship fight coming February 10th at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mosley (43-4, 1 NC 37 KO’s) a three-time world champion in three weight divisions, says he understands the type of opponent Click for larger image he is facing…