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…
WBC welterweight champion Junior Witter has hit back at rival title holder Ricky Hatton on talkSPORT, the UK’s only national commercial speech radio station, saying he thinks Hatton is a coward for refusing to meet him in the ring, depriving the public of the fight they desperately want to see. Talking to Alan Brazil and…
The philosophy of the popular SHOWTIME boxing series, “ShoBox: The New Generation’’ is simple: to televise exciting, crowd-pleasing and competitive matches while providing a proving ground for willing young fighters determined to fight for a world title. Since its inception in July 2001, several “ShoBox’’ alums not only have challenged for, but won world titles,…
Dante Craig, Nate Gibbs, Rocky Phillips Preytonie and Mark Scott will see action on the Crown Boxing card at the Drawbridge Inn, Ft. Mitchell, KY on Saturday, February 17. Tickets are now on sale, call toll free 1-877-658-2769. $25 general admission, $50 reserved and $100 ringside.
“Lights Out” Headed For A Repeat In History The recent WBC heavyweight eliminator to decide it’s number one challenger between James Toney and Samuel Peter was a fight that I had been looking forward to. In fact, I had been looking forward to it since about five minutes after their first encounter, a fight that…
Ricky “the Hitman’ Hatton is one of the most murderous bodypunchers in all of boxing – that’s the considered professional opinion of perhaps the greatest exponent of rib-cracking in modern pugilism, Mike McCallum. The legendary “Bodysnatcher’ was a very interested observer at Hatton’s open workout at the Top Rank gym in Las Vegas Tuesday afternoon….
Matthew Thirlwall intends to overcome the frustrations he has experienced since becoming a professional and make 2007 the year in which he takes fulfilling the potential he demonstrated as an amateur to the next level. The 26-year-old middleweight from Bermondsey turned over as a member of Hennessy Sports “Real Class of 2002’ after a standout…