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Courtesy www.frankmaloney.com As sure as the sun rises and sets, there invariably comes a night in every prospects respective career when the spoon feeding ceases all the questions that cloak him must finally be answered. For the undefeated Sechew ‘Iron Horse’ Powell, that night has not only arrived but is …

Click for larger image © Mary Ann Owen / Tom Casino With the exception of Bunting, who tipped scales at 167 1/2 pounds, all the boxers weighed the division-limit 168 pounds One of only four sets of Mexican brothers in history to win a world title, the Marquez brothers will …

In a pair of 10-round bouts, Anthony Hanshaw will face Esteban Camou and LaFarrell Bunting will meet Jose Luis Herrera in opening-round matches of the “ShoBox” super middleweight tournament Friday, Aug. 4, on SHOWTIME (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast) from The Sports Center of Las Vegas. Bunting-Herrera …

For Period Ended July 31, 2006 POUND-FOR-POUND 1. FLOYD MAYWEATHER Welterweight 2. WINKY WRIGHT Middleweight 3. MANNY PACQUIAO Junior Lightweight 4. JERMAIN TAYLOR Middleweight 5. BERNARD HOPKINS Light Heavyweight 6. MARCO ANTONIO BARRERA Junior Lightweight 7. RAFAEL MARQUEZ Bantamweight 8. RICKY HATTON Junior Welterweight/Welterweight 9. JOSE LUIS CASTILLO Junior Welterweight …

Featherweight World Championship Is Co-Featured Bout To WBC Heavyweight Showdown – TONEY vs. PETER Sept. 2, 2006, on Showtime Championship Boxing, 10 p.m. ET/PT An already spectacular night of boxing just got better! International Boxing Federation (IBF) 126-pound champion Eric “Mighty Mouse” Aiken (16-4, 12 KOs) will put his title …

“As of now, I say to Floyd Mayweather: I am the true champion” When Carlos Baldomir spoke those words, after his TKO victory over Arturo Gatti last month, the boxing world has been buzzing over the prospect of such a fight between the welterweight titans. Floyd Mayweather Jr., 36-0 (24), …

Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, at 9 p.m. ET/PT From MontBleu Resort Casino and Spa, Stateline, Nevada They are rough, talented, extremely confident, hard-hitting southpaws. Each has 15 career knockouts and only one loss. One will make his third United States …

Sakio Bika has withdrawn from the “ShoBox: The New Generation” super middleweight tournament with an injured elbow and has been replaced by once-beaten southpaw Lafarrell “Memphis Fairway” Bunting. The announcement was made Tuesday by “ShoBox” Executive Producer Gordon Hall and tournament promoter Gary Shaw.

Immediately after Taylor-Hopkins II, Lou DiBella, promoter of Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor, states “Taylor’s next fight will be in Little Rock (Ark) against a bum.” That scenario doesn’t play out, instead Taylor fights Winky Wright.  Immediately after that fight, DiBella upgrades his previous “bum” statement by telling the world his …

The 16th of September might not mean much to the average Brit but stop a Mexican in the street and he will tell you that that is the day his country gained Independence. So on the 16th September Marco Antonio Barrera will celebrate Independence day in a rematch with Rocky …

Photos copyright Karl Stubbs/Impact Boxing English Lightweight champion Scott Lawton hopes to be joined by British Masters Light-Welterweight champion Gary Reid who has today been nominated to challenge for the English Light-Welterweight Title. Impact Boxing, who represents North Stafforshire’s two leading pugilists, today revealed that The Midlands Area Council of …

Immediately after Taylor-Hopkins II, Lou DiBella, promoter of Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor, states “Taylor’s next fight will be in Little Rock (Ark) against a bum.” That scenario doesn’t play out, instead Taylor fights Winky Wright.  Immediately after that fight, DiBella upgrades his previous “bum” statement by telling the world his …