Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing At Tuesday’s press conference formally announcing Peter vs. Toney 2, promoter Don King and Ken Hershman, Showtime Networks senior vice president of Sports Programming, announced the addition of Rivera vs. Simms to the Jan. 6, 2007 edition of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING. The world title doubleheader…
Don King is making the biggest boxing match ever staged in Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Saturday, Jan. 6 an even more star-studded affair with the addition of a World Boxing Association super welterweight championship, which will join the World Boxing Council-ordered heavyweight rematch between Samuel “The Nigerian…
After suffering a detached retina early on in his fight against Sergei Liakhovich former WBO heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster has been given a clean bill of health. He is eager to prove he remains the best and most exciting heavyweight out there, and intends to take on any of the current champions and unify the…
“All-American Prizefighter†Rob Calloway will be going for his 65th professional win and his 50th Knock Out when he takes on Doug Kaluza on Thursday, December 7th at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, MO. This fight will be televised on tape delay, nationally through Time Warner and locally through Metro Sports and St. Joseph…
Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion – Matt Skelton, was scheduled to fight Audley Harrison this Saturday at ExCel, London, but with just a week to go before the fight – he was forced to “pull-out’ with a hand injury. Danny Williams has stepped-up to take the fight against Harrison and, at such short-notice – Williams seems excited…
Click for larger image © Mike McGuigan / Saddo Boxing Little known Aaron Lyons came to Philadelphia PA from Gulfport, MS and extinguished the flame of red hot heavyweight prospect Joey Abell, scoring a shocking knockout at 1:07 of the first round at the Blue Horizon, this past Friday night. It was supposed to be…
World class professional boxing will return to Cicero Stadium on Friday, December 22nd as super lightweight contender Jose Miguel Cotto, brother of world champion Miguel Cotto, will face Miguel Angel Huerta in the ten round main event of Christmas Brawl it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count.
In front of a full capacity crowd of screaming and cheering boxing fans at the Lansing Convention Center in Lansing, Michigan, Colorado lightweight Adrian “Juanito” Mora (17-0-1 9, KO’s) folded game but outgunned Anthony Ivy (7-11, 3 KO’s) in the second round of their scheduled eight round bout last night. Mora pressed the action in…
Click for larger image © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing I have a confession to make. After interviewing Joshua Clottey a few days before his first championship title fight against Antonio Margarito, I found myself hoping that he would be crowned the new WBO Welterweight Champion. During the interview, Clottey spoke respectfully of his opponent…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Last night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, Miguel Cotto successfully made the transition from light welter to welterweight, battering reigning WBA 147 lb Champion Carlos Quintana over the course of five rounds to the point where the southpaw declined to answer the bell for…
In a classic defensive performance, former undisputed light middleweight kingpin Ronald “Winky” Wright stifled the comeback hopes of Ike Quartey last night in Tampa, Florida. Fighting in front of a hometown audience for the first time since 1992, Wright proved just too sharp for the ex-welterweight world champion, competing in his fifth bout since sitting…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing On the Cotto – Quintana undercard in Atlantic City, WBO Welterweight titlist Antonio Margarito was on the way to getting sorely outboxed before a fourth round hand injury curtailed the efforts of challenger Joshua Clottey, who finished the twelve round distance to lose by wide…