Opportunities are not limited to just the 122-pound division for new World Boxing Association super bantamweight champion Celestino Caballero. Not when he stands an amazing 6-foot-1-1/2-inches tall. “There are plenty of possibilities, more than that are immediately apparent†said Glenn Quiroga, president of Sycuan Ringside Promotions, which co-promotes Caballero along with Seminole Warriors Boxing.
Youngstown icon Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini returns home October 20th to handle color commentary for the pay-per-view broadcast of the inaugural “Mike Tyson’s World Tour” stop at the Chevrolet Centre. The first leg of “Mike Tyson’s World Tour” in Youngstown, presented by Sterling Promotions, will be broadcast live in North America on cable and satellite…
With a combined knockout percentage of 78%, it goes without saying that the featured fighters on the Seminole Warriors Boxing show on Friday, October 13th, at the Seminole Hard Rock Live Arena in Hollywood, Florida, are going into battle with just one thought in mind – “The Knockout!â€
Needing a strong performance to get back on the winning track, popular Northern Virginia middleweight contender Jimmy Lange didn’t disappoint the 3,614 boisterous fans Saturday night at the Patriot Center, using an impressive surge late in the fight to record a ten-round technical knockout (2:45) over tough veteran Tommy Wilt in the Main Event. Lange…
Hersisia and Schmitz working out at the Universum Gym in Berlin – Click for larger image As rumoured, Dutch heavyweight king Richel Hersisia, 27-1 (21 KO’s), returns to the ring after nine months out of action due to a shoulder operation on Universum Box-Promotion’s “Heavyweight Explosion’ card in Stuttgart, Germany on Saturday, October 28.
Former world light heavyweight champion Lou Del Valle has been added to the inaugural “Mike Tyson World Tour” stop October 20 at the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown, Ohio. Legendary “Iron” Mike Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs), former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, headlines against veteran Corey “T-Rex” Sanders (23-10, 15 KOs), who knocked out current…
Ten members of recently concluded television reality series, “The Contender – Season 2 (C2),” plus original Contender champion Sergio “The Latin Snake” Mora, will attend a private solidarity dinner Friday night, October 13 – on the eve of “The Contender Special – Put Up or Shut Up” – to support their fellow Team TOC (Tournament…
By Mike Marley He’s a legend. It says so on his telephone voice mail. His name is Johnny Bos and he has been a cult figure around big-time boxing for about 40 years now or since he was a 15-year-old teenager from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, who wanted to meet his ring idols such as Emile…
**MASSIVE RINGSIDE BOXING GALLERY** Click for larger image © Bernard Miller / presquevu.com Maloney Promotions put on another entertaining scrap this evening and if the Commonwealth Bantamweight dustup between champion Tshifhiwa Munyai of South Africa and southpaw challenger Lee Haskins at London’s York Hall didn’t reach the epic proportions of last week’s Maloney sponsored Moore…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing The World Boxing Council Lightweight title was only Joel Casamayor’s to win on Saturday night; and win it he did. Casamayor became a world champion for the third time by defeating Diego Corrales in a close and hard-fought split decision scored 116-111, 115-112 and 113-114….
Nikolai Valuev: “The victory wasn’t easy tonight and Monte Barrett really tried hard. I haven’t fought in the U.S. for a long time so this was a whole new thing for me. To be honest, I was a little nervous. I need to settle down more. “I knew after the fourth or fifth round I…
Joel Casamayor used his speed and crafty southpaw boxing skills to take a split decision victory and capture the WBC Lightweight title from Diego Corrales tonight at The Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. In actuality, Corrales had relinquished the title the day before on the scales as he was unable to…