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…
Nickolai Valuev kept hold of his WBA Heavyweight title with a 11th round stoppage over challenger Monte Barrett at the Allstate Arena in Chicago on a Don King promotion. Early on Barrett kept in the fight with the enormous Valuev by basically flinging as many roundhouse shots as he could muster. The technique was successful…
Click for larger image © Rhun Leeding / Saddo Boxing With a week to go until Pembroke Dock’s Scott Gammer makes his first defence of the British Heavyweight Championship against East London’s Micky Steeds, everyone is predicting a close fight. Steed, 8-1, hailing from the Isle of Dogs, goes into this match-up at the Afan…
When the 20th anniversary celebration of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING continues on Oct. 7 at 9 p.m., ET/PT (delayed on the west coast), Diego “Chico†Corrales will face arch nemesis and former 130-pound world champion, southpaw Joel “El Cepillo†Casamayor. The fight was thought to be in jeopardy when Corrales initially weighed in at 139.5 pounds,…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Joel Casamayor weighed-in at the lightweight limit of 135 pounds Diego Corrales lost his WBC Lightweight World title on the scales as he weighed-in at 139 pounds, four pounds over the lightweight limit. Vic Darchinyan weighed in at 112 pounds Glenn Donaire hit 111 pounds…
Don King will allow boxing fans to see free replays of Nikolai “Russian Giant†Valuev’s third-round technical knockout over Owen “What the Heck†Beck from June 3 as well as one of the best fights of 2006, a sensational slugfest between Tomasz Adamek and Paul “Firepower†Briggs now at his web site, www.donking.com.
After damning and vilifying Jose Luis Castillo for coming five pounds overweight for their aborted third contest, Diego Corrales has just done the same thing as Castillo while weighing in for his third bout with Joel Casamayor! For his first attempt, Corrales weighted in at 140 lb, a full five pounds about the weight limit…
Bouts to Be Replayed On SHO EXTREME Monday, Oct. 9, At 8 p.m. PM ET/PT The international field of eight has come down to France against the United States as fellow unbeatens Tony Hanshaw and Jean Paul Mendy advanced to the finals of the “ShoBox†super middleweight tournament with convincing victories Friday on SHOWTIME.