New and improved Ruiz training for WBA elimination fight vs. Chagaev Two-time world heavyweight champion John “The Quietman” Ruiz (41-6-1, 28 KOs) is training in Las Vegas with his new head trainer, Manny Siaca, Sr., for his November 18 mandated WBA elimination fight against No. 2 rated challenger Ruslan “White Tyson” Chagaev (21-0-1, 17 KOs)…
World Boxing Council welterweight title holder Carlos Baldomir and 1994 and 2001 Professional Bull Riders World Champion Adriano Moraes from Sao Paulo, Brazil discuss strategy for their upcoming championships. Baldomir defends his belt against Floyd Mayweather Jr. Saturday at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and live on HBO Pay-Per-View. Click for larger image© Jan Sanders…
When Trevor Berbick was killed on October 28,of this year, a wave of news about the passing of the former WBC Heavyweight Champion hit the TV and Internet. You would have thought that a major world event just took place. Being a writer and the fact that I deal with so many different people and…
Will He or Won’t He? Click for larger image© Tom Casino Showtime Boxing I remember Shannon Briggs’ first loss. He was hammering Darroll Wilson for two rounds and it looked like he was on his way to an impressive KO win, but “The Cannon” ran out of gas and Wilson cleaned his clock. George Foreman…
One of today’s rising stars in boxing is undefeated welterweight Paul “The Punisher” Williams who fights out of Aiken, South Carolina. Williams has a stellar record of 31-0 23KO’s and is the mandatory challenger for World Champion Antonio Margarito’s WBO Welterweight Title.
Click for larger image © Stefan Christou / Saddo Boxing Deptford swaggerer Anthony Small continued his surge up the light middleweight ranks last weekend, crushing previously unbeaten Mancunian Prince Arron in two pulsating rounds to clear the path for a November 13 return to the ring.
Smaller gloves, no headgear and different scoring aside, America’s top heavyweight prospect — 2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six” Estrada — doesn’t think anything else, particularly the final outcome, will be any different November 17 against unbeaten heavyweight Travis “Freight Train” Walker, who Estrada defeated three times as an amateur, on Showbox: The Next Generation…
Only two months after making an impressive debut in the professional code, Alsager’s Aaron Thomas is set to make a return to the scene of his inaugural victory when he appears on an Impact Boxing promoted event at Stoke’s Kings Hall on 24th November. The 26 year old welterweight thrilled an avid following last time…
Silverhawk Boxing’s power-punching heavyweight Gerald “The Jedi” Nobles, after being inactive for nearly two years, successfully returned to the ring last Thursday night stopping Wallace McDaniels with a vicious right uppercut 2:58 into the opening round at The Plex in Charleston, South Carolina.
At the 19th annual WBO convention, held on the cruise ship Enchantment of the Seas, the sanctioning body’s Championship Committee reconfirmed to Seminole Warriors Boxing’s Lourdes Carrero and our promotional partners Eric Gomez from Golden Boy Promotions and Sampson Lewkowicz that unbeaten heavyweight sensation Sultan Ibragimov, as the WBO’s mandatory challenger, will get a shot…
News of former Australian boxer Johnny Wheeler was passed to Young Victor by former ABF President Bryan Membrey that he is presently in the Alfred hospital. Johnny’s fights were during 1948/57, he had 66 fights. He never fought for any titles but as Mario Magriss stated he had been awarded a vacant Victorian Title at…
Four Title Holders And No Champion If any of you can figure out what is going on with the light heavyweight division, you have a better grasp on things than I do. We have four different champions, limited rising prospects and since the return of Roy Jones, the Ring Magazine title has changed hands more…