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.
Last night on a Maloney Promotion at York Hall in London, England, Commonwealth Champion Tshifhiwa Munyai continued his march through the British bantamweight division with a sixth round stoppage over previously unbeaten southpaw sensation Lee Haskins on a televised Sky Sports broadcast.
Everlast® Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: EVST), manufacturer, marketer and licensor of sporting goods, apparel, footwear, and other active lifestyle products under the Everlast brand name, is proud to announce that on Saturday October 7, 2006 heavyweight contender Monte Barrett will wear pink Everlast professional boxing gloves in support of Everlast’s Breast Cancer Awareness initiative with Click…
Undefeated Ramazan Palyani, of Northeast Philadelphia, and once-beaten Ray Narh, of Pittsburgh, PA, meet in a scheduled 12-round contest for the vacant Pennsylvania State Lightweight Championship on Friday evening, Nov. 17, at the New Alhambra, Swanson & Ritner Streets, next to Forman Mills, in South Philadelphia. First of seven fights at 7.30 p.m.
Click for larger image © Mark DeSisto / Saddo Boxing The Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada held the press conference for this Saturday’s big fight between archrivals Diego Corrales and Joel Casamayor, who face each other for the third time, a contest that Showtime will broadcast. WBC Lightweight Champion Corrales was…