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  • Aaron Thomas son of Former Stoke City Favourite to Make Debut on Impact Boxing Bill

    Aaron Thomas, the son of the former Stoke City, Manchester United and Wrexham player, Mickey Thomas, will make his pro debut on Potteries promoters, Impact Boxing, next show at the Kings Hall in Stoke on 30th September.

    The 26-year-old Thomas who boxes at welterweight and trained at Clwyd ABC in North Wales had a glittering amateur career becoming the Welsh ABA champion in 2004.

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    He also won a silver medal in the British Four Nations championships in 2005 and represented Wales at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth games.

    With regard to his first professional bout Thomas says: “I’ve been thinking about turning pro for two or three years now but I felt that I needed to get more experience in the amateurs, the Commonwealth Games were a fantastic experience and represented the perfect way to end my amateur career. I don’t know who my opponent will be yet but I am excited and looking forward to starting my professional career.” (more…)

  • The Passing Of A Boxing Legend: Vic Patrick

    By Craig Waller youngvictorboxing.com.au

    Australian boxing has lost one of it’s most treasured and resected fighters in the form of The great Vic Patrick on Friday 11th August 2006. The former Australian Lightweight and Welterweight Champion fort some of Australia’s best during his boxing career. Some of the greats that come to mind is Freddy Dawson, Tommy Burns, Tommy Johns and Rush Milling to name a few. Vic also became the countries most respected Referee after his colourful fighting career. Vic’s service is to be held at Rookwood Cemetery on Wednesday 16th August at 10:45am. On behalf of all Australian boxing fans and participants I send heart felt condolences to the Patrick family in this sad time of grieving. (more…)

  • Impact Boxing: Ian Clyde set for Newport away day

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    Ian Clyde the former jockey turned boxer is set to be the first of Impact Boxing’s burgeoning stable of fighters to take to the ring when the new season starts in September. The Crewe based boxer is to appear on a Chris Sanigar show in Newport on 15th September where he is due to face local favourite Steve Anning in a light-welterweight bout. (more…)

  • “Maskaev pounds The Rock, and raises his stock”

    By Mike Casile Philaboxingreport.com

    The steady sound you heard last night in the Thomas Mack arena in Las Vegas, was not the clock ticking closer to midnight, for the 37 year old Cinderella man ,Oleg Maskaev (33 – 5, 26 KO’s), but rather the beautifully placed left hooks, he seemed to surprise the “lackluster” Hasim Rahman (41 -6 -2, 33KO’s) with. Last night personified the death of the American heavyweight champion, all “fluff”, but when it came time to dig down, “no Stuff”. Oleg was being chased around the ring, from the first bell, not just fighting Rahman, but the ghost of the other 5 knockout’s he suffered. He knew that they key to his victory would be head movement, which he never seemed to develop throughout his long career. He looked stiff in the opening rounds, moving with the grace on an elephant on roller skates, but he only needed a few hard right hands to the jaw, to wake up, and remind himself what he said to The Philadelphia Boxing report in a recent interview, quote, “ It is all on my shoulders, my family, my friends, my team, are all counting on me. I will not let them down”. (more…)

  • Saturday Night Boxing Roundup

    Last night saw some decent action around the globe, the most important of which occurred on the Maskaev – Rahman undercard in Las Vegas. That bill saw two important contests, chiefly a WBC Lightweight eliminator between Jose Armando Santa Cruz and David Diaz. Santa Cruz led the whole way, pitching a shutout behind his high volume attack but was caught flush by a Diaz counter in the tenth and dropped twice before the proceedings were called off at 2:20 of the round. Diaz, 32-1-1 (17), moves into the WBC mandatory slot for that organization’s lightweight champion, Diego Corrales. Santa Cruz falls to 23-2 (13).

    The second high level bout on the card featured one of Mexico’s best kept secrets, Humberto Soto, 40-5-2 (24), who won a WBC Super Featherweight title eliminator by stopping the heavy handed Ivan Valle, 25-5-1 (21), in the fourth. (more…)

  • Red Tide: Maskaev Guns Down Rahman To Take WBC Heavy Boxing Crown!

    It was a heavyweight shootout of Cold War proportions last night at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas as Russian born Oleg Maskaev turned back the clock and once again stopped defending WBC Champion Hasim Rahman. The two combatants met almost seven years ago and Maskaev knocked Rahman out of the ring for an eighth round knockout but this time the American from Baltimore lasted longer, only to be stopped in the twelfth and final frame.

    Things started out well for Rahman, working behind his sharp jab, and the two traded sporadic hard shots in the early going. The action heated up in the middle rounds with both men having their moments. Rahman became more aggressive, coming forward strongly but was being made to pay for the real estate as Maskaev was catching the Champion with counters. (more…)

  • Rahman – Maskaev: Undercard Preview and Boxing Weights

    The two main undercard fights to the Rahman-Maskaev heavyweight title bout tonight at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas are perhaps being overlooked as both bouts are capable of stealing the show.

    WBC Lightweight champion Jose Armando Santa Cruz (23-1, 13KO’s) defends his title against southpaw punching David Diaz(31-1-1, 16KO’s). Michoacan, Mexico native Santa Cruz has a crowd-pleasing, non-stop presure punching style that he recently used to overcome tough and skillful Edner Cherry amongst other name fighters on his way to the title.

    Chicago native Diaz also has used a high volume punching style to earn victories over solid fighters such as Emanuel Augustus, Juaquin Gallardo, and a deserved title shot for the 30 year old former amateur standout. (more…)

  • A Morning at the Collyhurst and Moston Lads Boxing Club

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    Just outside the centre of Manchester stands a no-frills, old-school boxing gym. Its title has a rather quaint ring to it, and inside the well equipped building, veteran trainer Brian Hughes is hard at work with his stable of fighters, fighters who prefer the old fashioned and
    traditional boxing gyms, as apposed to the high-tech alternatives that are more and more prolific these days. Former super middleweight world champion Robin Reid trains here, as does current welterweight contender Michael Jennings. These men wouldn’t change gyms for anything.

    The feel of the place is gritty and real, sort of like one would expect a gym to be after having watched one or two legendary boxing movies. And one day last week, a rainy Monday at the tail end of a July heat wave, I had the privilege of experiencing firsthand just how some of Britain’s real life Rockys go about their business. In a gym that is a reminder of how all pro boxers once got ready for a prize fight, the passion and intensity on display from the young fighters and their veteran coach more than live up to my expectations. (more…)

  • Boxing Preview Analysis: Hasim Rahman – Oleg Maskaev 2

    On the 12th of this month, sole American World Heavyweight Champion Hasim Rahman attempts to prevent the title being the 100% ownership of Eastern European fighters. Opposing Rahman is old foe Oleg Maskaev, who holds a KO Victory over “The Rock” back in 1999. On that night Rahman was well ahead on points before being stopped in Round eight.

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    Now aged 37, Maskaev never really capitalised on that shock win and has spent the last eight years fighting middle of the road heavies who have seen better days. In fact when he did step up to the plate to fight a named fighter, it often ended in a KO defeat as shown against the likes of Kirk Johnson and Corey Sanders in 2000 and 2002 respectively.

    However Maskaev is undefeated in his last ten fights and in his last bout earned a unanimous decision win over tough Turk Sinan Samil Sam in November last year. (more…)

  • Cherry Claims Vacant NABF Boxing Crown

    Last night at the Mountaineer Racetrack in Chester, West Virginia, Edner Cherry annexed the vacant NABF Lightweight title with a dramatic twelfth round stoppage of Daniel Alicea.
    Cherry, 21-4-2 (10), had been pitching a shutout for the previous eleven frames, painting the slower Alicea with leather brushstrokes despite injuring a hand in the process. In the final round the Bahamian boxer nailed Alicea, 30-6-2 (22), with a spearing right at which point referee Dave Johnson stepped in to halt the action at 1:50 of the twelfth.

    Also scoring victories were heavyweight Brian Minto, lightweight Monty Meza Clay and light welter Justo Sencion.

  • Philly Boxing Promoter Peltz Mad As Hell!

    Peltz Says Name Vaule Seems More Important Than Ability; Claims Kassim Ouma Is Shut Out

    Hall-of-Fame promoter J Russell Peltz says name recognition and relationships with rankings organizations and television networks is what makes the boxing business go. “Never in the history of boxing has a fighter’s ability meant less than it does today,” says Peltz, who began promoting in Philadelphia in 1969. “It does not seem to matter if fighter B is better than fighter A so long as Fighter A’s management has a better working relationship with the ratings organizations or with the television networks. (more…)

  • Boxing History: Julian Jackson KOs Herol Graham

    A Brutal KO Remembered

    Hailing from Sheffield, England, Herol “Bomber” Graham turned pro in 1978 with a points win over six rounds. It would be almost ten years before he was to lose a fight. He was able to frustrate every single opponent he fought with his uncommon defensive moves, southpaw stance and speed. Never a big puncher (the Bomber nickname was chosen to deliberately throw off opposition who, if they’d never seen him fight before, would be fooled into thinking Graham was something of a big punching brawler), Herol used his fast hands to throw shots from unusual angles, along with his great ability at making another fighter get tired by missing so frequently, to achieve victory.

    And until his fight with Sumbu Kalambay, in 1987, he looked quite unbeatable. Herol rebounded from the points loss to Kalambay and two years later challenged the great Mike McCallum for the world middleweight championship. Beaten on points again, Herol nevertheless gave a fine account of himself – losing by the slimmest of margins. What with all “The Body Snatcher” went on to achieve, this was indeed an excellent performance from
    the Sheffield man, giving McCallum one of his hardest ever fights. (more…)