Featherweights Jose Hernandez and Lenny DeVictoria Clash at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago this Friday on a bill that also sees six outstanding bouts and newly crowned WBC interim Lightweight World Champion David Diaz honored. Diaz, who won his title with a stunning 10th round TKO of Jose Armando Santa Cruz on Saturday, August 12th…
Light welterweight contender Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi (21-1, 5 KOs) has received medical clearance to return to the ring. Malignaggi underwent surgery in mid-June to repair his fractured right cheekbone. Today, he returned to the Lahey Clinic & Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, where senior plastic surgeon Dr. David J. Bryan evaluated Malignaggi and…
Aside from the Paul Williams – Sharmba Mitchell card and Evander Holyfield comeback already covered on SaddoBoxing, there were many good contests held over the weekend across the globe. Starting with Friday, we first hit America where in Houston, Texas Giovanni Segura, 15-0 (12), secured the vacant IBA Flyweight belt with a fourth round stoppage…
The World Boxing Council joins with our Lightweight World Champion, Eliza Olson and her family, in mourning the passing of Eliza’s brother, Mark David Olson. At forty years of age, Mark died of a sudden heart attack while in Tennessee. We know that the value of a life can not be measured in chronological years,…
Since its inception in July 2001, the critically-acclaimed SHOWTIME boxing series, “ShoBox: The New Generation,†has been about making exciting, crowd-pleasing and competitive matches while providing a proving ground for willing up-and-comers determined to fight for and win a world title. When former “ShoBox†fighters Eric Aiken and Robert Guerrero meet for Aiken’s International Boxing…
When the fight between Marco Antonio Barrera, 62-4 (42s), and Rocky Juarez, 25-2 (18), earlier this year ended in controversial fashion (twice), many fans were left wondering if Barrera still had “it.” While “The Baby Faced Assassin” did pull off the split decision victory, when the original declaration of a draw was overturned, it did…
What Difference A Week Makes Just last week, J. Russell Peltz, promoter of former Light Middleweight Champion Kassim Ouma, came out blazing to the boxing press about how his man can’t get a big money fight and how the business is in shambles because of how everyone in boxing is working on the old buddy…
Shannon Briggs is not a hard man to find. Whether trying to spot him in a crowd or tag him inside a boxing ring, it’s safe to say that the six-foot-four heavyweight contender is rather difficult to miss. A walking bundle of bone, muscle and golden locks, the 34-year-old fighter/part-time actor has been around the…
WBA Welterweight Champion Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton looks certain to make his second consecutive appearance in the US on HBO on 9 December. But its still a guessing game as to whom will be in the opposite corner and whether it will be at welterweight or Hatton’s natural light welterweight division. Click for larger image…
Aside from a few brief moments, Sharmba Mitchell played the part of stepladder last night at the Events Center in Reno, Nevada with rising welterweight contender Paul “The Punisher” Williams battering the aging former light welter world champion from pillar to post for four painful rounds. Absolutely towering over the diminutive Mitchell, 57-6 (3), the…
Aside from the Paul Williams – Sharmba Mitchell NABO Welterweight scrap on HBO, there isn’t much on tap tonight across the globe, except a few more regional belt dustups and a handful of domestic title clashes. On the undercard of Williams – Mitchell in Reno, NV there are a couple of name fighters on the…
43 year old Evander Holyfield was well-matched last night in Dallas, Texas as the former multiweight world champion gave journeyman Jeremy Bates a boxing, or better yet – a battering lesson – as “The Real Deal” hammered his opponent into submission during two ones sided rounds. Holyfield, 39-8-2 (26), picked up his first win in…