When living legend Roy Jones, Jr. steps into the ring July 29th after a 10-month absence, Idaho fight fans will have their first opportunity to watch a bonafide Hall of Fame candidate fighting live in Boise for the first time in more than 66 years, since former lightweight champion Jimmy Carter lost a 10-round decision…
Dennis Hobson is to offer Joe Calzaghe £1,500,000 to move up to light heavyweight and face world champion Clinton Woods in an all British showdown. Providing both men come through their next bouts with wins, Hobson would like to stage the fight in Britain this winter. The Fight Academy promoter said: “I’m ready to sit…
The speed of Shane Mosley was simply too much for Fernando Vargas on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mosley was just waiting for an opening in the sixth round before planting a lightning left hook square on the chin of “El Feroz” , who fell backwards on the canvas, and…
The British Board of Boxing Control made their latest round of announcements earlier this week concerning the sport in the UK. The top news was that super bantamweight triple champion Michael Hunter was to meet nemesis Esham Pickering this autumn in defense of the European title which Hunter won from Pickering in October of last…
Spurred on by a listless, weight drained Fernando Vargas, Shane Mosely finally regained the confidence taken away by a spearing Vernon Forrest body shot four years ago and put on a riveting two fisted performance to stop “El Feroz” in the sixth round of their non-title light middleweight contest last night from the MGM Grand…
With the cruiserweight division now seeming the most talented out of all the heavier weight classes at this point in time, and probably the only weight class to boast talents that rival some of the lower weights. David Haye, Enzo Maccarinelli, O’Neil Bell, and the former champion Jean Marc Mormeck, as well as dark horses…
38 year old Spanish warhorse Javier Castillejo walked into the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany after being given very little chance to upset reigning WBA Middleweight titlist Felix Sturm last night but the ex-WBC Light Middle kingpin walked away a winner after stopping the German in the tenth round. Castillejo, 61-6 (41), came into…
Part two: Where The Modern Era Meets The Old School Saddoboxing: How are Monty Meza Clay and Verquan Kimbrough doing? Tom Yankello: They’re doing good. In fact, we’re going to have a card at The Mountaineer with both of them. It’s going to be on ESPN2 on August 11. Edner Cherry is going to be…
Cestus Management’s top 140-pound contender, “Mighty†Mike Arnaoutis, suffered a cut during sparring which has caused the cancellation of his July 29, HBO Boxing After Dark showdown with “Vicious†Vivian Harris. Arnaoutis was immediately taken to a specialist who informed the fighter and his management company that the fight would have to be called off….
Click for larger image © Mark DeSisto / Saddo Boxing The MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada was buzzing with more pre-weekend energy than usual on Friday in anticipation of Saturday’s rematch between two of this generation’s top boxers, Shane Mosley and Fernando Vargas. The two Southern Californian based fighters looked ready to go and…
Tonight at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany, Felix Sturm and Wladimir Sidorenko put their WBA titles at risk against challengers Javier Castillejo and Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, respectively. Sturm, 25-1 (11), puts his middleweight belt on the line for the first time since winning it against Maselino Masoe in March and will square off with…
The business of boxing has changed a lot. It has been banned from schools and there aren’t many young people taking it up these days. And what’s more concerning, the young people that are doing it, I believe, are not getting coached properly. Anyone can fight but young people have to learn the skill of…