When Kassim Ouma heard last Friday (Aug. 18) ESPN 2 boxing analyst Teddy Atlas mention a potential Ouma-Jermain Taylor fight for the world middleweight title in December, “it was one of the happiest days of my life,†he said. “I have nothing but the utmost respect for Jermain Taylor as a person and a champion…
Team Pantera, ready to celebrate the crowning of a new middleweight king, Edison Miranda, Saturday at the EWE-Arena in Oldenburg, Germany, will have to wait just a little while longer, as it was announced that IBF Middleweight Champion Arthur Abraham has withdrawn from this weekend’s bout, citing illness.
Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc. (CES) will promote the first boxing show ever held at the Connecticut Convention Center, the appropriately named “Night of the Rising Stars†Pro-Am card, headlined by a cruiserweight unification bout between Matt “Too Smooth†Godfrey and Danny “Boy†Batchelder, on September 23.
Promoter Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing congratulates Vinny Maddalone, Malachy Farrell and all the other boxers in what turned out to be a fantastic night of televised boxing, last Friday, August 18, at the City Center in Saratoga Springs, NY.
SaddoBoxing recently caught up with IBF Light Heavyweight Champion Clinton Woods, who took time out from his intense preparation for his career defining third fight with the irrepressible Glen Johnson at the Bolton Area on the 2nd September to talk to us. Topics discussed included his budding rivalry with Joe Calzaghe and the possibility of…
Steve Foster Jr Christens Facility Preparing For His Next Challenge Former Ricky Hatton cornerman and assistant trainer Bobby Rimmer has opened a new state of the art gym on the outskirts of Manchester in Stalybridge, England. The affable Rimmer, an ex-fighter himself, has named his venture Ultimate Fitness and is already attracting an A-List crowd…
By Simon Jackson When you’re hot you’re hot and Dan Birmingham, boxing’s trainer of the year, is hot. And it is not just the East Coast sun which beats on Birmingham’s St Petersburg, Florida gym roof that is hotting things up for this two-time winner of the Futch-Condon award. Fortune smiles on the talented as…
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…