Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Everton Park Sports Centre (Liverpool) played host to some exciting boxing last night organised by Matchroom Sport. The main events being the “Commonwealth Flyweight Championship’ and “Vacant English Super-Middleweight Championship“. Jackson Asiko (Coventry/Uganda) vs. Jamie McKeever (Birkenhead) 12 x 3 minute rounds – Commonwealth Flyweight…
Click for larger image © Mike Cleary / BoxingPhotographs.com Both fighters made weight in Memphis ahead of tonights clash for the WBC, WBO and WBA Middleweight Title at the FedEx Forum, Memphis. (9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT). on HBO Jermain Taylor Weight: 160 lbs – Winky Wright Weigh: 159.5 lbs
Elvin Ayala 160 3/4 – Larry Marks 161 3/4 Mike Oliver 124 – Terry Lantz 125 Chris McInerny 196 1/2 – John Rainwater 199 1/2 Joe McCreedy 169 3/4 – Jeffrey Osborne 171 3/4 Carlos Lovato 195 1/4 – DeMarcus Clark 183 Matt Ryan 156 – Phillip Lars 152 Angel Camacho 161 – David Johnson…
There have been many great middleweight champions in boxing, however only four in the history of the sport have achieved the title of undisputed middleweight champion. They go by the familiar names of Carlos Monzon, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins and most recently crowned Jermain Taylor. Many people have and will continue to…
HBO Sports presents a major Middleweight showdown when World Championship Boxing: Jermain Taylor vs. Winky Wright is seen live Saturday, June 17 exclusively on HBO. Two of boxing’s most accomplished competitors meet in a major middleweight title showdown when World Championship Boxing: Jermain Taylor vs. Winky Wright is seen live from the FedEx Forum in…
Billy Corcoran is confident that he will beat Carl Johanneson on Wednesday 12th July at the York Hall in Bethnal Green to become the fourth member of the Hennessy Sports team to currently hold a British Title. The pair had been due to face off for the vacant super featherweight belt in Leeds, but problems…
In a rematch of a thrilling, action-packed slugfest that wound up as one of 2005’s most shocking upsets, “The Ghostbuster,†Gamaliel “Platano” Diaz (20-5-2, nine KOs), will face Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (17-1-1, 10 KOs) in the “ShoBox: The New Generation†main event Friday, June 23, on SHOWTIME (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west…
As I sit and go over my bills for the last year, I realized something. I pay a lot of money for cable. Well, not basic service, but for my premium channels and PPV events. Of course, my PPV’s are boxing events and the only reason I have my premium channels (HBO/Showtime) is so I…
SHOWTIME will make television history when four sons of former world champions and a cousin of another are featured in a special edition of “ShoBox: The New Generation†Saturday, July 1, 2006, (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast) from the Little River Casino Resort in Manistee, Michigan. The SHOWTIME fistic series, which normally…
They come from vastly different pasts and have taken diverse journeys to their current spots in the boxing world, but former world heavyweight champion Oliver McCall and top Cruiserweight contender Dale Brown have the same goals – to be the best and to be called “Champion.’ On Friday, June 30th, both veterans will be back…
Frank Maloney offers sports fans a summer triple hitter where one man stands alone and will survive or fall on his own and his training programme. Unlike the 23 who are supported by their wives and girlfriends in luxurious surroundings in Germany. Certain people would like us to think the success of our England World…
In a rematch of a thrilling, action-packed slugfest that wound up as one of 2005’s most shocking upsets, “The Ghostbuster,†Gamaliel “Platano” Diaz (20-5-2, nine KOs), will face Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (17-1-1, 10 KOs) in the “ShoBox: The New Generation†main event Friday, June 23, on SHOWTIME (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west…