Mohegan Sun, in association with Top Rank, Inc, brings two nights of boxing action to Connecticut in July. The excitement begins on Friday, July 21st, with a Latin boxing extravaganza featuring Steven Luevano (30-1, 14 KOs) from La Puente, California against Cristobal Cruz (32-7-1, 21 KOs) from Tijuana, Mexico in a 12-round featherweight bout. The…
Vicious Vivian Harris wants you to hold on to those cards, the cake and whatever other birthday gifts you had in mind. The former world junior welterweight champ actually turned 28 today (June 17), a birthday he shares with ring legend Roberto Duran. There was no cake to be seen but punch was definitely served…
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Culbert-Shabazz headlines June 30 pro boxing show at Plymouth Memorial Hall SANDWICH, Mass. (June 19, 2006) – Veteran super middleweight “Irish” Mike Culbert closes out his 18-year pro boxing career June 30 against experienced Khalif “Panther” Shabazz in the 8-round main event on “Battle Zone at The Rock III,” promoted by Alpha Omega Entertainment Group…
Friday night, in front of a crowd of more than two thousand screaming fan, Don “Da’ Bomb†George made his triumphant return to the ring with a two round annihilation of Robert Smallwood. George was in complete control of the contest from the onset knocking Smallwood out of the ring on two occasions. It was…
By Gavin Stone After disposing of Danny Green is stylish fashion over a month ago, Anthony “The Man’ Mundine is currently weighing up his options as he prepares to take on his next challenge in a proposed upcoming bout this August. The Mundine-Green bout- which Mundine won by unanimous decision: 116-113, 118-111 and 118-112- was…
Click for larger image © Matthew Voyle / Saddo Boxing Undefeated Welsh heavyweight Scott Gammer claimed the BBBofC Heavyweight Title on Friday night with an exciting nine-round stoppage over Yorkshire’s Mark Krence. ‘The Hammer’ improved to 16-0-1 with the victory, and called out Britain’s best afterwards, with Audley Harrison, Danny Williams and Matt Skelton touted…
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…