Rahman Defeats Barrett, Mayorga Takes WBC Crown, Garcia and Collazo Keep Titles Hasim Rahman had promised to deliver a knockout performance on Showtime’s PPV card from the United Center in Chicago on Saturday night, and send a message to WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko that “The Rock” was coming for …
Read More »Fernando Vargas v Javier Castillejio – Preview Analysis
Let’s look back to the year 2000. Ferocious Fernando Vargas was arguably the number 1 man in the 154 pound Division. His main rival was fellow Olympian David Reid. Both men seemed to be on a collision course. Reid was unbeaten as a professional and was WBA Champion, Vargas was …
Read More »Hasim Rahman: Determination Mixed with Another Chance.
Hasim Rahman is in the middle of a heavyweight division that can either improve a lot or disprove a little. The past glamour, brilliant fighting skills and celebrity status that Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis offered to the division haunts the once powerful weight class. We have invited …
Read More »Vargas-Mayorga: The Calm Before the Storm.
Click for larger image© DAVID MARTIN WARRDON KING PRODUCTIONS The carnage will be awesome. Onlookers will have to peep through their fingers to gauge whether it is safe to look. Nearby, officials will wince; eyeing every nuance of the action, hoping that animosity between the two can be sufficiently contained. …
Read More »Writer’s Predictions: Hasim Rahman vs. Monte Barrett.
These two fighters are considered the best chances of any other heavyweights around to dethrone WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. Rahman already knows the taste of championship glory, having shocked former undisputed champion Lennox Lewis in five rounds on that infamous night in Carnival City, South Africa, 2001. Barrett has …
Read More »Writer’s Predictions: Ricardo Mayorga vs. Michele Piccirillo.
This Saturday as part of the huge Don King pay-per-view event being held in Chicago, former welterweight titlist Ricardo Mayorga returns to the ring in a title fight against Italy’s Michele Piccirillo. When this fight happens, we will get the chance to find out two things: was Mayorga ruined by …
Read More »Writer’s Predictions: Luis Collazo vs. Miguel Angel Gonzalez.
Jose Antonio Rivera was the WBA welterweight champion of the world and looking forward to signing some lucrative fights. Not anymore, and the reason being is none other than Bronx puncher Luis Collazo. Once beaten and not intending to be so again this weekend, Collazo is the WBA champion now, …
Read More »Barrios Retains WBO Super Featherweight Title.
Argentinean hardman Jorge Rodrigo Barrios has successfully made the first defense of his WBO super featherweight championship by knocking out Victor Santiago in two rounds. “La Hiena” fought before his adoring home fans at the Superdomo Orfeo, Córdoba in Argentina and enjoyed the feeling of making his first defense of …
Read More »Rahman-Barrett, Mayorga-Piccirillo, Collazo-Gonzalez Weights.
The main event players have all weighed in for tonight’s feast of action in Chicago. Former heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman meets Monte Barrett in an interim WBC heavyweight title match. Ricardo Mayorga and Michele Piccirillo will contest the WBC light middleweight championship of the world and Luis Collazo defends his …
Read More »Both Juniors Score Devastating Left Hook Knockouts; Aguiniga Gets Gift Decision.
***Tons of Exclusive Fight Photos*** Click for larger image© Sergio Martinez As expected, the Laredo Entertainment Center in Laredo, Texas was overflowing with energy and rowdiness of close to five thousand loud and fanatical fans packed the building. You could feel the intensity as the Mexican and Mexican-American fans were …
Read More »Preview Analysis: Ricardo Mayorga vs. Michele Piccirillo.
This has the potential to be one of the most interesting fights of this year. The declining, free-swinging banger Mayorga (27-5-1) is probably the most entertaining fighter of this generation by the way that he doesn’t care if he wins or loses, he just wants to make you look like …
Read More »Sycuan\’s Open Letter to Mia St. John.
What does Mia stand for, anyway? M-I-A, does that mean M(issing) I(n) Action? You “deserted” your post. You did not flee from your foxhole. You just never bothered to show up to entertain the 8,000 fighting men and women at Camp Pendleton Tuesday night when the Sycuan Tribe of the …
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