For Period Ended July 31, 2006 POUND-FOR-POUND 1. FLOYD MAYWEATHER Welterweight 2. WINKY WRIGHT Middleweight 3. MANNY PACQUIAO Junior Lightweight 4. JERMAIN TAYLOR Middleweight 5. BERNARD HOPKINS Light Heavyweight 6. MARCO ANTONIO BARRERA Junior Lightweight 7. RAFAEL MARQUEZ Bantamweight 8. RICKY HATTON Junior Welterweight/Welterweight 9. JOSE LUIS CASTILLO Junior Welterweight 10. JOE CALZGHE Super Middleweight
Featherweight World Championship Is Co-Featured Bout To WBC Heavyweight Showdown – TONEY vs. PETER Sept. 2, 2006, on Showtime Championship Boxing, 10 p.m. ET/PT An already spectacular night of boxing just got better! International Boxing Federation (IBF) 126-pound champion Eric “Mighty Mouse†Aiken (16-4, 12 KOs) will put his title on the line when he…
“As of now, I say to Floyd Mayweather: I am the true champion†When Carlos Baldomir spoke those words, after his TKO victory over Arturo Gatti last month, the boxing world has been buzzing over the prospect of such a fight between the welterweight titans. Floyd Mayweather Jr., 36-0 (24), is regarded by many to…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, at 9 p.m. ET/PT From MontBleu Resort Casino and Spa, Stateline, Nevada They are rough, talented, extremely confident, hard-hitting southpaws. Each has 15 career knockouts and only one loss. One will make his third United States start; the other, his fourth….
Sakio Bika has withdrawn from the “ShoBox: The New Generation†super middleweight tournament with an injured elbow and has been replaced by once-beaten southpaw Lafarrell “Memphis Fairway†Bunting. The announcement was made Tuesday by “ShoBox†Executive Producer Gordon Hall and tournament promoter Gary Shaw.
Immediately after Taylor-Hopkins II, Lou DiBella, promoter of Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor, states “Taylor’s next fight will be in Little Rock (Ark) against a bum.” That scenario doesn’t play out, instead Taylor fights Winky Wright. Immediately after that fight, DiBella upgrades his previous “bum” statement by telling the world his fighter really had bad intentions…
The 16th of September might not mean much to the average Brit but stop a Mexican in the street and he will tell you that that is the day his country gained Independence. So on the 16th September Marco Antonio Barrera will celebrate Independence day in a rematch with Rocky Juarez in Las Vegas. Marco…
Photos copyright Karl Stubbs/Impact Boxing English Lightweight champion Scott Lawton hopes to be joined by British Masters Light-Welterweight champion Gary Reid who has today been nominated to challenge for the English Light-Welterweight Title. Impact Boxing, who represents North Stafforshire’s two leading pugilists, today revealed that The Midlands Area Council of The British Boxing Board of…
Immediately after Taylor-Hopkins II, Lou DiBella, promoter of Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor, states “Taylor’s next fight will be in Little Rock (Ark) against a bum.” That scenario doesn’t play out, instead Taylor fights Winky Wright. Immediately after that fight, DiBella upgrades his previous “bum” statement by telling the world his fighter really had bad intentions…
Holyfield Fight Still Best Performance At Heavyweight For “Light Out” James Toney should’nt really be fighting as a heavyweight. This opinion is held by more than a few, both fans and experts. But he is doing so, and until someone comes along and beats him – he is currently 3-0-1, with one no-contest at the…
Round and round the rumors go; who will Margarito fight? Nobody knows! Move over Juan Manuel Marquez, boxing has a new “Avoided Oneâ€! Only this fighter is not avoided in the sense that nobody wants to fight him, because he has his veritable pick of the litter from fighters in the 147-154 weight classes. No,…
Ireland’s John Duddy has been sidelined by heat prostration and dehydration, and will be unable to appear on the August 10 fight card at the Orleans in Las Vegas, it was announced today by Irish Ropes. Due to the hot temperatures in New York during the past few weeks, Duddy’s training regimen has been severely…