With pay-per-view deadlines for a September bout approaching, ten-time world champion Oscar De La Hoya has decided to postpone a decision regarding his future as an active fighter until a later date. ‘After endless hours of reflecting on my decision, I started to realize more and more that I put myself on tremendous time pressure…
The much anticipated season two of ESPN’s The Contender is set to begin on Tuesday, July 18th and the names of the combatants have finally been released. This season, 16 hopefuls in the Welterweight Division will square off in elimination style battle with the winner moving closer to the grand prize of $1,000,000. The season…
After Gamaliel Diaz shocked the boxing establishment by winning a thrilling, hard-fought, 12-round split decision over then-World Boxing Council (WBC) No. 2 contender Robert “The Ghost’’ Guerrero (Dec. 5, 2005 also on “ShoBoxâ€), he thought he was headed for a showdown with the WBC’s top 126-pound contender, Nicky Cook. The elimination bout, which was scheduled…
Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc. (CES) has signed Swedish super lightweight prospect Benjamin Kalinovic and Philadelphia amateur star “Hammering” Hank Lundy, CES president Jimmy Burchfield announced today. Swedish native Kalinovic (3-0, 2 KOs), 24, is now based out of Vero Beach, Florida, where famed Buddy McGirt trains him. Benjamin was the 2001-2002 Swedish amateur champion,…
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…