Don’t Miss SaddoBoxing’s Exclusive Ringside Coverage of This Hotly Anticipated Event! Click for larger image © Natasha Chornesky / Saddo Boxing As every boxing fan on the globe is already aware of, an undoubtedly massive fight takes place in Las Vegas tonight at 9PM ET/6PM PT on HBO PPV. For years enthusiasts have wondered what…
SaddoBoxing traveled to Impact Boxing headquarters yesterday to speak with lightweight Scott Lawton, who is in training to defend his Midlands Area title against Coventry’s Baz Carey on Saturday, May 6. On a bill the burgeoning promotional outfit is calling Mayhem, the contest takes place at Kings Hall in Stoke-On-Trent, England and will headline a…
A lot has been written about this coming matchup between Floyd Mayweather and Zab Judah, and anticipation is certainly running high among the boxing public even though Judah’s loss against Carlos Baldomir has somewhat deflated interest for this bout. As result of that loss, by and large many boxing pundits think that Judah’s chances of…
Sugar Ray Leonard cast a spell on me as I watched the 1976 Montreal Olympics. That’s right, through that black and white TV sitting on a cheap, tubular, brass-looking, stand. He moved me, a nine year old from the suburbs with a powerful imagination. Beads of sweat charted ticklish routes as I rooted for him…
Haskins Leads Way On Big Bristol Boxing Show: Commonwealth Flyweight Champion Lee Haskins capped off a superb Sanigar Promotions bill in Bristol, England with a points win over ex-IBO Champion Zolile Mbityi to make the first defense of his title. British and Commonwealth Middleweight Champion Scott Dann held off Belarus spoiler Yuri Tsarenko in an…
After news reached Warriors Boxing Promotions that IBF light heavyweight champion Clinton Woods and his promoter, Fight Academy, had announced an optional title defense against Jason DeLisle on May 13 without first receiving an exception from the IBF for this defense – which would bypass mandatory contender Glen Johnson, the Hollywood based promoter quickly jumped…
USNBC cruiserweight champion Matt “Too Smooth” Godfrey (11-0, 6 KOS) puts his title on the line against NABA cruiserweight title-older Shauna George (11-0-2, 5 KOs) in a unification bout headlining the “Put Up Or Shut Up” card May 10, on ESPN2 Wednesday Night Fights, at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
Fight Academy can confirm that International Boxing Federation Light Heavyweight Champion Clinton Woods will defend against Australian Jason DeLisle at the Ponds Forge Centre in Sheffield, England on May 13. The hometown hero from the Steel City will be the main event of the sister show to Ricky Hatton’s American invasion the same night in…
Hobson also revealed that his £1million offer to Joe Calzaghe to move up and fight Woods has been turned down by Calzaghe’s promoter Frank Warren. Hobson made his offer to Warren mid-week but, sadly, the offer was rejected out of hand.
Maloney Promotions are sorry to announce that the 5th of May contest between Jamie Moore and Matthew Macklin for the British light-middleweight title has had to be called off. Jamie Moore has been suffering with a re-occurance of an old injury, a shoulder problem that has kept him from working or punching in the gym.
Caribbean heavyweight champion Sherman “The Caribbean Tank” Williams (29-10-2, 16 KOs) added the NBA World title belt to his display case with a sensational third-round TKO of veteran “Dangerous” David Washington (15-9, 9 KOs) last Friday night (March 31) at the new Ybor City Multi Fight Complex in Tampa, Florida.
Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Yesterday at a posh bistro in Bristol, promoter Chris Sanigar held the official weigh-in for tonight’s hotly anticipated fightcard headlined by Commonwealth Flyweight Champion Lee Haskins’ title defense against the vastly more experienced former IBO kingpin Zolile Mbityi of South Africa. The terrific bill taking…