The WBC was very proud to have Laila Ali, Jackie Nava, Kelsey Jeffries,Sharon Anyos, Jelena Mrdjenovich, Anna Maria Torres and Laura Serrano with us in Cancun to celebrate and be celebrated.On January 28th, in Cancun Mexico, in front of a packed house, Jackie Nava beat Kelsey Jeffries by decsion and retained her Super Bantam Weight…
“Superbrawl 1”, New England Ringside Promotions’ first major boxing event, drew a sellout crowd to the Park Plaza Castle in Boston on Saturday night. The event started slow and threatened to become a series of one round knockouts between rising stars and sacrificial lambs. Fortunately, the headline fight saved the evening. For the only bout…
Dynamite Dean Phillips who has not boxed since an unsuccessful challenge for the Commonwealth lightweight title in November 2004 looks to get back up amongst the big hitters and shakers in the lightweight division when he meets unbeaten Southern Area champion Rob Jeffries at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Saturday 11’th February.
Sucker Punch is a British film unlike any other in that it is not a costume drama, not a rom-com with a token American star and most definitely not a gangster movie. No, Sucker Punch is quite simply a no-nonsense action comedy that delivers on both fronts. Here is a brief synopsis of this great…
The Energizer Boxing Bunny holds up the vacant New York State Heavyweight Title belt with Patchogue native Derric Rossy and Queens’ Gary Bell, who will vie for the crown on Feb. 10 at the Huntington Hilton. “They can’t touch it, it’s my belt right now,” Plainview fight promoter Sal Musumeci quips, then adds, “This thing…
Last night on an HBO televised Top Rank card from the Don Haskins Center In El Paso, Texas, the world’s premier lightweight, Jose Luis Castillo, saw action against Oxnard, California’s Rolando Reyes. Round one: the fight starts with Reyes, a replacement for Diego Corrales, pawing at Castillo with the jab in the center of the…
Twinbill Will Be Replayed First Time On SHO Extreme On Monday, Feb. 6, At 11 PM ET/PT Click for larger image© Tom CasinoShowtime Boxing Styles do indeed make fights and — for 36 minutes — Rolando Reyes’s counter-punching style totally frustrated Jose Luis Castillo. At the finish, however, it was the former two-time World Boxing…
Colorado prospects Adrian and Anthony Mora continued their winning ways on Tuesday, January 31st at the Sherman Street Event Complex in Denver on a card to be televised by HDNet. Adrian (15-0-1) and Anthony (15-0) have started 2006 off with a bang, and are looking to make their mark on the jr. welterweight division in…
Germany’s undefeated super middleweight boxing star Jürgen Brähmer beat South Africa’s Andre Thysse tonight at Burgwächter-Castello in Düsseldorf by unanimous decision over twelve rounds and remained on the route that should lead him to a world title shot within a year. The official scores were 117:111 twice and 117:112. In front of the same crowd…
For a career that has lasted just short of thirty years, over twenty major title fights and one that has amassed sixty wins, forty seven early, a lot of boxing fans will wonder, what motivation has Tommy Hearns got to keep on boxing at the grand age of 47. Perhaps its money, Or the love…
Don’t Miss Tonight’s NER Promotions Fightcard at The Castle at Park Place In Boston The weigh-in for tonight’s six fight “Superbrawl” in Boston took place in the small basement of Remington’s Bar and Grill yesterday. Except for the scale onstage, a stranger wandering in would not have guessed that this was where a boxing weigh-in…
WBO Super Middleweight Champion Joe Calzaghe has signed and numbered twelve tickets to his much awaited showdown with Jeff Lacy on March 4th at Manchester’s MEN Arena. These will be randomly sold to fans buying their tickets on www.joecalzaghe.com and the purchaser of the ticket bearing the number between one and twelve that corresponds to…