Number three ranked European Welterweight Jackson Osei Bonsu of Belgium makes his debut with Maloney Promotions when he boxes fellow countryman Zaid Bediouri over six rounds at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Saturday 11th February. Big-hitting Bonsu who was born in Ghana and is therefore eligible to fight for both the European and…
**With Boxing Images** Guilty Boxing started off 2006 with an action-packed event over the weekend at The Orleans Hotel & Casino in boxing’s top fight town, Las Vegas, Nevada. After the recent Manny Pacquiao show here in town, if you hadn’t gotten your fix of Freddy Roach trained Filipino southpaws, this was the fight card…
Can anyone stop “Pretty Boy†Floyd Mayweather? Long considered boxing’s pound-for-pound champion, the undefeated Mayweather faces his greatest challenge when he attempts to capture his fourth world title in as many weight divisions when he takes on three-time world champion Zab “Super†Judah in a blockbuster showdown for Judah’s IBF welterweight title, Saturday, April 8,…
In what figures to be an exciting, hard-hitting battle, undefeated IBF flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan will make his United States debut and third title defense when he faces IBF No. 6 contender, southpaw Diosdado Gabi, in the Friday, March 3 main event on “ShoBox: The New Generation” on SHOWTIME (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the…
This Sunday, Feb 12th at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence RI, Miguel Espino (10-2-1 4 KO’s) get’s his shot to shine on ESPN, as The Contender air’s it’s next edition of professional fights labeled “East Coast Prideâ€. In the Co-main event to the Peter Manfredo Jr. vs Scott Pemperton headliner, Espino a Contender veteran,…
Felix Promotion will stage the first show this year on February 18th in Tapolca, western Hungary. The main event will be the European EBA Super Middleweight Title defense between undefeated Champion Jozsef Nagy (12-0-0/10 KOs) and Frenchman Pierre Moreno (29-9-0/7 KOs). Also as co-headline of the card, rising star Attila Kovacs defends his European EBA…
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…