Click for larger image© Jane Warburton Saddo Boxing Top British promoters Sports Network moved into the Midlands City of Nottingham on Saturday, putting on a shared bill featuring British Welterweight Champion Michael Jennings defending against the unheralded Young Muttley (aka Lee Woodley) and former Olympic hero Amir Khan taking on the more experienced Vitali Martynov….
Big hitting light middleweight Marco Antonio Rubio completed his comeback from a disastrous loss a year and a half ago by outlasting hardened Philadelphia based Russian Aslanbek Kodzoev on an 8 Count/Golden Boy Promotion at Cicero Stadium in suburban Chicago on Friday night. The first two rounds were tentative for both men but the action…
Speculation abounded that Arturo Gatti was finished as a top fighter after Floyd Mayweather forcibly lifted the New Jersey based Canadian’s WBC Light Welterweight crown last June but the thrilling fan favorite returned in force this evening, gracing the stage at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, host of the thirty three year old’s last seven previous…
Sports Network hosted yet another thrilling card tonight but it was bittersweet for the promotional powerhouse as the London firm saw one of it’s leading lights, Michael Jennings, go down in defeat in the same ring in which their teenaged domestic mega star Amir Khan enjoyed the greatest victory yet of his burgeoning career. At…
Markus Beyer successfully retained his WBC Super Middleweight title tonight in Berlin, Germany for the eighth time, strafing challenger Alberto Colajanni for the entirety of their twelve round skirmish before belting out the Italian for good in the final stanza. The 32 year old Colajanni came into the affair unblemished in eighteen outings but was…
Former British and WBU Super Featherweight Champion Michael Gomez was once one of the most pound for pound feared men in a British ring but after now losing two consecutive bouts by way of stoppage the Manchester based Irishman is facing a career crisis. Earlier tonight on a Brian Peters promotion in Dublin, Galway born…
British and Commonwealth Lightweight Champion Graham Earl pulled off a striking upset Friday night on a Maloney Promotions fight card in the London suburb of Dagenham, England when the hard nosed Luton boxer simply refused to back down from Belasrussian Brit killer Yuri “The Czar” Romanov over the course of twelve magnificent rounds. Whereas quality…
Friday night on a Golden Boy promotion at the Desert Diamond Casino in Tuscon, Arizona, ex-IBF Light Middle Champion Kassim Ouma took another step in his comeback as the Florida based Ugandan native gunned down the far more experienced Argentine campaigner Francisco Antonio Mora after eight one sided rounds. Determined volume punching southpaw Ouma gains…
“Quicksilver” struck again as 42 year old Virgil Hill managed to turn back the clock against Russian tourist Valery Brudov Friday night at the Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City to take a well deserved unanimous decision and the vacant WBA Cruiserweight title. On a shared Silverhawk/Guilty/Star Boxing Promotion, Hill started off keeping his distance behind…
Don’t Miss This Fantastic Shared Michael Jennings/Amir Khan Bill! The weigh-in for Sports Network’s much awaited bill tomorrow at the Nottingham Arena went off without a hitch today as headliners Michael Jennings and Amir Khan made their trips to the scales in front of a room packed with photographers and journalists. British Welterweight Champion Jennings…
British Light Middleweight Champion Jamie Moore makes his debut for Maloney Promotions tonight on the undercard of Graham Earl’s dangerous encounter with Yuri Romanov at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre in Dagenham. Moore, from Manchester, will be hoping to breakthrough into world class in 2006 after seeing off domestic rivals David Walker and Michael Jones inside…
Former two-time WBC lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo faces Rolando Reyes in the 12-round main event (contracted weight is 137 pounds) Saturday, Feb. 4, on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ER/PT, delayed on the west coast). Castillo will face WBC lightweight champion Diego “Chico†Corrales in a highly anticipated rubber match later this year. In the second…