Sorting Out The Middleweights Post-Hopkins With Bernard Hopkins insisting that his long-awaited and now largely symbolic return match with Roy Jones Jnr is a done deal for June, the middleweight division that “The Executioner” dominated for so long will embark on the scramble for a new figurehead and a new era. The man who would…
Bouts Will Be Replayed First Time On SHOWTIME TOO Saturday, Feb. 4, At Midnight ET/PT Sechew “Iron Horse†Powell celebrated a family gathering on the fight card and continued his rise to prominence in the junior middleweight division with a convincing, 10-round unanimous decision over veteran Robert “Push Up†Frazier Friday on “ShoBox: The New…
Three-time world champions “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather and Zab “Super” Judah will host a news conference luncheon in New York on Tuesday to announce their welterweight title rumble scheduled at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas on April 8th. Hall of Fame promoters Bob Arum and Don King will also be on hand,…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing (Picture Left) Jose Luis Castillo (left) and Rolando Reyes each tipped scales at 138 pounds Friday for their 12-round fight Saturday on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). (Picture Right) Edner Cherry (left) weighed 131 1/2 pounds while defending NABF champion Jose…
Click for larger image© Stefan ChristouSaddo Boxing In an explosive match up last night, Sam “Rocky” Rukundo continued his perfect winning record by capturing the vacant British Masters Light Weight title with an impressive win against Silence Saheed. The fight took place in a gala event at the New Connaught Rooms of London’s West End,…
Jürgen Brähmer, 26-0 (22), is one of the brightest stars and prospects of the Hamburg based Universum Box-Promotion. On the upcoming Universum event on Saturday he will defend his WBC international title belt against South African Andre Thysse. At today’s official weigh-in at Ginos Restaurant in the KöGalerie of Düsseldorf Brähmer weighed 75.8 kg and…
Click for larger image© Tom Casino Showtime Boxing As the saying goes, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasureâ€. However in this case, another man’s misfortune became another man’s blessing. Lightweight Rolando Reyes, 26-3-2 (16), has the opportunity of a lifetime; he has the chance to shock the world if he can only derail the…
In a pair of excellent 12-rounders Saturday on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast), former two-time WBC lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo faces Rolando Reyes in a 12-round lightweight bout and Jose Armando Santa Cruz defends his NABF 135-pound title against Edner Cherry. Click for larger image© Tom Casino Showtime Boxing JOSE…
He may not whack like Wayne Braithewaite. He may not crack like O’Neill Bell. And he may not attack like Jean Marc Mormeck. And unlike these world champions of both present and past times, Chris McInerny has also never clasped a world championship belt around his slender waistline. Yet, there is one such attribute that…
Moments after the defining victory of his boxing career, a tenth round knockout of seemingly invincible Jean-Marc Mormeck at Madison Square Garden’s Theater on January 7th, O’Neil Bell was rightfully ecstatic. He had added the WBC, WBA, and Ring magazine title belts to the IBF championship he already held. After years of struggle, he had…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Former two-time WBC lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo will face Rolando Reyes in a 12-round lightweight bout in Saturday’s main event on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). In the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING co-feature, Jose Armando Santa Cruz defends his NABF l135-pound…
At a well attended press conference at the Europa Hotel in Belfast today the eagerly awaited British and Commonwealth super-middleweight title fight between Nottingham’s Carl Froch and Belfast’s Brian Magee was announced. The fight will take place at the famous King’s Hall in Belfast on the 31st March 2006.