Click for larger image© Simon ShawSaddoboxing.com If you ever needed proof that boxing is one of the strangest and most bizarre sports in the world then this fight would be the clincher.Look at the facts: on a card celebrating Frank Warren’s twenty five years in the business, he finally secures a match up between one…
The headlining bout on Telefutura’s Solo Boxeo card from the Michael Marr Gymnasium in Las Vegas, New Mexico this past Friday was between super bantams Cuauhtemoc Vargas and Tomas Villa. At stake on the Fresquez Promotions bill was the twenty one year old Vargas’ WBC Continental America’s bout. Vargas came into the bout with the…
Light middleweights Francisco Villa and Teefo Seetso squared off on the undercard of Telefutura’s Solo Boxeo card from Las Vegas, New Mexico on Friday. Both men are novices in the early parts of their career but that didn’t stop the fighters from tearing into each other with abandon over the course of their four round…
Super bantams Antonio Escalante – Trinidad Mendoza opened up Telefutura’s Friday night broadcast of this week’s installment of “Solo Boxeo” and it was largely three rounds of one sided action. The twenty year old Escalante, of El Paso, Texas, came into the bout with just one loss in ten contests while Mendoza, a thirty three…
It was British boxing at it’s finest last night when European and Commonwealth Champion Esham Pickering and British Champion Michael Hunter collided on a superb Matchroom Promotions card televised by Sky TV. The clash took place in Hartlepool, England’s Borough Hall in front of a packed house of Hunter’s rabid hometown fans. It was an…
Tonight one of the most anticipated all British clashes of the year takes place at Borough Hall in Hartlepool, England. Matchroom Promotions will preside over the pairing of European and Commonwealth Super Bantamweight Champion Esham Pickering against British Champion at that weight, Michael Hunter. It’s a match made in heaven for the fans that will…
Two Brawlers, One Ring And A Collision Headed for Stateline, Nevada In the sport of boxing, fans and writers alike anticipate fights that will have us on the edge of our seats. We savor scheduled bouts that will have us looking forward to fight night. We keep an eye out for those ever elusive world…
WILLIAMS: AUDLEY VICTORY WILL BE SWEETER THAN TYSON WIN Danny Williams reckons beating up Audley Harrison will be sweeter than knocking-out Mike Tyson. The Brixton puncher takes on Harrison at the ExCeL London on Saturday 10 December in the biggest all-British heavyweight clash since Lennox Lewis-Frank Bruno 12 years ago. Dynamite Dan shocked the world…
SANTIAGO’S STOCK SOARS AFTER SIZZLING “SHOBOX†SUCCESS “ShoBox†Telecast to Be Replayed on SHOWTIME TOO Tonight/Thursday, Oct. 27, at 11 PM ET/PT NEW YORK (Oct. 27, 2005) – Mario Santiago surprised a lot of people, but not himself, with his impressive fifth-round TKO over International Boxing Federation (IBF) No. 15 featherweight Cornelius Lock Friday on…
Iraqi War veteran Sgt. Eric Manzebo leads U.S. Marines Boxing Team at Foxwoods Veterans’ Day Spectacular Nov. 11 Iraqi War veteran Sgt. Eric Manzebo leads the U.S. Marines Boxing Team from Camp Lejeune (NC) on the second annual Great Northeast Tour, promoted by S & L Boxing, and headlined by the November 11th Veterans’ Day…
CES CLOSES OUT 2005 WITH A BANG ON NOVEMBER 23RD! Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc. (CES) announced today at the Hi Hat in Davol Square that it will close out its 2005 boxing season with a major event on Wednesday, November 23rd at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Downtown Providence, Rhode Island.
Former WBU Light Middle Champion Mehrdud “Takaloo” Takalobigashi has dropped down a weight class and is in training for his next exciting matchup, a highly anticipated pairing against the steel tough Belfastman Eamonn Magee on December 10th for the WBU Welterweight title. The two are scheduled as just one of the undercard attractions for Sports…