You know fight fans, I can remember that at a very young age, my older brother Benito, and I would sit with our parents on Saturday afternoons and watch fights on cable television. I grew up on boxing and always loved the sport. In my teen years, I used to …
Read More »Vernon Forrest is Starting Over.
The wind of boxing is so powerful and foregoing that we can easily allow the breeze to push memories of former fighters out of our mind. Vernon Forrest is the boxer who showed the blueprint on defeating Shane Mosley; again, I must mention the wind of boxing, how strong it …
Read More »Elder to Fight Singwangcha.
SaddoBoxing had the privelege of speaking with Ebo “The Extreme Machine” Elder briefly about his upcoming bout with Prawet Singwangcha, who is the number one contender in the WBA rankings. Despite many attempts at making the anticipated match-up with current WBA lightweight titleholder Juan Diaz. Ebo has to stay busy …
Read More »\”Rock\” Serving up Chicken Kiev.
Hasim “The Rock’ Rahman Media Workout July 16 See What Vitali Klitschko is Avoiding & Monte Barrett Must Face; Chicken Kiev Will Be Served. •“The Rock’ is the former WBC, IBF and The Ring heavyweight champion •“The Rock’ is the last man to defeat Lennox Lewis (KO 5) •“The Rock’ …
Read More »Carl “The Cobra” Froch.
“I know if it does take that long, it’ll give my fans a bit to come and watch and in that time I can get a good couple of digs in and hopefully hurt him. That’s what I wanna do. I wanna cause him some pain.”–Carl Froch reveals to SaddoBoxing …
Read More »Codrington to Headline Broadway Boxing.
Undefeated knockout artist Jaidon Codrington (8-0, 8 KO’s) of Queens (by way of Bridgeport, CT) will headline the August 4th edition of Broadway Boxing when he faces Levan Easley (17-11-2), also of Queens, in a 10 round bout for the vacant New York State Super Middleweight Title at the Grand …
Read More »Boxing: Theatre of the Unexpected.
(Tuesday Night Fights in Boston, MA) I was not too familiar with the boxers scheduled to fight on ESPN2’s Tuesday Night Fights, but the main event was in the middleweight division, so I figured I was very likely to be entertained. Little did I know that the real entertainment would …
Read More »Meager Gets Watson.
Lee Meager will attempt to put a tough time behind him when he takes on Scotland’s Martin Watson over 10 rounds on the Hennessy Sports “Trailblazers’ event at the Nottingham Arena on July 9th. The Salford fighter certainly has not had a good time of it recently. In fact, if …
Read More »David Walker: \”I intend to be known as exciting just for taking people out in style.\”
Two-weight Southern Area champion David Walker has vowed to recapture the form that saw him heralded as Britain’s most exciting boxer and earn a European title shot against the world-class Russian Roman Karmazin in 2003. “I’m itching to get back into Championship contention,” said “Kid Dynamite’, who has won all …
Read More »Diaz in Non-Title Fight Soon.
Texas-based WBA lightweight champion of the world Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz will get back into action on July 16 when he faces Arthur Cruz in a non-title fight. Diaz sustained a cut eye shortly before he was set to take on Ebo Elder in defense of his title on the …
Read More »\”Famoso\” Launches Website.
Former IBF super featherweight champion Carlos “Famoso” Hernandez has launched his personal website. You can find out about the former champion and ring warrior from El Salvador at www.carlosfamosohernandez.com and as an extra treat, in association with SaddoBoxing.com, “Famoso” has signed a pair of boxing gloves that will be sent …
Read More »Sturm Watching Hopkins-Taylor.
Former WBO middleweight champion Felix Sturm is one of many middleweights that will watch the confrontation between undisputed champion Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor with great interest. Sturm first came to prominence with a twelve round decision loss to Oscar de la Hoya in 2004; a fight many felt he …
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