Undefeated NABF Featherweight Champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (15-0-1 8KOs) will be in attendance at this week’s boxing matches in San Jose Ca. First on the list is this Thursdays “Fight Night at the Tank” at 7:30 P.M. Then “The Ghost” will be at Saturdays Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. fight …
Read More »Samuel Peter vs. Wladimir Klitschko Possible?
Further to the breaking news that heavyweight contender Samuel Peter was placed in a final eliminator for the WBC heavyweight championship, it has also been revealed that Peter will have the choice of the WBC and now the IBF heavyweight championship route. The IBF boxing organization have ordered that Peter …
Read More »Williams Under Fire After No-Show.
Former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion and Mike Tyson conqueror Danny Williams is under severe fire after his last moment pull-out this past weekend. Williams was supposed to fight current British, Commonwealth and WBU heavyweight titlist Matt Skelton in a hugely significant domestic clash, but Williams cancelled his appearance right …
Read More »Hopkins-Taylor: History Can Wait.
Bernard Hopkins cast himself as the people’s champion, a proclamation that was perhaps nevermore poignant than in the fight’s preceding weeks as he shared promotional duties with boxing golden boys Oscar de la Hoya and Jermain Taylor, fighters bred for stardom, walking a designated route upon which they would make …
Read More »Bad Weekend for Three British Fighters.
Eastman, Magee and McCullough all come up short. A certain aging American middleweight champion was not the only fighter to be unlucky this weekend as three British fighters found themselves in the losing column after giving their all in title fights. Two went down the tubes in Germany while a …
Read More »King\’s Hot August Night of Champions.
The plot thickened surrounding Don King’s Global Glory pay-per-view event at the United Center on Aug. 13 after the World Boxing Council ruled Friday that the winner of the card’s main event—Hasim “The Rock” Rahman vs. Monte “Two Gunz” Barrett—will next face Vitali Klitschko in a WBC heavyweight title match. …
Read More »Mayorga-Piccirillo Added to King Card.
Promoter Don King has announced that former World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association welterweight champion Ricardo “El Matador” Maryorga will face former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Michelle Piccirillo for the WBC super welterweight championship as part of “Global Glory” at the United Center on Aug. 13. The colorful …
Read More »The \”TKO Boxing Show\” Hopkins-Taylor Special.
Ok fight fans, I hope you have recovered from the weekend’s fight action because SaddoBoxing definitely does not rest and the “TKO Boxing Show” goes ahead with full steam. This week, we’re taking a look at the main event card action. Hopkins-Taylor caused such controversy over the weekend and we …
Read More »Vitali Klitschko: \”I am Not Ducking Anyone, Especially Rahman.\”
World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko would like to make one thing perfectly clear: He has always wanted to fight Hasim Rahman. “I read things, but I do not believe what I am reading,” Klitschko said. “Three months ago (April 20), a press release was sent out on my …
Read More »Hopkins-Taylor: Duane Ford Stole my Autumn.
National Geographic once captured an infant crane falling into piranha-infested waters somewhere in South America. That is the feeling I got from the morning boxing chat forums. Did people really need to call Bernard Hopkins overrated that many times? Did people have to dismiss Jermain Taylor as predictable and unimaginative? …
Read More »\”Punisher\” Perez Jr.: \”I Want Garcia and Litzau!\”
“I am looking forward to a tough fight this Saturday and if all goes well, I will also be trying for two more fights after this one in August.” Jose also said: “Some time after this summer I would like to go up against one of my amateur rivals like …
Read More »Hopkins-Taylor Replay July 23.
It’s a special edition of WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING when HBO Sports presents the exclusive delay broadcast of the showdown for the undisputed world middleweight title: BERNARD HOPKINS VS. JERMAIN TAYLOR, airing SATURDAY, JULY 23 at 10:15 P.M. ET/PT, on HBO. The HBO Sports broadcast team, which was ringside for the …
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