Bradford’s Junior Witter moved a step closer to an authentic world title challenge last week when the WBC installed him as the number one contender to their current champion and pound for pound king “Pretty Boy’ Floyd Mayweather. The decision to elevate the British, Commonwealth and European title-holder follows the exclusion of Gianluca Branco –…
Hey, fight fans! Here is yet another addition of the “TKO Boxing Show†found only on Saddoboxing.com. Our tradition of bring you the best fighters in the sport today continues as our special guests for this week’s show are Ricardo “Rocky†Juarez, literally days away from his interim world title fight, and 140-pound prospect Paulie…
The press conference almost led to a fight before the fight, but even though cooler heads prevailed when Shannon Briggs and Ray Mercer squared off in New York City last Monday, this week the temperature will start to approach the boiling point as participants on the August 26 Heavyweight Heat show – which will be…
With Danny Green having signed to fight Scott Pemberton in a bid to secure a third meeting with Markus Beyer, and a November superfight between Joe Calzaghe and Jeff Lacy supposedly a done deal, Anthony Mundine is starting to resemble a little boy that nobody wants to play with. Blessed with phenomenal athletic gifts, speed…
With all the hype surrounding Olympic Silver Medallist Amir Khan another hot young prospect is ready to punch his way back into the spotlight. Super-featherweight star Kevin Mitchell is back! The power-punching youngster from Dagenham injured his left hand in April this year against Karim Chakhim that forced him to stay out of action. The…
Rahman Defeats Barrett, Mayorga Takes WBC Crown, Garcia and Collazo Keep Titles Hasim Rahman had promised to deliver a knockout performance on Showtime’s PPV card from the United Center in Chicago on Saturday night, and send a message to WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko that “The Rock” was coming for the fabled green belt. What…
Let’s look back to the year 2000. Ferocious Fernando Vargas was arguably the number 1 man in the 154 pound Division. His main rival was fellow Olympian David Reid. Both men seemed to be on a collision course. Reid was unbeaten as a professional and was WBA Champion, Vargas was unbeaten as a professional and…
Hasim Rahman is in the middle of a heavyweight division that can either improve a lot or disprove a little. The past glamour, brilliant fighting skills and celebrity status that Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis offered to the division haunts the once powerful weight class. We have invited a ghost of sorts for…
Click for larger image© DAVID MARTIN WARRDON KING PRODUCTIONS The carnage will be awesome. Onlookers will have to peep through their fingers to gauge whether it is safe to look. Nearby, officials will wince; eyeing every nuance of the action, hoping that animosity between the two can be sufficiently contained. Public relations officers will envision…
These two fighters are considered the best chances of any other heavyweights around to dethrone WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. Rahman already knows the taste of championship glory, having shocked former undisputed champion Lennox Lewis in five rounds on that infamous night in Carnival City, South Africa, 2001. Barrett has yet to compete in a…
This Saturday as part of the huge Don King pay-per-view event being held in Chicago, former welterweight titlist Ricardo Mayorga returns to the ring in a title fight against Italy’s Michele Piccirillo. When this fight happens, we will get the chance to find out two things: was Mayorga ruined by the spectacular beating he received…
Jose Antonio Rivera was the WBA welterweight champion of the world and looking forward to signing some lucrative fights. Not anymore, and the reason being is none other than Bronx puncher Luis Collazo. Once beaten and not intending to be so again this weekend, Collazo is the WBA champion now, albeit under the reign of…