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Corrales’ Thrilling, Dramatic 10th-Round TKO Over Castillo in World Title Unification Bout To Air Tuesday on SHOWTIME TOO and Friday on SHOWTIME “An instant classic.” – Tim Smith, New York Daily News “A fight for the ages.” – Tim Dahlberg, Associated Press “The greatest fight I have ever seen.” – …

New England Ringside Radio Show hits the road for Las Vegas. Thursday night’s show, aired on WWZN 1510 The Zone in Boston, will be broadcasted live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. “We’ll be there for the big fight two nights later between Felix ‘Tito’ Trinidad and Ronald ‘Winky’ …

1. Kostya Tszyu: A technician, a tactician with power, poise and precision, Kostya Tszyu is a boxing legend. Great amateurs should translate into great professionals, and Tszyu is the example of that philosophy. Victims of Tszyu’s power are legion, but not shamed in being so, as the naturalized Australian conceivably …

Hey there fight fans. After knocking out our very own editor, Jimmy the Gent (I’m sure he will love me saying this), I have now been given some fresh meat. Yours truly shall now take on our very own James MacDonald. After reading some of his work, this should be …

OK fight fans, in the absence of the invention of a full-blown recovery kit for fights such as Corrales-Castillo, I hope you can at least scrape your chins off the floor in time for Tuesday, which is the day we return to the ring and the starting point for this …

You know fight fans, I’m really upset right now. I turned on the television to see what kind of coverage ESPN was giving the amazing fight that took place last night between Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo. To my dismay, they covered everything from rugby (yes rugby), to college …

Diego “Chico” Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo’s Saturday night boxing match was complete with courage, captivation and commanded our attention with its pure excitement, round after round. Last week, when writing an article about this potential match-up, I indicated the chances of this fight being the inspiration for a second …

On the day of the Kentucky derby, it is only fitting that two top thoroughbreds in the lightweight division go head to head. The unification bout between Jose Luis Castillo and Diego Corrales was everything we expected and then some. Diego Corrales survived two knockdowns in the tenth to TKO …

I must apologize fight fans. I was so excited about the Corrales vs Castillo fight, that I forgot to include a piece on the co-featured main event of the televised portion of Showtime’s fight card. Juan Manuel Marquez put his IBF and WBA trinkets on the line against the tough …

By Frank Maloney. In England a couple of weekends ago we had two fight cards which I believe will serve to demonstrate why the sport of boxing will never go away despite any rough spots we are currently experiencing. On that weekend in London, there were two British Southern Area …

NER Promotions and Nelaqui Boxing Promotions are co-promoting a pro show Friday night (May 13), headlined by a Universal Boxing Council-Iberamerican super flyweight title match featuring defending champion Ilidio Manuel Julio (33-5-1, 29 KOs), at Los Caracoles Stadium in Cartagena, Columbia. “We recently signed six Latin American fighters, including Ilidio …

Corrales (40-2, 33 KOs), of Las Vegas by way of Sacramento, Calif., who entered the ring as the World Boxing Organization (WBO) 135-pound champion, came from the absolute brink of defeat to take Castillo’s World Boxing Council (WBC) crown with an 11th-round TKO. The referee stopped a sensational, brutal battle …