La Sona Norte in Tijuana is the toughest area in a poverty-stricken town known for its hard streets, and even harder residents. It is a place where hope for a better life is not readily accessible to the “common†man, but lawlessness, prostitution, alcoholism, and mind altering chemicals are. Not all of Tijuana is like…
Wayne McCullough, originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, became an American Citizen on Friday September 2, 2005. Wayne was sworn in along with 90 candidates at the Lloyd George Courthouse in Las Vegas. Wayne said, “Even though I was born in Belfast, I have spent the last 12½ years living in the USA. My daughter was…
Showtime’s weekend card from the Gund Arena in Cleveland was capped off with a bang when cruiserweight Guillermo Jones ended former world champion Wayne Braithwaite’s comeback dreams during a thrilling punch-up. Jones almost had “Big Truck” out of there in the first round but the native Guyanese held on and came back in the second…
Omar Sheika came to Germany in hopes of upsetting WBC supremo Markus Beyer last night but the American instead failed in his fourth and possibly final world title bid. The willful brawler from Patterson, New Jersey found the three time WBC champion impossible to tag with flush shots and found nothing but leather in return…
Former two time British title challenger Jon Thaxton sent out a message to the lightweights of the U.K. with a vicious fourth round knockout of Romanian boxer Vasile Dragomir to retain his WBF crown in Norwich, England. Dragomir had taken the bout on just a few day’s notice after Argentine Eduardo Daniel Roman, himself a…
Flyweight championesse from Germany Regina Halmich and several heavyweight contests dominate a Universum Box-Promotion fightcard in Karlsruhe on Saturday, September 10. The 28-year-old Halmich, 47-1-1 (15), will defend her WIBF flyweight title against the undefeated and three years older Spaniard Maria Jesus Rosa, 19-0 (4). Halmich, now a highly popular sports celebrity in Germany, is…
Action from the US, Australia, Thailand and Colombia. Some important fights took place across the globe on the first night of this weekend, so let’s get down to business. On ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, heavyweight hopeful Terry Smith survived his encounter with seven-foot puncher Keith Long, who outweighed Smith by thirty-one pounds, to score a…
Guillermo Jones: “I need to go and get a world a world title now. I want unified world champion Jean-Marc Mormeck or O’Neil Bell. “A cramp developed in my foot in the second round so I did what I had to do. I felt like I had no choice but to let my hands fly…
Heavyweight titlist Chris Byrd signed a bout agreement Friday to face mandatory challenger DaVarryl Williamson. The bout agreement calls for the fight to take place Sept. 30 or Oct. 1 in St. Louis. However, promoter Don King and Showtime are working behind the scenes to add the fight to Showtime’s Oct. 1 card in Reno….
CLEVELAND (Sept. 4, 2005). In a pair of evenly matched, competitive, hard-fought fights, underdogs Guillermo Jones and Ray Austin staved off elimination in their respective weight classes and kept alive their chances for a world title shot by registering upset victories Saturday on SHOWTIME. In a cruiserweight elimination bout, Jones defeated Braithwaite on a controversial…
The best laid comeback plans of Wayne “Big Truck” Braithwaite were destroyed in style tonight at the Gund Arena in Cleveland as Guillermo Jones took Braithwaite out in four rounds. Jones came into the bout with a solid 33-3-2 record and put his power to work early on. This is the second successive fight that…
In a shock in the heavyweight division tonight from the Gund Arena in Cleveland, heavyweight journeyman scratched any chance that Owen Beck could figure in the title chase in the near future. Austin, who has three losses to date, took a decision over Beck who was once highly thought of in the heavyweight division. With…