The main event players have all weighed in for tonight’s feast of action in Chicago. Former heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman meets Monte Barrett in an interim WBC heavyweight title match. Ricardo Mayorga and Michele Piccirillo will contest the WBC light middleweight championship of the world and Luis Collazo defends his WBA welterweight championship against Miguel…
***Tons of Exclusive Fight Photos*** Click for larger image© Sergio Martinez As expected, the Laredo Entertainment Center in Laredo, Texas was overflowing with energy and rowdiness of close to five thousand loud and fanatical fans packed the building. You could feel the intensity as the Mexican and Mexican-American fans were starved for just a glimpse…
This has the potential to be one of the most interesting fights of this year. The declining, free-swinging banger Mayorga (27-5-1) is probably the most entertaining fighter of this generation by the way that he doesn’t care if he wins or loses, he just wants to make you look like less of a man than…
What does Mia stand for, anyway? M-I-A, does that mean M(issing) I(n) Action? You “deserted” your post. You did not flee from your foxhole. You just never bothered to show up to entertain the 8,000 fighting men and women at Camp Pendleton Tuesday night when the Sycuan Tribe of the Kumeyaay Nation spent about $250,000…
To promote his upcoming August 20 showdown against Javier Castillejo at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL, Fernando Vargas will hold an open-to-the-public workout at the TCF Bank in Chicago’s Little Village. On August 20, in addition to the Vargas-Castillejo bout, fight fans will also be treated to a second 12 round battle as undefeated…
Call this a “hair raising” experience! Simply stated, rival boxing promoters Don King and Lou DiBella have “wigged out.” DiBella, who is also the managing partner of the ownership group of the Norwich Navigators minor league baseball team, has invited the legendary King to appear as guest of honor at a celebration of America at…
Chicago has the hottest ticket in the nation this Saturday night as the dynamic Midwestern city plays host to another massive Don King Productions card headlined by a bad blood heavyweight WBC Interim title bout between former world champion Hasim Rahman and surging contender Monte Barrett. The main co-feature is a superb one with the…
Ricardo Mayorga, as is his habit, has been trashing his opponent through the media this week. It’s been the usual declarations that his opponent is weak, lacks ability and is simply a stepping-stone to a bigger fight. The Nicaraguan’s antics do make for interesting theater and fun reading but the object of all this attention,…
If you were going to match two opponents that should possibly never fight one another, Don King might have actually done it for his card in Chicago this weekend. The Showtime televised card featuring a headline bout between Hasim Rahman and Monte Barrett for the interim WBC heavyweight title has a peculiar under-card attraction to…
Longtime WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe will return to action this September, though who against is not yet known at this time. After having a title fight with Brian Magee scrapped earlier this year an embarking on a rematch with Germany’s Mario Veit, Calzaghe has done little to convert those that believe he will…
Sadly, it must be reported that former heavyweight contender Clifford “Black Rhino” Etienne has lost the plost at the waning of his boxing career and reverted back to the criminal lifestyle that once saw him imprisoned. Etienne is being held by police in his home state of Baton Rouge, Louisiana for the armed robbery of…
Translated from Spanish to English by Sergio Martinez. “I really appreciate the fact that I have so many fans behind me that love my father, so are loyal to me too. It is an honor to be able to have such great people behind me. I am going to continue to fight for the people…