It was with great sadness that I reacted to Thomas “The Hit Man†Hearns’ recent announcement that he would be getting back into the ring at age forty-six. Hearns is one of my all-time favorite boxers. What I remember most about him is that he never seemed to have a boring, uneventful boxing match. ***The…
Golden Boy Promotions, in a continuing effort to bring the best boxers from around the world to fight fans on a consistent basis, is pleased to announce the signing of highly regarded super bantamweight prospect Jonathan Oquendo to a promotional contract. Oquendo, 4-0 with 2 knockouts, becomes the first signee of Golden Boy Promotions to…
Oscar de la Hoya is thirty-two-years-old, has more money than God and movie star good looks. He is also a six-division champion, Olympic gold medalist and hero to many. But why have so many critics been so skeptical of Oscar’s career? He has done everything the people have wanted and even challenged Adonis middleweight Bernard…
Undefeated, hard-hitting heavyweight Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter kicked off the Fourth of July weekend with a bang as he impressively tamed “The Bull,” knocking out Taurus Sykes at 2:07 of the second round Saturday on SHOWTIME. The bout at the Reno Events Center was promoted by Duva Boxing and aired at 9 p.m. ET/PT…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino/Showtime “Who’s next!? Who’s next!?” Was the bombastic message that Samuel Peter yelled at the television camera after he knocked out Taurus “The Bull” Sykes in the second round. After a nondescript first stanza, Peter came out showing more aggression in the second round. Samuel was shooting jabs to…
Veronica Hernandez, wife and manager of former 130-pound IBF super featherweight titlist Carlos “Famoso” Hernandez spoke to this writer today and confirmed that Hernandez and Jesus Chavez are going to do it again. The fight is scheduled for October 8, 2005 and will be in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first fight was a WAR! This…
Detroit fighter and boxing legend Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns insists that he is not finished with boxing and he intends to be back in the ring fighting once again this year. Hearns is set to make yet another comeback, this time against a fighter named John Long, who once lost to former WBU middleweight champion…
In the absence of the WBO world light heavyweight title fight that was cancelled at the last minute, it was up to former co-main eventers Andreas Sido and Alexander Dimitrenko to steal the show. WBO light heavyweight champion Zsolt Erdei pulled out of his defense against Mehdi Sahnoune due to the flu, but Dimitrenko stepped…
Ahead of their clash happening tonight at the Events Center in Reno, heavyweight contenders Samuel Peter and Taurus Sykes weighed in. Peter, coming off a third round technical knockout of Gilbert Martinez scaled 243-pounds while Sykes, whose last fight was a twelve round decision win over Friday Ahunanya weighed 235-pounds. It will be a confrontation…
Mike Tyson’s latest match left me in amazement; I was ready for surprise, shock and perplexity. Of course, I had no clue that Tyson would leave his impression on boxing and that his so-called last match would prove so defining. Tyson is a fighter that can make you watch his fights like no other, even…
Shane Mosley came back to us in April with a victory over little-known David Estrada; it was his first victory in over fifteen months. Shane Mosley started out as the unbeatable and invincible 135-pound rocket that won the IBF lightweight title in August of 1997 from Phillip Holiday and made seven successful defenses of that…
“The Black Panther” Cruised to Victory in his Second Tune-up Fight in a Row in Australia, but will he ever contend for a major world title? A year ago, Lovemore N’Dou was riding high in the ultra competitive light welterweight division on the strength of two competitive losses to Sharmba Mitchell and Miguel Cotto. The…