Bradford’s Junior Witter – who defends his European title against mandatory contender Andreas Kotelnik at the Nottingham Arena live on ITV2 on Saturday night – believes that he would have knocked out the Kostya Tszyu that fought Ricky Hatton last month inside five rounds. “Lets face it, Tszyu was a shadow of what he used…
Australian super middleweight star Danny “Green Machine” Green returned to form in Perth, Australia over the weekend as he knocked out James Crawford in five rounds. Greem, whose only two losses have come in fights with current WBC super middleweight titlist Markus Beyer of Germany, disposed of Crawford who recently lost a fight to former…
USBA and NABF heavyweight champion and undefeated contender Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter is seeking to get himself in the big title picture later this year. With the current status of Vitali Klitschko’s WBC title defense this September still a mystery, Peter wants to leave no doubt whatsoever that he is ready to stand before…
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…