Former heavyweight star Shannon Briggs got back into the thick of the action last night in his native New York as he pounded little-known Abraham Okine in three short rounds. Briggs, who has fought such names as Lennox Lewis, George Foreman and Jameel McCline was once a favored prospect with fast hands and power. Rumors…
June is the showcase month for the light welterweight division and current IBF champion Ricky Hatton began it by setting the standard bar almost insurmountably high by overwhelming ring legend Kostya Tszyu. On June 25, we have the showdown between Arturo Gatti and Floyd Mayweather for the WBC title, as well as a chance to…
The lightweight division has one classic encounter to call upon this year, the Diego Corrales-Jose Luis Castillo fight. As HBO presents the real heavyweight night of boxing this Saturday, another lightweight classic may evolve between former WBA super featherweight champion Joel Casamayor and undefeated contender Almazbek Raiymkulov. This fight pits Raiymkulov’s youth and brute strength…
It is only right that the next big star to come out of Puerto Rico seek for his revenge on the eve of the Puerto Rican day parade. On Saturday, June 11, the twenty-four-year-old native of Caguas makes his Madison Square Garden debut. For the first time in five years, Miguel Cotto will take on…
Those of you that log on every week to see the SaddoBoxing debate articles know that I am not displaying stellar form of late. I lost big last week as Ricky Hatton did the supposedly impossible and dominated Kostya Tszyu before making the former undisputed light welterweight champion give up on his stool after eleven…
ITV will return to showing live professional boxing on July 9th when they cover the Hennessy Sports “Trailblazers’ promotion at the Nottingham Arena featuring Carl Froch and Junior Witter. “I am delighted that ITV are backing this show,†said Hennessy Sports head Mick Hennessy. “It is refreshing that their Head of Sport Mark Sharman sees…
Last night fight fans, Telefutura’s “Solo Boxeo” boxing series’ main event featured young 140-pound prospect, now contender, Jose Armando Santa-Cruz ( 20-0-0 with 11 KOs) taking on the experienced Ernesto Zavala (20-4-0 with 8 KOs). After a first nondescript round, the action heated up in the second as Santa-Cruz started to find his range and…
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“No one knew about the division until Evander came through and made a name, I can do the same.”–“Hino†Ehikhamenor on being the future of the cruiserweight division. His name might not have caught on just yet, but when you see “Hino” Ehikhamenor, you see something spectacular. He has the physique, the punching power, the…
U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six†Estrada (2-0, 1 KO) continues his pro career June 17 in a Special Heavyweight Attraction on “Providence’s Prime Time Fights,†promoted by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc (CES) – The Franchise in Rhode Island — in The All-New Theatre at the Dunkin’ Donuts Theatre in Down City Providence….
This Sunday, in New York City, the people of that great metropolis celebrate one of their most colorful events of the year in the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Last year there were over 100,000 marchers and three-million spectators at the event with organizers predicting greater numbers this year. To mark this, I thought I would…
Miguel Cotto will be entering Saturday night’s fight with a lot of weight on his shoulders. Cotto must follow Ricky Hatton’s great show, face a former opponent who defeated him in his Olympic days, conquer the challenge of making another positive impression on the junior welterweight division, fight on a card that rivals a Mike…