British super featherweight champion “Amazing” Alex Arthur will challenge for the European super featherweight crown on July 9 against Boris Sinitsin. Russia’s Sinitsin will travel to Arthur’s Edinburgh for the fight as Arthur attempts to win all domestic and European championships outright. Arthur aims to follow in the footsteps of current Scottish world featherweight champion…
Antonio Tarver is in a division with very few shining stars and come this Saturday night, he has a chance to increase his fan base, future match-ups and bragging rights to the sports world with a win over Glen Johnson. Do not judge Johnson’s record, he has nine losses; however his only convincing loss was…
Boxing has to be one of the best sports in the world. You have a union consisting of a boxer, trainer and the concentration on building the best boxer one can possibly be. It is a sport of mental willpower and intense physical preparation. Yet, you do have a dark side to boxing, a side…
SaddoBoxing has the privilege of speaking with one of boxing’s dynamic duos, Wayne “Pocket Rocket” McCullough and Cheryl McCullough, his wife and manager on his upcoming rematch against Oscar Larios, his reason behind the loss to Scott Harrison, his book coming out in a few months titled, “Wayne McCullough: The Fighter That Never Quits.” The…
David Burke has withdrawn from his eliminator for the British lightweight title against Lee Meager on the July 9th Hennessy Sports “Trailblazers’ event at the Nottingham Arena. “Unfortunately David has injured his back so has had to stop training,†explained show promoter Mick Hennessy. “This means he will now be unable to box in July….
DiBella Entertainment’s tough 135-pounder Leavander Johnson (33-4-2, 25 KO’s) and Stefano Zoff (43-9-2, 17 KO’s), will battle for the Vacant IBF Lightweight Title on Friday night June 17th at the Palalido Dello Sport in Milano, Italy. Zoff hails from Monfalcone, Italia, so he will be fighting on his home turf, while Leavander travels to Italia…
Gatti: It’s going to pay off for me again this time. My boxing skills. That’s what everyone forgets that I can do. It was very important for me to win that title. And it was very hard also. Not knowing my opponent and not knowing how he was going to come out. I hurt my…
1978 was a very strange year in the heavyweight division. In February of that year, Leon Spinks in just his eighth professional fight defeated a thirty-six-year-old Muhammad Ali on a split fifteen round point’s decision in Las Vegas. At this time, the number one WBC contender was Ken Norton. Spinks ended up stripped of this…
In an astonishing series of events, a sixty-six-year-old ex-con from Louisville, Kentucky has filed a lawsuit against all time boxing great Muhammad Ali, asking for five percent of the ex-champions total ring earnings. “I’m being generous,” exclaimed Alvin “Crazy Bird Legs†Johnson, who has just been released from the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex after serving…
Well fight fans, you know that you are at the right place to get the most consistent and accurate boxing news when fighters themselves call to let SaddoBoxing.com know of their upcoming fights. This is exactly what super bantamweight contender Daniel Ponce De Leon did earlier this afternoon. De Leon told this writer that he…
The twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of Roberto Duran’s victory over “Sugar” Ray Leonard. June 20, 2005 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the victory Roberto Duran received when he scored a tremendous triumph over “Sugar” Ray Leonard. The exciting win happened on June 20, 1980 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada almost twenty-five years to the date of the…
CARLOS NAVARRO. “Confidence-wise, I am always the same, so it wasn’t like I got sky high after beating Agapito Sanchez. What that victory did for me which was more important than anything was remind fans and media that I am back in the game and serious about fighting for and winning a world title. I…