“Don’t get me wrong, I could get a bit excited and try to knock the guy out early, and maybe I could, but Robert would sooner me take no shots and show that I can box.‖David Walker on how he and trainer Robert McCracken are reconstructing his fighting style. In the fall of 2003, two…
“Sucra” Ray Oliveira had the distinction of having never been stopped in fourteen years as a professional until last year when current IBF light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton stopped him in ten rounds. Firday night in New Hampshire, Emanuel Augustus repeated the trick only two rounds earlier. Augustus, the most popular fighter in the world…
Vernon Forrest was always the type of fighter that nobody wanted to fight. At six-feet and possessing a seventy-three inch reach, he could concoct a game plan to master any fighter. He was a fighter forever overlooked when it came to big paydays and glory. After turning professional in 1992, he sifted along for the…
Salford southpaw Jamie Moore has stopped Michael Jones in six rounds of their fight tonight at the Altrincham Leisure Centre in England. Moore was seething after losing to Jones in his last fight in November of last year as it appeared that a debatable set of circumstances saw him disqualified by referee Dave Parris and…
With great sadness, SaddoBoxing acknowledges the death of former light heavyweight contender Julian “Mr. KO” Letterlough. Letterlough, who gave boxing one of its most memorable fights in recent years against former WBO world light heavyweight champion Julio Gonzalez was apparently shot to death last night. He was thirty-five-years-old at the time of his death and…
The Klitschko brothers have more in common than their staggering size, PhD’s in sports science and the same parents. They also share a desire not to fight anyone who might fight back. At the moment Vitali Klitschko holds the World Boxing Council heavyweight title and, for reasons understood only by the people who run RING…
Both challengers on the Hennessy Sports “Trailblazers’ event at the Nottingham Arena on Saturday night had to make two trips to the scales at the official weigh-in on Friday afternoon. Matthew Barney – who takes on standout British and Commonwealth champion Carl Froch – was the first to step on. The Southampton man came in…
Undefeated Irish middleweight John Duddy (10-0, 9 KOs) faces veteran Patrick Coleman (29-11, 20 KOs) July 20 in the eight-round main event of a Bobby Hitz-promoted show at 115 Bourbon St. in Chicago. Derry, Ireland native Duddy, now fighting out of Queens (NY), has quickly become one of the most exciting prospects in boxing. “I’m…
None other than the venerable Michael Katz (the man responsible for the infamous monikers “Chicken Kiev” and now “Duck Kiev”) weighed in prominently on the Vitali Klitschko debacle today at MaxBoxing.com: Let me try and not go on another rant against the silly Ring magazine “titles,” but if Vitali Klitschko takes on Brock or Toney…
Disregarding the possibility that he might be stripped of his World Boxing Council title and disregarding challenges to his manhood, Ukrainian heavyweight Vitali Klitschko was expected to finalize a contract last night to fight Calvin Brock in September instead of higher-ranked contenders Hasim Rahman or Monte Barrett. WBC president Jose Sulaiman was diplomatic in an…
Jr. welterweight top contender Andreas Kotelnik will be in action this weekend, other than the majority of his stable mates who are taking several weeks off during the promotional summer break of Universum Box-Promotion during July and August. On Saturday, July 9, the 27-year-old Kotelnik is challenging European title holder Junior Witter in the champion’s…
There was definite tension in the air when British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion Carl Froch and his mandatory challenger Matthew Barney came head to head for the first time on Thursday ahead of their highly anticipated grudge match on the Hennessy Sports “Trailblazers’ promotion at the Nottingham Arena this Saturday. The friction was evident…