Zsolt Erdei canceled the defense of his WBO light heavyweight title scheduled for tonight at Color Line Arena of Hamburg against Frenchman Mehdi Sahnoune because of a gastroenteric influenza. The event without the Erdei fight will go on as scheduled. The new main event will be the WBO and IBF intercontinental heavyweight championship between Alexander…
The boxing world is looking for a heavyweight to come along and make a clean sweep of the division, restore credibility and embody the spirit of past champions that made the heavyweight division boxing’s flagship. It is true that the glamour days are gone and optimism is difficult to find that we will see any…
Forget the future, is Peter the best right now? Samuel Peter (23-0, 20KOs) takes on Taurus Sykes (23-1-1, 6KOs) for the NABF and USBA heavyweight titles. In the weak heavyweight division, I see him as the best natural and gifted fighter there is today. Peter is only twenty-four-years-old and was an Olympic quarterfinalist at the…
Ahmed “Hollywood” Kaddour, who recently appeared on “The Contender,” will become the first contestant from the NBC reality series to return to boxing when he takes on an opponent to be announced in the eight-round junior middleweight co-feature Friday, July 22, 2005, on “ShoBox: The New Generation.” In the main event, California State Junior Welterweight…
This weekend there are two major European promoters having activity, German giant UNIVERSUM BOX-PROMOTION in Hamburg and BOXE LORENI with two promotions in Italy, firstly on friday 1st in Palermo, Sicily, and secondly on sunday 3rd in Brescia, northern Italy. FRIDAY, July 1st 2005 Palermo, ITALY – RAI Sat Promoter: BOXE LORENI (Mario Loreni) Welterweight…
WBO light heavyweight champion Zsolt Erdei and IBF heavyweight youth champion Alexander Dimitrenko will headline a big event of Universum Box-Promotion at the huge Color Line Arena of Hamburg, Germany, this Saturday, July 2. Erdei will make the forth defense of his crown against Frenchman and former WBA champion Mehdi Sahnoune, 31-1 (27). “I respect…
Undisputed world welterweight champion Zab “Super†Judah has been nominated for an ESPY Award in the category of Best Boxer. Judah earned this nomination after scoring a ninth-round technical knockout over Cory “The Next Generation†Spinks on Feb. 5 at the Savvis Center in St. Louis before the largest crowd to witness a boxing match…
DiBella Entertainment’s Ike “Bazooka” Quartey, fresh off his convincing victory over Verno Phillips in Memphis on June 11 on HBO, says he is ready to take aim at former champ Oscar De La Hoya. “I beat Oscar when I fought him the first time even though he got the decision,” says Quartey, the gunner from…
Stretching from Mongolia to Eastern Europe, the Eurasian steppes spawned many robust tribes throughout the centuries such as the Cimmerians, Scythians, Samartians, Mongols, Tartars, Huns, Hephthalites and Magyars. Lacking the natural resources to sustain their growing hordes, they spread out in all directions, destroying, assimilating or merging with existing societies and eventually settling into the…
The next “CES’ Prime Time Fights” show presented by Classic Sports & Entertainment & Sports, Inc (CES), originally scheduled for August 12, has been changed to Aug. 26 in Down City Providence at the Rhode Island Convention Center, CES president Jimmy Burchfield announced today. Likely participants include new USNBC super middleweight champion Joey “KO Kid”…
By Curtis McCormick. IBF Light Welterweight Champion Ricky Hatton’s trip to America this past weekend was an unqualified success. The British hero was in Atlantic City to watch Arturo Gatti put his WBC title on the line against Floyd Mayweather and also to witness Vivian Harris’ WBA title clash against Carlos Maussa. Other highlights saw…
Boxing fans are an intense, excitable bunch. I should know, I am one of them. Most every boxing fan remembers the fight or fighter that got them interested in the sport. In my case, it was the first Ali-Frazier fight, back in 1971. The buildup prior to the fight was huge, at least by 1971…