This coming Saturday, live on HBO pay-per-view, it is “Thunder vs. Lightning,” as Arturo “Thunder” Gatti defends his WBC 140-pound title against boxing wizard “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather. Gatti’s trainer, James “Buddy” McGirt, gave us his thoughts on the upcoming fight. “It’s great to train Arturo. He’s doing great baby and we’re on course. We…
Veteran Kenny Ellis (34-6-2, 22KO’s) ventures back into the ring at the Emerald Queen Casino’s Battle at the Boat boxing series this Saturday, June 25th at the I-5 showroom. The first bout is scheduled for 7:30 pm. Ellis will face the steely and unorthodox competitor, James Lubwama (16-2, 9 KO’s) from Florida. Ellis, still fueled…
Click for larger image© Tom Casino/Showtime Arturo Gatti is a boxing star in every sense of the word. He went from an average fighter, to a decent slugger, to an entertaining boxer and now a whole new boxer with improved skills while training under former champion, Buddy McGirt. I used to watch Gatti fights with…
News and Results from the Last week in the Fight Game. In 1240, a dam was built on the Amstel river in Holland thus creating the name Amsterdam. On Sunday 12, June in that beautiful city, Regilio Aaron scored his ninth win in ten fights (six early) with a six round win over previously unbeaten…
British lightweight champion Graham Earl overcame the challenge of Kevin Bennett in the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London last night with a stirring performance. Earl found himself on the canvas at the halfway point of the fight before turning the tide dramatically and landing some huge shots that had Bennett reeling and unable to…
Clinton Woods gained the IBF light heavyweight championship of the world at the fourth time of asking earlier this year. Now, the Sheffield fighter will have to take on former WBO champion Julio Gonzalez in a first defense. Gonzalez was the first man to defeat longtime WBO champion Dariusz Michalczewski and gave former undisputed light…
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For a fight that only happened because Roy Jones Jr. is irrelevant in the light heavyweight division, it did at least give us a legitimate light heavyweight champion. Many see Antonio Tarver’s impeccable record in rematches as a redeeming feature. I cannot help but wonder why he does not get the job done in the…
Antonio Tarver certainly has a taste for rematches as he has never, ever lost on in his professional career. After a disappointing fight for the universally recognized light heavyweight championship, Tarver aimed to get Johnson back in the ring to prove that the first fight was simply a glitch. Tarver did just that as he…
Ghana’s Ike Quartey registered the most significant win of his comeback to boxing after a five year absence last night as he took a ten round decision away from former light middleweight champion Verno Phillips. Quartey felt the canvas in round nine after Phillips certainly had his moments early in the fight. But Quartey came…
Former WBO world middleweight champion Otis Grant fought once again in his adopted home of Montreal, Canada last night. Grant defeated Charles Adamu via the decision route and marked his sixth successive win since returning to boxing after a five year layoff in 2003. Grant has very few knockouts on his impressive professional ledger, so…
At the huge and ancient Amphitheater of Pula, Croatia – built between 100 and 400 A.D. by the Roman Empire – principals Felix Sturm and Stipe Drews fulfilled the expectations set on them as being the favorites on this event promoted by Germany’s Universum Box-Promotion. In front of 6.000 excited open air spectators in one…