Detroit fighter and boxing legend Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns insists that he is not finished with boxing and he intends to be back in the ring fighting once again this year. Hearns is set to make yet another comeback, this time against a fighter named John Long, who once lost to former WBU middleweight champion…
In the absence of the WBO world light heavyweight title fight that was cancelled at the last minute, it was up to former co-main eventers Andreas Sido and Alexander Dimitrenko to steal the show. WBO light heavyweight champion Zsolt Erdei pulled out of his defense against Mehdi Sahnoune due to the flu, but Dimitrenko stepped…
Ahead of their clash happening tonight at the Events Center in Reno, heavyweight contenders Samuel Peter and Taurus Sykes weighed in. Peter, coming off a third round technical knockout of Gilbert Martinez scaled 243-pounds while Sykes, whose last fight was a twelve round decision win over Friday Ahunanya weighed 235-pounds. It will be a confrontation…
Mike Tyson’s latest match left me in amazement; I was ready for surprise, shock and perplexity. Of course, I had no clue that Tyson would leave his impression on boxing and that his so-called last match would prove so defining. Tyson is a fighter that can make you watch his fights like no other, even…
Shane Mosley came back to us in April with a victory over little-known David Estrada; it was his first victory in over fifteen months. Shane Mosley started out as the unbeatable and invincible 135-pound rocket that won the IBF lightweight title in August of 1997 from Phillip Holiday and made seven successful defenses of that…
“The Black Panther” Cruised to Victory in his Second Tune-up Fight in a Row in Australia, but will he ever contend for a major world title? A year ago, Lovemore N’Dou was riding high in the ultra competitive light welterweight division on the strength of two competitive losses to Sharmba Mitchell and Miguel Cotto. The…
Hennessy Sports would like to make it clear that, despite rumours circulating yesterday, Matthew Barney has not withdrawn from his mandatory challenge to British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion Carl Froch on the “Trailblazers’ event at the Nottingham Arena on Saturday July 9th. The 31-year-old from Southampton – who last time out lost a highly…
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…