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Tonight at the Palace Indian Gaming Resort in Lemoore, California, the showdown for the WBC super bantamweight title will take place. Champion Oscar “Chololo” Larios will face challenger Wayne “Pocket Rocket” McCullough. 2004 Olympian Andre Ward takes a leap up in class against undefeated professional fighter in eight contests, Kenny …

“El Matador” Ricardo Mayorga will indeed return to the ring for the first time since his knockout loss to Felix Trinidad, and of course, his self-imposed retirement. And Mayorga does not fancy hanging around before he gets back into championship class. The WBC has ordered that Mayorga will fight Spain’s …

Stateside today, undisputed middleweight champion of the world Bernard Hopkins held a press conference to discuss his history making twentieth middleweight title defense. The fight will take place on February 18 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, USA and Hopkins will face once-beaten Guyanese born, British based fighter Howard …

Thomas Hauser has been selected by the Boxing Writers Association of America as recipient of the 2004 Nat Fleischer Award for Career Achievement in Boxing Journalism. Hauser has been the lead writer for Secondsout.com since October 2001. Since then, he has authored 142 articles for the website. He is the …

WBO No. 6/IBF No. 14 140-Pound Contender “Mighty” Mike Arnaoutis vs. 140-Pound Contender Roberto Santa Cruz. Undefeated Welterweight Contender Shamone Alvarez vs. Welterweight Contender Jose “El Macho” Medina. Since his “ShoBox: The New Generation” debut last year, “Mighty” Mike Arnaoutis has shown that charisma, style and speed can captivate an …

That bloke delivering your post may have a little more going on besides mucking about with a satchel full of letters and junk mail. Don’t give him too much grief if you get your neighbor’s mail by mistake because he may just be a future super featherweight champion. That is, …

Promoter Frank Warren today announced that undefeated WBO World Super-Middleweight Champion Joe Calzaghe will head to the Kings Hall in Belfast on Friday 18 March to defend his title against Brian Magee. It is important to note that this will subject to final approval from the World Boxing Organisation and …

EXXECUTION DAY POSTERClick for larger image The February 19th “EXXECUTION DAY” event staged by Golden Boy Promotions – at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles just got more historic. In addition to Howard Eastman’s challenge to undisputed middleweight king Bernard Hopkins, it now also features Britain’s other two leading talents: …

It was July of the year 2000 and Lennox Lewis was set to bask in the warmth of a homecoming to England. The British fans at the London Arena witnessed their undisputed champion in all his glory dispatching of South African heavyweight Francois Botha via an authoritative second round knockout. …

This year, we will see an exciting super bantamweight unification fight between WBC champion Oscar Larios and WBO champion Joan Guzman. The fight will take place in El Paso, Texas on April 9. The announcement of this fight seems somewhat presumptuous, given that Larios has yet to defeat Irishman Wayne …

WBA-IBF featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez is apparently well aware of WBO champion Scott Harrison’s desire to step his competition up a notch. Marquez was due to fight Manny Pacquiao in a rematch of their controversial first fight last year, the fight was scheduled but Marquez’s huge purse demands could …

Unbeaten Brooklyn junior middleweight Yuri Foreman (16-0, 7 KO’s) will face Jesus Soto of Mexico (11-2-1, 10 KO’s) in the main event of the third installment of DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing Presented by Mohegan Sun slated for February 24, 2005 at the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center. DBE president …