“People would say that, yeah I was going to give some good fights, but I would never be at a championship level, and I proved them wrong. I will continue to prove that I can be in there with any of the top guys.â€-Juan Diaz. On June 23, 2000, at the tender age of sixteen,…
Click for larger image© Tom Casino/Showtime Jean-Marc Mormeck (left), promoter Don King and Wayne Braithwaite pose after Friday’s weigh-in at Westborough, Mass. Mormeck, the WBA cruiserweight champion, weighed 198 pounds Friday while Braithwaite, the WBC cruiserweight champion, tipped the scales at 188 pounds. The boxers will collide in the division’s first unification world title fight…
Jean Marc Mormeck puts it all on the line for a chance to double his world title belt collection when he meets Wayne “Big Truck” Braithwaite on Showtime’s killer Saturday night telecast starting at 11pm. WBA champion Mormeck has been quiet the whole week, preferring to let his fists do the talking in the ring…
Last Saturday in Corpus Christi, former two-time junior middleweight champion Fernando Vargas returned to the ring in a big way. Coming off a fifteen-month layoff, the ex-champion earned a well-fought decision over the always-gritty Raymond Joval. Although I felt that Vargas was shot as a fighter and 160-pounds would be too much weight for him…
Click for large image WBO Featherweight Champion Scott Harrison will defend his crown against former three time world title challenger Michael Brodie as part of a huge weekend of fights taking place in Manchester, England on June 3rd and 4th. Harrison’s promoter, London based Sports Network, made the announcement official two days ago on a…
Intimate sources surrounding the business team of former world featherweight champion “Prince” Naseem Hamed indicate that Hamed is set to resume his boxing career later this year, only with an intriguing and unexpected twist. The rumors are that Hamed is set to represent a Middle-Eastern company claiming to have developed the world’s most advanced virtual…
WAYNE BRAITHWAITE (21-0, 17 KOs) Click for larger image© Tom Casino/Showtime “I am very grateful to SHOWTIME, Don King and everybody who made this fight happen. I am very confident and very focused. I really do not see how Mormeck can win, especially if he is lying on his back. This is my coming out…
On March 22, 2005, SaddoBoxing had the privilege of taking part in a conference call between Juan Diaz and Ebo Elder. The two fighters expressed their thoughts and concerns about their upcoming WBA title fight on April 23. But much more was said on the part of Ebo Elder. It started out as your normal…
Click for larger image© www.theghostguerrero.com Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero is back in action on this Friday night’s Showbox telecast on Showtime, scheduled to air at 11 pm EST, and he’ll be in with a tough former Mexican champion by the name of Adrian Valdez. Guerrero will be defending his NABF featherweight crown for the first…
JOHN RUIZ (41-5-1, 28 KOs) “I am the best; there is no doubt about it. I have fought everybody. I am the real heavyweight champion. I take my hat off to Toney for stepping up to fight the real man in the heavyweight division. He says he is going to bring it, and I hope…
It was a fight that was hyped as “The Battle of the Ages.†In one corner, from Atlanta, Georgia, the world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, twenty-eight and at the peak of his powers. Opposing him, from Marshall, Texas, George Foreman, forty-two, former world heavyweight champion. Holyfield had an unblemished professional record leading up to this…
In light of the many events past and present that have occurred causing many fighters to put their careers as well as their lives in jeopardy, I felt it necessary to address the situation. Given the short life of a boxer’s career, it’s so important that they make prudent decisions that will allow them to…