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New England Ringside Boxing Radio Show celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow might (Jan. 6) with the broadcast of its 55th show on WWZN 1510 The Zone in Boston. The two-hour show airs every Thursday night between 6-8 pm (ET) on 1510 AM and may also be heard live on the …

Fresh from his dominant showing against Australian contender Nedal Hussein, WBC super bantamweight champion Oscar “Chololo” Larios will make his next defense against Ireland’s Wayne “Pocket Rocket” McCullough. The fight looks set for the date of the tenth of February with no precise site set. Larios has not lost a …

At thirty-seven years old, former three weight world champion Johnny Tapia makes his return to the ring against thirty-three year old Nicky Bentz in Hidalgo, Texas, USA later this month. Tapia won world titles at super flyweight, bantamweight and featherweight and continues to campaign in the featherweight division. The last …

In light of the breakdown in communications between promoter Don King and light middleweight champion Ronald “Winky” Wright, the possibility of fresh opponents for Trinidad opens up as a possibility. Even in the event of Wright being offered what he deems to be a suitable amount of money to fight …

WBO featherweight champion of the world Scott Harrison has expressed his desire to engage newly crowned WBC/IBF super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera in a fight sometime this year. Harrison was ringside for the huge Barrera-Morales III fight in November of last year and says that it really whet his …

Serious rumors in the boxing world indicate that the proposed super fight between Puerto Rican legend Felix “Tito” Trinidad and current light middleweight champion Ronald “Winky” Wright is about to fall apart. The primary reason for this is rooted in Wright’s dismay at being offered what he considers a paltry …

On February 12th at the Max Schmeling Halle in Germany, two heavyweight attractions have been added to a top night of action that already includes Rudy Markussen versus Vitali Tsypko and Danilo Haussler versus Mohammed Said. Giant Russian heavyweight Nicolai Valuev, standing over seven-feet tall and weighing over 300-pounds will …

Fans who plan to attend Arturo Gatti’s WBC super lightweight world title defense against former world champion Jesse James Leija on Jan 29 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ had better purchase tickets soon or they will find themselves out of luck, it was announced today by Main Events …

Kermit Cintron and Antonio Margarito, two of the world’s finest welterweights will headline the Feb 18 edition of ESPN2’s “Friday Night Fights Main Events Special” from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva. Welterweight bomber Kermit Cintron will defend his WBO-interim …

At the annual Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation fundraiser in November, boxing commentator and fight trainer Teddy Atlas went up to the microphone to tell the thousand in attendance about Jimmy Brown. A young man in his mid-twenties, Brown was paralyzed due to broken vertebrae sustained in an accident. Now, he …

Not even one week into 2005 and already those personal promises, those New Year’s resolutions, no, revelations of finally achieving a decent level of fitness and a healthy lifestyle are losing their appeal right? I can sympathize. I mean, there is still far too much good food left over from …

Further to our report yesterday regarding the current situation of WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, it appears that Calzaghe’s sixteenth defense of his title may come against hard-hitting American Antwun Echols. Echols is well known for his brace of fights at middleweight with Bernard Hopkins, the second of which …