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Showtime boxing will close out its year with some very exciting matchups beginning with the fantastic showdowns taking place on December 4th at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Headlining the card will be the WBC lightweight championship featuring the champion Jose Luis Castillo versus Joel Casamayor. …

Super featherweight standout Alex Arthur will fight once again this year in his native Scotland on the third of December at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh. Arthur, known to boxing fans as ‘Amazing,’ will make his third return bout since losing a titanic tussle with Manchester’s Michael Gomez last …

Click for larger Image Nicolay ‘Beast from the East’ Valuev of St. Petersburg in Russia will mark his thirty-ninth fight by taking on fellow unbeaten fighter, Gerald ‘Jedi’ Nobles of America. Valuev is a former Russian heavyweight champion and he stands at approximately seven feet tall and weighs in at …

CARLOS ‘FAMOSO’ HERNANDEZ TO FACE JUAN CARLOS RAMIREZ. CARLOS NAVARRO TO MEET FRANKIE ARCHULETA. SATURDAY, DEC. 11, FROM MANDALAY BAY RESORT & CASINO IN LAS VEGAS LIVE ON HBO PAY-PER-VIEW NEW YORK (Nov. 17, 2004) – In his first bout since his memorable battle with World Boxing Council/International Boxing Federation …

TWO BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE BOUTS HIGHLIGHT “BOXEO DE ORO” ON NOVEMBER 18 LOS ANGELES, November 17 – Even though they check in at just 118-pounds each, bantamweights Jhonny Gonzalez and Gabriel Elizondo pack heavyweight excitement into each of their bouts. On Thursday, November 18, in the main event of HBO Latino’s …

Former Top Rank Promotions president Bob Arum has stepped down from his position in the organization. The announcement arrived today and Arum was quick to announce his successor in the form of son-in-law Todd duBoef. Arum has been recognized for decades as one of boxing’s two major promoters and he …

Those of you possessing a decidedly sweet tooth are hoping that “Sugar’ Shane Mosley can abolish his own estrangement with success and defeat Ronald “Winky’ Wright this Saturday. Meanwhile, the rest of you, enamored with the “Wright’ stuff see this impending clash unraveling to the contrary conclusion. Predict the result …

In 1966, two heavyweights of Puerto Rican heritage turned professional. Each would have an impact on the talent rich heavyweight division of the late sixties and early seventies. Their careers would mirror each other’s and they even took the time to cross gloves on a couple of occasions. Pedro Agosto …

World heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko and challenger Danny Williams are currently intensifying their training for their potentially explosive meeting on December the 11th. Williams has already undergone intensive training in England under the watchful eye of his trainer Jim McDonnell and has apparently displayed rare form in sparring since his …

Junior Witter has responded with indignation to suggestions that Floyd Mayweather Junior will face Lovemore N’dou, Stevie Johnston or Mohammed Abdulaev on his upcoming HBO date. “Floyd is letting himself down by considering opponents of this caliber,” began Junior. I don’t like to say I told you so, but I …

No matter how bad they look, like a moth is attracted to the light, heavyweights are always going to get more than their fair share of media attention. Everyone knows the heavyweights suck at the moment. But I want to go back to the eighties, when the division was in …

BOSTON, Mass. (November 16, 2004) – Norman “Stoney’ Stone, manager/head trainer for World Boxing Association heavyweight champion John “The Quietman’ Ruiz, has issued a public apology for his behavior last Saturday night during the Ruiz-Andrew Golota fight at Madison Square Garden. Ruiz successfully defended his title, winning a unanimous twelve-round …