A promising young boxer who got the break of a lifetime when he was chosen to compete on NBC’s upcoming reality TV program “The Contender” has committed suicide. Najai Turpin shot himself in the head early Monday while sitting with his girlfriend in a parked car outside the West Philadelphia gym where he trained, police…
On tuesday evening Spotlight Boxing promoted an event in south Germany’s Stutgart inside the athmospheric and elegant Alte Reithalle of Maritim Hotel. In the main event Usbekian Mahamat Abdulaev defeated Argentine Juan Alberto Godoy with a spectacular knockout in round 3 in a contest at jr. welterweight. Abdulaev landed two brutal hooks to the head…
Hennessy Sports would like to clarify details of the Setanta Pay Per View broadcast of the Saturday February 19th “EXXECUTION DAY’ promotion at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles. We are happy to confirm that the live broadcast will hit the UK at 0100 GMT on the following Sunday. Junior Witter’s Commonwealth title defence against…
Scottish Heavyweight Prospect Ian Millarvie gets a chance to further his career when he makes his 2nd appearance at The St Andrew’s Sporting Club on Monday 21st February 2005. Millarvies Manager and St Andrew’s Sporting Club owner Tommy Gilmour says: “We have been inundated with requests from members for Ian to box at the Club…
Boxing has long been fodder for some of the greatest movies Hollywood has ever produced. “The Champ,†“Somebody Up There Likes Me,†“Rocky,†“Raging Bull†and the new Clint Eastwood film, “Million Dollar Baby,†to name but a few. “The Great White Hype†is not a great movie, but the beautiful thing is that it…
As a prelude to a huge money fight against either Oscar de la Hoya or Shane Mosley, Zab Judah has announced that he will fight his IBF mandatory contender Cosme Rivera. The fight will provide a great feature attraction to the Felix Trinidad-Ronald Wright fight on May 14 in Las Vegas. Ricvera is twenty-eight years…
“ShoBox: The New Generation†presents three undefeated fighters during one exciting night of boxing action on Friday, March 4, 2005. In a battle of unbeaten lightweight boxers in a scheduled 10-round main event, World Boxing Council (WBC) No. 10/World Boxing Organization (WBO) No. 12/World Boxing Association (WBA) No. 13 contender, Almazbek Raiymkulov, will make his…
Undefeated boxing sensation and NABF Featherweight Champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (14-0-1) is off to camp to train for his scheduled fight April 1, 2005 on Shobox. The venue and opponent are TBA. “The Ghost” is coming off an impressive KO victory against Cesar Figueroa (28-5-2) to capture the NABF Featherweight title. Ranked #6 in…
It will be the longest boxing event ever shown live on the internet. On Tuesday, February 15, www.boxing.de will do a 4-hour broadcast from 18:00 to 22:00 with seven live fights from a Spotlight Boxing show in Stuttgart, Germany. The broadcast, however, will not only impress with quanitity but also with quality. The internet live…
Click for larger image© Richard Eberline Tye Fields is one of today’s most promising heavyweights. He’s also one of the biggest, whichever way you look at it. The six-foot-nine, 279-pound former college basketball player is amazingly fit and agile for a man of his size, and with top of the line trainer Jesse Reid at…
Hello fight fans and welcome to a new week in the boxing world. This week, we begin our coverage of the world’s major boxing action once again on Thursday as Daniel Ponce De Leon aims to extend his unbeaten streak of twenty-four straight wins against Celestino Caballero. The hard-punching De Leon acquired quite a reputation…
FACE OFF IN BELFAST. CALZAGHE AND MAGEE MEET HEAD-TO-HEAD. Joe Calzaghe and Brian Magee will meet head-to-head at a press conference for their highly anticipated World Super-Middleweight title clash at the historic Kings Hall in Belfast on Friday 18 March. Promoter Frank Warren invites all media to attend the press conference to be held on…