Youngstown, Ohio’s unbeaten middleweight Kelly Pavlik will get some much needed exposure from SHOWTIME. Kelly will be part of a ” ShoBox: The New Generation” doubleheader on March 4th from Choctaw, Mississippi. Kelly is sporting a 23-0 ledger with 20 KO’s. He is currently ranked number by the W.B.O., number ten by the W.B.C. and…
I write this article with both a writer’s respect and a fan’s indignation, for a request of an organized boxing commission. The NBA, NFL and MLB are all organized governing bodies for professional sports. Boxing, a sole sport that consists of supportive trainers and a team, but when fight time comes, it’s just two fighters…
I was present at Gallagher’s today on behalf of SaddoBoxing.com for Zab Judah’s post-fight press conference. He will be fighting his mandatory, Cosme Rivera on May 14. The bout will be a featured attraction beneath the main event of Felix Trinidad-Ronald Wright. In addition, Judah’s brother, up and coming super middleweight Josiah Judah will once…
Argentinian WBU World Heavyweight Title challenger Fabio Eduardo Moli has promised to make it a double-upset for England when he defeats Matt Skelton on Friday 25 February at the Wembley Conference Centre. The tough-talker from Cordoba is from the same stable as Javier Alvarez who ripped Michael Gomez’s WBU World Super-Featherweight title from him last…
WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito will headline the Feb 18 edition of ESPN2’s “Friday Night Fights Main Events Special†from the Adrian Phillips Ballroom in Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva. Margarito will defend his crown against WBO #2 contender Sebastian Lujan in the 12…
Howard Eastman has sounded more than confident in the build up to his challenge to Bernard Hopkins on Saturday 19th February at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles – he has sounded certain. “I am going to beat him in five rounds,†he predicts. “Bernard Hopkins will not be denying me my destiny. He has…
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…