EXXECUTION DAY POSTERClick for larger image The February 19th “EXXECUTION DAY” event staged by Golden Boy Promotions – at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles just got more historic. In addition to Howard Eastman’s challenge to undisputed middleweight king Bernard Hopkins, it now also features Britain’s other two leading talents: European light welterweight champion Junior…
It was July of the year 2000 and Lennox Lewis was set to bask in the warmth of a homecoming to England. The British fans at the London Arena witnessed their undisputed champion in all his glory dispatching of South African heavyweight Francois Botha via an authoritative second round knockout. Lewis still desired the ultimate…
This year, we will see an exciting super bantamweight unification fight between WBC champion Oscar Larios and WBO champion Joan Guzman. The fight will take place in El Paso, Texas on April 9. The announcement of this fight seems somewhat presumptuous, given that Larios has yet to defeat Irishman Wayne McCullough in his latest defense…
WBA-IBF featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez is apparently well aware of WBO champion Scott Harrison’s desire to step his competition up a notch. Marquez was due to fight Manny Pacquiao in a rematch of their controversial first fight last year, the fight was scheduled but Marquez’s huge purse demands could not be met and the…
Unbeaten Brooklyn junior middleweight Yuri Foreman (16-0, 7 KO’s) will face Jesus Soto of Mexico (11-2-1, 10 KO’s) in the main event of the third installment of DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing Presented by Mohegan Sun slated for February 24, 2005 at the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center. DBE president Lou DiBella made the announcement…
Northeast Promotions in Association with Cappiello Promotions presents A NIGHT OF THE IRISH at the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation – Foxwoods Resort Casino, in the Fox Theatre, on Friday March 18th 2005, presented Live on ESPN 2. Headlining the 7 card bout will be Irish Kevin McBride (31-4 26KO’s) from Brockton, MA, vs. Irish Kevin…
Professional boxing returns February 25 to the home of “Irish†Micky Ward for the first time in more than a decade when NABA light heavyweight champion George Khalid Jones headlines NER Promotions’ inaugural professional boxing show, “Championship Boxing Returns to Lowell,†February 25 at Lowell Memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts. In the last pro show…
Some fights in a boxer’s career symbolize crucial turning points and they’re importance is not always evident beforehand. Many a valued prospect with a great deal of potential has been gunned down by a journeyman who has been looked at as just another stepping-stone by the fighter and his handlers. Sometimes the journeyman, usually packing…
The career dream of European heavyweight champion Luan Krasniqi is within reach. On April 16 the 33-year-old German is fighting the one year younger American Lance Whitaker in an official WBO heavyweight title eliminator. “That’s great news for me,” Krasniqi said, who last defended his European belt on 4th December 2004 with a draw against…
Undefeated Junior Middleweight Yuri Foreman Headlines 2005’s Third Installment of DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing Presented by Mohegan Sun on Thursday February 24 at the Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center Undercard features a bevy of New York talent and a former Olympian on the rise. Unbeaten Brooklyn junior middleweight Yuri Foreman (16-0, 7 KO’s), junior welterweight…
The heavyweight clash between Ukrainian prospect Taras Bidenko and Rumanian powerhouse Konstantin Onofrei is now available as rebroadcast on www.boxing.de 24h/day for free. Bidenko, 14-1 (9), beat Onofrei, 19-2 (13), by technical knockout in round 7 at Sportzentrum in Saden, Austria, in December 2004. Beginning at 18:00 four fights of that event on December 14…
A pair of potentially explosive match-ups will be shown during SHOWTIME’s Free Preview Weekend when two-time time World Boxing Council (WBC) Champion Jose Luis Castillo takes on former International Boxing Federation (IBF) titleholder Julio Diaz and undefeated Jeff Lacy risks his IBF super middleweight crown against once-beaten Rubin Williams on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING Saturday, March…