Scott Harrison is not content with his performance against Victor Polo and has vowed to fight his most recent challenger again in order to set the record straight. Harrison risked his WBO featherweight title in a match with Polo who was the mandatory challenger. It appears that the majority of the boxing world underestimated Polo,…
Mark May 14th on your calender as The Boxing Ministry has their annual awards banquet. This year the Ministry will honor the great former WBC light heavyweight champion, Hall Of Famer Matthew Saad Muhammad. Also tenetively slated to be on hand is WBA welterweight champion Jose Rivera. This talented champion sports an impressive 37-3-1 record…
The World Boxing Association has notified Team Ruiz that James “Lights Out†Toney (68-4-2, 43 KOs) is the mandatory contender for WBA heavyweight champion John “The Quietman†Ruiz (41-5-1, 28 KOs). Realizing that Ruiz owed a mandatory defense, Team Ruiz had inquired about the WBA’s mandatory contender, and its official ruling for Toney was dated…
The WBO light flyweight championship clash between champion Nelson Dieppa and challenger Alex Sanchez ended in round eleven last night when Dieppa launched a huge right hand that decked Sanchez for the full count. The fight was held in Bayamon in Puerto Rico. In worrying scenes, Sanchez had to be taken from the ring to…
Injin Chin, the powerful WBC featherweight champion from Korea maintained his status as one of the featherweight divisions top names with a unanimous decision win over Tommy Browne today in Seoul. Chi was too much for the Australian challenger over the distance and the win is Chi’s thirtieth against two losses, one draw and eighteen…
In his second defense of the WBC light welterweight championship, Arturo Gatti delighted the crowd at Bally’s in Atlantic City by knocking out Jesse James Leija in the fifth round. Gatti used his skills to begin with but the Gatti of old returned before long and Leija found himself on the deck in the fifth,…
IBF light middleweight champion of the world Kassim “The Dream” Ouma retained his title tonight in Atlantic City. Ouma was victorious in the all-African championship clash against Kofi Jantuah who suffered his second defeat. Jantuah started as he meant to go on by throwing his heavy artillery, but the champion was soon able to assert…
Tonight in Bayamon in Puerto Rico, Eric “Little Hands of Steel” Morel defeated Juan Alfonso Keb Baas by wide margins over twelve rounds. Morel returned to Bayamon, the site of his defeat at the hands of Lorenzo Parra and the loss of his WBA flyweight championship. Morel first won the title in the year 2000…
In a heavyweight attraction on the undercard of tonights Gatti-Leija card in Atlantic City, contender Malik Scott moved his record to twenty-one wins without a loss when he decisioned journeyman David Bostice over eight rounds. Bostice had shared a ring with notable heavyweights such as Jeremy Williams, Lou Savarese and even former WBO world champion…
I am very pleased to announce that we are not yet at the end of January and already we have managed to achieve more registered members in this single month than in any other to date. At this time, 242 boxing fans from around the world have chosen Saddoboxing.com as their site for the latest…
I remember when I was a relatively small child, back when Tyson ruled the roost, and a new Rocky movie was never far away. Even back then, as I watched Rocky and Ivan Drago pummel each other, I was fully aware that what I witnessed on screen was a virtual caricature of the real thing….
Veteran campaigner Jesse James Leija has become something of a party crasher of late. In his undisputed light welterweight title challenge to Kostya Tszyu, he almost ruined Tszyu’s homecoming to Australia with a neat early rounds display of educated boxing and moving. Victory against Tszyu was not to be, making the coup de grace of…