Ebo Elder, one of the most prolific fighters in the world and current lightweight contender may be about to have all of his hard work pay off as a world title shot could be coming his way in his next fight. Currently holding a professional record of twenty-two wins with only one defeat, Elder is…
European featherweight champion Nicky Cook was scheduled to defend his title against Dazzo Williams next month. Unfortunately, Cook was recently involved in a car accident that injured one of his shoulders, making him unable to make the defense of his championship so soon against Williams. Cook won the title with a stoppage of French fighter…
Main Event: Mick Pony Shaw Vs. Ranee Ganoy 8 x 3 minute rounds, lightweight contest. Alex Leapai Vs Vai Toevai, heavyweight contest 4X3. Kina Malpartida Vs Mirelle Walford 65 kilo catch weight contest 4X3. One other pro bout to be added to the card. This is the first of four Friday Night Fight Cards that…
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Rumors are circulating around the boxing world that former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has been offered a considerable amount of money to emerge from his self-imposed retirement to face his last victime: Current heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. It is thought that in their initial meeting in June 2003, Lewis and Klitschko gave boxing its…
© Tom Casino/Showtime Under the watchful eye of trainer Buddy McGirt, former world heavyweight champion “Iron” Mike Tyson is apparently training hard ahead of a potential fight later this year. Tyson has not fully rehabilitated the injured knee he suffered during his fight with Danny Williams last year, but nonetheless, he is back in the…
Former WBA world welterweight champion Ike “Bazooka” Quartey successfully returned to the ring on Friday night in his home country of Ghana. Quartey stopped a fighter named Clint McNeil in eight rounds after unleashing a vicious barrage of body shots upon his opponent. With his strength sapped, McNeil took a count for respite but was…
New England Ringside (NER), on the verge of becoming the newest promoter in professional boxing, today announced the hiring of Julio Pena as its Director of Boxing Operations. “We’re delighted to have Julio Pena as a member of Team NER,†NER president Rick Brutti said. “He is well respected in boxing and has more than…
Professional boxing’s youngest world champion, Juan Diaz, will defend his WBA lightweight crown on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights Main Events Special January 21 AT 9 p.m. ET when he meets WBA #10 ranked contender Billy Irwin at Reliant Center in Houston, Texas. WBO lightweight champ Diego Corrales will be studio host Brian Kenny’s guest analyst,…
Boxing championesse Regina Halmich made a successful start into 2005 for promoter Universum. On the first boxing event of this year the twenty-eight-year-old German beat her world title challenger Maryling Hernandez by unanimous decision and successfully defended her WIBF flyweight title by scores of 100:91 and 100:92 twice. A convincing forty-sixth victory in her forty-eighth…
Undefeated Jose Luis Cruz stopped fellow American Vincent Thompson in the eighth round of their scheduled ten-round super welterweight fight Friday night at the Agua Calientes Casino. The twenty-five-year-old Cruz, 33-0-2 with 28 knockouts, ended the fight at 1:42 of the eighth round with a barrage of body shots that put Thompson to one knee…