A New Year yields fresh opportunities for the world’s greatest fighters to adjust their positioning in the mythical pound-for-pound stakes. Such honors are always subject to fierce debate throughout the boxing industry, but if the majority of fans and supposed experts were asked to set aside their personal preferences, I’m sure they would admit that…
WHO NEEDS PBS? ESPN2 will redefine the term “educational television†on Jan 21 when “Friday Night Fights Main Events Special Edition†features four boxers on its broadcast who have attended at least two years of college: Juan Diaz, Billy Irwin, Calvin Brock, and Clifford Etienne. Below is some educational information about the four fighters, and…
On January 28th Scott Harrison will defend his WBO featherweight title against a very dangerous opponent in the form of Victor Polo. It’s a fight that Scott wants in order to show the boxing fraternity and the American media that none of the other big names such as Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales, Manny Pacquiao,…
Quebec’s light middleweight prospect Joachim Alcine will return to the ring in mid-February against Alex Bunema. The fight will be held at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Alcine’s last fight provided the chief support to Interbox mainman and former world champion Eric Lucas’s return to action. Alcine, who is of Haitian ancestry and…
WBA/IBF featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez has made his voice heard ahead of his fight with Manny Pacquiao proposed for late February. Marquez, even in training has asserted that the fight remains a potential one only until his financial needs are met. Pacquiao is due to start his training for the fight any day now….
As we reported yesterday, WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison is chasing a fight with super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera. But first, Harrison has one more picee of featherweight business to attend to before a summer match with the legendary Barrera can be secured. Harrison will fight Colombian Victor Polo at the Braehead Arena in…
Hard-hitting Welshman Gary Lockett now has the British Middleweight title in his sights after his fight against Allan Gray on 21 January at the Bridgend Leisure Centre has been billed as an Official Eliminator. The twenty-eight-year-old from Cwmbran is delighted with the news and is expecting a tough fight against Gray who is the current…
New England Ringside Boxing Radio Show celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow might (Jan. 6) with the broadcast of its 55th show on WWZN 1510 The Zone in Boston. The two-hour show airs every Thursday night between 6-8 pm (ET) on 1510 AM and may also be heard live on the Internet by going to www.newenglandringside.com….
Fresh from his dominant showing against Australian contender Nedal Hussein, WBC super bantamweight champion Oscar “Chololo” Larios will make his next defense against Ireland’s Wayne “Pocket Rocket” McCullough. The fight looks set for the date of the tenth of February with no precise site set. Larios has not lost a fight in four years while…
At thirty-seven years old, former three weight world champion Johnny Tapia makes his return to the ring against thirty-three year old Nicky Bentz in Hidalgo, Texas, USA later this month. Tapia won world titles at super flyweight, bantamweight and featherweight and continues to campaign in the featherweight division. The last time Tapia was in the…
In light of the breakdown in communications between promoter Don King and light middleweight champion Ronald “Winky” Wright, the possibility of fresh opponents for Trinidad opens up as a possibility. Even in the event of Wright being offered what he deems to be a suitable amount of money to fight Trinidad, he has no desire…
WBO featherweight champion of the world Scott Harrison has expressed his desire to engage newly crowned WBC/IBF super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera in a fight sometime this year. Harrison was ringside for the huge Barrera-Morales III fight in November of last year and says that it really whet his appetite to get involved in…