Showing why he is rated by most as the world’s top pound-for-pound fighter, Bernard Hopkins retained his middleweight championship tonight for a record twentieth time against a game challenger in Howard Eastman. The challenger was aggressive and powerful early on and managed to land some good shots that hurt the champion throughout the fight but…
Two more fight results from the Staples Center in Los Angeles to inform you of tonight before the main event. Highly-touted middleweight prospect Jermain Taylor decimated the previously undefeated contender Daniel Edouard in three rounds in the event’s chief support bout. Edouard had no answer for Taylor’s fast, hard-hitting style, but had plenty of verbal…
In one of the outstanding fights on tonight’s huge fight card in Los Angeles, Britain’s Junior Witter got Hennessy Sports off to a fantastic start by winning what must be thought of as something of an upset win over Lovemore N’dou. Going into the fight, Witter, although being the European light welterweight champion was considerably…
Carl Handy became the latest fighter unable to survive the firepower of Quebec’s light heavyweight star Lucien Bute today. Handy found himself knocked out in the fourth round of his challenge to Bute which was for the NABF light heavyweight championship. Bute has now stopped all ten of his opponents as he has cruised through…
Howard Eastman’s reintroduction into world-class company may be a tad late, but only those ignorant of his credentials and boxing ability can deny his right to fight against Bernard Hopkins. Hopkins aims for a twentieth middleweight title defense, a historic feat, but one in which he faces a true middleweight contender at last. Having fed…
Bernard Hopkins has an obsession with numbers. He’ll talk to anyone who will listen about being a middleweight champion at the age of 40, and will gladly tell you that his purse for his last fight with Oscar De La Hoya was $10 million (euro7.7 million). The number Hopkins is most proud of, though, is…
The stage is set for the big fight card at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, USA tonight as on Friday, all of the fighters weighed in ahead of their clashes on what should be an historic night of boxing. Undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins and challenger Howard Eastman both weighed-in at 159-and-a-half-pounds. Jermain Taylor…
Friday night in the United States of America was a busy one with many big boxing results to report. We begin our results round-up with the news that Greek light welterweight contender “Mighty” Mike Arnaoutis retained his undefeated streak with a twelve-round unanimous decision win over Roberto Santa Cruz. On the same bill, Shamone Alvarez…
The life of a prospect in the sport of boxing is harrowing. So much is on the line that one slip up and you’re on thin ice. Mis-step a second time and you’ll find yourself in a steep sided dustbin, almost impossible to climb out of as the money that provided your career ladder is…
A Rare Necessity. Far too many talented boxers have gone unnoticed and have not been embraced by the fans and media (boxing public) as they should have been. It is only until the boxing public feels that a fighter has lived and fought up to their expectations of defeating what appears to be reputable opposition…
A decade later. The Gerald McClellan tragedy. by Richard Slone February 25th will mark a decade. The tenth year that former middleweight champion Gerald McClellan has struggled with life since his fight with Nigel Benn left Gerald with permanent brain damage. It’s been a decade since McClellan and Benn battered each other close to death….
Junior Witter has vowed to do his country proud when he appears on this Saturday’s promotion at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles alongside fellow Britpack team mates Howard Eastman and Carl Froch. “We are here to fly the flag for British Boxing,†said Witter, who will meet South Africa’s Lovemore N’Dou in a Commonwealth…