© 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…
Inside the ring, Juan Diaz is poised and polished. Just 21, he owns the WBA lightweight title, boxing’s youngest reigning world champion. But at his parent’s tidy brick home in Houston, Diaz remains a university student with a 10 p.m. curfew on school nights. “He’s a big baby,” teases younger brother Jose. “Mom still has…
There was a time when many people in the boxing community had written Wayne McCullough off, and if you saw his fight against WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison, you’d be forgiven for sharing that opinion. However, with persistence and a still burning desire to compete against the best fighters for world titles, Wayne McCullough has…
Actor Jamie Foxx, the star of numerous hit films such as “Ray,” the life story of Ray Charles and American football drama “Any Given Sunday,” may return to the screen playing the lead role in a representation of the Mike Tyson story. Foxx has been known to perform very physical roles and to complete a…
Click for larger image© Mike Cleary Vitali “Dr. Ironfist” Klitschko, fresh from defending his WBC heavyweight title against Danny Williams, will step into the ring in April of this year against none other than former champion Hasim Rahman. Rahman, seemingly redidicated to the task of regaining the heavyweight championship, excited the boxing world with a…
Former heavyweight fighter Jo-El Scott has been found guilty of murder and is facing a life sentence without the possibility of parole. A jury in New York found sufficient evidence in Scott’s case in which he was charged with the rape and murder of an elderly woman. Scott’s time in the professional heavyweight ranks saw…
Fresh from knocking out previously unbeaten Art Simonyan late last month, IBF super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez looks set to be the next opponent for current WBA/IBF featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez. Marquez was scheduled to fight a much anticipated rematch with Manny Pacquiao but purse demands scratched the possibility of that fight. Vazquez has…