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…
Serious rumors in the boxing world indicate that the proposed super fight between Puerto Rican legend Felix “Tito” Trinidad and current light middleweight champion Ronald “Winky” Wright is about to fall apart. The primary reason for this is rooted in Wright’s dismay at being offered what he considers a paltry amount of money for facing…
On February 12th at the Max Schmeling Halle in Germany, two heavyweight attractions have been added to a top night of action that already includes Rudy Markussen versus Vitali Tsypko and Danilo Haussler versus Mohammed Said. Giant Russian heavyweight Nicolai Valuev, standing over seven-feet tall and weighing over 300-pounds will face Attila Levin who is…
Fans who plan to attend Arturo Gatti’s WBC super lightweight world title defense against former world champion Jesse James Leija on Jan 29 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ had better purchase tickets soon or they will find themselves out of luck, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva. In a…
Kermit Cintron and Antonio Margarito, two of the world’s finest welterweights will headline the Feb 18 edition of ESPN2’s “Friday Night Fights Main Events Special†from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva. Welterweight bomber Kermit Cintron will defend his WBO-interim welterweight crown against veteran Steve…
At the annual Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation fundraiser in November, boxing commentator and fight trainer Teddy Atlas went up to the microphone to tell the thousand in attendance about Jimmy Brown. A young man in his mid-twenties, Brown was paralyzed due to broken vertebrae sustained in an accident. Now, he was in need of a…