British fight manager Frank Maloney’s stable of boxers added another title to their credit as Southend’s Danny Hunt defeated Salford’s Lee Meager in a closely contested battle for the English lightweight title last Friday night in London, England. In a seesaw battle that raged back in forth for ten heated rounds, both fighters had their…
Tonight in Manchester, England, British light middleweight champion Jamie Moore squared up to Michael Jones in the hopes of landing himself the Lonsdale belt outright. Moore had already beaten Jones by a decision and sought a decisive performance to cap his Lonsdale winning effort not to mention his promised place in history for being the…
Light middleweight Jamie Moore has won twenty of the twenty-two professional fights he’s entered into but none of them come close to carrying the importance of tonight’s contest at the Altrincham Leisure Centre in Manchester. In the opposite corner of the ring will be none other than Michael Jones, the man Moore decisioned a year…
While the ghost of Naseem Hamed makes occasional tabloid appearances and idle threats through the Internet press to return and subject us to the reincarnation of his transparent personality and insubstantial ring performances, the featherweight division continues to enjoy one of the richest talent periods in its history. On Saturday night, Las Vegas will see…
WBO Featherweight Champion Scott Harrison is in Las Vegas for this weekend’s epic third match between Mexican warriors Marco Antonio Barrera and arch nemesis Erik “El Terrible” Morales at the MGM Grand. Harrison has traveled from Glasgow, Scotland, along with his father/trainer Peter Harrison and manager Frank Maloney, and plans on calling out the winner…
Jamie Moore is the current British light middleweight champion and is certainly regarded as one of Britain’s hottest prospects for world domination. In the domestic light middleweight division, southpaw Moore has amassed a professional record of twenty wins with only two losses with thirteen of his victories coming from stoppages and he’s a man on…
Mexico’s Jose Antonio Aguirre will fight Colombia’s Kermin Guardia tonight at the Plaza Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV, USA. The fight is a flyweight contest between two former minimumweight champions of the world. Dieppa’s last fight was a one round stoppage loss at the hands of Nelson Dieppa for the WBO light flyweight title…
If the first round of a fight could be scored before a punch was thrown and the impact of the spoken word counted, then Argentina’s Nazareno Ruiz has taken the first round 10-8 over Scotsman Alex Arthur. The two fighters are due to battle in Edinburgh on the third of December, but Ruiz has not…
In watching the broadcast of the recent “Winky’ Wright-Shane Mosley contest, HBO showed highlights from the recent heavyweight card that featured wins by Chris Byrd, Hasim “Rock’ Rahman and John Ruiz. It also showed highlights of Larry Donald’s one sided decision victory over Evander Holyfield. This fight prompted the New York State Athletic Commission to…
What is it that defines a fighter? Sometimes a fighter is defined by his achievements, sometimes he is defined by an outstanding fight-or fights-he has participated in, sometimes he is defined by an opponent, someone who brought out the best in him, someone who mixed with him to elicit a sense of euphoria within the…
Reports are circulating that former heavyweight champion of the world ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson is planning to fight in Ireland in a bid to resurrect his career that currently lays in tatters. Tyson was knocked out in four rounds by English heavyweight Danny Williams in June of this year, Williams headed directly for a title shot…
Former IBF lightweight champion Paul Spadafora will undergo elbow surgery in a couple of days. Spadafora is still undefeated and has transferred from the lightweight division to the light welterweight class but during this year a myriad of public misdemeanors have brought him legal woes that kept him out of the ring. Most disturbingly, Spadafora…