British, Commonwealth and European light welterweight champion Junior Witter has issued a no nonsense challenge to Floyd Mayweather Junior, arguably the world’s best pound for pound fighter. © Mike Cleary “Come on Pretty Boy, lets get it on,†said Witter, who defends his European title against Poland’s Krzysztof Bienias on the November 12th Hennessy Sports…
Compiled by Jim Cawkwell. The anticipation is intensifying as the days bring us ever closer to the Tszyu-Mitchell match; a fight that essentially clears up a good deal of unfinished business between the two fighters and gives us a new degree of clarity regarding the state of the light welterweight division. Opinions are still starkly…
There was a time in the mid sixties that revolved around who would be Muhammad Ali’s next opponent. The former Cassius Clay was chewing up and spitting out challengers with alarming ease. His hold on the heavyweight title was reaching the point of fan boredom. Few could see any serious contenders on the horizon. Then…
Twenty-one year old WBA lightweight champion of the world Juan ‘Baby Bull’ Diaz of Houston, Texas makes the first defense of his title tonight at the SBC Center in San Antonio, Texas. Diaz will meet French veteran Julien Lorcy who has been competitive with several respectable names in the super featherweight and lightweight divisions over…
I could bang on about the injustices of the great black fighters of yesteryear who due to prejudice never got the opportunity to show their greatness on the big stages, fighters like Langford, McVey, Jeannette, Willis, Godfrey, Burley etc, etc. Or I could go on about the great modern fighters than we never really got…
Kostya Tszyu travels to the United States often, but there are some things that being undisputed junior welterweight champion of the world cannot get you out of. Like that annoying customs line. Tszyu, however, is a patient man, as he’s had to be over the course of the last twenty-two months. So, when his time…
Walker looking to get back into title picture. Former two-weight Southern Area champion David Walker is looking to get back amongst the titles in 2005. “Kid Dynamite’ appears on the Hennessy Sports “Born To Do It’ promotion on November 12th at the Wembley conference centre in just his third fight since his unsuccessful challenge for…
British welterweight champion David Barnes is confident that he will retain his title against James Hare on the 12th of November at the Northbridge leisure centre in Halifax. Barnes and Hare face each other in a real ‘trade’ fight that is sure to excite the capacity crowd in attendance and produce the expected fireworks between…
The world amateur welterweight champion, for 1991, from the Soviet Union: K Tsziu. K Tsziu??? Just another footnote in amateur boxing right? Another thirty-something, steroid abusing, insignificant nobody from the mighty amateur program of the dreaded Red Empire? Well no, K Tsziu would become Kostya Tszyu, the superb junior welterweight champion of the world. Two…
Lee Meager beating Charlie Shepherd,Click for larger image© Action Images After two ABA final appearances, Salford lightweight Lee Meager decided to try his hand at the professional game in the year 2000. Four years later, Meager is unbeaten after seventeen fights, boasting sixteen wins and one draw. Part of British promoter Mick Hennessy’s ‘Real Class…
The camera rolls and the highlight clip begins. It shows a young, undefeated but green Marvis Frazier dancing while taunting heavyweight champion Larry Holmes. In the blink of an eye Holmes unloads a right hand sucker shot that sends Marvis backward and into a sprawled position on the canvas. Marvis showing he is a true…
With his long experience in the game, top British fight manager Frank Maloney knew that when Scott Harrison lost a world title to Manuel Medina in July of 2003, the Glasgow native was far from being finished from competing in the featherweight division’s upper echelons. Four fights later and the Scotsman has not only regained…