Although there is a serious cold wave hitting Miami right now, the talk at the final press conference today at Emilio and Gloria Estefan’s Bongos Cuban Café heated up before Friday’s Don King Productions world championship boxing card at AmericanAirlines Arena. Don King hosted the press conference promoting a WBC heavyweight final elimination bout he…
Whenever you can add positivity through your passion, do it. And that is what Knockouts For Girls are doing. This non profit organization, in which myself and my twin Annamarie are apart of, is West coast based and co-founded by president Pattianna Harootian. Us ‘Knockouts,’ help troubled, abused or unfortunate children find happiness and peace…
Former WBU Lightweight Champion Graham Earl returns to his old stomping ground, The York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, on Saturday 22nd January. However it will not be a return to the ring as Graham will be promoting London’s first championship boxing event of 2011 – Capital Punishment’.
Longtime Chicago favorites “King” David Estrada and Angel “Toro” Hernandez are featured in separate headlining bouts on Friday, December 17th at the UIC Pavilion as part of Windy City Fight Night 14, a sensational evening of professional boxing. Mexican “blood and guts” warrior Hernandez will face off against heavy handed Osumanu Adama of Ghana in…
Sutton’s Danny “Cassius” Connor and Redhill’s “Dynamo” Daryl Setterfield are back in action this coming Saturday, the 18th December, at the Bruce Baker promoted “Christmas Punch” event at the Tolworth Recreation Centre in Surbiton. The pair of Surrey battlers, who both train at Johnny Eames Ultrachem TKO Boxing Gym in Canning Town, London, have been…
Heavyweight prospect Maurice “Freight Train” Byarm remained unbeaten and impressed a capacity crowd at the Pikesville Armory with a fifth round stoppage of previously undefeated Winston Thorpe on Saturday evening. Headlining Baltimore Pro Boxing’s “Seasons Beatings”, Byarm dominated from opening bell, connecting with a number of powerful shots that he put every one of his…
When Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins faces WBC, Ring Magazine and IBO Light Heavyweight Champion Jean Pascal on December 18 at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City, Canada live on Showtime in the U.S. and on pay-per-view in Canada, he will be 28 days shy of his forty-sixth birthday. If Hopkins defeats Pascal, he will become…
© Tom Hogan – Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions Last night at Las Vegas’ famed Mandalay Bay Casino, WBA light welter champ Amir Khan proved he could hang in there with a big puncher as he fended off the challenge of Marcos Maidana over 12 hard fought rounds. Khan surprised the heavy-handed body-puncher Maidana by…
There were two excellent fights last night in the hotly anticipated bantamweight tournament from the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington with the favored boxer in each bout coming up on the losing end. Yhonny Perez and Joseph Agbeko rematched their IBF title clash of October, 2009 in which Perez dethroned Agbeko and this time…
Last night, Cristian Mijares returned to the light flyweight ranks for the first time in over two years, taking away the IBF title of Juan Alberto Rosas at Auditorio Municipal in Torreon, Mexico. The 29 year old former WBC/WBA champ had campaigned as a top level bantamweight since 2009 but had been unsuccessful at capturing…
© Tom Hogan – Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions Tonight, Great Britain takes on the world as James De Gale, Nathan Cleverly, Amir Khan, Matthew Macklin, Frankie Gavin, Tony Bellew and Kell Brook are all fighting…not each other, in a massive royal rumble type of affair…individually of course. Amir Khan is topping the bill and…
Tonight, the bantamweight division gets it’s own tournament at Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington as Yhonny Perez rematches Joseph Agbeko and Vic Darchinyan squares off with Abner Mares. Perez, 20-0-1 (14), won the IBF title from Agbeko, 27-2 (22), when the pair initially fought a year ago as Colombian native Perez simply outboxed the…