IBF world champion Arthur Abraham has left the Protestant Jungstilling hospital in Siegen Saturday morning. “I’ve recovered from the operation and I feel good,” the champion said to the journalists.
On this day in 1904, all-time greats Joe Gans and Joe Walcott battled to a draw in San Francisco in a non-title fight.
Known as “The Pittsburgh Kid,” the undefeated Spadafora, who won the crown from Israel Cardona in 1999 and defended eight times, began sparring this week, trying to work off the ring rust from his recent incarceration.
If you have any doubts about Giovanni Parisi (41-4-1 with 29 KOs) being in top shape for his October 8 bout against European welterweight champion Frederic Klose (38-5 with only 8 KOs), read what the Italian said to television network Telenova.
For the fourth year in a row, the “Animal Olympics” were held at Shanghai’s Wild Animal Park in Shanghai, China. In the Animal Olympics the animals don’t only challenge their likeminded furry and feathered friends; no, in these Olympics the beasts also compete against man.
Ageless Kevin Kelley won a unanimous decision over LA-born Carlos “Famoso” Hernandez at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, by scores of 95-94, 97-92, 96-93. Famoso retired after the bout.
On this day in 1967, Emile Griffith reclaimed his middleweight title from Nino Benvenuti with a majority decision in New York’s Shea Stadium.
John Ruiz will fight Ruslan Chagaev on Nov. 18 in a World Boxing Association elimination bout at Dusseldorf, Germany.
On this day in 1976, Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton completed the final chapter of their trilogy at Yankee Stadium in New York.
Mike Tyson, fresh off his recently closed boxing exhibition by the buffet at the Aladdin Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, is making a belated and less than half-serious return to the ring in what is being billed as “Mike Tyson’s World Tour.”
