Comebacking Kermit Cintron (27-1, 25 KOs) from Puerto Rico won the vacant IBF welterweight title Saturday night at the Palm Beach Convention Center from Riverside, California’s Mark Suarez (25-3, 18 KOs), forcing referee Frank Santore Jr. to call a halt to the action at 2:53 of round five.
Trevor Berbick, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, was murdered Saturday in Jamaica by an unknown attacker wielding a hatchet or machete.
On this day in 1972, Antonio Cervantes won the WBA Light Welterweight Title with a tenth round knockout of Alfonso Frazer in Panama City, Panama.
Bob Duffy and Tony Mazzarrella’s Ring Promotions presents its second show in two weeks on Friday, November 3, 2006, at the Mighty M casino at Monticello Raceway in Monticello, New York.
On this day in 1949, former middleweight champion Marcel Cerdan was killed in a plane crash. The “Casablanca Clouter� was on his way to the United States for a rematch with Jake LaMotta.
Spanish Harlem’s boxing sensation Edgar “El Chamaco” Santana (19-2, 12 KOs) takes center stage in the main event when Broadway Boxing returns to the Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center in New York City on Wednesday, Nov. 15.
In anticipation of his Nov. 4 fight with “Pretty Boy� Floyd Mayweather at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada (HBO PPV), Carlos “Tata� Baldomir recently met the press via telephone conference, and this is what went down.
On this day in 1980, former two-time WBA Light Heavyweight Champion Victor Galindez was killed in an auto racing accident in De Mayo, Argentina. The 31-year-old ex-fighter had been retired from boxing for only four months.
In anticipation of the Nov. 4 date his fighter, Carlos “Tata� Baldomir, has with pound-for-pound king “Pretty Boy� Floyd Mayweather at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada (HBO PPV), the esteemed Argentinean trainer Amilcar Brusa recently met with some of the boxing press via telephone conference call.
On this day in 1990, Evander Holyfield won the undisputed heavyweight title, knocking out James “Buster� Douglas in the third round in Las Vegas.
