Bernard “The Executioner� Hopkins, 41, to the surprise of no one, has decided to cut short his retirement (he promised his now deceased mother that he wouldn’t box beyond the age of 40) and return to active duty in the ring. Ex says the boxing needs him, America needs him, and the heavyweight division needs him.
On this day in 1951, former featherweight and super featherweight titlist Bobby Chacon was born in Sylmar, California.
Welshman Joe Calzaghe has given up his IBF super-middleweight title rather than face mandatory contender Robert Stieglitz. Who-glitz?
It was a lowkey return to the ring for Paul Spadafora, as the Pittsburgh Kid snuck in a bout with Jesus Francisco Zepeda the day before Thanksgiving.
Rocky 6 arrives in theaters for Christmas and I’m hoping that Stallone’s makeup person gets a hefty Xmas bonus because…brace yourselves… the star of the show is 60 years old.
Axel Schulz, absent from the ring since he was TKO’d by Wlad Klitschko in 1999, gave it another go on Saturday night, and it didn’t go all that well.
On this day in 2004, Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales fought the final bout of their intense trilogy. In this rubber match, Barrera won a majority decision.
On Saturday, Dec. 2, at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (33-4, 1 NC, 24 KOs) and Joshua Clottey (30-1, 1 NC, 20 KOs) share top billing with the WBA 147-pound champion Miguel Cotto (27-0, 22 KOs) vs. Carlos Quintana (23-0, 18 KOs) slugfest on Showtime.
Troubled WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison, 29, who is set to defend his title against Nicky Cook on December 9, told BBC Radio Five Live’s Sportsweek that the five weeks he spent locked up in Spain on several charges including assault were “an absolute nightmare.”
On this day in 1954, Pascual Perez won the world flyweight title with a 15-round decision over Yoshio Shirai in Tokyo.
