Bob Arum wanted to match Miguel Cotto with Antonio Margarito for a big summer fight, but Margarito went down another road, tentatively accepting a fight with enticing contender Paul Williams.
Pending approval of the final script, Variety is reporting that Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg have signed to star in “The Fighter,� which will tell the true story “Irish� Micky Ward. Wahlberg will play Ward. Damon will play his trainer and half-brother, Dick Ecklund.
Daniel Ponce De Leon, Gerry Penalosa, Demetrius Hopkins and Steve Forbes are all taking part in the Saturday, March 17, Marco Antonio Barrera vs. Juan Manuel Marquez undercard at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, and this is good news for fight fans who often get frustrated that they get one marquee scrap and a crummy slate of support bouts when they buy a PPV.
On this day in 1922, The Ring published its first issue.
Legendary middleweight Bernard “The Executioner� Hopkins has decided to end his short retirement and the speculation about who he’ll fight next.
The Boxing Writers Association of America has selected super featherweight Manny Pacquiao, trainer Freddie Roach and the breathtaking brawl between Somsak Sithchatchawal and Mahyar Monshipour as its best of 2006. They will be honored at the 82nd annual BWAA Awards Dinner on June 8 in New York.
He has ended his disastrous flirtation with promoter Murad Muhammad, and now Evander Holyfield’s quest to gain a heavyweight title for the fifth time is back on track.
I just finished Norman Mailer’s new novel, “The Castle in the Forest,� his factional account of the conception, early years, and adolescence of Nazi Dybbuk Adolf Hitler, and the reader in me couldn’t be more satisfied.
Dan Goossen, President of Goossen Tutor Promotions, announced today that his company has filed a lawsuit in Puerto Rico against Bob Arum’s Top Rank, Inc. for “tortiously interfering” with Goossen Tutor’s promotion of WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito’s mandatory title defense against No. 1 contender Paul Williams, a Goossen client.
Brooklyn-born heavyweight Shannon Briggs is a credit to asthmatics the world over, as the massively muscled fighter has battled the disease throughout his career. But his lungs have won this round, it appears.
