Archive for March, 2007

Roger Mayweather Back With Floyd

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

He’d been a guest of the Nevada penal system for the last few months, but now Roger Mayweather is a free man, and he’s back in his nephew’s corner, just in time to help PBF get in proper shape for his May 5 showdown with Oscar De La Hoya.
Floyd Mayweather welcomed Uncle Roger back to …

New Gig For George Foreman

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

The man knows about inventions, as he reinvented himself as a fighter, and then invented a cooking device that nearly everyone in the US has owned at one time or another.
George Foreman, the genial grillmaster, will be a judge in the forthcoming ABC show “American Inventor,” the AP reports.
Foreman, 58, will be one of …

HBO Release: Kessler/Andrade info

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

HBO showcases an emerging super middleweight when HBO Boxing After Dark: Mikkel Kessler vs. Librado Andrade is seen Saturday, March 24 at 9:45 PM ET/PT from Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark, exclusively on HBO. The HBO Sports team will be ringside for the event, which will be available in HDTV, as well as closed-captioned for …

Miranda Blasts Abraham, Taylor

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

The ever bashful Edison Miranda has, shockingly, come out guns ‘a blazin’ once again on past and potential foes.
“The middleweight division always had proud champions willing to fight everyone, like Marvin Hagler, Carlos Monzon, and Sugar Ray Robinson,â€? said Miranda in a release. “Now we’re stuck with paper champions like Jermain Taylor …

Marquez Downs Barrera

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

On Saturday night, Juan Manuel Marquez outfought Marco Antonio Barrera and came away with a unanimous decision and a WBC junior lightweight (super featherweight) world championship in front of an announced 8,127 at Mandalay Bay, reports Dan Rafael of ESPN.com.
Judge Doug Tucker had it 118-109 while judges Patricia Morse Jarman and Paul …

Mormeck/Bell In Fight of Year Candidate

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Jean-Marc Mormeck regained his WBA/WBC cruiserweight titles from O’Neil Bell in Saturday’s rematch in Levallois-Perret, France, on Saturday night.
It was a unanimous decision, and an action-packed slugfest from start to finish. Sadly, much of the drama was erased as the WBC announced the judges scores periodically throughout the bout, and it was a foregone …

Tumultous Tapia’s Condition Improves

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Five-time world champion boxer Johnny Tapia was upgraded to fair condition Wednesday as he recovers from an apparent cocaine overdose, the AP is reporting.
Teresa Tapia, the boxer’s wife and manager, said her husband’s condition has been upgraded, but he’s “not out of the woods yet.”
Tapia, whose lifestyle is best described with the words stitched …

Holyfield Admits He Considered ‘Roids

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Evander Holyfield is countering the accusation leaked two weeks ago that he purchased performance enhancing drugs, asserting that he’s “no cheater” in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Real Deal told the paper on Tuesday that he took a drug in 2004 “that was supposed to help with my hormonal problem,” but discontinued usage …

Changes At HBO

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

HBO has announced a switch on their “Boxing After Dark” broadcast team, and no, don’t say you knew it was a matter of time before the Lennox Lewis Experiment was curtailed…
Bob Papa will join the series on March 24, ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports, to handle the blow-by-blow call.
Papa steps in for Fran Charles, …

Holyfield Hits Back At Doping Allegations

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Evander Holyfield has come back firing at the SI.com story that blew up last week that alleged the Real Deal has been less than real in his training regimen.
SI said Holyfield, using the pseudonym “Evan Fields,” purchased performance enhancing drugs from a physician, who was then snared in a drug sweep. SI said they …