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ST. LOUIS—Promoter Don King has always been one for accomplishing “firsts� in the world of boxing.
The world came to St. Louis …
Irish middleweight champ Matthew Macklin is eyeing up a big payday in 2009 – at the bookies! Ladbrokes are offering odds of 33/1 on Macklin claiming a world title next year and although he’s not a gambling man Macklin says he’ll be backing himself to go all the way to the World middleweight title.However of …
LAS VEGAS, NEV. (March 21, 2008) – JOE CALZAGHE, boxing’s current longest-reigning world champion, turns 36 on Sunday, but inasmuch as he is in the midst of training for his challenge of light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins, he has decided to postpone the …
LOS ANGELES. March 20, 2008 . . . Light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins took the news of Joe Calzaghe’s rebuttal to his training team statement as a sure sign of panic.
“This poor guy used up all the air in his boxing gym to spew a bunch of nonsense about nothing really. I …
ESPN2 Friday Night Fights comes to Twin River Events Center on April 4th as 2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six� Estrada takes on former NABO/NABA/WBC Continental Americas champion Lance “Mount� Whitaker in the 10-round main event on “Heavy Hitters,� promoted by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment, Inc.
Estrada (11-1, 2 KOs), 27, completed his amateur career in …
LOS ANGELES, March 20 — CBS and ProElite, Inc. today announced that the first live primetime mixed martial arts event will be broadcast Saturday, May 31 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. CBS ELITEXC SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHTS will be broadcast live from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
“We’re excited to introduce broadcast …
With his entire team assembled at his training camp in Los Angeles, CA, light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins is settling into his intensive routine for what will be the most highly anticipated contest in boxing so far this year.
Supported by trainers Freddie Roach, coming off his Saturday night triumph with his other star pugilist Manny …
New York, March 19—Dino Duva, promoter of World Boxing Council Heavyweight Champion Samuel Peter has been actively working on the “Nigerian Nightmare’s” schedule. Duva has been tireless in his efforts the last ten days following Samuel Peter’s emphatic sixth-round TKO of Oleg Maskaev in Cancun that gave the Nigerian sole possession of the WBC belt.
“Now …
TSS Nation - Are you Ready to Refresh? The fighters are making their way to the ring. Casamayor climbed between the ropes clad in black trunks trimmed in silver. Katsidis entered the ring wearing a warriors helmet. We’re about to get started.
Round 1: Casamayor lands the first punch of the …
IBF junior welterweight champion Paulie “The Magic Man� Malignaggi hopes to ink a pact early next week to confirm his dream deal: a two-fight arrangement culminating with a showdown against the world’s recognized No. 1 junior welterweight, Ricky Hatton, The Ring magazine and IBO title-holder.
“I’ve got to admit that, after the Cotto fight,â€? Malignaggi …
