BELLEVUE, Washington (December 11, 2008) – Former Kazakhstan Olympian Beibut “The Beast” Shumenov (6-0, 5 KOs) has a new opponent for Saturday night’s 10-round main event, Epifanio “Diamente” Mendoza, after former world cruiserweight champion Kelvin Davis pulled out of their scheduled fight in Bellevue, Washington.
Shumenov’s new KZ Event Promotions presents Saturday’s show at Meydenbauer Center. [...]
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GEORGE FOREMAN DID IT AT 45; CAN JAMES TONEY DO IT AT 40?
YOU MAKE THE CALL
December 10 (Los Angeles, CA) - James “Lights Out” Toney is fighting mad and determined to earn one last chance at achieving his goal of becoming one of the oldest fighters to ever win the World HeavyweightChampionship. Big George [...]
Broadcasting & Cable reports that Oscar De La Hoya’s loss to Manny Pacquiao generated 1.25 million buys and $70 million in PPV revenues.
This marks the fourth time a non-heavyweight boxing match has hit the million buys mark, the report said, and this number makes it the biggest PPV event of the year, in boxing or [...]
Ring 8 awards dinner Dec. 21 in NYC
NEW YORK (December 10, 2008) – The annual Ring 8 holiday party, featuring an awards dinner and live music, will take place Sunday, December 21 (1 PM/ET) at Tony Mazzarella’s Waterfront Crabhouse (2-03 Borden Ave.) in Long Island City, New York.
Ring 8 award winners this year include Champion [...]
MARGARITO and MOSLEY
COLLIDE IN WORLD TITLE RUMBLE!
Saturday, January 24 at STAPLES Center
Live on HBO World Championship Boxing
Tickets Go On Sale This Friday!
LOS ANGELES (December 9, 2008) – The welterweight division’s two most exciting fighters, three-time welterweight champion ANTONIO MARGARITO and three-division world champion SUGAR SHANE MOSLEY, plan to open 2009 with an explosive world [...]
TOTOWA, NJ (December 9, 2008) – Undefeated World Boxing Council (WBC) super lightweight champion TIMOTHY “Desert Storm” BRADLEY will be in Atlantic City this weekend to scout out his next opponent. Bradley will be ringside watching World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior welterweight champion [...]
NEWARK, N.J.—Boxers preparing for the International Boxing Federation world-championship doubleheader on Thursday at Prudential Center—the first title card in Newark in 60 years (VERSUS 8 p.m. ET/PT)—participated in a media workout today.
IBF cruiserweight champion Steve “USS” Cunningham (21-1, 11 KOs), from Philadelphia, said his Polish-born opponent Tomasz Adamek shouldn’t place too much emphasis on the [...]
PHILADELPHIA’S DEMETRIUS HOPKINS STEPS IN
TO FACE KENDALL HOLT FOR WBO Jr. WELTER TITLE
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Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 From Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Special Edition of ShoBox: The New Generation
Live on SHOWTIME, 11 p.m. ET/PT
NEW YORK (Dec. 8, 2008) – Undefeated junior welterweight challenger Demetrius Hopkins (28-0-1, 11 KOs) will step in to face WBO 140-pound [...]
East Rutherford, NJ-Legendary boxing figure Donna Duva-Brooks has joined the Darwish Brothers Knockout Promotions team. The New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Duva-Brooks will perform the functions of matchmaker and site coordinator for the Darwish Brothers, starting with the January 22, 2009 boxing card entitled “Knockout Night at the Meadowlands”. The card will be [...]
