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| Tarver, Forrest and Donaire destroy their opposition: All three Champions defend their titles winning by TKO Ringside Report By: Phil Santos - Overhandright.com |
| Two KO’s In Less Than Two Minutes Article By: Bill Calogero - TheDailySports.com |
| Floyd Mayweather scores TKO win over Ricky Hatton: "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather keeps his title and remains undefeated Fight Results By: Phil Santos - Overhandright.com |
| Felix “Tito” Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. will face each other at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, and will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View. |
| Roy Jones Jr. “Tito says it won’t last two rounds. I’m going to be nice and give him two more rounds and beat him in four. Felix Trinidad “Jones and I were suppose to fight during the peaks of our careers. I believed back then that I could beat him and the same holds true today. |
| Jones is an eight-time world champion, winning belts in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. Trinidad is a five-time world champion that has won titles in the welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight classes. |
| Snapshot: 2007 The Year in Boxing By: Phil Santos – Overhandright.com |
| The Likelihood of Victory Part II Kelly Pavlik vs. Jermain Taylor By: Phil Santos - Overhandright.com |
| The Likelihood of Victory Part III Raphael Marquez vs. Israel Vazquez By: Phil Santos – Overhandright.com |
| Where does Kelly Pavlik Rank at Super Middleweight? By: Phil Santos – Overhandright.com |
| Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Manny Pacquiao WBC Super Featherweight Championship Saturday, March 15, 2008 LIVE ON PAY-PER-VIEW |
| Mayweather vs. Hatton: After Effects Article By: Phil Santos – Overhandright.com |
| Outside the Ring – Trinidad vs. Jones Documentary to air on Cox Sports TV Sunday, Dec. 23, @ 11 P.M. ET/8 P.M. PT |
| ‘Contender’ Star Sergio Mora & former Olympian Vicente Escobedo Headline at Morongo Casino Resort & Spa January 11th, 2008 |
| Herman Ngoudjo finally gets World Title shot Saturday, Jan. 5, at Bally’s Main Ballroom, Atlantic City, N.J. Live at 9 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME |
| Darnell "Ding a Ling Man" Wilson vs. B.J Flores in USBA Cruiserweight Championship on ESPN 2’s Friday Night Fights on February 8th at Dover Downs Race Track & Casino |
| World Boxing Council Awards for 2007 January 3, 2008 – Mexico City From WBC President Jose Sulaiman: |
| Lamont & Anthony Peterson, Antonio Mesquita & Jose Antonio Izquierdo Thursday, Jan. 3 2008, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino “SHOBOX: THE NEW GENERATION’’ |
| Trinidad-Jones Featured Pay-Per-View Matches Destined to Produce Slugfests Trinidad-Jones Official Undercard Release |
| Lamont and Anthony Peterson win easily to remain unbeaten SHOBOX The Next Generation Photos By: Scott Foster/For SHOWTIME |
| The likelihood of Victory Part I Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Manny Pacquiao By: Phil Santos - Overhandright.com |
| In a career that spanned from 1956 to 1975, Eddie Perkins engaged in 99 professional fights. He won seventy five of those contests. He met opponents in over twenty different countries. He truly was a " world " champion. Ediie lost three of his first five bouts but rallied to win seven straight. In 1958 he lost to Cleveland, Ohio's Cecil Shorts. He stopped Shorts in a rematch and then he outscored rugged Franke Ryff. In 1959 Eddie won a decision over Paul Armstead but lost to Carl Hubbard and was then halted by Al Urbina. It would be the only stoppage loss of Eddie's career. Read the Full Story..... |
| EDDIE PERKINS ON HIS WAY TO THE HALL OF FAME Article By: Jim Amato |
| Edwin Valero improves to 23-0 (23 KOs) with the destruction of Zaid Zavaleta in the third round of their scheduled twelve- round Super Featherweight Championship. The contest was the Main Event of “Night Of Champions” broadcast live on PPV from the Plaza de Toros in Cancun, Mexico on Saturday night. Valero, as he always does, came out aggressive and on the attack. Although he claims to train for twelve round bouts, one would never guess it if they watched him fight. To me, he wants to end the fight as quickly as possible. He was throwing punches from every angle, landing on the head and body of Zaid Zavaleta. Zaid, tried to counter Edwin’s attack by throwing and landing several hard shots to the jaw of Valero, but nothing slowed the Champion down. As the ten-second warning was given, Valero landed a solid left that sent Zavaleta down. He was up at eight, was allowed to continue and the bell sounded to end the first round. Read the Full Story..... |
| Valero & Linares Win By KO Article By: Bill Calogero - TheDailySports.com |
| Fighters who lost their “0” in 2007: Who Bounces Back and who Falls Flat in 08” By: Phil Santos – Overhandright.com |
| Maybe it’s due to the physicality of the sport, or the manner in which fighters are beaten between the ropes, whatever it is one loss in boxing can be more damaging to an athlete than in any other sport. If Roger Federer drops a match he was heavily favored to win, or Tiger Woods fails to win a tournament that everyone knows he should have, sports fans collectively assume that these highly skilled pros will resume their winning ways the very next chance they get. Whether it’s an individual or team sport a loss is simply viewed as a bump in the road, something to learn from, after all nobody is perfect right? In fact often times a loss is viewed as beneficial to a team or individuals’ growth and the rectification of flaws can help strengthen prior short comings. Read the Full Story..... |
| Like a crowd-pleasing boxer that never takes a backward step, SHOWTIME will come out swinging in 2008 with back to back fight cards the first week of January. On Saturday, Jan. 5, flashy, charismatic Paulie "Magic Man'' Malignaggi (23-1, 5 KOs), of Brooklyn, N.Y., will make the initial defense of his IBF junior welterweight championship against mandatory challenger and IBF No. 1 contender, Herman "The Black Panther'' Ngoudjo (16-1, 9 KOs), of Montreal, by way of Cameroon, on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). The night before, Friday, Jan. 4, the talented, undefeated, world-ranked Peterson brothers, Anthony (25-0, 18 KOs) and Lamont (23-0, 11 KOs), of Washington, D.C., face dangerous assignments in the 10-round co-featured bouts on the 2008 premiere of ShoBox: The New Generation (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). Anthony, a lightweight who is ranked No. 1 in WBO, No. 6 in WBC and No. 13 in IBF, faces Mexican champion Guadalupe Rosales (25-2, 15 KOs) of San Luis Potosi, Mex. Lamont, who is ranked No. 6 in the WBC and WBO at 140 pounds, will be opposed by fellow unbeaten Antonio Mesquita (34-0, 26 KOs), a Brazilian now residing in Las Vegas. |
| HOLLYWOOD, FL December 12 – In the tradition of the classic baseball movie, Field of Dreams, which states, “Build it, and they will come,” fans have responded to the February 23rd world heavyweight title unification bout between IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBO champion Sultan Ibragimov by snapping up tickets for the bout – which will be held at Madison Square Garden in New York City - at a breakneck pace. “We’re ecstatic about the ticket sales so far for Klitschko vs. Ibragimov,” said Leon Margules, Executive Director of Seminole Warriors Boxing. “I think this reaction shows that when you put the two best heavyweights in the world in the ring together, the fans will respond.” “We have priced tickets very reasonably and are on track to sell out the Garden", said Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions. Klitschko vs. Ibragimov, a 12 round heavyweight title unification bout, headlines a historic night of boxing presented by K2 Promotions and Seminole Warriors Boxing and will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing. |
| KLITSCHKO VS IBRAGIMOV - TICKETS GOING FAST |
| After a week of pre-fight publicity that saw them hold a press conference in Los Angeles and attend a sold out championship soccer match South of the Border, WBC featherweight champion Jorge "Nino de Oro" Linares and WBA super featherweight champion Edwin "El Aniquilador" Valero are now ready to meet their respective opponents this Saturday, December 15, 2007 at Plaza de Toros in Cancun, Mexico. Read the Full Story..... |
| Linares, Valero Headline Massive Cancun Show Saturday |
| Final Press Conference Quotes Paulie Malignaggi & Herman Ngoudjo Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008, Gallagher’s Steak House, New York, N.Y. |
| New York's Finest added to Ibragimov vs. Klitschko Undercard John Duddy returns to the Big Apple on February 23rd |
| The World Boxing Council donated today the amount of $10,000 ( U.S. ) to the family of the South Korean boxer Yosam Choi, who recently passed away. The decision to make this donation originated with the fact that Yosam Choi was light flyweight world champion recognized by the WBC, and as a way to pay homage to his memory. Choi passed away on January 2, 2008, after going into a coma after the fight in which he defeated Heri Amol by points; another organization´s regional title was on the line in the bout. |
| WORLD BOXING COUNCIL NEWS January 4, 2008 – Mexico City From WBC President Jose Sulaiman: |
| Battle of the Titans, or so it was billed, featuring two living legends of the fight game went off with a bang tonight. Live from Madison Square Garden and televised on HBO Pay-Per-View Roy Jones Jr. and Felix Trinidad put their respective legacies on the line. History will always remember these two boxing immortals as winners, tonight however only one man would emerge victorious. This was a fight that Felix Trinidad simply could not win. Everything that mattered within the squared circle pointed to a Roy Jones victory. He was bigger, stronger, |
| Jones Speed Kills Tito; Jones floors Tito twice, Wins Unanimous Decision By: Phil Santos – Overhandright.com |
| faster and fresher. End of story. The question that remained was just how it would happen. Would Jones put Tito to sleep? Would he box circles around Trinidad, mimicking Winky Wright, en route to an easy decision? Would this supposed epic clash deliver the type of thrills that their names have become synonymous with? Tonight Roy Jones looked sharp and Felix Trinidad was respectable enough to make the contest entertaining. The judges scored it 116-110(2) and 117-109 for Roy Jones. I scored it 118-108 in favor of Jones who lost the first two rounds and swept the rest on my scorecard. The outcome was fairly obvious before the bell ever rang. As far as answering the questions at hand, well Jones couldn’t deliver the knockout that he predicted but that may be more a tribute to Tito than a knock on Roy. Tito picked himself up off the canvas twice, once in the 7th, and once in the 10th, and fought bravely despite being outgunned. Roy did, predictably, box circles around Tito and as the fight wore on matters only got worse. If not for a slow start for Jones it appeared that he could have taken every round with his much quicker hands and superior skills. This fight did very closely resemble Trinidad’s fight with Winky, a slick boxer beating the big puncher. In regards to the fight meeting expectations the answer was a resounding yes! Both men came to fight and although he wasn’t a vintage Roy Jones he was an entertaining sharp puncher who still has the ability to amaze you at times with his hand speed. Tito showed the heart that fans have always loved him for by fighting hard, forcing the action and getting off the canvas. All in all the fight was a success; both men could exit with their heads held high and their legacy in tact. Neither was embarrassed and perhaps another big fight or two lie in wait for these two giants of the fistic arts. |