Month: May 2006

NEW YORK, May 8th—Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing is proud to announce the hiring of Brad Jacobs as its new Senior Vice-President of Operations and Development. Jacobs comes to Star Boxing … Read more

08.05.06 – By Michael Klimes: ‘Iron Mike’ The first chapter starts in 1991 and the reader encounters the greatest boxer in the world at the time: Mike Tyson. McRae met … Read more

08.05.06 – By David Douse: Despite his obvious boxing brilliance Joan Guzman (photo: www.joanguzman.com) seems to be a well kept secret in the boxing world so far as marketability goes … Read more

08.05.06: After unsuccessful world title challenges at middleweight and super middleweight, the latter a decision loss to Jose Calzaghe where he boxed ten rounds with a torn ligament in his … Read more

07.05.06 -By David Douse, photo by David Martin Warr / DKP: One of the things I have most loved about boxing over the years is the basic unpredictability of the … Read more

07.05.06 – By Matt Stein: I was recently reading ESB’s excellent boxing forum when I stumbled on an interesting thread about a fantasy bout between Wladimir Klitschko and George Foreman, … Read more

07.05.06 – By James Slater, photo by David Martin Warr / DKP: I was as shocked as everyone else by the magnificent timing and complete lack of ring rust displayed … Read more

MASHANTUCKET, Conn. (May 7, 2006) – Double-barrel championship action is on tap this week in Put Up or Shut Up, promoted by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc. (CES), … Read more

07.05.06 – By Izyaslav “Slava” Koza: After a late night viewing of the Showtime fight card, it is brutally and blatantly obvious that we should have had two new champions … Read more

07.05.06 – By Karl E. H. Seigfried: Last Wednesday, Ricardo Mayorga threatened to pull out of his WBC Super Welterweight Championship fight with Oscar De La Hoya unless he received … Read more