HOLLYWOOD, FL, October 30 – At the 19th annual WBO convention, held on the cruise ship Enchantment of the Seas, the sanctioning body’s Championship Committee reconfirmed to Seminole Warriors Boxing’s Lourdes Carrero and our promotional partners Eric Gomez from Golden Boy Promotions and Sampson Lewkowicz that unbeaten heavyweight sensation Sultan Ibragimov, as the WBO’s mandatory challenger, will get a shot […]
PROVIDENCE, RI (October 30, 2006) – Smaller gloves, no headgear and different scoring aside, America’s top heavyweight prospect — 2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six” Estrada — doesn’t think anything else, particularly the final outcome, will be any different November 17 against unbeaten heavyweight Travis “Freight Train” Walker, who Estrada defeated three times as an amateur, on Showbox: The Next […]
LAS VEGAS (October 30, 2006) – Silverhawk Boxing’s power-punching heavyweight Gerald “The Jedi” Nobles, after being inactive for nearly two years, successfully returned to the ring last Thursday night stopping Wallace McDaniels with a vicious right uppercut 2:58 into the opening round at The Plex in Charleston, South Carolina.. Nobles, making his Silverhawk Boxing debut, improved his record to 25-1 […]
30.10.06 – True to his promise, Dutch heavyweight destroyer Richel Hersisia returned after nine months out with an electrifying performance, banging his opponent Adenilson Rodrigues to the canvas three times for a clean knockout in round two last Saturday in Stuttgart, Germany. In his first outing under trainer Torsten Schmitz, ‘The Dutch Sonny Liston’ lived up not only to his […]
NEW YORK (Oct. 30, 2006) — It only seems like hard-hitting Shannon “The Cannon’’ Briggs – bleached-gold dreadlocks and all – has been around forever. “It’s funny,” he said, “because when everyone thinks of me, they think I am old because I fought George Foreman and Lennox Lewis, and other guys. But those fights were when I was very young. […]