Year: 2007

07.04.07 – By James Slater: Tonight, in the main support bout to Calzaghe-Manfredo, lightweight sensation Amir Khan made it twelve wins out of twelve with an impressive third round stoppage … Read more

07.04.07 – By James Slater: Twenty-one year old heavyweight prospect Mike Marrone of Florida is currently 17-0 with 13 KO’s. Managed by the great Lou Duva and trained by Gus … Read more

(Travis Walker, pictured on right) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (April 7, 2007) – Despite frigid Minneapolis temperatures outside, unbeaten heavyweight Travis Walker turned up the heat in the Target Center and handed … Read more

07.04.07 – FRED STERNBURG: On behalf of Top Rank and M.P. Promotions welcome to today’s conference call. This is Manny Pacquiao’s 2007 debut. Boxing’s pound-for-pound most exciting fighter, the consensus … Read more

07.04.07 – WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev feels he is “perfectly prepared” for his first mandatory title defense which is just seven days away. The Russian Giant (46-0, 34 KOs) … Read more

07.04.07 – By Bob Webb: Whatever the actual outcome of the fight tomorrow (Saturday the 7th) night at Cardiff’s impressive Millenium Stadium to which I am not yet privy, right … Read more

06.04.07 – By Izyaslav “Slava” Koza: In the film Cinderella Man, Art Binkowski was the first victim of James J. Braddock’s Cinderella like rise to the top. Tonight, however, Binkowski … Read more

(Photo: Vitali Klitschko, seen here, badly bleeding and bruised after the 5th round of his fight with Lennox Lewis in 2003) New York, April 6 — K2 Promotions confirmed today … Read more

06.04.07 – Jonathon Oakley: The Beginning…The development of boxing in Tsarist and early Communist Russia. Given the current domination of the heavyweight division by fighters from nations of the former … Read more

06.04.07 – By Jim Amato: I won’t vote for Virgil Hill when he finally becomes eligible for induction into the Hall Of Fame. Granted, there are lesser boxers inducted, but … Read more