Month: January 2008

18.01.08 – By “Old Yank” Schneider: “Old School”, we hear the term all the time. It has as many definitions as there are fight fans. Is it “anything from the … Read more

Matthew Hurley – When Ruslan Chagaev, 23-0 with 17 KOs took the WBA heavyweight title from towering seven foot tall Nikolay Valuev in April the fighter out of Uzbekistan was … Read more

By Maxime Chartrand: It’s been a long but successful journey for the 27 year-old Romanian boxer Lucian Bute. From the first time he put gloves on as a teenager in … Read more

Undisputed World Super-Middleweight Champion Joe Calzaghe has been voted by the public into the the top 100 Sporting Icons of all Time in the magazine Sport (Issue #59: January 18 … Read more

18.01.08 – By Scoop Malinowski: Andrew Golota’s quest to win the elusive world title takes another critical step on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, when he meets dangerman Mike … Read more

By Jason Peck: Tarver-Green is off (thank God), and just about everything that can be said about Jones-Trinidad has been said. To my knowledge, these fights haven’t yet gotten the … Read more

18.01.08 – Photos by Naoki Fukuda: Jermain Taylor, you’re OK not fighting for a belt this time? “When I win, I’ll be walking out of there with everything he took … Read more

NEW YORK—Subtle barbs continued to fly between Roy Jones Jr. coach Alton Merkerson and Tito Trinidad trainer and father Papa Trinidad during today’s main event trainer roundtable in the media … Read more

17.01.08 – by James Slater: Eighteen years ago this week, “Big” George Foreman, the former heavyweight champion who was well into his improbable comeback, faced his first real test since … Read more

Former world heavyweight title challenger Charles Shufford plans to get his career untracked and him back into the heavyweight mix with an upset of 2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six” … Read more