Month: January 2008

From WBC President Jose Sulaiman: Following are the 2007 WBC Awards for boxers and fights, as voted by a majority of the WBC Board of Governors. FIGHTER OF THE YEAR: … Read more

Matthew Hurley: Everything was going along swimmingly for Brian ‘Hawaiian Punch’ Viloria. After compiling an amateur record of 230-8 with a national Gold Glove title and a US amateur championship … Read more

03.10.08 – Jaime Castro-Núñez: I would like to start this year by remembering the short life of a talented boxer who mysteriously drowned on a West Dade lake at the … Read more

03.01.08 – Jaime Castro-Núñez: Robinson Pitalúa arrived to Miami and shared an apartment with other boxers at Lake Laguna West, 301 NW 109th Ave. In Miami, he developed a new … Read more

New York, January 2—Duva Boxing will swing into 2008 with a hard hitting card on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights headlined by the sensational knockout artist Darnell Wilson defending his USBA … Read more

By Andrew Wake: A world title crack cannot be far away for highly touted super-middleweight Allan “Sweetness” Green. The Oklahoma native boasts a superb 25-1 slate with 18 knockouts and … Read more

NEW YORK— Photos: David Martin-Warr/DKP – As Felix “Tito” Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. inch closer to their mid-January showdown, the legendary fighters travel to Florida military bases and Puerto … Read more

England – January 3, 2007 – British Lightweight Champion Jon Thaxton says that after all the disrespectful and big talk from rival Amir Kahn he better be a man and … Read more

NEW YORK, January 2 2008 – Film fans and fight fans only have two more opportunities to see “Magic Man” before the subject of the film defends his title Saturday … Read more

02.01.08 – By Andrew Wake: Norfolk’s own Rocky, Jon Thaxton is a guy who feels he is missing out. Ever since the Norwich switch-hitter defeated Salford’s highly regarded, former two … Read more