Month: April 2008

With only a few days to go before popular south Londoner Gary Woolcombe’s first British light middleweight title defense against former champion Ryan “Spice Boy” Rhodes, the spiritual home of … Read more

By Mike Cassell – The Philadelphia Boxing Report 4/13//08 — Atlantic City – Give Alfonso Gomez credit. He did something that Floyd Mayweather, Oscar De La Hoya, and a host … Read more

By Frank Gonzalez Jr., photo by Tom Casino / Showtime– April 12th, 2008 – Saturday night at the St. Pete’s Forum in Tampa Florida, WBC Light Heavyweight champion Chad Dawson … Read more

By Mike Indri, Retired Boxers Foundation – April 13, 2008 — Atlantic City, NJ – With the Boardwalk Hall filled, and HBO broadcasting to millions at home, Miguel Cotto tore … Read more

By Per Ake Persson: Spanish 20-year veteran Javier Castillejo´s long and glorious career surely came to a brutal end at the hands of EBU middle champ Sebastian Sylvester Saturday night … Read more

TAMPA, Fla. (April 13, 2008) – Photo by Tom Casino / Showtime – Antonio Tarver registered a unanimous 12-round decision over defending champion Clinton Woods to capture the International Boxing … Read more

Undefeated professional and two-time national amateur champion Edwin Rodriguez of Worcester, Mass., improved his record to 4-0 with a fourth-round technical knockout of veteran Jeffrey Osborne Jr. of Davenport, Iowa, … Read more

by James Slater: It is fitting that today, April 12th, there is a huge amount of boxing action taking place. For today marks the 19th anniversary of the death of … Read more

by James Slater, photo by Tom Casino / Showtime — Last night, in Tampa, Florida, 39 year old Antonio “Magic Man” Tarver more than lived up to his name as … Read more

by James Slater: It looks like you can add the name of Johnny Tapia to the seemingly endless list of former world champions making comebacks these days. According to Boxrec.com, … Read more