Month: October 2008

NEW YORK, Wednesday, October 8th -It will be a career-defining fight for the ages. Former champions Jermain Taylor and Jeff Lacy will meet on November, 15th in Nashville, Tennessee on … Read more

This weeks ‘Left-Hook Lounge’ installment is basically a role call for the sports elite. Making the mailbag this week is everyone from Manny Pacquaio, to Oscar De La Hoya, to … Read more

By Paul Strauss: It sounds like a low budget sci-fi movie. This is truly the “mano-a-mano” meeting that boxing fans desire. Fans want and expect heavyweights to knock each other … Read more

by James Slater – It has been revealed in The Cleveland Plain Dealer that middleweight world champion Kelly Pavlik injured his left elbow in sparring last week. Apparently, while working … Read more

Photo by Hoyer/Klitschko Management – It’s just talk, but there’s been plenty of it leading up to Saturday’s WBC Heavyweight Championship between Samuel Peter (30-1, 23 KOs) and Vitali Klitschko … Read more

By Ted Sares: Mijares has what I want – the remaining major belts in the 115-pound division. Let’s see how great a matador he really is when he steps inside … Read more

International Boxing Federation cruiserweight world champion, Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham, took some time off from training and visited The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey which will be hosting his world … Read more

by James Slater – 30-year-old former WBA light-welterweight champion Vivian Harris makes his return to the ring on October 29th, when he will face Nicaragua’s Octavio Narvaez in New Jersey. … Read more

By Ted Sares – In 1953, the Ring Magazine’s top ten heavyweights were as follows: Rocky Marciano: Champion 1, Nino Valdez 2. Ezzard Charles 3. Dan Bucceroni 4. Roland LaStarza … Read more

Today ARENA-CEO Ahmet Öner announced that he will not continue his cooperation with Gary Shaw Productions in the US. Together ARENA and GSP had featured Cuban rising superstar Yuriorkis Gamboa … Read more