Month: April 2009

By John Jackson – In the next two months four of British Boxing’s biggest names take part in high profile bouts. This Saturday Carl Froch makes the first defense of … Read more

CANASTOTA, NY – APRIL 23, 2009 – Former world heavyweight champions Ken Norton and Leon Spinks will attend festivities planned for the 20th Annual Hall of Fame Induction Weekend scheduled … Read more

23.04.09 – Photos: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME – the principals for Saturday night’s highly anticipated world title fight on SHOWTIME participated in a final press conference on Wednesday at Gallagher’s Steak House … Read more

British heavyweight Michael Sprott will venture to Las Vegas on Friday, May 1st in the hope of kicking off a boxing weekend to remember for UK fight fans. Set to … Read more

By Craig Hardie – This past Tuesday US Light-Heavyweight contender Jameson Bostic went 1-0 in his ‘comeback’ downunder. The Otara Recreation Centre, South Auckland, New Zealand was the venue for … Read more

22.04.09 – by Nino Celic – This Saturday at 10pm CET Felix Sturm is going to make his sixth straight defense of the WBA middleweight title since recapturing it from … Read more

By Ziggy Shaw: On May 2nd 1929, a devastating tornado swept through Morgantown, West Virginia. Its path was a quarter mile wide and it ran through the Riverside, Seneca and … Read more

by James Slater – Ukrainian Andriy Kotelnik, the reigning WBA light-welterweight champion, is in a pretty bad mood right about now. Scheduled to fly into the UK for a press … Read more

By Doveed Linder, photo by Wray Edwards /ESB – This Friday, St. Louis natives Cory “The Next Generation” Spinks (36-5, 11 KOs) and Deandre “The Bull” Latimore (19-1, 16 KOs) … Read more

NEW YORK, April 22, 2009 – HBO Sports will present ASSAULT IN THE RING, a documentary about the ill-fated bout between Billy Collins Jr. and Luis Resto and its subsequent … Read more