Year: 2009

By Per Ake Persson: February 7, Rostock, Germany: WBA heavyweight champ “in recess”, but now back, Ruslan Chagaev retained the title on technical decision over Costa Rican Carl Davis Drumond. … Read more

by James Slater – Last night, in Birmingham, UK, 37-year-old Rob Norton successfully defended his British cruiserweight title with an extremely eventful points win over the much younger David Dolan … Read more

By Mike Cassell 2/6/09 – PHILADELPHIA – Undefeated Cruiserweight, Ran Nakash, and junior welterweight, Elad Shmouel, each scored 2nd round TKOs against their overmatched opponents last night in North Philadelphia. … Read more

LEMOORE, Calif. (Feb. 7, 2009) – Photos: Jan Sanders/ For SHOWTIME – Undefeated Andre Ward (18-0, 12 KOs) pitched a 12-round shutout over outclassed Henry Buchanan (17-2, 12 KOs) of … Read more

by James Slater – In a very interesting article that has appeared on Wales Online, the recently retired Joe Calzaghe spoke of how he chose to quit the game, primarily, … Read more

From the office of WBC President Jose Sulaiman: The fundraiser organized by the World Boxing Council last month for former WBC super featherweight world champion Genaro “Chicanito” Hernandez was a … Read more

by James Slater – 32-year-old Danny Perez of San Diego has stepped in as a late replacement opponent for the unbeaten Alfredo Angulo. Taking the Feb. 14th fight on less … Read more

06.02.09 – By Mike Casey – For once, let us not major on the quartet of fights against the mighty Sugar Ray Robinson. Those battles are etched in the memory … Read more

06.02.09 – by James Slater – Just lately, there have been two or three different fighters being given the “most feared man in boxing” title – Antonio Margarito and Paul … Read more

Eight-time world champion “Superman” Roy Jones Jr. will host a news conference in Pensacola to announce his upcoming ‘homecoming’ light heavyweight fight against Omar Sheika. B.J. Flores, IBF No. 2 … Read more