By: Michael Gerard Seiler, BOXING LEDGER Tomasz Adamek, 33, captured a twelve-round unanimous decision over Michael Grant, 38, in a fierce battle that left 10,972 fans at the Prudential Center applauding on their feet at the final bell. Official scores were 117-111, 118-110 and 118-111, although many at ringside had the fight closer. As soon [...]
Following his successful return to International competition at the WBC Night Of Champions in Cardiff, 2008 European Bantamweight Champion Luke Campbell was back in action this past weekend at the Four Nations Challenge in Sheffield. On Saturday Luke, who convincingly won his Featherweight (57kg) fight by a 11-5 points margin over China’s Jun Tan at [...]
On Saturday night, before a packed house at the Tropicana showroom in the Tropicana Casino and Resort, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing presented an action packed eight bout card. The event, shown live on PPV, featured knockouts, upsets, and just all around great fights. The show was headlined by David Tua defending his WBO Asian Pacific [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER After a 9 month layoff, Zab “Super” Judah (39-6, 27 KO’s) made a convincing statement in front of 4,215 fans at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., stopping Jose Armando Santa Cruz (28-5, 17 KO’s) in the third round. The victory places Judah back in the mix with the top [...]
By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro Promoter Steve Goodwin came up trumps again on Saturday night with his ‘Summer Fight Night Explosion’ show at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London. The only downer being the cancellation of the main event,Yassine El Maachi versus Dee Mitchell, due to El Maachi, who recently recovered from a virus [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO’s) used superior in-fighting to simply assault Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) for twelve rounds, winning 120-108 on all scorecards. With the victory, Ward retained his WBA super middleweight title. Ward, 26, came out strong from the opening bell, and constantly was first with his shots. [...]
Sharkie’s Machine By Frank Gonzalez Jr. June 6, 2010 “Miguel Cotto Answers the Questions in Impressive Victory Over Yuri Foreman at Yankee Stadium” Former Welterweight and current Jr. Middleweight titlist, Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) rose to the top of his game while being trained by his uncle, Evangelista Cotto but after numerous fall outs, [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER In a fierce battle of undefeated super bantamweights, 25-year-old Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (19-0-1, 16 KO’s) gave a remarkable performance, stopping Hungarian Zsolt Bedak, 26, (15-1, 5 KO’s) at 1:12 in the tenth round to retain his WBO championship. Bedak, who holds 232 amateur fights to his credit along with a [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER Vitali Klitschko (40-2, 38 KO’s) retained his WBC heavyweight title, knocking out a tough Albert Sosnowski (45-3-1, 27 KO’s) at 2:20 in the tenth round of a highly competitive fight. The victory was Klitschko’s eighth in a row. In round one, Klitschko utilized his left jab, while Sosnowski aggressively looked [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER 31-year-old Librado Andrade (29-3, 22 KO’s) bounced back from a knockout loss against Lucian Bute, as veteran Eric Lucas (39-8-3, 15 KO’s) could not persevere after eight completed rounds due to a severe cut sustained above his left eye. Lucas, 39, landed some sharp counter punches in round one, but [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER Rafael Marquez (39-5, 35 KO’s) defeated a resilient Israel Vazquez convincingly (44-5, 33 KO’s), capturing a 3rd round technical knockout to even the series between them at two fights apiece. Vazquez, 32, opened the bout landing a swift overhand right, although Marquez, 35, landed the sharper punches in round one, [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER In a fast-paced junior welterweight match-up, 26-year-old Ruslan Provodnikov (16-0, 11 KO’s) scored a devastating technical knockout versus Emmanuel Augustus (38-32-6, 20 KO’s), 35, at 1:50 of the ninth round. Augustus, who took the fight on 4 days notice and appeared on ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights” series numerous times over [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) retained his WBA junior welterweight title, scoring an 11th round TKO against Paulie Malignaggi (27-4, 5 KO’s) in front of a raucous crowd at the theatre inside Madison Square Garden. Khan, 23, controlled the pace the entire fight working behind a devastating and accurate left [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER Michael Katsidis (27-2, 22 KO’s) stopped previously unbeaten Kevin Mitchell (31-1, 23 KO’s) at 1:57 of the 3rd round to retain his interim WBO lightweight title. Katsidis, 29, applied heavy pressure from the opening bell, scoring with consecutive left hooks in round one. Still, Mitchell controlled the pace of the [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER In a bizarre ending to a bout that was heating up, Paul Williams (39-1, 27 KO’s) was awarded a four-round, technical decision over Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KO’s). Cintron, 30, got tangled up with Williams, 28, in round four, and both men tumbled. However, Cintron fell through the ropes onto [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER Floyd Mayweather Jr. remains undefeated, winning by wide scores of 118-110 and 119-109 twice against “Sugar” Shane Mosley in their epic welterweight showdown. Mayweather opened the fight as the aggressor, walking toward Mosley and daring him to throw punches. Then, Mosley responded by connecting with a few solid left jabs [...]
Adamek, Angulo, Boxing Fan’s, Big Winners on HBO’s After Dark By: Dan Hernandez at Ringside A special thanks goes out to photographer Raymond Rodriguez for the fantastic photos during the weekends festivities. Raymond is the lead Photographer for Sports Life Magazine – Sports Life HDTV and top boxing website MyBoxingFans.com. Saturday evening April 24, 2010 [...]
By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro On Saturday night, whilst most British fight fans were waiting to watch Nottingham’s Carl Froch face, and lose to, Mikel Kessler in the latest Super Six offering on Sky TV, London’s York Hall, in Bethnal Green, played host to the equally exciting Steve Goodwin promoted “A Night Of The Rising [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER Tomasz “Goral” Adamek (41-1, 27 KO’s) defeated Chris “The “Nightmare” Arreola (28-2, 25 KO’s) by a 12 round majority decision at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California. The official scores were 114-114, 115-113 and 117-111. The victory marked Adamek’s 10th consecutive win. Adamek, 33, opened the fight using [...]
By: Michael Seiler, BOXING LEDGER After suffering a one-sided defeat to Andre Ward in his last bout, Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) responded superbly, winning a 12 round unanimous decision against Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) in Group Stage 2 of Showtime’s “Super Six” Tournament. The official scores were 117-111, 115-113 and 116-112. Kessler, 31, [...]
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