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By Paul Upham in Marrickville: Getting the fight made was the hard part. For IBF junior bantamweight boxing world champion Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan, beating WBC/WBA world champion Cristian Mijares is a task that he can now take care of himself. He just needed the Mexican’s signature on the contract. 
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By Paul Upham in Sydney: Golden Gloves Promotions announced on Tuesday a long awaited return for boxing on free to air television in Australia.
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By Paul Upham at ringside: Newcastle favourite Chad “Hollywood” Bennett defeated Wellington De Jesus from Brazil by 5th round knockout at junior middleweight on Friday night at the Newcastle Panthers Club in Newcastle, Australia headlining a Fenech Fight Night, Grange Old School Boxing promotion.
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It is seven years since the horrific terrorist attack in New York, USA on September 11, 2001 that changed the world. As we remember the thousands of innocent lives that were lost, SecondsOut’s Content Editor Paul Upham, who was walking along 7th avenue in New York City when both planes hit the World Trade Center, opens his archives to recall one of his filed reports from that sad and tragic time.
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By Paul Upham: The junior bantamweight division will see a genuine super fight on November 1 when WBC/WBA world champion Cristian Mijares clashes with IBF world champion Vic Darchinyan over twelve rounds. Promoters Lou DiBella and Gary Shaw quickly came to terms for the fight this week when the Showtime television network in the USA allocated the match its own headline date.
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By Paul Upham: Former rugby league football star John “Hoppa” Hopoate won the Australian heavyweight boxing title with a 9th round TKO win over Bob Mirovic on Wednesday night at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Broadbeach, QLD.
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By Paul Upham: It was a fight of two halves and in the end Juan Diaz won a twelve round split points decision over Michael Katsidis on Saturday night at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, USA on HBO Boxing After Dark. While he looked like a bloody and beaten boxer after six rounds, Katsidis found a way to almost sneak up on Diaz and snatch a win.
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By Paul Upham: Chris McCullen defended his Australian junior welterweight title with a ten round unanimous points decision win over John Cotterill Jr on Friday night at the Mansfield Tavern in Mansfield, QLD, Australia headlining an exciting Angelo DiCarlo Ace Boxing promotion.
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By Paul Upham: Australian based supporters of Kostya Tszyu held their fourth fan sparring day on Saturday August 30 at the former undisputed champion’s gymnasium in Sydney. All of the details of the event, including the matches, catering, prizes, merchandise, filming, after fight dinner and designated charity for proceeds were all organised via the Internet and in the Forum at www.KostyaTszyu.com.
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By Paul Upham at Circular Quay: Bob Mirovic feels disrespected. He has been boxing for over twenty one years and holds the Australian heavyweight title. But while he struggles for exposure and every dollar he earns, professional footballers jumping into boxing are receiving more media attention and more money. It has to stop says Mirovic and he is promising to make a point when he faces former NRL star John Hopoate on September 10 at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Broadbeach, Queensland,
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By Paul Upham: Samoan heavyweight Solomon Haumono retained his undefeated record, but was taken the full distance for the first time in his career in winning a unanimous points decision over American veteran Cliff Couser on Wednesday night at the E.G. Whitlam Centre in Liverpool, NSW, Australia.
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By Paul Upham at ringside: Aboriginal boxer “Cool” Willie Kickett continued his impressive unbeaten run with a ten round unanimous points decision win over WBO No.11 ranked Argentinean Vicente Rodriguez at junior lightweight on Friday night at the Wyong Leagues Club on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia headlining a card promoted by the Grange Old School Boxing and Angelo Hyder’s “Nitro Boxing”.
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By Paul Upham: Exciting undefeated Aboriginal boxer “Cool” Willie Kickett faces WBO No.11 ranked Argentinean Vicente Rodriguez in a ten round bout for the WBO Asia Pacific Youth junior lightweight title and the WBO Latino title on Friday August 22 at the Wyong Leagues Club on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia headlining a card promoted by the Grange Old School Boxing and Angelo Hyder’s “Nitro Boxing”.
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By Paul Upham: Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan won his second IBF world title in a new weight class when he knocked out champion Dimitri Kirilov at junior bantamweight on Saturday night at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington, televised live in the USA on Showtime Championship Boxing.
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By Paul Upham: Former WBA super middleweight world champion Anthony “The Man” Mundine had to get up off the canvas to beat tough Japanese opponent Crazy Kim on points over ten rounds on Wednesday night at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre in Australia.
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By Paul Upham To be in the presence of one undisputed boxing world champion is special. To be able to sit back and observe two of them interacting together is a privilege that doesn’t come along every day. Such was the case on July 23, when Sugar Shane Mosley accepted an invitation to visit Kostya Tszyu at his home in Sydney, Australia.
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By Paul Upham at ringside: Australian lightweight prospect Lenny Zappavigna kept his undefeated record with a ten round unanimous points decision over Leon Maratas from the Philippines, winning the vacant IBO Asia Pacific title on Friday night at Club Marconi in Bossley Park, NSW, headlining a well promoted card by Billy Hussein and Tommy Mercuri.
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By Paul Upham: Exciting Australian prospect Lenny Zappavigna faces Leon Maratas for the vacant IBO Asia Pacific lightweight title on Friday night at Club Marconi in Bossley Park, NSW, promoted by Billy Hussein.
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A full week of boxing action and information on television in Australia, as compiled by Paul Upham. All times Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST).
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By Paul Upham: A new two-hour documentary on the boxing career of retired WBA light heavyweight world champion Danny Green will premiere on the Fox Sports network in Australia on Friday night July 18.
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By Paul Upham: Wladimir Klitschko’s heavyweight boxing world title defence against American Tony Thompson at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday will be televised live into Australia on the Channel 10 free to air network.
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A full week of boxing action and information on television in Australia, as compiled by Paul Upham.
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A full week of boxing action and information on television in Australia as compiled by Paul Upham.
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By Paul Upham: Tasmanian Daniel Geale retained the IBO middleweight world title with a unanimous twelve round points decision win over Geard Ajetovic from Serbia on Friday night at the Campbelltown Catholic Club in Sydney, Australia.
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By Paul Upham at ringside: It wasn’t a classic battle in the mould of their first two fights, but the come-backing Jeff Fenech and Azumah Nelson still put on a pretty decent contest for two boxers who had not fought for over ten years. Fenech received a majority ten round points decision win at junior middleweight on Tuesday night at the Vodafone Arena in Melbourne, Australia.
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By Paul Upham: Rising Western Australian prospect ‘Cool’ Willy Kickett takes a major step up in class when he faces former IBF/IBO junior lightweight world champion Gairy ‘Superman’ St Clair in the main support bout on the Jeff Fenech-Azumah Nelson 3 card on Tuesday night at the Vodafone Arena in Melbourne.
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By Paul Upham It started with a simple phone call from a business associate in Thailand to Jeff Fenech in Sydney in February 2008. “Jeff, your old foe Samart Payakarun is telling people over here that he can beat you in a boxing rematch and there is a promoter who is ready to put the fight on.”
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By Paul Upham: Sakio “The Scorpion” Bika, the winner of series three of The Contender, is ready to return to the boxing ring after an extended break spent with his family. Bika’s wife Belinda gave birth to their second son, Jordan Thomas Bika, born on June 9 at 5.58pm and weighing 4.07kgs (8.95lbs).
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By Paul Upham in Marrickville: Former IBF/IBO flyweight world champion Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan held his final Sydney sparring session on Friday and will now set up training camp in the USA.
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By Paul Upham: Retired WBA light heavyweight world champion Danny Green says suggestions he is on the verge of announcing a comeback to rematch Anthony Mundine, are false. Green, who has just launched a new book on his career titled, “Closed Fists, Open Heart”, reaffirmed to SecondsOut on Thursday June 12 at a Sydney City book signing, that he has fought for the last time.
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By Paul Upham The decision by Floyd Mayweather Jr, the pound for pound best boxer in the world, to announce his retirement on June 6, 2008 will send shockwaves through the boxing world. As always, with a decision of this magnitude there will be winners and losers and wide ranging affects on many other boxers and people within the sport. SecondsOut.com now attempts to answers all of the questions created by ‘Money Mayweather’s’ retirement.
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By Paul Upham: Retired WBA light heavyweight world champion Danny Green has launched a new book on his career titled, “Closed Fists, Open Heart”, written with sporting journalist Daniel Lane.
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By Paul Upham in Gosford: The third fight between arch Australian junior welterweight rivals Adams Wills and Charlie Vella was exactly as advertised. A brutal war fought passionately and intensely on both sides, with Wills winning an eight round split points decision on Friday night at the Central Coast Leagues Club in Gosford, Australia, headlining a “Nitro Boxing’ card promoted by Angelo Hyder.
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By Paul Upham: So many times boxing fans are disappointed when the highly promoted super fight turns into a boring snoozer. When the sport’s best boxers are matched, it doesn’t always mean you see the best fights. That won’t be the case on Friday night when Adams Wills and Charlie Vella face each other for the third time at the Central Coast Leagues Club in Gosford, Australia televised live on Fox Sports.
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By Paul Upham: WBA super middleweight world champion Anthony “The Man” Mundine retained his belt with a twelve round unanimous points decision over Sam “King” Soliman in their third career meeting on Wednesday night at the Vodafone Arena in Melbourne, Australia.
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By Paul Upham in Sydney: When promoter Don King came to selecting boxers to be featured in his new boxing video game he didn’t take long to realise that the exciting, macho and hard hitting flyweight Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan had to be included.
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By Paul Upham: The third fight between arch Australian junior welterweight rivals Adams Wills and Charlie Vella will headline the ‘Nitro Boxing’ card promoted by Angelo Hyder on Friday May 30 at the Central Coast Leagues Club in Gosford, NSW, Australia.
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By Paul Upham: Nigerian junior middleweight King Davidson Emenogu has been granted permanent residency in Australia and will continue his professional boxing career under world champion trainer Johnny Lewis.
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By Paul Upham: Former undisputed super lightweight boxing world champion Kostya Tszyu is open to offers to continue his boxing career. At a press conference in Sydney on Thursday to announce his new working partnership with GNLD wholefood products, Tszyu said he would accept the right fight that contained the right challenge for him.
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By Paul Upham: While everyone will agree that the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez rematch on March 15 was a thoroughly entertaining and high quality match, not everyone can agree on who actually won. Pacquiao was awarded a split points decision on the judges’ official scorecards but there are still many people who believe that Marquez deserved to get the decision.
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By Paul Upham: It was an emotional but proud Danny Green who announced his immediate retirement from boxing at a press conference in Perth, Australia on Tuesday morning. The current WBA light heavyweight world champion made a snap decision over the Easter weekend to retire from the sport.
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By Paul Upham: The old Cuban isn’t as old as some thought he was. Joel Casamayor not only turned back the challenge of previously undefeated Michael Katsidis, winning by 10th round knockout, he also participated in a thrilling ‘fight of the year’ contender on Saturday night at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon, California, USA on HBO’s ‘Boxing After Dark’.
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By Paul Upham: So much of an elite world champion boxer’s make-up is about mental strength. The belief that you are the boxing champion of the world and can beat any man who steps into the ring with you is essential in a sport as brutal as boxing and is as important as fitness and technique. Which is why Floyd Mayweather Jr could not have his trainer and uncle Roger Mayweather training Steve Forbes to beat Oscar De La Hoya under any circumstances.
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By Paul Upham: Floyd Mayweather Jr is unhappy that his uncle Roger Mayweather is training Steve Forbes to fight Oscar De La Hoya on May 3. Floyd Jr said on Thursday that if his uncle doesn’t drop Forbes now, he will not have Roger as his trainer ever again.
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By Paul Upham: The telephone was slammed down hard in Don King’s Las Vegas home. It was Good Friday and the high-haired promoter was not a very happy individual. Andrew Golota, who King had given an opportunity from nowhere, despite intense criticism, to fight for the IBF title against Chris Byrd the following weekend in New York, had just pulled out injured. A new opponent needed to be found ASAP to ensure that the HBO Pay-Per-View card would still go ahead.
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By Paul Upham: It is a long way from the town of Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia to big time boxing and facing Cuban great Joel Casamayor with The Ring magazine’s undisputed lightweight champion belt on the line, but to Michael ‘The Great’ Katsidis, this coming Saturday night is all part of the plan.
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By Paul Upham: Sakio “The Scorpion” Bika, the winner of series three of ‘The Contender’, issued a challenge in person to WBA super middleweight world champion Anthony Mundine on Friday in Sydney. Both boxers were special guests at a ‘Police & Community Youth Clubs’ charity fundraiser at the Dockside function room at Cockle Bay in Darling Harbour, Australia.
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By Paul Upham: It has been almost twenty years to the day since a cruiserweight battle had been for so many world titles and held such a prestigious place on the professional boxing calendar. David Haye not only proved himself today as the best cruiserweight boxer in the world by knocking out Enzo Maccarinelli, he also signalled his intention to move up to heavyweight, determined to emulate the feats of Evander Holyfield, who became undisputed champion of the world in two weight classes.
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