Britain’s Junior Witter defends his WBC junior-welterweight title against undefeated American Timothy Bradley at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham,England on Saturday night.
By Wayne Bartlett: In a performance beyond his boxing years, 22 year old Paul Truscott captured the vacant Commonwealth featherweight title tonight with a unanimous points decision over tough Ghanaian Osumanu Akaba.
WBC No.1 super middleweight contender Carl Frock will now face Poland’s Albert Rybacki over twelve rounds at the Nottingham Arena in Nottingham, UK on the Junior Witter-Timothy Bradley card on Saturday night.
Former British heavyweight champion Michael Sprott is set to challenge undefeated Ukrainian Taras Bidenko for the WBA Intercontinental heavyweight title.
British bantamweight champion Ian Napa is set to create history by becoming the first fighter to hold the British bantamweight and super-flyweight titles.
Date May 9 Location Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA vacant NABA lightweight title Robert Frankel w pts 10 Derrick Campos Cruiserweight Tracy Sneed tko 5 Mike McGuire Super Middleweight George Tahdooahnippah w tko 1 Brad Hill Welterweight Kyle Sherman w ko 3 Isiac Nelson Super Featherweight Wahib Raheem q tko 2 Bantamweight Stephanie Dobbs w tko 2 Salina Jordan
In boxing today, fighters fight for bogus world championship belts bestowed upon them by money-hungry sanctioning bodies in exchange for sanctioning fees subsidized by television networks that demand “title” fights.
By Nick Kelly: It was once one of the most prominent boxing cities in the UK, if not the world, producing many great champions such as World Featherweight challenger, Nel Tarleton, his foe on several occasions Dom Volante and more recently WBC Light Heavyweight Champion John Conteh.
By Clive Bernath: This Saturday night sees four of the best light-heavyweights in the world go toe to toe at the St Pete Times Forum in Tampa,Florida,USA when Britain’s Clinton Woods defends his IBF crown against IBO king Antonio Tarver and Chad Dawson faces Glenn Johnson in defense of his WBC title.
By Michael Norby: “Be like a duck,” British actor Michael Caine once advised. “Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” It seems that super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe lives by this motto. He’s a phenomenal fighter known for his work ethic in camp, his superb conditioning and his whirlwind punch output which has proved the beating of all forty three of his opponent’s over a fifteen year career as a professional fighter.
Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Holmes, Norton. For more than twenty years, these kings of boxing ruled the rings as they passed the heavyweight title from one to the other. Now, for the first time, see them all come face to face - gloves off - in an unprecedented video event.
