By Wayne Bartlett: Timothy ‘Desert Storm’ Bradley pulled off a stunning upset this Saturday after dethroning World Boxing Council light-welterweight champion Junior Witter via split points decision over twelve hard rounds.
On May 24, at City of Manchester Stadium, British fight fans will be treated to a boxing feast. Leading the top of the card will be Britain’s favorite son and most popular sportsman this decade, Ricky Hatton.
By Andrew Wake: Manchester’s Irish born warrior Michael Gomez has turned up the heat ahead of his lightweight clash with Amir Khan next month by saying he’s going to knock out the 2004 Olympic silver medalist.
And just like that, another UK superfight has turned to dust. While there was never any guarantee that Ricky Hatton would ever face Junior Witter at 140lbs, as long as Witter held the WBC world title he was a thorn in Hatton’s paw. Witter was a name that would always be thrown at Hatton when he was questioned about his upcoming fights. But not now, after American Timothy Bradley upset Witter on points on Saturday night.
By Craig Phillips: Nottingham’s Carl Froch cemented his position as the No.1 contender in the super middleweight division when he easily stopped Pole Albert Ryacki in four very one sided rounds on Witter-Bradley undercard.
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.
Date May 10 Location Nottingham, England WBC junior welterweight title Timothy Bradley w pts 12 Junior Witter Junior Welterweight John Murray w pts 8 Youssef Al Hamidi Date May 9 Location Pabellon Central, Vigo, Spain Omar Narvaez w.tko.8 Ivan Pozo WBO flyweight title Date May 9 Location Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, UK Paul Truscott w.ud.12 Osumanu Akaba Commonwealth featherweight title Date May 9 Location Tulsa, Okla
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.
