For 12 rounds last December, Lamont “Havoc” Peterson and Amir “King” Khan battled it out in one of the most compelling championship bouts of 2011. When it was over, controversy raged over the officiating and the final judges’ verdict, but in the end Peterson won a split decision capturing Khan’s …
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“I have no anxiety or fear going in,” says Dearborn Heights, Michigan, native Todd Allee of his willingness to get in the cage on short notice and trade kicks and punches with an opponent he admits is “definitely in the top 15 in the world.” On just two weeks’ notice, …
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After a spectacular run through the Bellator Season 5 Bantamweight Tournament, Eduardo “Dudu” Dantas (@Dudantas22) has earned his world title shot. With victories over Wilson Reis, Ed West and the explosive Olympian Alexis Vila, Dantas is just a win away from becoming a World Champion when he battles reigning Bellator …
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By Johnny Walker In a new interview with Sky Sports, former world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis praises current WBC champion Vitali Klitschko, the man he defeated on a cuts stoppage in 2003 before retiring, as the world’s best heavyweight. “Vitali Klitschko is the best heavyweight out there right now,” …
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By: William Holmes The first boxing match to ever be held at the legendary Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City was on July 26, 1929. During boxing’s golden years, it was not uncommon for reporters to cover approximately a hundred fights in Atlantic City. Mike Tyson fought often in the early …
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by Charles Jay In this space stories that other people have written aren’t ordinarily dissected and/or sliced and diced, but the subject matter of one story in particular brought a chortle and deserved to be addressed, if only for educational purposes. It actually involved Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles …
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by Hans Olson In a story first reported by Jean-Luc Legendre of RDS, Carl Froch has been named the mandatory challenger to Lucian Bute by the IBF. Bute, who has worn the IBF’s Super Middleweight Championship since 2007 when he knocked out Alejandro Berrio, last made a mandatory defense in …
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by Hans Olson “Wanna see how I do business? Show your face again in Atlantic City.”-Nucky Thompson, Boardwalk Empire On April 28th, Bernard Hopkins will defend his WBC Light Heavyweight Championship in Atlantic City against “Bad” Chad Dawson. It’ll be a rematch of their controversial “no-contest” last October. The bout, …
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Star Boxing president Joe DeGuardia has announced that former world title challenger Angel “Toro” Hernandez (30-10, 17 KOs) has replaced an ill Derek Ennis for Friday’s night’s main event against 2008US Olympian Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade (15-0, 10 KOs) on ESPN Friday Night Fights at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, …
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By Johnny Walker So let me get this straight: former heavyweight kingpin Lennox Lewis is admonishing former WBA champ David Haye to come out of retirement and fight one or both of the current heavyweight champions, the Klitschko brothers? Huh? “David should come out of retirement,” Lewis said at an …
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