On May 25, IBF super middleweight champion Carl “The Cobra” Froch (30-2, 22 KO) and WBA super world middleweight champion Mikkel “The Viking Warrior” Kessler (46-2, 35 KO) will go to battle in a rematch in a super middleweight unification bout. In 2010 they met in Kessler’s backyard of Denmark, …
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By Jackie Kallen OK, here is one for the record books. My buddy Hassan Chitsaz is officially the oldest active heavyweight on the planet. He is 55 years old and is still fighting. He boasts a 24-1 record, which is verifiable on Boxrec.com I first met Hassan in Los Angeles …
Read More »By Jaime C. Feal It looked like Jose Aldo would run away with the superfight early, but Frankie Edgar showed his heart and determination to battle back. Edgar took Aldo the distance, losing out in a close decision. The champion controlled the first half of the fight with hard jabs, …
Read More »By Johnny Walker Juergen Braehmer outlasted Eduard Gutknecht today at Max Schmeling Halle in Berlin, Germany, to take Gutknecht’s EBU world light-heavyweight chanpionship. The bout was a closely contested affair, with Braehmer using his superior length to keep Gutknecht at bay much of the time, and ably holding his own …
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It was announced early this morning that undefeated middleweight prospect Omar Henry passed away. The 25-year-old learned he had gall bladder cancer when he routinely went to the hospital to get examined for pains in his side. For nearly three months he was hospitalized at the University of Chicago, fighting …
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by Johnny Walker Former middleweight titlist Felix Sturm saw his career thrown into a tailspin today as he lost a controversial decision in a fight billed as a “must-win” to Australian Sam Soliman at the ISS Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. The fight was entertaining and presented a contrast in styles, …
Read More »By Johnny Walker It’s too bad the powers that be at ESPN’s Friday Night Fights decided to shunt tonight’s heavyweight tilt between Polish bad boy Artur “The Pin” Szpilka and American veteran Mike Mollo over to their web site, because the scrap between the two heavweights proved to be much …
Read More »By: William Holmes ESPN Friday Night Fights was broadcast tonight live from the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. The broadcast wasted little time in getting to the opening bout of the night. The elder statesman Jose Louis Castillo (64-11-1) and the loudest boxer on this planet, Antwone Smith (22-4-1) met …
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By Ivan Goldman The April 6 Top Rank card set in Macau could be even more geographically significant than it first appears. The main event features Brian “Hawaiian Punch” Viloria defending his WBA and WBO flyweight titles against Juan Francisco Estrada. On the undercard, China’s Zou Shiming, a two-time light …
Read More »By Jaime C. Feal Frankie Edgar, the former UFC lightweight champion, makes his first appearance at featherweight and gets the honor of challenging the champion Jose Aldo. Easily Aldo’s biggest test inside the Octagon, this fight is being dubbed as a “superlight” by the UFC. Quite frankly, they have to …
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