JAMES THOMPSON V BOB SAPP Bringing “Sportainment” at its best, Raj Kundra, entrepreneur and husband to Bollywood Celebrity & Big Brother Winner Shilpa Shetty along with Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt have come together to announce the launch of the country’s first professional organized, MMA – Mixed Martial Arts fighting League, …
Read More »
Lennox Lewis has been a busy man while visiting the UK this past week to pick up an award. Lewis has been giving a spate of interviews to the British tabloids, and as usual has made a few eyebrow-raising comments. In his latest talk with The Mirror, Lewis has now …
Read More »
By: William Holmes ESPN brought another card featuring promising prospects to their fights fans at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. The fighters standing across the prospects had some pre fight issues. Angel Hernandez was a last minute replacement that most experts did not give much of a chance, and his …
Read More »
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 …
Read More »
“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, …
Read More »
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 …
Read More »
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,” …
Read More »
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 …
Read More »
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 …
Read More »
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 …
Read More »