It was another impressive night of boxing at the Seminole Hard Rock hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL as HBO’s boxing after dark invaded the Hard Rock live arena. The stars came out for this one as notables in the crowd were 2004 Fighter of the Year Glen Johnson, former Heat Jamal Mashburn, Nate Campbell, former Miami Dolphin and member of the “Killer Bees” Kim Bokamper, and one time undisputed heavyweight sensation Riddick Bowe not to mention the 3,500 or so on hand as well.
The featured bout o… Continue

What was supposed to be his first shot at a title could now end up being just another hard earned paycheck. For the second time in consecutive fights Joey “Twinkle Fingers” Hernandez’s opponent has pulled out of the fight with only a week to go before they were set to square off.

This time it’s Cuban welterweight Damian Frias (16 – 1 7 KO’s) wanting no part of the Columbus High school graduate.

All was set for “Twinkle Fingers” to make his nationally televised debut while in search of the vaca… Continue

Two years ago Juan Urango suffered the only loss of his career at the hands of then unbeaten Ricky Hatton. Since the defeat the Colombian native has gone
4 – 0 with 3 KO’s improving his overall record to (21 – 1 – 1 16 KO’s) meanwhile capturing gold earlier this year as he won a unanimous decision over Herman Ngoudjo to earn the vacant IBF light welterweight crown.

This Saturday night the 28 year old south paw takes aim at his second world title as he
Clashes with WBC welterweight champ Andre B… Continue

Wayne Elcock is in the house "Goody's Gym" From May 18 to the 24 of May Getting ready for a tune up fight in England.

May 2, 2009: Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton - Las Vegas, NV / C.Cozzone & R.Kasprowicz - Images by Fightwireimages.com… Continue

Next Friday night May 15th the Miami based Top Level Promotions is at it again with another exciting night of boxing.

The ten bout fight card is headlined by 2004 Cuban Olympian Yan Barthelemy as he goes for his first world title the vacant WBC Latino bantamweight belt against the undefeated Venezuelan Alexander Espinoza (8 – 0).

The Cuban Barthelemy (7 – 1 1 KO) is fresh off his third round destruction of
Pedro “Rincon” Miranda is eager to get his career back on track after suffering his only… Continue

April 17, 2009: Yuriorkis Gamboa vs Jose Rojas - Primm, NV / Chris Cozzone - Images by Fightwireimages.com
I would hate to take away from the abilities of the Cuban Olympian and his title winning performance, but I find it disgraceful, how the networks, sanctioning… Continue

HENRY HILL BOOK SIGNING AT BARNES AND NOBLE IN HENDERSON NV 4/25/09 Henry Hill Goodfella will be at BARNES AND NOBLE AT MCCARREN AIRPORT IN LAS VEGAS NV FRIDAY APRIL 24th 1.00 AND April 25th 2.00 -5.00 BARNES AND NOBLE 576 N STEPHINE ST HENDERSON NV 702 434-1533 "Goodfellas and Gangsters" come meet a notorious mob icon als… Continue

This was pretty fun because I don't shoot alot of press conferences. This is a very big fight so it was nice to be sent here to cover the two fighters and their trainers. Ricky HATTON and Manny PACQIAO walk the red carpet to promote their up coming bout referred to as the "Battle of East and West". With the famous Hotel Roosevelt as the scene, the two fighters and their respective trainers will speak to fans about their upcoming fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV on May 2, 2009… Continue

THE PACQUIAO-HATTON SHOOTOUT

By Pj De Best
BoxingRepublic.com

When Filipino fighting sensation Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao dances inside the square ring with the United Kingdom's Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton on May 2nd, 2009 at th… Continue

Are the Klitschko’s dodging “Fast” Eddie Chambers?


Philadelphia’s “Fast” Eddie Chambers 33 – 1 put together a beautiful winning streak of 29 fights entering his IBF eliminator match with Alexander Povetkin back in January of 2008. The winner would have the opportunity to face the younger half of the Heavyweight divisions self anointed two headed monster. After coming out strong and easily handling the less experienced Povetkin, Chambers let the fight slip away in the later rounds. It was the f… Continue

GOODFELLA Henry Hill joined fight wire after doing a interview with Mike Philadelphia boxing reportPHILADELPHIA BOXING REPORT.

Papi Mendes Part II: Sparring with Ricca

By Christian Giudice

The dried-out, hole-filled gloves spilled into the makeshift ring

sequestered in the corner of the Papi Mendes Gym. Kids were constantly running by, some

stopped in to innocently throw some jabs, others were content to kill time on the rusted bike.

Some young fighters took orders from the gentle taskmaster Celso Chavez Sr.,

the lifeline of the gym, who was content to talk boxing endlessly on one of his cigarette breaks.

On good… Continue

Prince of Papi Mendes: Ricca Cordoba

Part I

By Christian Giudice

In June 2002, I was riding on a bus with a young fighter from Panama.
He started singing, "My name is....my name is..." a rap song that
was wildly popular at the time. It was one of the few times I saw him open up; often
he was reserved, content to follow the lead of the older fighters.

The fighter, Ricardo Cordoba, was part of a team of boxers from the Papi Mendes Gym
in the San Antonio Projects of San Miguelito. He was a risi… Continue

I want to start out by saying that this sites intention is to provide news, views and anything else that goes with the fight sports. Please do not use this site to vent about personal issues, problems, etc. - leave that for MySpace or Facebook. This site has remained clean of all profanity and defamitory information about anyone. I'd like to keep it that way and I'm sure you as members would like to see this as well. If you want to have personal discussions with other members, please use the sen… Continue

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MARCH 6, 2009: Local unbeaten 24 year-old fights for first belt in front of hometown fans as part of an eight fight card at the Double Tree Miami Mart Airport Hotel March 20th.

MIAMI, FL - Richie Boy Promotions presents an unforgettable night of boxing in sunny Miami, Florida as hometown phenom Joey “Twinkle Fingers” Hernandez looks to capture his first championship belt when he takes on Dillet Frederick, of Ft. Myers, FL. The 10 round bout takes place Friday March 20th a… Continue

1. Manny Pacquiao (1.0)
2. Juan Manuel Marquez (2.4)
3. Bernard Hopkins (3.2)
4. Israel Vazquez (4.6)
5. Shane Mosley (5.7)
6. Ivan Calderon (7.7)
7. Rafael Marquez (8.1)
8. Joe Calzaghe (8.5)
9. Paul Williams (8.6)
10. Miguel Cotto (8.7)

*This is the first P4P ranking devised by the Round Table and we will update this list every month. P4P lists vary from publication to publication; therefore, our goal is to extract as much global data as possible in order to provide a fair ranking structure.… Continue

HOLLYWOOD, FL, March 2 – Seminole Warriors Boxing, joined with Universal Promotions, kicked off a new series of shows in Puerto Rico in a big way on Saturday night, as highly-touted prospects Kenny Galarza and Jonathan Gonzalez scored electrifying knockout victories that had… Continue

JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ SEIZES THE WBO, WBA, & IBO LIGHTWEIGHT TITLES...KNOCKING OUT JUAN "BABY BULL" DIAZ IN SHOCKING FASHION
posted by Kathleen Holland on March 1, 2009, in News
From the Toyota Center, Houston, Texas, United States
February 28, 2009

written by James "Ricky" Coward

The WBO, WBA, IBO, and Ring Magazine Lightweight titles were on the line tonight as Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz (34-1 17 KOs) and Juan Manuel Marquez (49-4-1 37 KOs) collided to unify the Lightweight titles and establish… Continue

Glen Johnson Vs. Daniel Judah II
Hard Rock Seminole Hotel and Casino
February 27, 2009
By: Stephen Roche at ringside

Throughout my childhood in New England, my Father used to drive a 19 eighty-something Pontiac Parisienne. He must’ve put over 300,000 on that car with all of our weekend treks to New Hampshire and New York City, not to mention the countless journeys up and down the eastern seaboard. On every single one of these auto adventures, without exception, my brother, sister and I would li… Continue