Image details: Wladimir Klitschko v Tony Thompson - IBF/IBO/WBO World Championship served by picapp.com
It took 11 slogging rounds but eventually Wladimir Klitschko decided that America’s top ranked heavyweight Tony “The Tiger” Thompson was his for the taking. In the eleventh Dr. Steelhammer upped his output and caught Thompson with a clean right which sent him […]
Saturday July 11, 2008 Boxing Results
Here are last night’s boxing results which involved Top Ten Ring Magazine fighters in the respective weight classes
Tomasz Adamek vs. Gary Gomez
Ring Magazine #3 cruiserweight Tomasz Adamek (35-1) def. Gary Gomez (18-10-1) when Gomez refuses to enter the ring in at the start of the seventh. Below is the third […]
Image details: Wladimir Klitschko v Tony Thompson Press Conference served by picapp.com
Tomorrow afternoon the consensus (if not undisputed) heavyweight champion of the world is facing the consensus top American heavyweight but for some reason the excitement level hasn’t reached fever pitch on these shores. The clinical, cautious and glass-jawed Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko has yet to […]
Contender Season Number Four Contestants: The Favorites
Here’s our first set of Contender Season Four Contestant Info profiling the clear set of favorites in the best season ever (TM).
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Vadim Tokarev
boxrec.com ranking: #8
Record: 24-1-1 (17)
Age: 36
Nationality: Russian
Birthplace: Ekaterinaburg, Russia
Height: 5′10 1/2″
Stance: Orthodox
Fellow Contender’s Faced: Darnell Wilson, Win by 10-round Unanimous Decision, October 18, 2005
Notable Opponents: […]
Image details: The Contender Challenge - UK v USA served by picapp.com
The boxing reality show The Contender has found a new home, a new weight class, and its most impressive roster of fighters yet. After one season on NBC, and two on ESPN, the showcase for up-and-coming fighters will now be shown on the Versus […]
Last night on ESPN2’s Wednesday Night Fights, Ring Magazine’s #9 ranked light heavyweight Chris Henry (22-1) bounced back from his somewhat controversial April decision loss to Adrian Diaconu (c’mon, the fight was in Romania, what did he expect?) with a sixth round TKO of Detroit’s Rubin Williams (29-5-1).
Last night’s fight was fought at cruiserweight although […]
Image details: Joe Calzaghe Media Interview served by picapp.com
ESPN.com’s Dan Rafael has just reported the worst kept Breaking News in boxing: 2008’s Top 5 pound-for-pound boxer Joe Calzaghe’s next fight will be against 2002 Top 5 pound-for-pound boxer Roy Jones, Jr.. They will fight for Calzaghe’s 175-pound light heavyweight title.
The 36-year-old Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KO) […]
Saturday July 5, 2008 Boxing Results
Here are last night’s boxing results which involved Top Ten Ring Magazine fighters in the respective weight classes
Felix Sturm vs. Randy Griffin
#3 RM middleweight Felix Sturm (30-2-1) def. #6 RM middleweight Randy Griffin (24-2-3) by unanimous decision (116-112, 116-113, 118-110) in Halle, Germany to retain WBA middleweight title.
Round Three of […]
Yesterday’s ESPN2 fight card originated from an unlikely place: Butler, Pennsylvania, a town of 15,000 located 40 miles north of Pittsburgh. It’s the hometown of heavyweight contender Brian Minto. Minto, 33, played football for the Butler High Golden Tornados and must have competed there with one-time NFL player Scott Milanovich.
Minto predictably dismantled Philadelphia-native […]
And then there were eight. Last week, USA Boxing removed Luis Yáñez, its team captain and representative at 105 lbs., from the Olympic Boxing team for disciplinary reasons. The Dallas Morning News reports that the 19-year-old Yáñez repeatedly failed to report to USA Boxing’s Colorado Springs training headquarters and refused to answer his phone for […]
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