Four-time world champion Joel Casamayor and three-time champ Zab Judah both earned victories in their returns to the ring on Friday night. Casamayor earned a unanimous decision victory over Jason Davis with all three judges scoring the super-lightweight bout 79-73. In the co-main event, Judah stopped Ubaldo Hernandez in the second round.
The most powerful man in boxing is a Harvard-educated tax lawyer and a street-savvy businessman, a Talmudic scholar with a penchant for four-letter expletives. He's been called generous and charming, ruthless and conniving, yet he's universally respected for spending the better part of five decades atop a pitiless sport.
Paul Williams finally has found an opponent for his next bout, choosing Sergio Martinez to replace injured Kelly Pavlik. Heavyweight Chris Arreola also will fight on the card at the Boardwalk Hall Ballroom in Atlantic City on Dec. 5. Williams spent the fall preparing for a showdown with Pavlik, but the middleweight champ backed out of two dates due to an infection in his left hand.
Lou Filippo, a World Boxing Hall of Famer who judged 85 world champion fights and had small roles in the "Rocky" movies, has died. He was 83. Hall of Fame Treasurer Josie Mejia (JOH'-see me-HEE'-yuh) says Filippo suffered a stroke and died Monday at a hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, where he lived.
The most powerful man in boxing is a Harvard-educated tax lawyer and a street-savvy businessman, a Talmudic scholar with a penchant for four-letter expletives. He's been called generous and charming, ruthless and conniving, yet he's universally respected for spending the better part of five decades atop a pitiless sport.
The widow of late boxing champion Arturo Gatti has been awarded $40,000 to cover legal fees and child care costs. Amanda Rodrigues was seeking $150,000 from the boxer's estate. Superior Court Justice Paul Chaput announced his decision Thursday in Montreal. She also will be allowed to enter their condominium in Montreal to collect her belongings.
Manny Pacquiao believes the biggest potential fight in boxing will never happen because Floyd Mayweather Jr. wants no part of him. Pacquiao is training in Hollywood for his meeting with Miguel Cotto on Nov. 14 in Las Vegas, but the pound-for-pound champion spared a moment Thursday to evaluate his chances of fighting Mayweather, the unbeaten pay-per-view king.
Undefeated light heavyweight Chad Dawson will honor slain Connecticut football player Jasper Howard when he fights Glen Johnson next week in Hartford, Conn. Dawson was born in South Carolina but resides in New Haven, about an hour's drive from the UConn campus in Storrs. Dawson plans to wear Howard's No.
David Haye aimed his jabs and uppercuts higher than ever at a sparring partner who towered over him in thick platform boots on Wednesday, an attempt to replicate the immense size of Nikolai Valuev, the tallest and heaviest world champion of all time. The brash-talking, fast-punching Haye will fight the 7-foot-2 WBA champion in Nuremberg, Germany, on Nov.
The reminder that yet another anniversary is here had George Foreman thinking that maybe it's time to visit an old friend. They once had their differences, once came to blows. Time, though, is a great healer. "Maybe I should go and see him," Foreman said. "He's like a brother. We're that close." They weren't 35 years ago, on an early morning in Africa when all...
Kelly Pavlik's life was in peril. An allergic reaction to medication had caused the middleweight champion's temperature to soar past 104 degrees, and his heart rate to 150 beats a minute. When he was finally admitted to the hospital, the sweat was pouring off his body, which had turned shades of red and purple.
Amir Khan believes that defending his WBA light-welterweight title against unbeaten Dmitry Salita will be harder than winning it. Khan (21-1) came face-to-face with the Ukraine-born, New York-based challenger for the first time Thursday ahead of their Dec. 5 fight in Newcastle. Despite being a strong favorite to win the fight, Khan said he expects his first defense to be one of his toughest.
Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik called off a title defense against Paul Williams set for Dec. 5 because of an infected left hand. Pavlik was to fight Williams at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall in one of the year's most anticipated bouts, but promoter Top Rank announced Wednesday that Pavlik is unable to make a fist or punch with the injured hand.
A European boxing promoter is suing Showtime, contending the cable network conspired to help WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler break his promotional contract and take part in its round-robin tournament. The complaint was filed Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan. It claims Showtime was unwilling to work with promoter Mogens Palle in putting together a six-man tournament featuring...
WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will defend his title in Bern on Dec. 12 against American Kevin Johnson of the United States. The 38-year-old Klitschko (38-2, 7 knockouts) defeated Cris Arreola last month in Los Angeles, winning after Arreola's corner wouldn't let him out for the 11th round.
Arthur Abraham knocked out Jermain Taylor with six seconds left Saturday, dramatically wrapping up a solid performance in the opening bout of the Super Six super middleweight tournament. Abraham (31-0, 25 KOs), the former middleweight standout moving up to 168 pounds for the first time, was likely to win on points at O2 World Arena.
Carl Froch has retained his WBC super middleweight title with a split-decision victory over Andre Dirrell in the second fight of the Super Six World Boxing Classic super middleweight tournament. Froch (26-0, 20 KOs) barely won the messy fight, earning 115-112 margins on two of the three judges' scorecards while fighting in his hometown against Dirrell, the previously unbeaten U.S.
Mike Tyson wouldn't bite. Not when Evander Holyfield called up expecting an apology. Not when Oprah suggested he finally make things right. Still missing a bit of that ear? A shame, Evander, because you're such a nice guy. But, really, what's there to say after all these years? "This is a beautiful guy," said Tyson, holding Holyfield's arm Friday in a tender moment that surely...
Sen. John McCain on Friday pressed President Barack Obama to give a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight boxing champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman. McCain, R-Ariz., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., noted in a letter to Obama that both houses of Congress this summer passed their resolution urging a pardon.
When television executive Ken Hershman began putting together an ambitious, six-man super middleweight tournament earlier this year, the idea was to crown a single champion in one of the deepest divisions in boxing. As the first bell rings on the hotly anticipated event Saturday night, Hershman is reminding fans and fighters alike that it's not a team event.
Boxing rivals Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield are to meet again -- and this time Oprah will referee. Harpo Productions announced Wednesday the two fighters would appear on Friday's live episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" from Chicago. On June 28, 1997, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Tyson was disqualified after biting off part of Holyfield's right ear during their WBA...
Bernard Hopkins is returning to the ring in Philadelphia to try and make his hometown a player again on the national boxing scene. "I needed to come up with something that can bring life back in the historic history of Philadelphia," Hopkins said on Wednesday. "We've been on a decline as far as our history.
A 55-year-old former Las Vegas city planner and longtime political activist has been sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for stabbing a Nigerian-born boxer to death in 2005. Court officials say Michael Chambliss was sentenced Monday by Clark County District Court Judge David Barker after pleading guilty in June to voluntary manslaughter with a deadly weapon.
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson says he doesn't want to know what led to his 4-year-old daughter's death. During an interview on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that aired Monday, Tyson called his daughter Exodus "my angel." Exodus died at a Phoenix hospital on May 26, a day after her neck apparently was caught in a treadmill cord.
Every second must have been like an eternity for Juan Manuel Lopez. The WBO super bantamweight champion was expected to easily dispatch Rogers Mtagwa on Saturday night, continuing his ascension into boxing's upper echelon. It didn't turn out that way. After building a big early lead, Lopez suddenly found himself in survival mode against the hardheaded, Tanzania-born journeyman.
Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa stepped into the ring Saturday night with one eye on their opponent and one eye on each other, knowing full well that promoter Top Rank wants to eventually pit them against each other. Gamboa quickly took care of business. Lopez nearly spoiled the plan. After building a big early lead, the WBO super bantamweight champion had to desperately hang on over the...
Israel Vazquez overcame a rocky start and a nasty cut in his comeback from a 19-month ring absence, stopping Angel Priolo on Saturday night in the ninth round. Vazquez (44-4, 30 KOs) looked shaky in long stretches of his first bout since concluding his phenomenal rivalry with Rafael Marquez early last year.
Raymond A. Brown, a veteran New Jersey defense lawyer whose high-profile clients included former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, has died. He was 94. Brown, a Montclair resident, died Friday from pulmonary disease, said his son and law partner Ray Brown Jr. He had practiced law for 59 years and had continued working until March.
Juan Carlos Salgado of Mexico knocked out Jorge Linares of Venezuela in the first round Saturday to take the WBC super featherweight title. Salgado sent Linares to the canvas with a left to the head just 1 minute, 13 seconds into the bout at Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Salgado, who was making his first attempt at a major title, improved to 22-0-1 (16 KOs) while Linares suffered his first...
Bernard Hopkins is returning to the ring Dec. 2 in his hometown of Philadelphia to fight Enrique Ornelas. Hopkins hopes the light heavyweight bout leads to a long-anticipated rematch with Roy Jones Jr. early next year. The 44-year-old Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 KOs) hasn't fought since dominating Kelly Pavlik in October 2008, but has no plans to retire.
Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao took a break from training camp in the Philippines last weekend to distribute food and supplies to hundreds of people who have been affected by the country's worst flooding in 40 years. Promoter Bob Arum said Friday that the back-to-back storms, which have triggered dozens of landslides and killed nearly 500 people, for the most part didn't affect the...
Israel Vazquez could have retired with a secure place in boxing history after winning two of his three fights with Rafael Marquez in a rivalry that ranks among the best of their generation. Instead, Vazquez is determined to write more chapters in a career that some people wish was already over. Vazquez (43-4, 31 KOs) will return from a 19-month absence Saturday night in downtown Los Angeles against...
