Born: 8 February 1943 Died: 28 December 2010 Career: 1962 to 1982 Record: 96 fights 66 wins (53 by KO/TKO), 24 losses (1 by KO/TKO), 5 draws, 1ND Division: Welterweight, Middleweight, Super Middleweight Stance: Orthodox Titles: Pennsylvania State welterweight and middleweight, NABF middleweight Major Contests Scored wins over: Charley Scott, Percy Manning (twice), George Benton,…
Name: Eddie Machen Born: 18 July 1932 Died: 8 August 1972 at the age of 40 Career: 1955 to 1967 Record: 64 fights, 50 wins (29 by KO/TKO), 11 losses (3 by KO/TKO), 3 draws Division: Heavyweight Stance: Orthodox Titles: Pacific North West champion Major Contests Scored wins over: Howard King, Nino Valdes (twice), Johnny…
SANTA MONICA — Terence Crawford returns to the ring Saturday for the first time since the all-time great beating he inflicted on his long-time rival Errol Spence Jr., last year. Crawford unified all of the major welterweight world championships with his ninth-round knockout win over Spence, and appeared on top of the world. After one…
ALBERT Batyrgaziev stopped Jono Carroll in round nine of an exciting scrap last night at the IBA Colosseum in Serpukhov, Russia. Batyrgaziev won the WBA Interim super-featherweight title. Full WBA champion Lamont Roach Jr defended his belt barely two weeks ago in Washington. Carroll started strongly in the all-southpaw affair and had the hometown favourite…
WORLD lightweight contender Keyshawn Davis now knows for certain who he would like to face in his next fight. The 25-year-old is one week removed from his last bout – a lively 10-round battle against Miguel Madueno – which Davis, (11-0, 7 KOs), won handily enough but was placed under constant pressure throughout. Davis also…
By Keith Idec JARON ENNIS envisioned packing Wells Fargo Center for one of his fights when he attended a Philadelphia 76ers game there March 1 to customarily ring the replica Liberty Bell on the court of his hometown’s NBA team. Ennis, then entangled in litigation with the widow of his late promoter, didn’t realize that…
FROM London to Las Vegas with Puerto Rico sandwiched in between it was a busy night for boxing this past Saturday (June 15). World titles were on the line and reputations were at stake at cruiserweight, light heavyweight super-lightweight and lightweight. And while the headline winners; Chris Billam-Smith, Jack Massey, David Benavidez, Gervonta Davis and…
WBO/IBF middleweight world champion Janibek Alimkhanuly was forced to withdraw from tomorrow night’s defence against Andrei Mikhailovich at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas after being hospitalised Thursday evening due to dehydration. “Janibek was cutting the final pounds last night when he fainted,” said Egis Klimas, Janibek’s manager. “We immediately took him to Spring Valley…
By Steve Bunce IT has been 15 years since Nikolai Valuev lost to David Haye and walked off into the Black Forest to hunt wild pigs and bears and giant, feral sheep. On that night in Nuremberg, he lost for just the second time in 53 fights and left the ring without his WBA heavyweight belt;…
WHEN it comes to creating highlight-reel KO moments, Chinese heavyweight Zhilei Zhang is pretty adept at adding his work to the footage file. Spinning Deontay Wilder around before detonating on his available chin, without remorse, was the final scene of a captivating five-versus-five Saudi stage play. The question is, where will the 41-year-old finisher end…
