James Toneyâs beautiful – all 233 pounds on his 5â10â frame. A barrel-of-a-belly and loose flesh every place thatâs refused to shrink back with age and...
The boxing faithful have been anticipating this Saturdayâs heavyweight championship bout between WBA titleholder John Ruiz and James Toney. Not because they are expecting twelve rounds...
I was looking at the long list of heavyweight champions and their title fights, going back to the likes of Paddy Ryan, John L. Sullivan, James...
NEW YORK (April 29, 2005) – Minutes after the verdict was rendered in a sensational junior welterweight rematch between Jeffrey Resto of The Bronx, New York,...
When junior middleweight contender Raul Frank arrived in New York from his native Georgetown, Guyana, in 1990, he was all of 21-years-old and filled with the...
In a highly anticipated match-up, the two best 135-pound boxers in the world will square off when two-time World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Jose Luis...
Fernando Montiel is in an interesting place these days, standing in that most special of doorways – the doorway every fighter sees in his dreams. The...
This Saturday at New Yorkâs Madison Square Garden, the defending WBA heavyweight champion John Ruiz (41-5-1 28 KOs) defends his crown against James âLights Outâ Toney...
If it were not so sad, it would almost be funny. Thereâs big John Ruiz, the Rodney Dangerfield of heavyweight champions, wondering why he has to...
On March 15th 1996 at the Convention Center in Atlantic City, Samoan bomb thrower David Tua (22-0) knocked out heavyweight prospect John Ruiz (25-2) in 19...
This Saturday nightâs heavyweight championship fight between current and two-time World Boxing Association champion John Ruiz and three-time world champion and future hall-of-famer James Toney has...
LOS ANGELES (April 27) â Golden Boy Enterprises, led by Oscar De La Hoya, and Highridge Partners, an international real estate developer and investor headed by...
BOSTON (April 27, 2005) â First year boxing promoter NER Promotions has strengthened its growing stable of fighters by signing four veteran South American boxers: WBO...
Cestus Management's junior welterweight sensation “Mighty” Mike Arnaoutis is set to make his return to the ring on Friday, May 20, 2005. The undefeated “Pride of...
James âLights Outâ Toney is a man on fire. Volatile, explosive, incendiary, and everything in-between, Toney is in New York in anticipation for this weekendâs showdown...
Although he was born in Dry Branch, Georgia, it was from Cleveland, Ohio that Jimmy Bivins made history. He was a major player in putting Cleveland...
NEW YORK (April 27, 2005) – Former two-time world champion Manny Pacquiao announced today that he has filed suit against his promoters M&M Sports, Inc. and...
âMichael Moorer was definitely one of the greatest light heavyweights, I felt, in the history of boxing.â —Emanuel Steward, 2003 âPeople take the easy, conventional look...
Saturday night in Las Vegas, Antonio Margarito caught Kermit âKillerâ Cintron with nearly everything he threw at him, while putting on a tactical display of timely...
In a highly anticipated match-up, the two best 135-pound boxers in the world will square off when two-time WBC lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo takes on...