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(DEC 29) Last night at the Johnny Mercer Theater, in Savannah,
Georgia, Chevelle Hallback won a 10-round unanimous decision
over Layla McCarter in a non-titled 10 rounder. This was NOT for the
IBA World title defense for Hallback as reported on other Internet news
sources that have it listed as a "title" fight. Earlier this week,
as reported on WBAN, McCarter pulled out of the IBA World 10-round title
fight when she claimed a hand injury. The promoter was trying
frantically to find a competent replacement for McCarter to fight Hallback
on this night's card. Then McCarter did take the fight, but it was made a
non-title 10 rounder. Final scores for this bout was 98-91, 97-95, 100-90.
WBAN spoke with IBA president Dean Chance and confirmed that this fight was
a non-title fight, and was not a title defense for his organization.
City considers naming street
for boxing promoter (DEC 28) Copyrighted by
Newsday.com
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- In a city that already has a street named for a
famous King, officials are considering naming a street for boxing promoter
Don King. The city council is scheduled to take an initial vote Monday on
Councilman William Marsh's proposal Full
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December 28, 2002
Oliveira-Johnson in crossroads title fight Jan. 11 at Dunkin’ Donuts
Center in RI |
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – Good boxers
eventually find themselves in a crossroads fight, in which, victory usually
means the difference between a shot at becoming a leading contender again
and spending the remainder of their career as merely a “name”
opponent. Normally, though, it’s only one fighter at the crossroads.
On the January 11th “Winter Warriors” card, promoted by Jimmy
Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports, both of the 12-round main
event participants, “Sucra” Ray Oliveira (43-8-2, 20 KOs) and
“14-Karat” Golden Johnson (22-7-2, 16 KOs), will be in this
critical situation as they battle for the vacant IBU World Welterweight
Championship. Full Press
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Disappointment
for Toney when Jirov pulls
out due to injury!
(DEC 27) James Toney, 34, 65-4-2 (42KO) will NOT be fighting Vassily
Jirov, 31-0 (27KO)the IBF Cruiserweight Champion on January 25, 2003 at the
Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California and was to have been
televised on HBO.. Jirov received a rib injury during a sparring
session, and had to pull out. There is talk that Toney will still be
on the card and HBN will keep boxing fans posted on updates.
TL Fox
Boxing Champ Simon Hurt in Car Accident...Dec.
25, 2002 – Herald.com
WINDHOEK, Namibia - WBO middleweight champion Harry Simon broke an arm
and a leg during a head-on collision last month in an accident in which
three Belgian tourists died. The 30-year-old Namibian has been charged
with culpable homicide in the Nov. 21 accident near the beach resort of
Langstrand. Full
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Upcoming
event in Florida!
Photo and report
by Sue TL Fox
(DEC 23) On January 24, 2003,
at the "Fight Club Ovation" in Boynton Beach, Florida, Elite
Sports Promotions, returns with another championship card, this time
from Delray Beach, FL. One of the top female fighters
pound-for-pound in the world today, world champion Melissa
"Honey Girl" DelValle, will be fighting for the WIBC
Super- Featherweight title.
Tickets: 561-586-5510. According to news sources, In attendance will be
the following fighters Elite Sports Promotions promotes: Ada Velez, Kathy
Rivers, Ann Wolfe, Marianne Chubirka, Yvonne Reis, as well as many top
ranked male fighters.
Boxing: Alexander fails to make weight (DEC
22) Wayne Alexander's warm-up fight for a world title shot in February was
cancelled on Saturday after Croydon's British light-middleweight champion
failed to make the weight. Full
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TALKIN BOXIN
by Howie Reed -December 22, 2002
"Good little girls get what they want for
Christmas. Bad little girls get what they want all year around." HAVE a
couple of very good friends from down Tobacco Road Way. Not only don’t
they give a rats posterior about boxing but are not even causal fans.
The lady, that would Carolyn, forwarded to me an e-mail last....Editorial
Legend Rowley remembered
Copyrighted story on BBC Sports
(DEC 21) 1Leicester are to hold a
minute's silence in memory of club legend Arthur Rowley before their Boxing
Day game against Ipswich. The Filbert Street great died earlier this
week at the age of 76. Full
Copyrighted story on the BBC
(DEC 21) Last night
Ada "The Ace" Velez, 118, won by a 10-round
unanimous decision over Lakeysha "The Total Package"
William, 118, at the at the American
Airlines Arena, in Miami, Florida. ESPN2 "Friday Night
Fights" televised the fight from the fifth round
on. This was the first time that Williams had fought
past the six round, and according to ESPN2 commentators, Velez
controlled the action throughout most of the fight.
There were no knockdowns. Velez retained her IBA Bantamweight
World title belt. On all scorecards the score by judges
was 100-90. In the men's main event current
IBA World Lightweight Champion Joel Casamayor stopped Yoni Vargas
in the fifth round!
Boxing:
Sinky to fight for vacant crown...By Dave
Kelly - Belfast Telegraph
(DEC 21)
WORLD Boxing Union president Jon Robinson
today revealed that welterweight champion Jan Bergman will be stripped of
his title. Full
Copyrighted Story on Belfast Telegraph
Tokuyama retains title for fifth
time..
(DEC 21)
Masamori Tokuyama retained his WBC super- flyweight title in his fifth
defense. Tokuyama defeated Eric Lopez in the seventh round.Tokuyama
is now 27-2-1 (8KO), and Lepez dropped to 17-12-3 (14KO).
Celebrity fight lands
BBC in rules punch-up
Matt Wells, media
correspondent-The Guardian
(DEC 19) When the BBC decided to
organise a charity boxing match between a couple of minor celebrities, it
did not imagine Copyrighted
Story on Guardian.com
Boxing: Mataele
to face Gasio
New Zealand Herald
(DEC
19) Paula Mataele takes on Bob Gasio in his second professional bout
in one of the features of the final Auckland Boxing Association promotion of
the year. Two-time national amateur superheavyweight champion Mataele will
tackle Gasio - a former New Zealand, Samoan
Copyrighted Story on New Zealand Herald
Arum:
Oscar-Mosley a go
By Keith Idec - December 18, 2002
"Sugar"
Shane Mosley's sour year got a little sweeter Tuesday, when Bob Arum, Oscar
De La Hoya's promoter, announced De La Hoya has agreed to meet Mosley in
rematch on Sept. 13, 2003 in Las Vegas. Copyrighted
story on www.northjersey.com
Like Ali,
Holyfield missing call of final bell
by Mike Preston - sunspot.net.
(DEC 18) THERE IS always the picture, the one with Muhammad Ali sitting on
the stool in his corner, exhausted, with towels draped over his head, unable
to come out for the 11th round against Larry Holmes in 1980.
Copyrighted
story on sunspot.net
Gatti-Ward highlights uneventful year in
boxing
(DEC 18) JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Ticker) - With boxing's undisputed
champions facing mainly overmatched competition, a pair of veterans without
titles provided the most exciting bout of 2002. Copyrighted
Photos on Fox Sports
Boxing
from an Odd Angle
By
Marty Mulcahey - Maxboxing
(DEC
17) If life had a fast forward button, this would be as good a place as any
to employ it. The boxing horizon looks pretty bleak for star power
until late January when Kostya Tszyu takes to the ring again. Copyrighted
Story on Maxboxing.com
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De La Hoya will bring
Lazcano back home
Bill Knight -El Paso Times
December 17, 2002 |
Two of El Paso's favorite boxing sons -- one
adopted, one homegrown -- will be in the Don Haskins Center on Feb. 13.
Oscar De La Hoya, El Paso's adopted one, will be in the city for a few days
before the fight and will be ringside for his Golden Boy Promotions fight
card, a card featuring former El Pasoan Juan Lazcano in the main event. Copyrighted
story on El Paso Online
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Casamayor at the IBA
gym
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Champions gym, Joel Casamayor worked earlier today.
Casamayor, 27-1, is preparing for his fight against Yoni Vargas, that
will take place on December 20, at the American Airlines Arena, in
Miami, Florida on an ESPN2 "Friday Night Fights" card. . Ada
"The Ace" Velez will also be on this card, and was told that
it will be TELEVISED. Velez will be fighting a 10-round IBA World
title. Casamayor trained until about 12:30 pm, and then
headed off to the airport to go back to California. Casamayor
had made a special
trip to Las Vegas yesterday to have his child baptized
at St. Anne's Church. Photo
Gallery Casamayor at Gym
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Boxing: Give us champs not chumps..By
John Gibson, Evening Chronicle
(Britain's Joe Calzaghe and Ricky
Hatton may be world champions but they realise they can't continue being
served no-hopers to knock over at will as they were at Newcastle's Telewest
Arena. Both crucified a couple of American journeymen with spectacular
punching power but significantly are pleading with manager Frank Warren to
find them genuine opponents. Copyrighted
story on Newcastle.co.uk
TALKIN BOXIN
by Howie Reed -December 15, 2002
TALKIN BOXIN by Howie Reed December 15,2002
"Chest nuts roasting on a open fire" and " Decking the Halls
with Balls from Holly" That can only mean one thing. This may be the
Christmas Column for 2002.
Full Editorial
Byrd beats aging Holyfield to win IBF
heavyweight boxing title
(DEC 15)ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Chris Byrd exposed Evander Holyfield as
an aging fighter Saturday night, using his superior speed to frustrate the
former champion and deny him a chance to win a heavyweight boxing title for
the fifth time. Copyrighted
story on Canada.com
Behind the scenes with
Casamayor
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(DEC 14) Today in Las Vegas, Nevada, IBA
Junior Lightweight World Champion Joel Casamayor and family took their
little one to be baptism at St. Anne Church. The IBA was there and took some
"behind the scenes" photos of this very important event! Photo
Gallery
Boxing: Motivation is the challenge for
Calzaghe and Hatton
By Steve Bunce
(DEC 14) Nobody in the fight game was
surprised when Joe Calzaghe and Ricky Hatton started to talk about how they
lack motivation for their fights tonight against two obscure Americans at
the Newcastle Arena. Calzaghe will defend his World Boxing
Organisation.. Copyrighted
Story on Independent.co.uk
U.S. deports former boxing champion Trevor
Berbick to Jamaica...by Steve Macleod
(DEC 13) HALIFAX (CP) - Trevor Berbick, a former world and Canadian
heavyweight boxing champion, has been deported to Jamaica by the United
States. A U.S. immigration spokeswoman in Florida said Friday that Berbick...Copyrighted
Story on Sports Canada
Promoter hopes holiday
won't hurt ticket sales
Copyrighted on NewJersey.com
(DEC 13) ATLANTIC
CITY - Evander Holyfield versus Chris Byrd is the main event of the boxing
card Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall, but there is a figurative fight
transpiring outside the ring that is almost as interesting. Don
King versus Santa Claus........Full
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Frazier-Lyde will fight for Two World Title Belts! |
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(DEC 13) Tonight...Jacqui
Frazier-Lyde will face Kendra Lenhart in a 10-round
Super-middleweight world champion, in the "Battle of Champions."
The event will be held at the World Gym at 11000 Roosevelt Blvd.,
Philadelphia, PA..Frazier- Lyde will be challenging Kendra Lenhart for
Lenhart's WIBF, and the vacant GBU Super middleweight titles. At
Weigh-ins, Frazier came in at 165, and Lenhart, 168.
Hot
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Boxing
champ jailed
(DEC 11) A BRITISH
amateur boxing champion has been sentenced to
three years' jail for assaulting a man and his wife after an argument over a
dog. James Dolan, a 25-year-old cruiserweight, was convicted of
assault charges in Newcastle Crown Court. Julie Anderson sustained a
fractured skull and broken jaw in the attack in September, 2001. Her
husband, Gary, had a broken nose and damaged teeth. (source: AP)
Mayweather-Arum: Love Hate
Relationship
(DEC 10) Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston. Ike and Tina Turner. Liz Taylor
and Richard Burton. George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin. All were
relationships that suffered through peaks and valleys that stretched and
strained their unions. Some stuck together through thick-and-thin. Some
broke up- only to get back together again. Some ties were severed for good.
But at different times they loved to hate each other and inevitably, they
also hated to love each other. They just couldn't help themselves. Copyrighted
story on maxboxing.com
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National Caliber
Boxers
Square Off in Oshkosh
By WBAN's Reporter
Bill Harris
December 9, 2002 |
OSHKOSH, Wisc. -- Oshkosh amateur boxing fans got a chance Saturday, Dec.
7, to see two nationally ranked female boxers in the middle weight classes
in action.
Naquana Smalls of Marinette, boxing out of the Peshtigo Boxing
Club, faced Krysta Savage, Chippewa Valley Boxing Club in Chippewa
Falls, in a 139-pound match that was the only women’s bout of the15
contested that night.
Full
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Boxing: Haye quick to make his mark as Burke
realises potential...
by Steve Bunce - Independent.co.uk
(DEC 8) It took David Haye just two rounds to
arrive on the British boxing scene, but it has taken David Burke, the winner
of the World Boxing Union lightweight title on Saturday, nearly six years to
receive the same type of publicity. Yesterday at York Hall, Bethnal Green,
Haye's professional debut ended at the end of round two when Hull's Tony
Booth quit with an injured rib after taking a nasty beating for the two
completed rounds. The fight took place 45 minutes before the advertised time
on the entrance tickets because the BBC was keen to film its new protegé
and put him on television. Full
Story on Independent.co.uk
TALKIN BOXIN
by Howie Reed -December 8, 2002
Before we start this week, I would like to take
a moment to remember the passing of Archie Moore (182-24-9). Monday will
mark the fourth year we’ve been without the greatest person ever
associated with the Sport of Boxing. It was on December 9th, 1998 that God
called the "Ol Mongoose" up to straighten things out in Heaven.
Archie’s passing has left a void that may not ever be replaced. "God’s
that’s one you owe us." SATURDAY night was to have been the first
night of a rejuvenation of the heavyweight division. WBO World heavyweight
Champion Wladimir Klitschko (40-1) was defending his title against Jameel
McCline (28-3-3). It was announced that 6,580 showed up at the Mandalay Bay
for the double dipper.Full Editorial
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Boxing: Jeers all the way
as title stays with Klitschko
By Michael Katz - Las Vegas |
(DEC 8) Wladimir Klitschko, the so-called
"future of the heavyweight division", retained his World Boxing
Organisation heavyweight title in Las Vegas on Saturday night, stopping a
seemingly intimidated and unsure Jameel "Big Time" McCline in 10
well-booed rounds.
Copyrighted
story on Independent.co.uk
BAD BOY BOXER...TREVOR BERBICK
By Sue TL Fox
(DEC 8) HotBoxingNews will add another "Bad Boy Boxer" after former
heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick was jailed, las Monday after attempting
to re-enter the U. S. via Miami, Florida! Berbick is now awaiting
deportation at the Krome Detention Center according to news reports. Berbick
was deported in 1997, after being convicted of rape, and other misdemeanor
charges.
Ruiz has opportunity -- and downside
(DEC 5) There's no truth to the prevailing notion that "Ruiz"
means "disrespected" in Spanish. It just seems to translate that
way. Possessing the WBA heavyweight title and having thrice fought Evander
Holyfield -- resulting in a winCopyrighted
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Leonard
hopes honor can return to boxing
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(DEC 5) MIDDLEBURG
HEIGHTS
- The
smile remains as dazzling as it did in 1976, when the the freshly minted
Olympic gold medalist was labeled ``the new Muhammad Ali.'' Copyrighted
Story on Beacon Journal
Ward stands tall in boxing world with 14-0
mark
(DEC 5) Vonda
Ward said being the tallest girl in school was not a problem. It certainly
wasn't when she was on the basketball court for Trinity High or the
University of Tennessee. . Copyrighted
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PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY!
December 4, 2002 |
(DEC 4) Today, at the City Hall in
Cleveland, Ohio, there was a press conference for the December 6th Boxing
event, featuring Vonda Ward and Kathy Rivers in the main
event on ESPN2 "Friday Night Fights!" Mayor Jane
Campbell and Sugar Ray Leonard were both in attendance. Kathy
Rivers told WBAN yesterday, that she is in excellent shape and ready to
go, and looking forward to this fight. Rivers went on to say that
she prepared to fight Ward by having male sparring partners, with one of
them being 6'5". (Ward is 6'6") WBAN's Insider said that
Ward looks to be in the best shape she has seen her in.
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Exclusive
One on One Interview with Bettina Csábi! Conducted
by Jolly Dee of
Hungary - Dec. 4, 2002 |
(DEC 4) Jolly
Dee goes one on one with this top woman boxer from Hungary. Jolly
Dee introduces this boxer to boxing fans all over the world!
One on One Interview
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Riot at the Hyatt-
Monterey, California
©Photo Gallery and Details by
Jesus Sanchez |
(DEC 2) Last Saturday in
Monterey, California, at the sell out event"Riot at the Hyatt",
and Promoted my Jerry Hoffman, check out the
latest photo gallery with details of the fights!
TALKIN BOXIN
by Howie Reed -December 1, 2002
I can remember the first time I
went to the circus( the Clyde Beaty Circus) to see the Flying
Gaonas. They worked without a net which had the crowd in the
tent breathless. (In 1964, 16 year old Tito would perform the
first triple and a year later the group would join Ringling
Brothers. They were originally acrobats but switched to the
trapeze after seeing the movie "Trapeze with Burt
Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida. Curtis is a Vegas
resident and big fight fan. Of course we couldn’t get Gina
Lolobrigida. Talk about a consolation prize. "But Howie
she’s got to be 70 year’s old." If so you can bet
that she’s the best looking 70 year old in the world.) Well
this week ladies and gents I’m going to work without a net.
Yep I’m going to write about boxing. Are you breathless? Full
Editorial
Golden Boy Promotions Announces-First
Ever World Championship Fight..Headline
Wednesday, December 18th Marriott Show
(DEC 1) It will be an historic night on Wednesday,
December 18th, when the Irvine Marriott’s Battle In The
Ballroom presents it’s first ever World Championship Main
Event. In the 18 - year history of Marriott boxing, started in
1985 by Don Fraser, 15 current or former world champions have
fought in the Ballroom, but never a world title fight!
Full Press
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