Archive for January 2009

Ingemar Johansson, the Swede who stunned the boxing world by knocking out Floyd Patterson to win the heavyweight title in 1959, has died. He was 76. Johansson died Friday at a nursing home in Kungsbacka on the Swedish west coast, his daughter Maria Gregner said Saturday. Johansson was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia more [...]

Juan Urango, Colombia, outpointed Herman Ngoudjo, Canada, 12, to win the vacant IBF light welterweight title; Antonin Decarie, Canada, outpointed Dorin Spivey, Portsmouth, Va., 12, to retain the WBO-NABO welterweight title. ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — Victor Manuel Cayo, Dominican Republic, outpointed Noe Bolanos, Mexico, 9, to retain the WBA Fedecaribe light welterweight [...]

The time for talk is over. Now it’s time to fight. Click below for the weigh-in results for Saturday night’s UFC 94 card. UFC 94, which features the welterweight championship bout between Georges St-Pierre and BJ Penn, will air live on pay-per-view from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas beginning at 10pm ET [...]

Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre and UFC Lightweight Champion BJ Penn meet for the second time in the main event of UFC 94. Read on to catch up on all of UFC.com’s coverage of this event and get ready for the opening bell. News [...]

Former heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson passed away late Friday due to complications from pneumonia. He was 76. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Ingemar Johansson, the Swede who stunned the boxing world by knocking out Floyd Patterson to win the heavyweight title in 1959, has died, a longtime friend said Saturday. He was 76. Johansson died at a nursing home in Kungsbacka on the Swedish west coast, said Stig Caldeborn, a close friend who sparred with Johansson when [...]

Hard-hitting Juan Urango knocked down hometown favorite Herman Ngoudjo twice in the third round, then cruised to a bizarre unanimous decision Friday night to capture the vacant IBF junior welterweight title. Urango (21-1-1), who lost the same belt to British star Ricky Hatton in January 2007, won the fight decisively on three wildly inconsistent scorecards. [...]

Juan Urango scored a pair of knockdowns and silenced a hostile crowd, winning the vacant IBF junior welterweight title with a unanimous-decision victory over Herman Ngoudjo at the Bell Centre on Friday. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – If not for his parents’ intervention, we might be talking about Georges St-Pierre as the best right wing or center to ever play for the Montreal Canadiens right now. But when the native of St. Isidore wanted to play hockey and begin studying karate at the same time as a child, [...]

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A woman accused of stealing more than $89,000 from Filipino boxing star Manny Pacquiao has been charged with grand theft and forgery. Pia Anatalia Quijada, 27, was arraigned Wednesday and is being held on $90,000 bail, the district attorney’s office said in a statement. Investigators say Quijada forged 32 checks over the past year and [...]

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – For 14 minutes and 25 seconds, the UFC 84 bout between Lyoto Machida and Tito Ortiz was your typical Machida master class. Flawless both offensively and defensively, the Brazilian was closing in on a lopsided unanimous decision win when – with just 35 seconds left – Ortiz almost pulled off an [...]

The legendary patriarch of jiu-jitsu’s first family, Helio Gracie, has passed away at the age of 95. The father of nine children, including UFC Hall of Famer Royce, the master of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu was revered throughout the world for his gentle manner off the mat and his amazing skill and technique on it. He will [...]

Stephen Quinn, UFC – St-Pierre vs Penn. It’s the epic rematch that everyone is talking about, and it’s almost here. But are you ready to make all the right picks in the UFC Fantasy game for GSP-Penn and the other bouts on Saturday’s UFC 94 card? Read on to make sure you’re up to speed [...]

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – When it was announced that Royce Gracie was returning to the UFC in 2006 to meet then-welterweight champion Matt Hughes, the jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts worlds were abuzz with talk of the man who dominated the early UFC’s with his then-mysterious brand of grappling known as Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. But for [...]