Archive for March 2009

Eddie Chambers knows he’s giving up nearly 40 pounds when he faces former heavyweight champion Samuel Peter on Friday night. That’s not fazing the 26-year-old from Philadelphia, who is declaring the bout at the Nokia Theatre a make-or-break fight for his career. “It’s more important to me than it is to him. News Source: Yahoo [...]

Eddie Chambers and Samuel Peter are in a meaningful fight that enhances both fighters and the sport. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Michael DiSanto, UFC – It’s the UFC’s glamour division. More combat superstars compete in the 205-lb division than any other, though the division is in the midst of a massive overhaul over the past 12 months.At this time last year, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson was the reigning champion and Forrest Griffin was next in line as [...]

Promoter Don King filed a protest over Marco Antonio Barrera’s loss to Amir Khan, saying the lightweight bout should have been declared a no-contest after their accidental early clash of heads. Khan won the March 14 fight in Manchester after the ring doctor stopped the contest in the fifth round. “Amir Khan is in possession [...]

Chuck Mindenhall, UFC – Parisian middleweight Xavier Foupa-Pokam has fought in 11 countries in seven years, and will add Canada as a twelfth when he makes his UFC debut on April 18 at UFC 97 against fellow globetrotter Denis Kang. Needless to say, he has left a trail of fire. News Source: UFC.com. Read full [...]

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Two of the UFC’s standout welterweights will be back in action this spring, as Josh Koscheck and “Relentless” Paul Taylor put the gloves back on for important bouts on the UFC 98 and UFC 99 cards, respectively. News Source: UFC.com. Read full story HERE .

Boxer Giovanni Parisi, a former Olympic and world champion, died in a car accident in northern Italy on Wednesday. He was 41. Parisi died when the car he was driving collided head on with a van on a highway outside the town of Voghera, where he lived, police said. The cause of the accident was [...]

Given the level of violence in Tijuana, Bob Arum should not encourage fans to go see a fight card in town. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Elias Cepeda, UFC – Ryan Jensen wakes up early each day about 900 miles from home. The middleweight then uses the kitchenette of his Albuquerque Extended Stay room to make some breakfast, and by 7am he’s at Jackson’s MMA gym for the first of his two daily workouts. News Source: UFC.com. Read full story HERE [...]

Former world bantamweight champion Raul Macias has died from cancer at age 74. Macias’ son Arturo said his father died on Monday at a hospital in Mexico’s capital. Known by the nickname “Mouse,” the 5-foot-3 1/2 Macias emerged from Mexico City’s tough Tepito neighborhood and participated in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics in Helsinki then turned [...]

Manny Pacquiao has been voted fighter of the year by the Boxing Writers Association of America after a dominating win over Oscar De La Hoya. Joe Calzaghe was runner-up, but voted manager of the year Tuesday for guiding his own career. The undefeated former super middleweight champion recently retired. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full [...]

At his peak, Joe Louis was the best heavyweight ever. See who else tops the original eight weight classes? News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 23, 2009 – TQS and Ultimate Fighting Championship® today announced a television deal to air UFC® events and programming, marking the first time in North American history that live UFC fights will be seen on terrestrial television. TQS has reached an agreement with UFC to present fights traditionally only aired via [...]

Chuck Mindenhall, UFC – Krzysztof Soszynski is called the Polish Experiment, and that seems valid in the way that Shelley’s Frankenstein became a freakish something that could only be described as a monster. For one thing, he is increasingly large for a light heavyweight; having at one time weighed 300 pounds as a professional wrestler, [...]

Mike Russell, UFC – A reputation is a tough thing to shake. Just ask Sam Stout.Abandoning a successful professional kickboxing career to dedicate himself to fighting professionally in mixed martial arts in 2003, Stout has since been unable to escape being pigeonholed as a “kickboxer” by pundits and fans of the sport. News Source: UFC.com. [...]