Boxing Links (12-10-11)
ROBERT MORALES on BOXING: Beating Lamont Peterson pertinent for the rise of … Los Angeles Daily News By Robert Morales, boxing columnist Oscar De La Hoya’s last fight was only three years ago, but his career began to falter several years before that beginning with his second loss to “Sugar” Shane Mosley in 2003. Including that defeat, De La […]
Boxing Links (7-19-11)
Boxer-Turned-MMA Fighter ‘Butterbean’ Esch Gets Real The Big Lead Back in the 1990s, Eric “Butterbean” Esch hit the boxing scene like a ton of bricks. Almost literally, considering that he weighed in at more than 400 pounds. Esch is now taking on a new challenge: Starring in in a reality show, Big Law: Deputy … See all […]
Interview: Jimmy Tibbs On Colin Lynes and Prizefighter – Welterweights II
During his half a century in boxing Jimmy Tibbs has done it all, a highly decorated amateur and professional boxer, manager and promoter, but of all his pugilistic talents he is without doubt best know as the UK’s most successful boxing coach and fight strategist. Among the veritable Who’s Who of champions that have benefited […]
Willie Limond To Headline Graham Earl’s ‘Fists Of Fury’ In Belfast 2nd April
Former WBU World Lightweight Champion, now turned promoter, Graham Earl has lined up his old friend and training partner Former European Super Featherweight, Commonwealth and World Lightweight Champion Willie Limond to headline his inaugural Irish event ‘Fists of Fury’ at King’s Hall, Belfast on Saturday 2nd April 2011. This event will be Limond’s first […]
TWO-TIME BRITISH JR. CHAMPION, PETER TAUREO GALLAGHER JR. SET TO INVADE AMERICA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND / PHILADELPHIA, PA (December 8, 2010)—One of the most highly rated and decorated Jr. Boxers in recent memory in the United Kingdom is set to take his professional career on the road and invade America the same way the Beatles did some forty-five years ago from the same city of […]