The 30-minute program features highlights from SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING's 20th anniversary year with commentary from perennial play-by-play man Steve Albert and renowned color analyst Al Bernstein. In addition, "20 Years Later" will feature the top bouts from "ShoBox: The New Generation," the network's acclaimed prospect-oriented series, with fight call and commentary from Nick Charles and Steve Farhood. Featured bouts in the program include: "2006 Fight of the Year" candidate Lamon Brewster vs. Sergei Liakhovich; Shannon Briggs' dramatic last-minute knockout of Liakhovich; the controversy surrounding the two James Toney-Samuel Peter showdowns; twin upsets of Carlos Baldomir over Zab Judah and O'Neil Bell over Jean-Marc Mormeck; Joe Cplzaghe's dismantling of Jeff Lacy; Vic Darchinya...
Boxing will hit the Cayman Islands with a vigorous wallop on Friday night, June 20, in a 12-round NABO Super Middleweight Championship bout between Andre Ward, the 2004 U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist, and the 2000 Olympian, Jerson Ravelo, who will headline "Cayman Knockout: Championship Boxing." Heralded as the island's first championship boxing event, the lineup will also feature a 12-round USBA Heavyweight Championship bout between world-ranked heavyweight Eddie Chambers and knockout artist Raphael Butler.
Soccer sensation David Beckham will have to wait as world championship boxing returns to the outdoor tennis stadium this weekend as undefeated Paul Williams (34-0) challenges Mexican star Antonio Margarito for the WBO welterweight championship at the Home Depot Center July 14. Williams, who goes by the moniker "The Punisher", has compared Margarito to a field mule, clearly upsetting the Mexican champion and igniting the fuse to the tube of dynamite before the actual explosion is to begin. The anticipation is in the air and the tension is so thick you can cut it with a steak knife," [Dan Goosen] told the Sentinel.
Tyler Morales from Camas recently won a Junior Golden Gloves national boxing championship. Tyler won the 70-pound title in the 9-10 age division during the national tournament, which took place July 21-24 in Mesquite, Nevada.
Call Beetlejuice a renaissance man. He's a radio celebrity, a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors Guild, a bachelor party entertainer and, this weekend, a boxer. As the bigname draw in this Championship Dwarf Boxing event, the 45-Inch Grinch takes on Baby Bad Santa in a bout that would make Howard Stern proud.
King Kong is 27-1, with 22 knockouts. Perez is undefeated at 19-0, with 17 knockouts. "I want everyone to know that [Perez] is going to get his first defeat on October 31. It's going to be a knockout," promised Agbeko. Perez was not fazed. Don laughingly promised all who will watch what appears on the surface to be a great night of boxing, high- lighted by the main event of the show: the IBF championship title, held by Joseph King Kong Agbeko (his real name), born and raised in Accra, Ghana, now a resident of the Bronx, who will fight Yonnhy Perez from Santa Fe Springs, Calif.
Minutes after narrowly winning the U.S. National 165-pound boxing championship late Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colo., Trotwood's Chris Pearson motioned for his dad to enter the ring. Pearson had the gold medal draped around his neck, but it didn't stay there long.
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