New York—Boxing fans filled the Roseland Ballroom of Friday night to see a 10 round slugfest between two junior middleweight contenders, each of whom was hoping for an impressive victory that will provide him with a title opportunity. Prior to the fight, promoter Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing described the upcoming headline bout, “In the [...]
New York—Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing will present its second boxing card of the month of July in New York City on the evening of the 15that the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. The two headline bouts of the card will be nationally televised on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights. The headline encounter is expected to be a [...]
Joseph “King Kong” Agbeko the IBF Bantamweight Champion met a small contingent of boxing media Tuesday afternoon in the Bronx at John’s Boxing Gym. The Don King promoted fighter will defend his championship Saturday April 23 live on Showtime against Abner Mares from Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. It is the championship fight of the [...]
Sports movies have always been risky propositions for film studios. Too often they are both box office disappointments and the objects of critics’ derision. Boxing films have managed, for the most part, to avoid the sports film jinx as is evidenced by “The Champ,” “Rocky” and “Raging Bull.” You can add another title to that [...]