Hotel Jaragua, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic -- Former super bantamweight and super featherweight world titlist, Joan Guzman (31-0-1, 18 KOs) stopped journeyman, Florencio Castellano (17-5, 13 KOs) in the first round of their welterweight contest, scheduled for twelve. It was Gizman's first bout in eleven months. The Melbourne Pavilion, Flemington, Victoria, … [Read more...]
Guzman, Fined and Suspended by NSAC
Former jr. featherweight and super featherweight world champion, Joan Guzman, was given his official sentence by the Nevada State Athletic Commission after testing positive for Furosemide in his December 11th welterweight bout against Jason Davis. Guzman was fined $3,750 and suspended eight months for use of the illegal substance. His second round KO victory was also … [Read more...]
Joan Guzman Tests Positive for Banned Substance
According to The Las Vegas Review Journal, former jr. featherweight and super featherweight champ, Joan Guzman, tested positive for Furosemide, a banned substance by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC), for his December 11th bout with Jason Davis. Furosemide is a diuretic, but also used as a masking agent for other drugs. Most recently, high-profile fighters such as … [Read more...]
The Weekly Weigh-In
by Chris Milton The British Board of Boxing Control is investigating Audley Harrison and could withhold his purse from the David Haye debacle. Why? The BBBC should withhold their own wages for sanctioning the fight. Tomasz Adamek won a Heavyweight fight Thursday night against a guy that was smaller than him. I thought he was supposed to be preparing for the Klitschko … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune’s World Rankings: A Look at the Lightweights
As detailed earlier, The Boxing Tribune World Rankings offer a fair and accurate look at each of boxing's seventeen weight classes. Using a unique formulaic criteria based on activity and level of opposition within a fighter's own division, The Boxing Tribune stands firmly behind it's world rankings and hopes that others will use them as a standard of fairness in the … [Read more...]