By Gary Purfield Saturday Night in Newark, NJ things are getting heavy. Main Events Promotions puts on three heavyweight bouts featuring an up and comer, an established former champ making his heavyweight debut, and another former cruiser now established above 200lb. At the top of the bill is Main Events' top draw Tomasz Adamek (46-2, 28 KO) taking on Travis Walker … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Fight Previews (Ward-Dawson, DeMarco-Molina, Rubio-Baldomir, Bellew-Miranda, Adamek-Walker…more)
Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KOs) vs. Chad Dawson (31-1, 17 KOs) Oracle Arena, Oakland, California For better or worse, this is as close to an All-American mega-bout as we're going to get these days. From a curiosity standpoint, alone, fans have to be looking forward to this defense of Ward's WBC/WBA world super middleweight titles. Both fighters do frustrate, though. Ward looks … [Read more...]
Tomasz Adamek to face Travis Walker September 8
By Gary Purfield Travis Walker has signed on to be the opponent for Tomasz Adamek September 8 at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ in an afternoon heavyweight bout. Adamek, who is coming off his win over Eddie Chambers in June, is looking to stay busy. He had been scheduled to face James Toney but the bout was called off recently. Walker (39-7-1, 31 KO) is a bigger … [Read more...]
Geale, Dib Defend Titles; Walker Stops Meehan
Derwent Entertainment Centre, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia-- Reigning IBF middleweight titlist, Daniel Geale (27-1, 15 KOs) made the second defense of the title he took from Sebastian Sylvester by scoring a twelve-round unanimous decision over Ghana's Osumanu Adama (20-3, 15 KOs) by scores of 118-110, 117-111, and 115-113. In the co-feature, IBF featherweight titlist, … [Read more...]
Walker bests Butler in Heavyweight Brawl
by David Gardner Saturday night at Americas Mart in Atlanta, Georgia, Travis "Freight Train" Walker (36-6-1, 28 KOs) won the vacant IBS US National Title with a majority decision over Alonzo "Big Zo" Butler (28-2-1, 21 KOs). The first sanctioned fight for the IBS gave the crowd in attendance an all-action fight with Walker hitting the canvas in the first round and being … [Read more...]