The Palms in Las Vegas is the site for the light heavyweight championship bout between Antonio Tarver and Chad Dawson. It's an intriguing match-up between an aging champion and a young lion made even more compelling because the two fighters have shown that they definitely don't care for each other.The Showtime announce team feels Dawson needs to work the body to win, using his speed and movement to his advantage. Tarver's key will be to control the tempo, luring his younger opponent into...Read Full Story
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ANTONIO TARVER is known as Magic Man to fight fans and is credited with taking the sport to an exciting new level. Though he put on weight to play the heavyweight champion in Rocky Balboa, in reality ...Read Full Story
We're almost set for the second half of the light heavyweight twin bill on Showtime, as Clinton Woods makes his way to the ring. He did a refreshingly honest interview earlier when he said he never expected to make it this far in the sport.Antonio Tarver gets to enter second even though he is the IBO champion, which is to say not really a champion at all. His hometown crowd is definitely showing him some love. The announcers wonder whether any of his psychological games have had any effect on...Read Full Story
We've got quite an intriguing episode of Friday Night Fights on tap tonight. Former heavyweight champion Chris Byrd makes his return to light heavyweight against Shaun George after dropping two weight classes and almost 40 pounds. Always outspoken Antonio Tarver is scheduled to be the guest, and with Teddy Atlas off for the week, Shannon Briggs is helping out on commentary.The first fight from Las Vegas features undefeated prospect Rulslan Provodnikov taking on Brian Gordon. Briggs says...Read Full Story
Antonio Tarver believes his vast experience against better, higher-profile fighters will be one of his biggest advantages when he faces Lateef Kayode in a cruiserweight bout June 2 in Carson, Calif. The Nigerian-born Kayode defeated Felix Cora ...
(SHO), Antonio Tarver vs. Lateef Kayode, 12, for Tarver's WBO cruiserweight title; Austin Trout vs. Delvin Rodriguez, 12, for Trout's WBA World light middleweight title; Vusi Malinga vs. Leo Santa Cruz, 12, for the vacant IBF bantamweight title; Ronald Wright vs.
Roy Jones Jr. hasn’t been the same fighter since Antonio Tarver drilled him with a devastating left hand in the second round of their May 2004 rematch in Las Vegas. Eight years and six losses later, Jones is scheduled to fight yet again.
Boxing fans lately have seen him more as a Showtime network fight analyst than in the ring, but Antonio Tarver is ready to cross through the ropes again.
Last year, HBO broadcaster Larry Merchant made himself somewhat of a cult hero when, following Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s fourth-round knockout of Victor Ortiz, he told the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world, "If I was 50 years younger, I'd kick your ass.