Fried potatoes with lots of olive oil is how hungry IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham celebrated defending his title for the ninth time with a unanimous points win over Lajuan Simon on Saturday. Abraham had to drop eight kilos in two weeks to make the weight for the fight and after the sort of punishing dieting normally associated with supermodels, "King" Arthur is looking forward to a more relaxed eating regime. "The first thing I wanted was fried potatoes with olive oil," he grinned...Read Full Story
Thursday, April 19 2007 Photo: David Martin Warr / DKP International Boxing Federation junior middleweight champion Cory "The Next Generation" Spinks cleared a World Boxing Council "30-day weigh in" at 168.75 pounds today at the Don King Productions headquarters in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Spinks is moving up to middleweight to challenge WBC and World Boxing Organization champion Jermain "Bad Intentions" Taylor at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tenn., on May 19 in a match televised on HBO's World...Read Full Story
US hometown rivals Cory Spinks and Deandre Latimore meet here Friday in a showdown of St. Louis southpaws for the vacant International Boxing Federation junior middleweight title. Spinks, 36-5 with 11 knockouts, comes off two losses, dropping split decisions to fellow Americans Jermain Taylor in a 2007 middleweight title bout and Verno Phillips in 2008 for the title he vacated that is on offer Friday. Spinks, a four-time world champion, is 31 and trying to reclaim the title he surrendered to...Read Full Story
WBC/WBO Middleweight champion Jermain Taylor told the BBC that English promoter Frank Warren will have to do better than the USD4 Million proposal made last week for a September tilt with WBO Super Middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe. "If Joe and Frank want me that much, make me an offer for USD10 million and I will show up and bring him a gift to his front door," Taylor stated. SourceRead Full Story
Kelly Pavlik knocked out Jermain Taylor in the seventh round Saturday night to win the world middleweight title.
Referee Steve Smoger stopped the fight at 2:14 of the seventh round.
“I was hurt and shook real bad, but I told myself I can’t quit, I’ve got to stay out there,” Pavlik said.
Pavlik (32-0, 29 KOs) remained undefeated, while Taylor (27-1-1) suffered his first loss.Read Full Story
Two years ago, after former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor’s Super Six loss to Arthur Abraham, promoter Lou DiBella announced that he would no longer promote Jermain Taylor stating “It is my belief that the continuation of Jermain’s career as ...
Two Super Six World Boxing Classic fighters, former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor and consensus top-five super middleweight Andre Dirrell, took part in a media teleconference call on Wednesday to discuss their return to the ring on a special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation this Friday, Dec. 30, live on SHOWTIME® (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from Morongo ...
Having been squeezed out by split decision against both Jermain Taylor - for his then undisputed middleweight ... Leon was present at ringside for a number of his son's title fights, and though Cory's name is not destined to trip off the tongue quite ...
Taylor's lengthy layoff, of course ... Chris Farina/Top RankThe card featuring Brandon Rios, left, and Yuriorkis Gamboa will be moving from March to April and from California to Las Vegas. • With time running out and opponents not finalized ...
Jermain Taylor Returns to the Ring TonightBoxing NewsThis Friday night, former undisputed world middleweight champion Jermain Taylor returns to the ring and the 160-pound division when he faces 24-year-old Jessie “Beast” Nicklow, of Baltimore, MD, in the main event of a special edition of ShoBox: The New ...
I have a world of respect for Jermain Taylor. I have liked him ever since watching him turn professional, and even suffered through the Cory Spinks debacle without changing the channel. However, I'm afraid that his next retirement will soon ...
He beat Kassim Ouma, but Ouma is a junior middleweight. He beat Cory Spinks, also a junior middleweight, in a truly horrible fight where he all but refused to let his hands go despite Spinks being of no real danger. After Spinks, it all came down.
Guardian Unlimited - Joe Calzaghe is heading for a possible showdown with the world's No1 middleweight, Jermain Taylor, after the Welshman needed less than three rounds to force a stoppage victory
BBC News - Joe Calzaghe's promoter Frank Warren is set to offer middleweight king Jermain Taylor £3m for a super-fight in July to probably take place in Britain. Calzaghe made the 20th defence of
JERMAIN TAYLOR's Bio (updated February 20, 2007) on HBO's Boxing website. ... updated February 20, 2007. In what many called the most highly anticipated fight of the year, the ...
CBS Sportsline - Warren will instead fax rival promoter Lou DiBella with a $3-million offer for middleweight super champion Jermain Taylor to step up and fight Calzaghe in July - unless Kessler has a