It’s been a few weeks and boxing’s results have created plenty of movement in the ratings. There are new titlists, enduring champions, and plenty of stake in a May chock full of rated fighters in action. And a sparse year looks to only be getting better as big fights keep coming well into July. Assume more change is coming. For now… This is the BoxingScene ratings update.
It´s now a fact that the death of German promoter Ralph Neumann was false and that Mr. Neumann is alive and well in his home in Dassow, writes Bild. Neumann promoted - as previously reported - a show at the Hansehalle in Luebeck Saturday night but got only about 100 paying spectators. He then left the venue - reportedly to get money to pay the fighters - but was then reported as having died in a car accident. The police had no report on any accidents with fatal outcome that evening and rumors began to spread Neumann was alive - and he is - and apparently he now owes a lot of people a lot of money.
Last Thursday, at the offices of the Puerto Rico Sports and Recreation Department in San Juan, the Puerto Rico Professional Boxing Commission held the annual awards ceremony. The Commission gave the following awards:
Italian all-time great Sandro Lopopolo passed away on Saturday in Milan (Italy) at the age of 74 after a lengthy illness. Lopopolo won silver in the 1960 Olympics and turned pro in 1961 and won the national title at super lightweight in 1963 and won what was billed as the WBC and WBA world titles in 1966 by beating Carlos Hernandez - titles he lost in 1967 to Takeshi Fuji. Lopopolo retired in 1973 with a record of 59-10-7.
German promoter Ralph Neumann staged his biggest show yet last night (April 26) at the Hansehall in Luebeck. The show was ill attended, writes boxwelt.com, with only around 100 paying customers attending. The show went on but Neumann left the venue and some time after it was announced that he had died in a traffic accident.
MOST CONSECUTIVE HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE DEFENSES 1. Joe Louis -- 25 2. Larry Holmes -- 19 (20 if you include the Marvis Frazier fight, which was unsanctioned by the IBF) 3. Wladimir Klitschko -- 15 (has 20 defenses in two title reigns) 4. Tommy Burns -- 11
Thurman vs. Diaz, a 12-round fight for Thurman’s Interim WBA Welterweight World Championship on Saturday, April 26, is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and sponsored by Corona, AT&T and Casamigos Tequila. It will take place at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., and will air as the main event of the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® telecast (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT) and will be available in Spanish via secondary audio programming (SAP). In the co-feature, Argentine knockout artist Lucas Matthysse faces hard-hitting John Molina in a 10-round junior welterweight bout that is presented by Golden Boy Promotions in association with Goossen Tutor Promotions. In the opening bout of the telecast, Omar Figueroa Jr. defends his WBC Lightweight title against fellow Texan Jerry Belmontes. Preliminary fights will air on SHOWTIME EXTREME®.
The World Boxing Council announces that Mr. Tom Loeffler has been elected by vote of the promoters themselves, as Representative of the Promoters on the WBC Board of Governors. Mr. Loeffler is Director of K2 Promotions, based in Los Angeles , California, established in 2003 It promotes the WBC Emeritus Champion Vitali Klitschko and his brother Wladimir.
Lou Duva doesn’t know what happened during the early morning hours of June 17, 1966, the night that forever altered the life of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. What Duva does know is that Carter, no mattered how it was portrayed in the Academy Award-winning film “The Hurricane,” did not beat Joey Giardello in their 15-round fight for the middleweight championship Dec. 14, 1964, in Philadelphia. Like Carter, who died Sunday at 76 after a long battle with prostate cancer, Duva is from Paterson, N.J. They knew each other well, as Carter spent most of his professional career training at a since-demolished Market Street gym in Paterson that Duva once operated.
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