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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - The World Wide Elite Entertainment premise is, according to its own publicity, “to right many of boxing’s wrongs” with a focus on “guiding talented but misled fighters that weren’t provided fair opportunities in the past due to managerial or promotional issues.”
Its biggest flag-waver and highest-profile property is co-founder Francisco Palacios, a two-time world cruiserweight title challenger who’ll end a two-year ring hiatus on Saturday night in Orlando, Fla.
There, the 37-year-old will face 38-year-old Epifanio Mendoza, who’s played the role of hard-punching gatekeeper since his days as a middleweight and has a resume dotted with former champions Chad Dawson, Jeff Lacy and Beibut Shumenov, alongside contenders BJ Flores, Luis Ortiz and Lateef Kayode.
The native Colombian won five of seven fights in 2014 after competing just once last year and he has 34 knockouts in 39 career wins, but his fortunes have changed dramatically since a failed WBC light heavyweight shot at Dawson in 2007. He was 28-4-1 entering that match, but is 11-14 since. [Click Here To Read More]
Its biggest flag-waver and highest-profile property is co-founder Francisco Palacios, a two-time world cruiserweight title challenger who’ll end a two-year ring hiatus on Saturday night in Orlando, Fla.
There, the 37-year-old will face 38-year-old Epifanio Mendoza, who’s played the role of hard-punching gatekeeper since his days as a middleweight and has a resume dotted with former champions Chad Dawson, Jeff Lacy and Beibut Shumenov, alongside contenders BJ Flores, Luis Ortiz and Lateef Kayode.
The native Colombian won five of seven fights in 2014 after competing just once last year and he has 34 knockouts in 39 career wins, but his fortunes have changed dramatically since a failed WBC light heavyweight shot at Dawson in 2007. He was 28-4-1 entering that match, but is 11-14 since. [Click Here To Read More]