Dec 05

More mainstream notoriety for Silver Spring, MD’s Darnell “The Ding-A-Ling Man” Wilson. Ring Magazine has named the current USBA Cruiserweight champion one of the “10 Biggest Punchers” in the sport today in its latest issue.

Wilson came in at number eight on the list. Ring’s Contributing Editor Eric Raskin mentioned that although Wilson had the lowest knockout percentage of anyone on the list, “Nobody in boxing has put together a more impressive string of knockouts in the past year than Wilson, who dusted in succession contenders Daniel Judah (KO 4), Dale Brown (KO 2), Kelvin Davis (KO 3) and Emmanuel Nwodo (KO 11).”

Raskin made a special note of the Nwodo knockout saying, “It took until about the 50th time we saw it replayed before we stopped cringing.”

The top five on the list were (from top to bottom) Wladimir Klitschko, Daniel Ponce De Leon, Manny Pacquiao, Kelly Pavlik and Edwin Valero. Kermit Cintron came in at number six, followed by flyweight Vic Darchiniyan, Wilson, newly-crowned world cruiserweight champ David Haye and Israel Vasquez.

The same issue of Ring also listed the 20 Greatest Welterweights of All-Time. Beltway Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard made the list at number five, behind Sugar Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong, Kid Gavilan and Charley Burley.

Source: Ring Magazine Puts Wilson on ‘Boxing’s 10 Biggest Punchers’ List!

Nov 05

Frankie Gavin was crowned English boxing’s first ever World Amateur champion in Chicago last night after an impressive 18-10 victory over Italy’s Domenico Valentino in the final.

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Oct 29

By: David Johnson

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Oct 01

Moodie, Fleishman advance at Japan Open

Wesley Moodie

Tokyo, Japan (Sports Network) - South African Wesley Moodie and American Zack Fleishman were among Monday’s unseeded winners at the $832,000 Japan Open.

The 2005 Tokyo titlist Moodie snuck past Italian Simone Bolelli 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (10-8), while Fleishman held off Japanese wild card Kei Nishikori 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 6-1 at Ariake Colosseum.

Up next for Moodie will be this week’s top seed, Spaniard David Ferrer, while Fleishman will encounter last week’s Mumbai titlist Richard Gasquet.

In other Day-1 action, Chilean Paul Capdeville topped Russian Teimuraz Gabashvili 7-6 (7-4), 7-5; Spaniard Ivan Navarro edged out Dutchman Robin Haase 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-0); Taipei’s Yen-Hsun Lu overcame Thai Danai Udomchoke 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (9-7), 6-1; and German Mischa Zverev beat Italian Fabio Fognini 6-1, 7-6 (9-7).

Last year’s winner here was the great Roger Federer, but the Swiss star pulled out of this year’s event last week, citing fatigue. Federer defeated the recently-retired Tim Henman in last year’s Tokyo finale.


 

The 2007 titlist here will collect $145,000.


Source: www.tsn.ca