News - Ronald Wright

Comebacking ring legend Bernard Hopkins says he going to put a beating on Winky Wright in their PPV clash on Saturday in Las Vegas. "He’s not the slickest southpaw that I've fought," stated Hopkins. "I've fought many of them. I think I got nine knockouts out of ten. I had one of the oldest, slickest southpaws in my camp, who’s the second trainer, John David Jackson. I’ve seen every southpaw that I could imagine on tape read more ...

In anticipation of this summer's hottest match-up, Bernard Hopkins and Winky Wright held a press conference in New York on Tuesday, to announce "Coming to Fight" July 21, as part of a 5-city press tour with following stops in Tampa, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Below please find comments from each fighter, and see photos attached read more ...

It was a typical Winky Wright performance during Wright's homecoming in front of a big crowd in Tampa after a 14 year hiatus. Wright (51-3-1, 25 KOs) completely dominated Ike Quartey (37-4-1, 31 KOs) over twelve rounds at the St Pete Times Forum. Wright was credited with knockdowns in rounds two and seven, but the first seemed to be a slip and the second was simply a blown call. Scores were 117-110, 117-110, 117-109 read more ...

Winky Wright 159.2 vs Ike Quartey 157 Jeff Lacy 166.5 vs Vitali Tsypko 167 Rey Bautista 122 vs Giovanni Andrade 121.5 read more ...

Oscar De La Hoya hosted the final press event before “The Heat Is On” headlined by Winky Wright against Ike Quartey this Saturday night in Tampa, Florida. De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, along with Winky Productions and DiBella Entertainment, is promoting the event. Both Wright and Quartey seemed to be relaxed at the press conference, but Jeff Lacy, fighting in the co-main event against Vitali Tsypko, was all business read more ...

Meanwhile, another Jermain Taylor-Winky Wright rematch on December 9 appears to be dead after Winky nixed a $5 million offer. Jermain Taylor will face Kassim Ouma at Alltel Arena in Little Rock, Taylor's promoter Lou DiBella told the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette read more ...

Before we could get a question in, Winky Wright told Boxingtalk.com, "I know I won that fight. It was a great fight and I showed the fans that I could beat HBO's Golden Child. But I had to show them that it ain't over and I'm still here." GL: Was there anything about Taylor that surprised you at all? Winky Wright: "He surprised me by how much he could take. read more ...

Winky Wright was a no-show at the postfight press conference Saturday night. Representing Wright was his promoter Gary Shaw, who vociferously announced that his fighter deserved to have won. He made no apologies for his fighter having stormed from the ring following the announcement of the final scorecards, but relayed Winky's statement that he believed he had given Jermain Taylor a boxing lesson. Shaw announced that Wright claimed read more ...

WBC/WBA/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (25-0-1, 17 KOs) retained his three world titles with a twelve round draw against mandatory challenger Winky Wright (50-3-1, 25 KOs) on Saturday night at the Fedex Forum in Memphis, Tennessee. Taylor got off to a good start, connecting with some good right hands and body shots to counteract Wright's jabs. Wright crowded Taylor in round two and scored well with accurate punches, as Taylor read more ...

Both middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (160) and challenger Winky Wright (159.5) made weight on the first try Friday in Memphis for their showdown Saturday night at the FedEx Forum. Taylor will be defending his WBC, WBO and WBA (super) titles, however Wright says he will only pay a sanctioning fee to the WBC where is is the mandatory challenger. read more ...