News - Ronald Wright

After Lou DiBella welcomed the crowd and thanked everyone involved, including Wright's promoter Gary Shaw and Prizefight Boxing's Brian Young, HBO's Kerry Davis boasted that "I think we (HBO) are the only network to marshal the resources to put an event like this on our network for subscribers to see (versus charging as a pay-per-view)." Kerry continued by read more ...

The setting for Winky Wright's public work out Wednesday evening in the Grand Casino Tunica contrasted to that of Jermain Taylor's. Wright worked out in the casino's Grand Event Center under air conditioning and for a much more intimate audience. Wright spoke to the media once he arrived in Tunica. When asked about his approach for his fight with Taylor, Wright said read more ...

Jermain Taylor broke a sweat at a public workout held outside Tuesday at the Pepsi Pavilion in historic Handy Park. Taylor's workout began roughly about the time that his opponent Winky Wright was scheduled to arrive in Memphis at Wilson Air Travel. Taylor arrived in Memphis last Saturday and has reportedly been training at the Memphis Police Boxing Gym at the Mid-south Fairgrounds on Hollywood. Taylor appeared on stage from a Pepsi read more ...

Boxing is a sport where the best and frequently most logical things don't always occur like they should. There are bad decisions, worse rankings and frequent mismatches. The fights that are supposed to be made frequently aren't. And when they are, they occur often too late in the fighter's careers or they're tainted by a loss in a previous tune-up fight. So imagine boxing fans' (and members of the industry's) delight when all of the read more ...

The on-off-on-off-on roller coaster known as the Jermain Taylor-Winky Wright negotiations has left Sam Soliman as the odd man out. Soliman's promoter Dan Goossen had twice agreed with DiBella Entertainment for Soliman to challenge Taylor in April for his world title belts, only to have last minute maneuvers result in Soliman being passed over in favor of a deal with Wright. "What can I say?" stated Soliman from his training camp in read more ...

The WBC has received confirmation from Lou DiBella and Gary Shaw that they have reached an agreement for the Jermain Taylor vs. Winky Wright fight. Consequently the purse offer scheduled for today has been cancelled. "The World Boxing Council is very pleased that both promoters reached an agreement, as the fans deserve to watch fighting the best two middleweights of the world in this WBC mandatory defense," read more ...

Talks between the camps of middleweight champion Jermain Taylor and top challenger Winky Wright have reached an impasse. "They asked for 50% of the money and 50% of the control. That is not happening," Taylor's promoter Lou DiBella told Fightnews.com. "I made them an incredibly fair deal which is better than they would get in a purse bid with the WBC. HBO offered $5 million total and wouldn't come up a dollar. I offered Winky $3 million read more ...

Negotiations are continuing between the handlers of middleweight champion Jermain Taylor and top challenger Winky Wright for Taylor's mandatory WBC title defense. The Taylor camp wants the bout to take place in Little Rock, Arkansas, while the Wright camp wants it to be in Tampa, Florida and neither side appears to be willing to fight on the other's home turf. At this stage the bout seems to be likely headed to neutral ground in Las Vegas or read more ...

The fight to determine the best middleweight in the world took a major step forward today. Jose Sulaiman, president of the World Boxing Council (WBC), served notice today to the camps of middleweight champion JERMAIN TAYLOR and mandatory challenger WINKY WRIGHT "... that the free negotiations period has begun for the mandatory title defense between our champion Jermain Taylor vs. mandatory challenger Ronald "Winky" Wright read more ...

Lou DiBella, promoter of undisputed middleweight champ Jermain Taylor, was left more than a little turned off by the performance of WBC/WBA #1 contender Winky Wright tonight in his fight against Sam Soliman. Wright won a much closer than expected unanimous decision in a middleweight eliminator at the Mohegan Sun. “You think Jermain is afraid of this guy?” asked DiBella rhetorically. “That fight was much too close. I applaud Sam read more ...