News - Ronald Wright

Fighting off the lingering effects of a severe week-long chest and head cold and a spirited battle by the IBF's top-rated middleweight contender, two time world champion and WBC/WBA No. 1 middleweight contender WINKY WRIGHT won a decisive unanimous decision over Sam Soliman Saturday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena. Wright, 50-3 (25 KOs), from St. Petersburg, FL, collected a milestone 50th victory while snapping Soliman's three-year read more ...

Sam Soliman (31-7) is a heavy underdog in todays twelve round bout against Winky Wright but is confident of causing an upset. Despite losing disputed decisions to Anthony Mundine in 2001, Raymond Joval in 2001 and Howard Eastman in 2000, Soliman has gone on to register 19 consecutive victories including a win over Joval in IBF eliminator. Soliman said, "No one outside my own camp is giving me a chance. But a lot of the people read more ...

"People wanted me to pull out," Winky Wright told his hometown paper, the St Petersburg Times yesterday. "I'm fighting, trying to get it out of my system. I don't know what it is. It's just a cold. Got a stuffed up chest, stuffed nose, but hey, I'm here. It don't matter what it is, I'm here and I'm fighting." Although noticeably congested, Winky had hard workouts Wednesday and Thursday read more ...

After his second straight razor-thin conquest of Bernard Hopkins, WBC/WBA/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor is eying a tune-up fight in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. "It would be a crime to put Jermain in another tough fight without a breather after going 24 rounds with Bernard Hopkins," promoter Lou DiBella said. "We expect a fight with Winky by next summer, but Jermain deserves a rest. I'm going to line up something so his read more ...

WINKY_WRIGHT: what up what up what up! - Winky why are u fighting Soliman and u are already in a mandatory position? WINKY_WRIGHT: I'm fighting Sam Soliman on December 10 at Mohegan Sun. We ain't fighting for the vacant title, but that's all good, I'm just happy to be fighting on HBO. read more ...

IBF#1 middleweight Sam Soliman (31-7) is scheduled to meet WBC#1/WBA#1 middleweight Ronald " Winky" Wright (49-3) at the Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT, USA on December 10 in the biggest fight of his boxing career. Despite being a heavy underdog "Team Soliman" which includes manager Stuart Duncan and trainer Dave Hedgecock, are very confident that Soliman will defeat the classy southpaw Wright. read more ...

What's good Wink? "Everything homey. I just got finished up a major business deal and I'm proud to announce to world through Boxingtalk, that now I have my own promotional company, Winky Promotions. This is something I've always wanted to do, and I'm real, real glad to be have business people like Chris Lighty, who's going to be negotiating for your boy, on board with my company. I'm not going to sit here and tell you what boxing needs to get better or how we going to change boxing read more ...

Junior middleweight kingpin Ronald "Winky" Wright told Boxingtalk.com that unless Floyd Mayweather Jr. agrees to a 50-50 purse split, he can "forget about fighting me on November 12." Wright stated, "I didn't go looking for him, he's come looking for me and if he wants to fight me on PPV November 12, it's got to be 50-50." Wright doesn't want to hear about the risk Mayweather would be taking either. "People look at that and say read more ...

Floyd sounds like he's trying to talk himself into a fight. Trash talking is for some scared ass (brothers). I do my talking with my fists. He sees me in Vegas, he sees me everywhere. I'm not one of these cats out here talking shit with anything but my hands. I'm happy he wants to fight me, because I'd get paid a lot of money to beat up on a little guy. He could say what he wants about my punching power read more ...

What may have initially sounded like a crazy boxing rumor could turn out true. Unnamed sources close to the situation are reporting that promoters Bob Arum, Gary Shaw and Don King are in deep negotiations to match former undisputed junior middleweight boss Ronald “Winky” Wright and WBC Super Lightweight king “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather, possibly in late October or November of this year. read more ...