Former two-time lightweight champion Julio Diaz (37-6, 26 KOs) showed he still has it by winning a ten round unanimous decision over Herman Ngoudjo (18-4, 10 KOs) in a junior welterweight bout on Friday night at the Star of the Desert Arena in Primm, NV. Scores were 97-93, 97-93 and 99-91 read more ...

Junior welterweight Juan Urango (21-1-1, 16 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over Hermann Ngoudjo (17-3, 9 KOs) to reclaim the vacant IBF world championship on Friday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Urango floored Ngoudjo twice in round three and pressed the action throughout to win by scores of 118-108, 120-106, 116-110. It was later read more ...

Paulie Malignaggi successfully defended his IBF junior-welterweight title Saturday night, unanimously outpointing Canada's Herman Ngoudjo at Bally's Atlantic City Hotel Casino. The Brooklyn fighter received scores of 117-111 from judge Al Bennett, 116-113 from Kenny Chevalier and 115-113 from Steve Weisfeld. "It wasn't one of my better performances, but I felt I won the fight," Malignaggi said. "At the end of the day, I have the heart of a lion and if you don't knock me out, I'm going to stay here." read more ...

PAUL MALIGNAGGI: “Don’t worry about remembering my opponent’s name, because come Sunday, no one will remember him anymore. “I plan on punishing Ngoudjo and I will break him down for talking so much crap. If I win by knockout, it will be in the later rounds. “I’m a gangster. I don’t worry about my opponents, but my opponents need to worry about me read more ...

Unbeaten Ricky Hatton (42-0, 30 KOs) regained the IBF junior welterweight championship with a twelve round unanimous decision over defending champion Juan Urango (17-1, 13 KOs) Saturday night at Paris Las Vegas. Hatton was much quicker and outboxed Urango over the first four rounds. Urango has his best round in the fifth, landing some murderous body punches on "the Hitman." Hatton, however, was able to adjust and regained read more ...

IBF junior welterweight champion Juan Urango (17-0, 13 KOs) and former two-division champion Ricky Hatton (41-0, 30 KOs) both weighed in at 139 lbs. at Friday's official weigh-in for Saturday's big fight card at Paris Las Vegas. Also, former two-time champion Jose Luis Castillo (54-7-1, 47 KOs), who has notoriously had problems making in recent fights (at lightweight), weighed in at 139 lbs. for his WBC 140lb eliminator against read more ...

On Thursday at the Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, IBF Junior Lightweight champion, Juan Urango and challenger, Ricky Hatton faced the media for the final time before their hotly anticipated clash this coming Saturday. Both men appeared full of confidence and were all smiles as they sat with their respective camps before both fans and assembled media. Sat next to Hatton was younger brother, Matthew, who himself has a tough read more ...

Former undisputed welterweight champion Zab "Super" Judah will return to the ring on April 27, 2007 at the DeSoto Civic Center in Southhaven, MS against an opponent yet to be named. A press conference will be called in February to announce the 3X World Champion’s return following a year lay-off. Tickets will go on sale in February immediately following the press conference read more ...