A purse bid was held in the IBF office today for the IBF super middleweight eliminator for #1 between Jesse Brinkley and Sakio Bika. InterBox Promotions was the winning bidder with a bid of $134,616. Star Boxing bid $111,000, and Golden Boy Promotions bid $102,000 read more ...

Before a semi-packed crowd at the Vodafone Arena in Melbourne, Anthony Mundine won a unanimous decision over Sam Soliman to retain the WBA "regular" super middleweight title. It was their third meeting and Mundine also won the previous two encounters. The scores were 116-112, 116-112 and 117-112 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...