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A recurring theme recently here at The Boxing Truth ® has been to take a look at fighters who are attempting to reestablish themselves as contenders in their respective divisions. One such fighter who has been working his way up the ranks is Heavyweight contender Chazz Witherspoon. Witherspoon carried a three-fight winning streak into his fight against prospect Nicholas Guivas on August 15th at The Playground in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The story of this bout as this observer said prior to the fight was whether or not Witherspoon, who entered the fight with a record of 33-3, with 25 Knockouts, could continue to build momentum on his comeback and if he were successful whether a victory could lead to a fight against someone who is rated in the top fifteen in one of the sport’s respective sanctioning organizations. Although one might argue that the thirty-three year old Witherspoon was in a “Must Win” scenario in regard to his future as a contender, he did have a significant...

Former IBF Super-Middleweight world champion Lucian Bute has certainly earned his distinction as one of the stars in the sport of Boxing. Bute, who won the IBF world championship in the Super-Middleweight division in October 2007 with an eleventh round stoppage of Alejandro Berrio ruled as a dominant champion for nearly five years, successfully defending his championship nine times. Along the way the Romanian born Bute was able to garner a significant following in his adopted home country of Canada. After nine successful defenses of his world title, Bute carried an undefeated record of 30-0, with 24 Knockouts into his fight with Carl Froch in May 2012. On that evening Froch’s power was simply too much for Bute as he was able to stop the previously unbeaten world champion in the fifth round. Prior to this defeat most would argue that the closest Bute had come to defeat was in his first fight against longtime contender Librado Andrade in October 2008. Bute outboxed Andrade ...

An intriguing Heavyweight crossroads fight between former world champions headlined the Premier Boxing Champions card on August 14th at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. In one corner stood forty-six year old former two-division world champion Antonio Tarver. Tarver, a fighter who entered this bout undefeated as a Heavyweight was looking for his third straight win in his comeback. Tarver faced a legitimate threat in his quest to earn a title shot in a third weight division in the form of former IBF Cruiserweight world champion Steve Cunningham. The thirty-nine year old Cunningham entered this fight coming off of a controversial loss in his previous outing to undefeated contender Vyacheslav Glazkov in March of this year. Although Cunningham entered this bout still rated in the top ten in the International Boxing Federation’s (IBF) Heavyweight ratings as its number six rated contender, an argument could have been made that a loss to Tarver, a fighter who entered unr...

Press Release: August 15, 2015 (Originally released August 10, 2015) By Gaylen Ross, GR Films, Inc. New York, NY  -- For 20 years the film negative of this remarkable documentary TitleShot – probably the last to be shot entirely on 16mm film-- has been in the vault.    Now a Kickstarter campaign is launched by award-winning filmmaker Gaylen Ross to get this film finished. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/391667550/titleshot .  Life and circumstances had interrupted its completion, and other documentaries were made in the meantime. “I did films on Russian mail-order brides, Stock market fraud, Swiss banks and the Holocaust accounts, and Killing Kasztner , the story of the Hungarian Jew who negotiated with Eichmann, among other films.  But at the back of my mind was this incredible boxing story that was waiting for me,” says director Gaylen Ross.  “Now with Kickstarter we hope to get this gorgeous film footage out of the vaults and fo...