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Bernard Hopkins to be Profiled For Black History Month

By Lem SatterfieldFeb 5th 2011 – 5:16PM

The life of two-division king and former undisputed middleweight (160 pounds) champion, Bernard Hopkins (pictured above, at center), will be featured on Monday on Comcast SportsNet as part of his native Philadelphia's monthly magazine program, Net Impact Philly, as the sports network celebrates Black History Month by...

Kelly Pavlik May be on Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley Card

By Lem SatterfieldJan 31st 2011 – 8:21PM

Top Rank Promotions CEO, Bob Arum, called it "a big possibility" that former WBC and WBO middleweight (160 pounds) champion, Kelly Pavlik, could fight on the May 7 under card of the Showtime televised main event featuring eight-division titlist Manny Pacquiao' against three-division, five-time chapion, Shane Mosley, at...

Winky Wright-Matthew Macklin 'Signed' For April 9

By Lem SatterfieldJan 17th 2011 – 2:03PM

Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told FanHouse that southpaw former world champion Winky Wright (pictured above, at far right) of Saint Petersburg, Fla. will end a nearly two-year ring absence on April 9 when the 39-year-old meets middleweight (160 pounds) Matthew Macklin of England, likely on the under card of...

Exclusive: Bernard Hopkins' Top 10 Most Rewarding Fights

By Lem SatterfieldJan 14th 2011 – 3:26AM

' On the eve of his 46th birthday, FanHouse is re-running a list of the 10-most rewarding fights of former undisputed middleweight champion, Bernard Hopkins, as listed in March of 2010. It appears that Hopkins (51-5-2, 32 knockouts) has been awarded a rematch of last month's controversial, majority decision draw with...

Video: Beibut Shumenov Stops William Joppy

By Lem SatterfieldJan 9th 2011 – 12:23PM

WBA light heavyweight (175 pounds) king and former Olympian, Beibut Shumenov, scored a fifth-round knockdown on the way to Saturday's sixth-round stoppage over 40-year-old three-time former middleweight (160 pounds) titlist William Joppy of Washington, D.C., in the second defense of Shumenov's crown before his partisan...

Jermain Taylor News From the Web

  • 05/24/12 ArkansasSports360.com: No Charges Expected To Be Filed... Source: Arkansas Business Journal - Little Rock AR No charges are expected to be filed against Jermain Taylor after a woman claimed she was sexually assaulted by the former middleweight boxing champion.
  • 05/24/12 Boxer Jermain Taylor Accused of Rape at Hotel Source: Bleacher Report Former undisputed middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor has been accused of rape by a 27-year-old female, according to Arkansas news station KATV 7.
  • 05/23/12 Police: No charges expected against Taylor Source: Arkansas News Bureau - Little Rock AR Maumelle police say no additional charges are anticipated in connection with an incident in which a woman claimed she was raped by former middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor.
  • 05/23/12 Hankins: Jermain Taylor's ‘Good Guy Reputation'... Source: Arkansas Business Journal - Little Rock AR Let's welcome boxer Jermain Taylor to the ever-growing list of Arkansas sports figures who rise to national prominence, become local heroes and then manage to fall into the land of embarrassment.
  • 05/22/12 ArkansasSports360.com: New Video Board in Store for... Source: Arkansas Business Journal - Little Rock AR Jerry Jones won't be threatened by it, but Arkansas' planned new video display screen at Reynolds Razorback Stadium will be double the size of the one fans have caught themselves watching for the past dozen years.

Background on Jermain Taylor

Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American professional boxer and former Undisputed Middleweight Champion.

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