Herbie Hide Boxing News

By Erik Schmidt: Cruiserweight contender Herbie Hide (48-4, 43 KO’s) continued with his successful three year comeback with a 3rd round stoppage win over journeyman Gabor Halasz (26-13, 10 KO’s) on Friday night at the Hermann-Neuberger-Halle, in Voelklingen, Saarland, Germany. Hide, 37, knocked Halasz down twice in the fight, once in the 1st and a [...]

By Nate Anderson: Two-time heavyweight champion Herbie Hide(47-4, 42 KOs) did what he needed to do tonight, beating Sandro Siproshvili (15-5-1, 5 KOs) by an eight round unanimous decision at the Kugelbake-Halle, Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Germany. For boxing fans hoping to see the Hide old – the one with the blazing hand speed – they [...]

Graciano Rocchigiani’s first show as trainer for ARENA Box-Promotion was a complete success. “Mini-Tyson” Selcuk Aydin and “Dancing Destroyer” Herbie Hide scored wins in front of a sold-out crowd in Cuxhaven (Germany) Friday night. WBC international welterweight champion Selcuk Aydin defended his title by an impressive first round annihilation of experienced contender Luis Hernandez from [...]

TAMPA, FL: Left Hook Promotions, the company founded by former IBF/IBO Super Middleweight Champion and St. Pete native Jeff Lacy is proud to present “Homecoming”, The Return of Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy at the USF Sun Dome on Friday April 10, 2009. Lacy (24-2, 17 KO’s), returns to fight in the bay area for the [...]

World Middleweight Champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK (34-1, 30 KOs), from Youngstown, Ohio, is in his last 10 days of training for his rumble with No. 1 contender and mandatory challenger Marco Antonio Rubio (43-4-1, 38 KOs), of Torreón, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico. The Pavlik-Rubio world championship fight will headline an exciting card at [...]

Bad news for Herbie Hide: The WBC Final Eliminator in the cruiserweight division between the “Dancing Destroyer” and Matt Godfrey that was originally scheduled to take place on March 6th in Cuxhaven, Germany, has to be postponed for at least eight weeks because Godfrey suffered a hand injury while preparing for the fight. Nonetheless Hide [...]

“The Dancing Destroyer” will be back at the North Sea on March 6th. Herbie Hide will return to the Kugelbake-Halle in Cuxhaven, Germany, for his WBC Final Eliminator against Matt Godfrey. In his last fight on November 18th, 2008, Hide won an unexpected hard fought unanimous decision over Polish journeyman Lukasz Rusiewicz.

ARENA Box-Promotion has won the purse bid for the World Boxing Council cruiserweight Final Eliminator between Herbie Hide and Matt Godfrey. The fight will most probably take place in late March or early April. The winner of the elimination bout will face the winner of the WBC cruiserweight championship between Giacobe Fragomeni and Krystzof Wlodarczyk.

By Erik Schmidt: Former two-time World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion Herbie Hide (46-4, 42 KOs) struggled to win a six-round unanimous decision over Lukasz Rusiewicz (7-6) on Tuesday night in a cruiserweight match at Kugelbake-Halle, Cuxhaven, in Niedersachsen, Germany. Hide, now 37, once a fighter with blazing fast hands and tremendous punching power, looked as [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Former two-time WBO heavyweight champion Herbie Hide (45-4, 42 KOs) continued with his comeback defeating Latvian Aleksejs Kosobokovs (12-10, 5 KOs) by a 3rd round stoppage on Saturday night at the Norwich Showground, in Norwich, Norfolk. Like his other nine fights since starting his comeback in September 2006, the 37 year-old Hide [...]

By Chet Mills: Former two-time heavyweight champion, now fighting as a cruiserweight, Herbie Hide (44-4, 41 KOs) out-pointed Nuri Seferi (21-6, 15 KOs), defeating him by a unanimous decision on Friday night to retain his WBC International cruiserweight title at the Bueyuek Anadolu Hotel, in Ankara, Turkey. Hide, survived a 1st round knockdown in which [...]

By Chris Williams: Former two-time WBO heavyweight champion Herbie Hide (43-4-41 KOs) won an easy 12-round unanimous decision over Ehinomen Ehikhamenor (12-3, 7 KOs) last night at the Pabellon Lasearrem Baracaldo, in Pais Vasco, to retain his WBC International cruiserweight title. Hide, 36, dropped Ehikhamenor with a big right hand in the 4th round, but [...]

Sorry to all Spanish boxing fans! Because there have been so many request from the United States regarding heavyweight sensation Odlanier Solis recently promoter Ahmet Öner decided to move the fight between the three-times world amateur champion and 2004 Olympic gold medallist and “White Buffalo” Francois Botha from the show on May 30th in Bilbao [...]

Former WBO heavyweight champion Herbie Hide (42-4, 41 KOs), now fighting as a cruiserweight, destroyed a badly overmatched German Rüdiger May (43-6-3, 11 KOs) in the 2nd round tonight at the Maritim Hotel Halle in Halle/Saale, Germany. Hide was all over May from the start of the bout, hitting him with huge right hands and [...]

Earlier tonight, former World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion Hernie Hide (41-4, 40 KOs) totally destroyed his previously unbeaten Russian opponent Mikhail Nasyrov (19-0, 13 KOs) in the sixth round, knocking him down five times in the process, at the Maritim Hotel in Halle/Saale. Nasyrov, 25, was knocked down four times in the 2nd round, causing [...]

Former two-time WBO heavyweight champion Herbie Hide (40-4, 39 KOs) destroyed an unwilling Romanian Mircea Telecan (5-17-2, 3 KOs) in the 1st round on Friday night at the Hansehalle, Luebeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Hide, 36, now fighting as a cruiserweight, dropped Telecan twice in the first round before the referee Arno Pokrandt stopped the horrible mismatch [...]