50 Cent's Broadway Boxing promotion is a knockout

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has his sights set on moving into the sport of boxing as a promoter and on Wednesday night the rapper's SMS Promotions teamed up with DiBella Entertainment to stage the latest edition of New York City's longest boxing series — Broadway Boxing at midtown Manhattan's famed Roseland Ballroom. SMS is planning to partner with DiBella for future fight nights as well.

50 Cent and one of his fighters Emanuel DeJesus (6-0, 4 KOS)
who won a unanimous decision against Khalik Meminger

Wednesday's show boasted eight fight cards and the house was filled with guest boxers and celebrities.

In the featured bout, returning former world junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (31-2, 8 KOs) outpointed Jamaal Davis (14-10-1, 6 KOs) in an eight-round junior middleweight match-up. Foreman targeted a gaping cut over Davis' right eye to dominate the last few rounds and get the decision.

Foreman, the Belarus-born Israel native, held the WBA championship belt after losing the title in 2010 to Miguel Cotto, suffering a knee injury in the bout. After a two-year hiatus, Foreman is on the comeback trail after earlier success in his career showed promise.

Yuri Foreman continued his successful comeback

Davis, also 32, is a relative journeyman known for delivering tough challenges to more heralded fighters. According to an ESPN report, DiBella is bringing Foreman along slowly. Foreman has since relocated to Park Slope in Brooklyn, and is nearing completion of his studies to become a rabbi.

In the co-feature, non-stop puncher and super bantamweight Heather Hardy (6-0, KO) battered Seattle's Cassie Trost (1-2-1) to a stoppage victory. Trost was a bloody mess early in the fight as Hardy was relentless in her attack, ultimately putting Trost to a knee in the fourth round. The referee stopped it shortly after at 1:34 of the round, getting the popular Hardy her first knockout win.

Hardy (L) looked unbeatable

Up and coming Brooklyn light heavyweight Travis Peterkin (8-0, 4 KOs) carried overmatched middleweight Hector Hernandez, of Yuma, Ariz., the whole six-round distance with a unanimous decision.

The southpaw Peterkin could have gotten his opponent out of there in the early rounds, but the younger and stronger Peterkin seemed content to mix it up. Peterkin landed a straight left often, missing chances to follow it up as much as he could have, but he was still mighty impressive.

Undefeated Peterkin (R) continues to impress

From the quality of the bouts and and the cheers from the crowd, it looks like Fiddy is going to like the NYC fight game.

Photos by Tony Mangia

Mayweather calls 50 Cent a 'male boxing groupie'

It looks like Floyd Mayweather Jr. and 50 Cent's bromance and business relationship has been KO'ed by a Twitter fight.

Mayweather went for the body Friday night when he ripped his former best buddy via Twitter calling 50 Cent "a male boxing groupie" and even dissed the rap star by saying "his album sales have declined."

50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, got under the undefeated champion's skin when he kept tweeting that Yuriorkis Gamboa, who is also undefeated, wanted to challenge Mayweather.  Gamboa is apparently part of 50 Cent's own SMS promotion team.

It was really on after 50 Cent tweeted this:

"I can't hang out with Floyd anymore, I'm tired of running away from manny pacquiao #smsAudio."

The furious thumb action continued into the next rounds.

"GAMBOA WANTS TO FIGHT FLOYD," Fitty tweeted.  "I will put up an extra 20 million for the winner.  He don't like it that Floyd pulled out. #SMSAUDIO"

Fitty finished with a devastating left tweet: "You should have know [sic] not to go against me punk."

Mayweather countered by repeatedly tweeting that the SMS stood for Snakes Maneuver Slick," "Sisters Managing Sports" or "Similar Mayweather Show."

The two had been longtime friends and actually trained together.  50 Cent even got a New York promoter's license while Mayweather was in jail last spring.  The two planned on teaming up to promote fights under the name The Money Team until things started to go sour.

"TMT IS OVER the money team is no longer a team," 50 Cent tweeted on Thursday.  "So it SMS promotions that's it thats all.SMSAudio ... I move the fighters to SMSpromotion cause the other half of the money team Didnt put up there $MONEY$. SMSaudio."

50 Cent took off the gloves when he announced this week that SMS promotions would put Gamboa up against Miguel Beltran on the undercard of the Manny Pacquaio-Juan Manuel Marquez fight on Dec. 8.  That card is being promoted by Mayweather's chief rival, Bob Arum's Top Rank.

Gamboa was signed by TMT but switched back to Top Rank and has semmingly hooked up with 50 Cent's SMS promotions as well.

Who knows if this Twitter feud is real or some trap to get Mayweather to fight Gamboa but I was under the impression that Money and Cent went together like boxing and hip-hop.