Boxing News

Click the above Image for more Photos

Yesterday at the lobby of the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, the fighters featured in Saturday’s pay-per-view event made their grand arrivals. The festive mood complete with a mariachi band was highlighted by the arrival of main event fighters Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz and Juan Manuel Marquez.

The fans in attendance were treated to an autograph session and had the opportunity to take photos with their favorite fighters.

Marquez and Diaz appeared relaxed and excited in anticipation of their rematch Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

Jimmy Burchfield, President of Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc., categorically denied reports issued today that lightweight prospect “Hammerin’” Hank Lundy (18-1-1, 10 KOs) is a promotional free agent.

“He is not a free agent and promoters shouldn’t be speaking with him or his team,” Burchfield explained. “CES turned him pro and we have completely and totally honored our end of the contract. We just had him fighting on national television twice within 90 days. More...

Yesterday was another "consecutive day" in camp for heavyweight world contender Chris Arreola, a training camp which he and his trainer Henry Ramirez are taking a "one day at a time" approach.

This training streak reminds Ramirez of the hard work Arreola put in during the early stages of his career, beginning each morning with road work and ending with a hard and complete workout in the gym. More...

WBO No. 2 rated heavyweight David “Tuamanator” Tua complained about a sore left shoulder during several training sessions leading up to his July 17th 12-round draw against former world title challenger Monte “Two Gunz” Barrett in Atlantic City. However, when asked about it by his trainer, Roger Bloodworth, David said he was okay to fight.

Tua (51-3-2, 43 KOs), reigning WBO Asia Pacific and WBO Oriental heavyweight champion, is a true warrior who refused to use the injury as an excuse, or even make post fight comments about his damaged shoulder. More...

© Chris Farina – Top Rank

Undefeated WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez and two-division world champion Rafael Marquez the pride of Puerto Rico and México, respectively, hosted a News Conference Luncheon announcing their highly anticipated world featherweight title fight on Tuesday in the Gold Ballroom at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles. More...

With G&P Fitness and Boxing Center officially opened, President and CEO Mike Brestle is continuing his quest to make a difference in the community of Atlantic City as well as the boxing and fitness industries.

With a brand new state of the art boxing and training facility, located squarely in the heart of Atlantic City, Brestle is ready to launch Spartan Fight Promotions. More...

© Rumble Time Promotions, Bob Barton

Junior middleweight contender Deandre “The Bull” Latimore went back to work this past Saturday night in his hometown of St. Louis, tearing into veteran Darien Ford, dropping him three times in the second round before referee Steve Smoger stopped the bout at the 2:46 mark of the third round following a hailstorm of punches. More...

8 Count Productions in association with Vega Boxing have announced that ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights will return to Chicago on Friday, August 6th at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion.

“We’re very excited to work with Denis Benoit and the Vega Boxing team and our friends at ESPN to bring an outstanding event to the sports fans of Chicago on Friday, August 6th. More...

This Friday night in the main event on ESPN's "Friday Night Fights", IBF #3 rated welterweight contender, Delvin Rodriguez (25-4-2, 14KO's) takes on Ashley Theophane (26-4-1, 7KO's) in a ten round welterweight contest.

The co-feature bout of the evening features a sizzling ten round super middleweight showdown, between up and coming prospect, Donovan "Da Bomb" George (20-0-1, 17KO's) and fellow knockout artist Francisco Sierra (21-3, 20KO's). More...

Click the above Image for more Photos

Yesterday at the lobby of the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, the fighters featured in Saturday’s pay-per-view event made their grand arrivals. The festive mood complete with a mariachi band was highlighted by the arrival of main event fighters Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz and Juan Manuel Marquez.

The fans in attendance were treated to an autograph session and had the opportunity to take photos with their favorite fighters.

Marquez and Diaz appeared relaxed and excited in anticipation of their rematch Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

TKO Boxing Promotions was founded two years ago. Between then and now we have signed some wonderful fighters, done forty six shows and crisscrossed the United States trying to build the fighters and the company.

Unfortunately, we ran into some financial problems that have set us back considerably, hurt our relationships with many fighters and their managers and derailed many of our plans. We also let a lot of people down and for that I am very sorry.

But we are in the fight business, and even though we have been knocked down early in the fight, we are getting back up. TKO has recapitalized so that it can go forward on stronger footing. More...

The long, often arduous journey for unbeaten super middleweight Lennox “2 Sharpe” Allen, a native of Guyana, took him around the world before finally settling in Brooklyn.

The 25-year-old southpaw turned pro six years ago in Georgetown, Guyana. Less than a year later, attempting to kick-start his boxing career, he moved to Perth, Western Australia. “I decided to take a risk and move to Australia,” Lennox explained. “I thought that it would be a good step for my career, but it wasn’t working out, and after 18 months there I returned home to Guyana.” More...

Next Friday at the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, OK, highly touted, undefeated super middleweight contender, Donovan "Da Bomb" George (20-0-1, 17KO's), will look to continue on his path towards a super middleweight title shot.

George takes on the very dangerous, Francisco Sierra (21-3, 20KO's) in what promises to be an all-out war between heavy-handed contenders in the co-feature on ESPN's "Friday Night Fights" telecast. More...

Hundreds of fans braved the heat at the famed Placita Olvera in Los Angeles today to welcome and cheer on Juan Manuel "Dinamita" Marquez before he heads to Las Vegas to face Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz in "Fight of the Year: The Rematch" on July 31 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center live on HBO Pay-Per-View. More...

Click the above Image for more Rendall Training Photos

Rendall Munroe is back in the gym – and there’s more than a little spring in his step -as he looks clearly excited about his forthcoming world title shot against WBC Super-Bantamweight Champion - Toshiaki Nishioka of Japan .

Nishioka has successfully defended the WBC Title three times since winning the title in January, 2009.

On Wednesday, SaddoBoxing went along to Somercotes, Derby, to check on Munroe and the Team. It’s always a welcoming atmosphere - filled with laughter at the Shinfields Gym – albeit a bit hot Wednesday!

At the moment, Munroe does two training sessions and one conditioning session a week at the Gym, as well as keeping in shape at his local Fitness Centre (Greens) and – of course – mauling bins during the day-job!

“Rendall will be back in the gym full-time at the end of August,” trainer Jason Shinfield said. “That gives us his usual eight weeks of solid training which will include two weeks prior to the fight in Tokyo .”

Munroe – who always keeps in good shape (just because he enjoys it) – is just a stone over his target weight (although you wouldn’t know it!) with three months to go before he faces Nishioka in October.

“We’ve already been doing some training specifically adapted to Toshiaki’s style” Jason continued, “..and he’s a southpaw. He’s very well-respected in Japan – a bit like Pacquiao is in the Philippines." More...

Last night at Tachi Palace Casino in Lemoore, CA, light heavyweight Beibut Shumenov retained his WBA title for the first time with a unanimous decision victory over little known opponent Viacheslav Uzelkov.

Despite the undefeated record coming into the bout, Uzelkov had never faced world class competition, however the 31 year old Ukrainian was the WBA Intercontinental strapholder, which could explain how he managed to secure a title shot.

Uzelkov did managed to shock the champion, sending Shumenov to the floor with a counter left hook in the first but couldn't better his work.

Shumenov regained his composure and went to work, dropping the challenger in the third frame but could not finish off Uzelkov.

Uzelkov went defensive for the rest of the bout, waiting for the champion to make a mistake as in the first session but that moment simply never came as the challenger wasn't active enough to win any additional rounds. More...

British bantamweight champion Stuart Hall continued his sweep through the old guard of the division as the unexpected titlist defeated Martin Power for the second time in less than a year last night at Rainton Meadows Arena in Houghton-le-Spring, England.

Hall was defending the domestic belt for the first time following his shocking eighth round finishing of ex-champion Ian Napa just last month but this wasn't an easy bout for the 30 year old Darlington man.

Power came out swinging for the fences in the first, battering Hall but the champion weathered the storm to control the pace by the second. The third frame saw Power regain his grip behind a punishing body assault.

But Hall refused to wilt and took the middle rounds only through sheer grit as Power made "Stuey" work for each bit of ground gained as the pair just slugged it out.

Former champ Power came back in the eighth but couldn't maintain his edge as Hall was back on top in the ninth and by the tenth was punishing the challenger until the contest was stopped at 2:30 of the tenth. More...

Two good fight cards this week Down Under with big names such as Danny Green, Paul Briggs, Lenny Zappavinga, Shane Cameron, William Kickett and Daniel Amman all seeing action.

Former WBC light heavyweight title challenger Paul Briggs ended a three year retirement when he faced IBO cruiserweight king Danny Green on Wednesday at Perth's Challenge Stadium but the highly anticipated clash never quite developed into the barnburner it was expected to become. More...

Boxing 360 has announced that heavyweights Maurice “Sugar Moe” Harris and Nagy “Dominican Dynamite” Aguilera will square-off August 6 in Minnesota.

“Both parties have signed contracts and it’s going to be a great fight between a talented veteran, Harris, and promising prospect, Aguilera,” Boxing 360 Director of Boxing Bob Duffy said today. “In many ways, it’s a crossroads fight for both heavyweights with a lot on the line, in terms of their respective boxing futures. We’re negotiating right now to make the August 6th fight for a regional title.” More...

Carl “the Cobra” Froch will be joining up with highly regarded trainer Rob McCracken at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield on Monday morning (26th) to start his intensive 10 week training camp ahead of his crucial Super Six Group Stage 3 face off against the German based Armenian “King” Arthur Abraham. More...