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Ryan Rhodes will become the latest Hatton Promotions fighter to challenge for a world title next month. The classy Sheffield boxer will challenge Saul Alvarez for the WBC light-middleweight championship in Guadalajara , Mexico on Saturday June 18. The opportunity for Rhodes shows yet again that while Hatton Promotions might …

On Thursday May 5th, Star Boxing will kick off the much anticipated 2011 Punchin at the Paradise Series. Fighting in one of the featured undercard bouts of the evening will be hard-hitting super middleweight prospect, Jason “Montruo” Escalera (10-0, 9KO’s) as looks to impress in his Star Boxing debut when …

Welterweight Nick “Hands of Gold” Casal and unbeaten lightweight Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano made impressive Boxing 360 debuts last Friday night in Hamburg, New York. Fighting for the first time in 1 ½ years, Casal (30-4-1, 16KOs) stopped veteran Martin Tucker (7-9, 3 KOs) in the third round, while …

Joe DeGuardia, CEO and President of Star Boxing, recently traveled to Rome to partake in an exhibition that opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art featuring selected portraits from world renowned photographer Howard Schatz project: “The Italian-Americans in Boxing”, in which DeGuardia’s portrait was featured. As in the past, DeGuardia’s …

Light welterweight Nick “Hands of Gold” Casal and unbeaten lightweight Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano make their Boxing 360 debuts Friday night in Hamburg, New York. “We’re looking forward to watching them in action under the Boxing 360 banner,” Boxing 360 CEO & Founder Mario Yagobi said.”We want to thank …

Fresh off of his dominant victory by eight-round decision against veteran Dennis Sharpe last Saturday night on the Victor Ortiz-Andre Berto card at MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods, IBF #6-rated junior middleweight Deandre “The Bull” Latimore (22-3, 17 KOs) has targeted Paul “The Punisher” Williams for a summer showdown, predicting …

The buildup to one of the greatest matchups of 2011 started with a press conference that did not disappoint. Both Pascal and Hopkins made their cases and both spoke about being more aggressive this time around; the press conference ended with both fighters pushing and screaming at each other. It’s …

Not since Jack Dempsey’s Broadway Restaurant closed in 1974 has a heavyweight champion graced The Great White Way; until this week. Epix will present the closed captioned simulcast of the Vitali Klitschko vs. Odlanier Solis WBC heavyweight championship on a jumbotron screen in Times Square (Broadway at 44th St.), This …

Some people are born with the competitive desire to succeed. Huntington’s Chris Algieri seems to have that competitive desire. An athlete for his entire life, Chris has succeeded in whatever he has put his mind to. In High School Algieri was a State Champion Wreslter. After wrestling, Algieri took up …

A new World Champion was crowned last Saturday night at Honda Center in Anaheim, California, when Saul “Canelo” Alvarez defeated Matthew “Magic” Hatton for the vacant WBC Super Welterweight Title, but more importantly, the Mexican phenom made a statement to the boxing world waiting for the arrival of its next …

Fast-rising boxing promotional company Boxing 360 has signed the new-and-improved Nick “Hands of Gold” Casal, a light welterweight from Buffalo, to an exclusive promotional contract. “Nick’s had some issues in the past but he’s fully focused now,” Boxing 360 CEO & Founder Mario Yagobi said. “He’s only 25 years old …

Former IBF super middleweight champion Alejandro “Naco” Berrio, the Colombian power puncher now living in New Jersey and fighting for Boxing 360, fought last Saturday night for the first time in North American since losing his title in 2007. Berrio (32-5, 29 KOs), who has won his last six fights, …