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Tonight, at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, England, former two-time WBO heavyweight champion and current WBC international cruiserweight champion Herbie Hide enters as the bookie's favourite into Prizefighter: The Cruiserweights II.

Hide is 48-4 with 43 of those wins coming inside the distance and 26 of those stoppages not going past the second round. He is currently plying his trade at cruiserweight in Germany, the last time he fought on British soil was back in late 2008.

His first bout of the night will be against Wayne Brooks who is 5-2-2 with 2 KO’s. On paper, this should be a walk in the park for Hide, in fact if it was not for Prizefighter this fight would never have been made in the first place. Brooks’s biggest achievement of his career has been that he fought for the Welsh area light heavy title, and lost in a close fight.

That is the beauty of Prizefighter; what at first may seem like a mismatch often ends up being an upset. Who would have expected Danny Williams to have been blown away by Carl Baker in the Heavyweight Prizefighter last year? More...

In a shocking upset, Mexico's Fernando Montiel unseated reigning WBC bantamweight champion Hozumi Hasegawa today at Nihon Budokan in Tokyo.

Montiel, who had previously held the WBO flyweight and super fly titles, moved up to 118 pounds in 2008, capturing the WBO bantam strap in February by defeating Cisco Morales in Las Vegas, NV.

But Hasegawa was a far more difficult target, having seen the WBC crown through ten defenses since winning it four years ago from Veeraphol Sahaprom in 2006.

Hasegawa had improved significantly as a champion, stopping his last five challengers over the course of ten rounds and was the definite favorite going into this hometown defense against Montiel. More...

One of Australia's top super middles was back in action on Thursday as Les Sherrington won the biggest fight of his eight year pro career.

27 year old local man Sherrington was all business against America's Rubin Williams, mounting a surging attack from the first bell that put the visitor on the defensive.

Williams could have been biding his time, waiting for Sherrington to run down but that moment never came as a bad cut suffered by the Michigan native forced a halt to the proceedings at 2:57 of the fourth frame.

Sherring was ahead on all three scorecards by a margin of 30-27 and successfully defended his PABA and WBF crowns, raising his record to 26-5 (17).

Williams, who came into the contest overweight and therefore unable to capture the belts had he won the bout, loses for the seventh straight time, falling to 29-9-1 (16). More...

Just shy of his twenty-first birthday, Mayweather Promotions rising star, Jesse Vargas (9-0, 4 KO's) prepares to defend his undefeated record in a showdown with Arturo Morua (25-13-1, 14 KO's) in a non-televised undercard bout on the highly anticipated Mayweather vs. Mosley: Who R U Picking? mega-fight night on Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

With an impressive amateur career including an appearance in the 2007 National Golden Gloves Tournament and a spot on the 2008 Mexican Olympic Team, Vargas is a fighter to keep an eye on. Relatively new to the boxing scene, the junior welterweight is quickly making a name for himself as he stands undefeated with nine wins, four of which were by knockout. More...

Six talented, promising super middleweights will be featured on ShoBox: The New Generation at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast, tonight live on Showtime at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago.

In a battle of unbeaten, world-ranked 168-pounders in the 10-round main event, Marcus “Too Much” Johnson (18-0, 14 KOs), of Houston, Tex., takes on Derek “The Black Lion” Edwards (25-0, 13 KOs) of Winston-Salem, N.C. More...

Before their appearance on Saturday's Shane Mosley vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr fight card at MGM in Las Vegas, NV, the undercard boxers met the media.

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez: "I'm happy to be here and eager to get in the ring. I have a lot of respect for my opponent, but like everything, I come to win. I will prove to the world who is the better man. I am very motivated to give the American fans a glimpse of Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez. More...

Cuban sensations Mike “The Rebel' Perez and Luis “The Lion” Garcia will finally make their ring returns in Limerick on May 15th on the Yanjing Fight Night.

The event at the University Sports Arena is headlined by Andy Lee's clash with former European Champ and Knockout artist Mamadou Thiam while reigning World and European Lightweight Champion Katie Taylor features in an international amateur contest. More...

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Welshman Wayne Brooks is confident he can stun the boxing world and defeat former WBO heavyweight champion Herbie Hide on Friday.

The pair are two of the eight contenders in Barry Hearn’s latest one-night Prizefighter tournament - Cruiserweights II – at the York Hall in London’s East End. More...

On Friday, April 30, boxing's young guns will descend on Tropicana Las Vegas, NV.

Former U.S. amateur standout Frankie Gomez, 2008 U.S. Olympic Heavyweight Bronze Medalist Deontay Wilder and Puerto Rican powerhouses Juan Carlos Velasquez and Abner Cotto take to the ring for an exciting night of boxing which is headlined by the "Solo Boxeo Tecate" main event between former Three-Time World Champion Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero and Roberto Arrieta. More...

If "The Weight Is Over” headliners Paul “The Punisher” Williams and Kermit “The Killer” Cintron are as accomplished at making predictions as they are with their fists, then “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather’s perfect record will be a thing of the past come this Saturday night in Las Vegas.

“The two proclaimed best welterweights in the world fighting Saturday night aren't the best welterweights in the world -- Paul Williams is the best,” declared the ever self-assured Williams (38-1, 27 KOs), who has challenged both of them on multiple occasions. More...

European title challenger John Murray is hoping that by next weekend that the City of Manchester will have two reasons to celebrate.
Next Friday (7th May) the British Lightweight Champion will be challenging Gary Buckland for the vacant European lightweight title live on Sky Sports 1 HD from 10pm. The event will take place at the Kingsway Leisure Centre, Widnes. More...

Is the Super Six Tournament Lucian Bute’s blueprint to the super middleweight throne?

It is good to be a super middleweight these days. The division while having some great fighters throughout its years such as James Toney, Roy Jones Jr, Michael Nunn, Joe Calzaghe, Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn, for some reason has failed to keep up momentum like the welterweight, middleweight or even light heavyweight divisions.

Reasons such as not enough elite fighters campaigning at once, fighters at the tail end of their careers, hopefuls that never panned out or ones that even after becoming title holders remained fairly obscure to the mainstream media of the sport have all at one time or another helped hinder the division from being “The” place to be, even if for a short period of time.

Even when big name fights such as Jones vs. Toney or Eubank vs. Benn did take place nothing followed up to keep the public's interest peaked.

When Joe Calzaghe, who will probably go down as the best 168lb fighter in history due to his longevity and dominance as champion, took leave in 2008 in search of Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr at light heavyweight, many thought the weight class would once again fall into obscurity, putting the divisions top spot into the hands of long thought of number two man Mikkel Kessler.

While Kessler failed to pick up the momentum, Calzaghe had built himself and went about his business fighting second tier opponents forced upon him by the WBA, severe critics began to believe the division would once again fall into disarray and turn into an open season for the top spot with no one really good enough to truly claim what Joe had left behind or worse yet top fighters of the division would begin to abandon the weight class all together looking for broader horizons. More...

Former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli's massive one punch power gained the Welshman the European title in Saint Petersburg, Russia on Tuesday.

Maccarinelli, 32-4 (24), needed less than a minute to stamp out the aspirations of local hero Alexander Kotlobay, 18-2-1 (12), and capture the Continental crown via first round stoppage.

It was a night of fireworks at Yubileiny Sports Palace as there were two additional first round knockouts in title bouts.

Light heavyweight Dmitry Sukhotsky, 15-1 (10), finished off veteran Pablo Daniel Zamora Nieves, 24-8-1 (15), to annex the vacant IBF International strap while welterweight Sherali Mamadaliev, 11-0 (6), made short work of Belgian lightweight Herve De Luca, 15-5-1 (7), for the PABA and WBO European welter belts.

With Saturday's big fight night looming between Shane Mosley and Floyd Mayweather Jr at the MGM Casino in Las Vegas, NV,, the combatants took time out from their busy schedules to meet the media once again.

Floyd Mayweather: "It's been a tremendous camp. Roger [Mayweather] has done a tremendous job getting me ready for a fight of this magnitude. I know what it takes, hard work and dedication, prayers and belief in a good team. More...

After a long absence boxing returns to Tropicana Las Vegas on Friday, April 30 featuring three-time World Champion, Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero vs. Roberto David Arrieta. More...