Boxing News

The principality of Monte-Carlo will be showcased to the world on Saturday with the broadcast of “Thunderbolt”, the tournament headlined by Gennady Golovkin’s WBA middleweight super championship bout against Martin Murray.

Multiple international broadcasters from around the globe have purchased the rights, ensuring maximum exposure for what is anticipated to be Golovkin’s toughest challenge to date.

The unbeaten Kazakh (31-0, 28 KOs), the WBA middleweight super, interim WBC middleweight and IBO middleweight champion, is on an unbeaten 18-bout KO streak and will be looking to extend that against the UK’s Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs), who refuses to simply be an “opponent”. More...

Any doubts about Martin Murray’s mental state ahead of this weekend’s middleweight championship fight against Gennady Golovkin, boxing’s biggest puncher, can be laid to rest.

“This is going to be a war and I’m willing to do anything it takes,” the WBC number one contender has told promoter Rodney Berman.

The pair square off for Golovkin’s WBA middleweight super, interim WBC middleweight and IBO middleweight titles at the Salle des Étoiles concert hall in Monte-Carlo on Saturday. More...

The London Ex-Boxers Association have honored WBA super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg.

The boxer himself made the announcement, and publicly thanked the organization for the award "I feel very proud and honored to receive the award as the British fighter of the year by the London Ex-Boxers Association."

Quigg, 30-0-2, 22 KO’s, is professional since 2007 and was WBA Inter Continental titlist in 2010, interim world champion since 2012 and regular champion since 2013. More...

The upcoming Chinese New Year will begin on February 19, 2015; The Year of the Sheep. But Chinese boxing fans from around the world are hoping it will also usher in the beginning of The Shiming Dynasty.

After winning three World Championships and two Olympic gold medals as an amateur, Zou Shiming, in only his seventh professional fight and 23 months removed from his professional debut, will be challenging undefeated IBF flyweight champion Amnat Ruenroeng. More...

26 year old Billy “The Bomb” Long from Chelmsford in Essex is the latest to put pen to paper and sign a three year deal with leading London Promoter/Manager Steve Goodwin.

Long was a very successful amateur at Hoddesdon ABC where he lost only 2 from 15 contests. Billy reached the semi finals of the ABA and In 2014 Billy won the “King of the Ring” Format in Sweden.

Billy is trained by Jamie Williams at the Legends Gym in Romford. Williams is confident that Long has the credentials to win titles. More...

Martin Gethin believes he is more than capable of causing an upset when he clashes with hometown hero, Tommy Coyle, at the Ice Arena in Hull, live on Sky Sports.

The Walsall boxer travels to the Hull Ice Arena to take on Coyle at the top of the bill and, while the former British Lightweight Champion has been impressed by Coyle’s recent form, he insists he is a long way from being the finished article. More...

World super-middleweight contender 'Saint' George Groves has experienced firsthand the quality of reigning WBA Middleweight Super champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin, but insists Martin Murray is the man to test the Kazakh destroyer when they meet on Saturday (February 21) in Monte Carlo.

Groves, a two-time world title challenger, spent a week in training camp with Golovkin last summer and the pair sparred a number of rounds together. It offered the Londoner the chance to see exactly why Golovkin, 31-0 (28 KOs), is the most feared fighter on the planet right now. More...

Willie Limond will defend his British Light Welterweight title against Chris Jenkins at the First Direct Arena in Leeds on April 11, live on Sky Sports.

Scotsman Limond wrestled the title from Curtis Woodhouse in Glasgow in June, landing a Lonsdale belt at the second time of asking after challenging Anthony Crolla for the Lightweight title back in 2011. More...

Newly-crowned WBO Middleweight Champion, Andy Lee, will be in Monte Carlo on February 21 to oversee the WBA middleweight super title fight between Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin and Martin Murray and is keen to face the winner at some point in the next twelve months.

Ireland's Lee picked up his world championship with a stunning sixth-round knockout of Matt Korobov in December, but knows a future title unification fight could finally crown a true number one at 160 lb. More...

On Saturday, March 14, the historic first Pro/Am boxing event ever to be held in Madison Square Garden will take place. The evening of Irish Boxing will start with the Emerald Society Pipes and Drums leading the FDNY Bravest Boxing team into the ring to take on the the Garda Siochann' Boxing Club of the Irish National Police Force in the 2015 Transatlantic Championship.

The two teams have squared off twice before with each team having scoring one victory. If history repeats itself it will be one heck of a donnybrook. More...

It was a delight for Coldwell Boxing on Saturday night as undefeated Connah Quay’s star, Tom Doran, put on a masterful display to be crowned Prizefighter middleweight champion.

Beginning the tournament as an outsider with both the bookmakers and boxing community, Doran upset the odds on three occasions to collect the coveted crown and a cheque for £32k. More...

Tom Doran put in the performance of his life to stop Cello Renda in the final of the Prizefighter Middleweights III at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool on Saturday night.

Doran carried an unbeaten record into the ring but, only having one fight since May 2011, the Connah’s Quay man was one of the outsiders for the trophy.

The 27 year old put Craig Cunningham down in the opening round of their quarter-final – the fourth bout of the tournament – to land a spot in the semis, where he dumped out pre-tournament favourite Luke Keeler 29-28 on all three judges’ scorecards to set up a meeting with Renda. More...

Goodwin Boxing are delighted to announce that the new ticket website helping boxers sell tickets - has reached over 20 times the sales targets in the first month.

For the first time, a boxing promoter has set up a website where boxers can individually list their tickets at no cost to them. More...

Olivia Goodwin is delighted to announce that the fifth anniversary show of Goodwin Boxing will be shown live on Matchroom Fight Pass and features the best card that the Goodwin’s have assembled in celebration of five years in boxing.

Aptly called “Ultimate Glory”, the joint top of the bill is a British Welterweight title eliminator between Larry “The Natural” Ekundayo (8-0) and Dale Evans (9-1 with 2 draws).

Ekundayo is one of the most talented boxers in Britain. After winning Prizefighter in 2012 Larry only had one professional bout in the 18 months afterward. More...

Celebrated Cuban amateur boxer Marcos Forestal will make his professional debut tonight in a four-round super bantamweight bout against veteran Ignac "The Test" Kassai at 5 Star Banquet Hall in Queens, New York.

A three-time Cuban National champion, the 25-year-old Forestal defeated 2012 Olympic gold medalist Robeisy Rameriez 14 months ago in a sensational national championship final. More...