Ahead of the Gary Shaw Production event tonight at Terrible’s Primm Valley Resort and Casino, the principal boxers all made weight yesterday.
Light middleweights, 10 rounds
Alfredo Angulo: 155 lb
Gabriel Rosado: 154 lb
Super middleweights, 8 rounds
Anthony Dirrell: 166.5 lb
Alfredo Contreras: 166 lb
Heavyweights, 8 rounds
Travis Kauffman: 224.5 lb
William Shanahan: 245 lb
#SpenceCrawford, July 29 on PPV Order on SHOWTIME PPV: https://pbcham.ps/SpenceCrawfordPPV-YT Order on PPV.com: https://pbcham.ps/SpenceCrawfordPPVcom Watch the Errol Spence Jr. vs Terence Crawford OFFICIAL WEIGH-IN live at 6pm ET/3pm PT. FIGHT NIGHT DETAILS: Spence vs. Crawford will see unified WBC, WBA and IBF Welterweight World Champion Errol “The Truth’’ Spence Jr. take on WBO 147-pound world…
After a stirring seventh round TKO of Howard Eastman on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights last weekend, top middleweight contender Edison “Pantera†Miranda is eager to take the next step in his career and bring home a world championship. “I predicted a knockout of Howard Eastman on March 24th and I delivered one,†said Miranda, now…
The 2004 Olympic Games Gold Medallist, 2009 Prospect of the Year and WBA #3 contender, Yuriorkis Gamboa, 14-0 (12), of Miami by way of Cuba, will face second-ranked Jose “Cheo’’ Rojas, 25-6-1-1(17) of Caracas, Venezuela, for the interim WBA featherweight title tonight on ShoBox: The New Generation on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on…
Unbeaten Cuban bantamweight Alexei “The Hurricane†Acosta, now fighting out of Ireland, will cross the Atlantic Ocean later this month to prepare for his United States pro debut in 2010. The 21-year-old Acosta defected from Cuba in 2008 and signed a managerial contract with Cork, Ireland-based Gary Hyde, president of Nowhere To Hyde Promotions.
On March 27, Ahmet Öner’s Arena Sports Promotion will team up with major TV station SAT.1 for the first time for a big show in Hamburg, Germany featuring the heavyweight rematch between German prospect Steffen Kretschmann and Russian veteran Denis Bakhtov and the return of featherweight phenomenon Yuriorkis Gamboa to Hamburg where his pro career…
“Armed and Dangerous? He’s more like Armed and Shameless” Apparently, word of boxing’s best kept secret made its way to Robert Allen’s training camp. The former world title challenger abruptly withdrew from next week’s scheduled showdown with Jameson “Jamie Kang” Bostic, Team Bostic found out earlier Wednesday. Surely, Allen (38-5-0-1 NC, 27KO) has a good…