Olympic sensation and eighteen year old boxing wonderkid Amir Khan is making his transition into the senior amateaur boxing programme in the United Kingdom. Khan has also moved up in weight from the lightweight class, the weight in which he enjoyed his olympic success, to the light welterweight division. Khan has found some rough moments…
Unbeaten heavyweight “Baby†Joe Mesi and former world-class super middleweight/middleweight “Dangerous†Dana Rosenblatt are Thursday night’s (Feb. 10) special guests on the New England Ringside Boxing Radio Show live on WWZN 1510 The Zone in Boston. Mesi (29-0, 25 KOs) talks about his once mercurial career now on hold for nearly a year due to…
Mick “Pony” Shaw is ready to step it up a few notches should he be victorious over Ranee Ganoy this Friday night at the Broncos Leagues Club in their Pacific Lightweight Title bout. Shaw currently ranked among the top Lightweights in Australia realises each fight he takes from now on will need to be against…
Duva Boxing’s trio of young prospects – Kendall Holt, Oscar Diaz and Shaun George – all coming off impressive nationally televised victories in the past week, have established themselves as serious contenders on the fight scene. Holt and Diaz are of particular interest because they fight in the 140-pound division, the hottest category in boxing…
The WBA featherweight title fight between champion Chris John and challenger Derrick Gainer will finally happen in John’s own country of Indonesia in April of this year. Gainer was supposed to have fought John last year but his concerns over heat levels in the outdoor arena in Indoneisa during the fight scrapped the possibility. Now…
British Welterweight Champion David Barnes and challenger Bradley Pryce have come out slugging before their fight at the Kingsway Leisure Centre in Widnes on Friday 4 March. Mancunian Barnes, 27, makes the fourth defence of his title against the tough Welshman and both have opened a war of words that they aim to settle on…
Howard Eastman’s historic showdown with undisputed world middleweight champion and pound for pound king Bernard Hopkins at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles on February 19th is to be featured on both Setanta Sport and the BBC. “I am delighted to officially announce that the country will have a wide selection of media outlets through…
Kendall Holt snapped David Diaz’s head back a number of times before the referee stopped the fight at 2:26 in the eighth round in a junior welterweight tussle Friday on “ShoBox: The New Generation.†In the junior welterweight co-feature from Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., Oscar “El Matador†Diaz out-brawled Al “Speedy†Gonzales over…
Friday night in Florida, Javier Jauregui won a ten-round decision against Cristian Favela by wide margins on all scorecards. Jauregui moves his professional record to forty-eight wins against eleven losses and two draws. Undefeated contender snatched his twenty-second win in a row by stopping Nicolas Cervera in the third round of their fight. At Foxwoods…
The tickets for Fernando Vargas’s long-awaited return to the ring are selling quickly and sales for the event have now cleared the $200,000 mark. Vargas will fight Dutchman Raymond Joval in Corpus Christi, Texas on March 26. Joval has been in with some decent opposition but the fight with Vargas will represent his first step…
Northwest cruiserweight giant slayer, Gary Gomez (13-4-0, 5KOs) will face Rayco Saunders (14-3-1, 6KOs) in the 35th installment of the Battle at the Boat boxing series on a special Friday night edition, February 25th , at the Emerald Queen Casino. The first action-packed bout is scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. Gomez dismantled two undefeated…
Click for larger image© Tom Casino/Showtime Zab Judah weighed 146-pounds and Cory Spinks tipped scales at 147-pounds during Friday’s weigh-in in St. Louis. In the first true championship fight of the year, Spinks will defend his undisputed welterweight title against Judah in the Don King Productions-promoted main event Saturday on SHOWTIME Monte Barrett tipped the…