Hot prospect, Bruno Escalante (8-1-1, 4 KOs) is looking to make a name for himself in the Super flyweight division. Born in Cebu City, Philippines, Escalante now resides in Northern California where he trains with Nonito Donaire, Brian Schwartz and Mike Bazzel.
Scott Quigg, WBA super bantam interim champion and #2 challenger, Yoandris Salinas, reached an agreement for the vacant title bout, thus cancelling the World Boxing Association purse biding. The WBA World Championships Committee had summoned the purse bid for July 15, however, Quigg and Salinas’ representatives announced they had reached an agreement to stage the…
Former referee Mills Lane, who officiated many of the most famous matches in boxing history, has confirmed he will attend the Induction Ceremony and Dinner of the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame Saturday, August 10, at the Monte Carlo Las Vegas Resort and Casino. Lane is one of 19 honorees who will be inducted into…
Finnish southpaw Tuomo Eronen (11-2-0 4 KO’s) is the new opponent for Ermano Fegatilli (27-5-0 5 KO’s) on August 23 at Gents Boksgala XII. Unfortunately, 37 year old Italian fighter Domenico Urbano had to pull out of the originally scheduled eight round attraction due to a sudden denouement in negotiations.
A superfight between Britain’s two best heavyweight boxers will officially be announced this Thursday, July 11, at a press conference in London. David Haye and Tyson Fury, both world-ranked, charismatic and dangerous, have agreed to a highly-anticipated domestic showdown on Saturday, September 28 at the Manchester Arena.
A action packed co-feature has been added to a great night of boxing scheduled for July 26 at the Thunder Valley Casino & Resort in Sacramento, California as part of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights. In the exciting co-feature, it will be a ten round Lightweight bout for the WBO Latino Super Featherweight title as Miguel…
This coming week, three distinguished members of the McGirt / Elite Heat boxing team leave for Mesquite, Nevada to compete in the Jr. National Golden Gloves Tournament. Shakur Stevenson will compete in the 15-16 Year old, 114 pound division. Back in November, Shakur was honored as the Junior Olympic Boxer of the Year by the…
There was almost a promise at hand by Anthony Hardy (1-0-0 0 KO’s) that he’d get the win on Saturday night. He’d back up the investments by his trainers, promoters, and team put into him in the last couple years. He wasn’t going to let one of the most precious moments of his life fall…
The WBC have set a purse bid date of July 26 for Tony Bellew to challenge Adonis Stevenson for the light heavyweight World title.
Tony Thompson made it two for two as he took out former Olympic silver medal winner David Price for the second time in just over three months with a fifth round stoppage at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England. After the chess match of a first round, the second was nothing but action as Thompson…
With the boxing season nearing closing time for a vast portion of the industry, Dave Coldwell has managed to locate a rare moment’s peace to assess the various emotions enjoyed and endured by Coldwell Boxing throughout the last year. Titles were won and lost, prospects tasted victory and swallowed defeat and then there was Kieran…
A press conference was held at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago, home of the Chicago White Sox, to discuss “The Big Fight 2”, taking place on Friday, August 16, 2013