Lee Purdy’s welterweight clash with Carson Jones on ‘Christmas Cracker’ is off after a virus ruled the Colchester man out of the contest. Darren Barker’s middleweight clash with Kerry Hope now tops the bill as a 12-round clash for the IBF Inter-Continental title with the two former European middleweight champions also jostling for position in…
Light middleweight prospect, Keandre Leatherwood (11-1-1, 8 KOs) will be fighting Marcus Primera (20-26-2, 13 KOs) at Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on December 8th. The 6-round bout is contracted at a maximum weight of 159 pounds. In his last fight, Leatherwood recorded his 8th knockout when he floored Marcus Brooks (7-11, 3…
Things didn’t go as planned for Ricky Hatton on his ring return nine days ago, but the Hatton Promotions CEO was boosted by world class performances from Martin Murray and Scott Quigg. Bury’s unbeaten Quigg captured the vacant WBA interim super-bantamweight crown and looked sensational stopping Rendall Munroe in six rounds.
Ireland’s boxers recorded two wins from two at the 2012 AIBA World Youth Championships in Yerevan today, Kurt Walker and John Joe McDonagh advancing in the Armenian capital. Walker, from the Canal BC in Lisburn, eased into the last-32 with an impressive 14-7 victory over Georgian flyweight Giorgi Gabodze.
Showtime Sports will offer a live stream of Friday’s weigh-in for the world championship showdown between Four-Time and Three-Division World Champion Miguel Cotto and WBA Super Welterweight Champion Austin Trout. Fans can go to sports.sho.com/live at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT to watch the fighters hit the scales live from the Affinia Manhattan Hotel…
The professional boxing card originally set for Friday, December 14 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York has been postponed to Saturday, February 2, 2013, it was announced today by Star Boxing and the Times Union Center. “We had a terrific card planned but the main event featuring undefeated world ranked heavyweight Joe…
In January this year Canning Town’s rising Cruiserweight star Wadi ‘Machoman’ Camacho won his first professional fight, beating Northern Ireland based Ugandan Moses Matovu. Just under eleven months later, on Saturday 8th December, the Barcelona born Cruiser Bruiser will step into the ring at the London Olympia for his first Championship title fight, when he…
When Danish promotional outfit Euro Event closes out the year with a show on December 15 at the Gigantium Arena in Aalborg, the card will feature an interesting Light Welterweight fight between Kim Poulsen (21-1, 6 KOs), and Croatian banger Veljko Saponja (8-1-1, 5 KOs).
In one of the most exciting WBF fights seen in decades, in November 2012, Ali “Rush Hour†Funeka, 31-3-3 (25), won a controversial split decision over former two times world champion Zolani “Invincible†Marali, 21-5 (13) to win the vacant World Boxing Federation World Light Welterweight crown.
Former three division champ champ Miguel Cotto and undefeated WBA Super Welterweight Champion Austin Trout face off on Saturday, December 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Miguel Cotto, Four-Time and Three-Division World Champion “Austin’s team mentioned that he went to Panama and beat a Panamanian guy and they were in Guadalajara to…
Top Rank will debut its latest fan-oriented innovation, “Just Watchâ€, a one-hour live stream of a Manny Pacquiao training session, on Friday, November 30, beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET / 2:30 p.m. PT. “Just Watch†will also be simulcast in Times Square on the NASDAQ building screen, which is seven stories tall, encompassing a quarter-acre…
Irish and boxing have been synonymous for more than a century. Undefeated featherweight Patrick “The Punisher” Hyland, one of three prizefighting Hyland brothers, certainly embodies the popular sobriquet, “The Fightin’ Irish.” Dublin-native Hyland (27-0, 12 KOs) plans to continue making Irish boxing history on December 8, when he fights fellow undefeated challenger Javier “El Abejon”…