Tony Bellew will face Edison Miranda at Alexandra Palace, North London on September 8 in an action packed bill with six title fights live on Sky Sports in ‘London Calling’. The Liverpool fighter tackles the two-time IBF super middleweight title challenger for the WBC International light heavyweight title in a co-headlining show with Darren Barker,…
Turkish welterweight contender Selcuk Aydin presented himself calm and confident at today’s final press conference for his WBC interim championship bout against Robert Guerrero this Saturday at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. Instead of renewing his threat to break Guerrero’s jaw, the reigning WBC Silver world champion said that he was no man of…
After the recent back injury suffered by former WBO Middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (20-0, 15 KOs), WBA Middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (23-0, 20 KOs) will now defend his title against highly regarded Grzegorz Proksa (28-1, 21 KOs) on Saturday night September 1, 2012 as the main event headlining HBO Boxing After Dark.
The much-anticipated showdown between undefeated IBF light heavyweight champion Tavoris Cloud (24-0, 19 KOs), of Tallahassee, Fla., and popular hometown favorite and former WBC light heavyweight titleholder Jean Pascal (26-2-1, 16 KOs), scheduled for August 11 live on Showtime Championship Boxing on Showtime, has been postponed to a later date due to a right-hand injury…
HBO Sports, known for its innovative, award-winning productions, sets the stage for the September super middleweight title fight between Andre Ward and Chad Dawson with the documentary special “24/7 Road To Ward/Dawson” debuts Saturday, Aug. 25 at midnight-12:30 a.m. ET/PT, exclusively on HBO.
Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero and Selcuk Aydin met with members of the media at a final press conference at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 just three days before their 12-round showdown for the vacant WBC Interim Welterweight Championship on Saturday, July 28 from HP Pavilion at San Jose which…
The World Boxing Association family greets the former world champion Ricardo “Finito†López on his 46th birthday. Born in Cuernavaca, Mexico in 1966, Lopez began boxing when he was nine years old, when his father took him to a boxing gym and let him try. He turned pro when he was 19, winning his first…
The Irish boxing squad had a light training session at the Olympic Village this morning as the countdown to the opening bell for the 30th Olympiad begins in earnest. The squad will visit the ExCel, the venue for boxing at London 2012, this afternoon. Irish boxing is on familiar terms with the ExCel as an…
Two days away from another huge, nationally-televised fight, “Hammerin’†Hank Lundy is as relaxed as ever, feeling no pressure whatsoever as he prepares to defend his title and world No. 1 ranking Friday, July 27th, 2012 against Raymundo Beltran at Resorts Hotel Casino. “I’m feeling excellent,†said Lundy, the reigning NABF lightweight champion and top-ranked…
For years, it was Joe Frazier and Sonny Liston. Then along came Bernard Hopkins and Steve Cunningham. Now there’s a new breed of young, up-and-comers in Philadelphia, and three of the city’s brightest will be on display Friday, July 27th, 2012 on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights in Atlantic City, N.J., when Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment…
On Friday, August 10, boxing again returns to Boonton as Aces Boxing Club hosts ‘Back In Black Round II’. The show is a follow-up to their inaugural show held in May, where seven amateur boxers competed for Aces Boxing Club. “The show back in May was great; it gave our boys a chance to fight…
Four-time AIBA World Women’s lightweight champion Katie Taylor has been selected to be Ireland’s flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The Olympic Council of Ireland confirmed this afternoon that the two-time AIBA World female boxer of the year will carry the Irish tricolour in front of Team Ireland…