Highly-regarded, teenage welterweight phenom Dusty Harrison (2-0) of Washington, DC will make his local professional debut on the Jimmy Lange Boxing card coming to the Patriot Center on Saturday, September 10. A rising senior at Thomas Stone High School in Waldorf, MD, Harrison, who turned 17 on May 21, will face debuting Josh Rupard of…
On Saturday, August 27th, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing returns to the beautiful Tropicana Ballroom in the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City with co-featured headliners, Vinny Maddalone and Shamone Alvarez. Before those featured bouts take place, Star Boxing’s hard hitting undefeated super middleweight prospect, Jason “Monstruo” Escalera (11-0, 10KO’s) will look to produce some…
“The Boxing Diva†Renee Aiken is set to make her foray into the boxing promotional business as Diva-Rize-N Promotions opens with a blockbuster night of professional boxing scheduled for Saturday night August 27th at the DC Star Night Club in Washington DC.
Chicago boxing fans are anxiously counting down the days to the return of boxing at the UIC Pavilion and with good reason, as Golden Boy Promotions and 8 Count Productions are bringing a sensational undercard to Chicago. The main event pits undefeated former amateur standouts, Frankie Gomez, (10-0, 8 KO’s) of East Los Angeles and…
After traveling the world and doing battle in Denmark, Canada and Germany, fighting brothers Librado Andrade and Enrique Ornelas have one stamp missing stamp in their fistic passports – their native Mexico. On Saturday, August 27, that will be rectified when they fight for the first time in their home country on a doubleheader to…
© Simon O’Connor “This is what we as fighters dream of. It’s what we fight for. This one is for all the marbles.†– Ward “I am not worried about Ward. He has no power whatsoever.†– Froch
Irish team captain Michael McDonagh and George Bates, both of the St Mary’s BC in Dublin, and Stephen Broadhurst got Ireland’s European Youth Championships campaign off to an unbeaten start with three wins out of three at the Citywest Convention Centre in Dublin today. McDonagh, the current Irish Elite champ, beat fancied Russian lightweight Kristian…
On Wednesday night September 14th at the Beautiful Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, Gulfstream Boxing and Gabe LaConte will present a night of world class boxing that has just been enhanced by the announcement that “Irish†Micky Ward and former Heavyweight champion “Merciless†Ray Mercer will be special guests in attendance. In the main event,…
Rayne, Louisiana’s Mason Menard won the biggest victory of his career Friday night at the Cypress Bayou Casino in Charenton, as he scored a fourth round technical knockout victory over battle tested Ghanaian Joseph Laryea to win the vacant UBO Lightweight title. On a show promoted by Boxncar Promotions in cooperation with Big Punch Promotions,…
Following a meeting at the National Stadium in Dublin today the Boxing Council of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association named their Elite squad for the upcoming AIBA World Senior Championships and Olympic qualifiers in Baku, Azerbaijan. Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlon, John Joe Nevin, David Oliver Joyce, Roy Sheehan, Darren O’Neill, Joe Ward, Ken Egan and…
The most feared fighter in boxing’s 135-pound division closed out another stellar season of “Friday Night Fights†on ESPN and, quite possibly, wrote the final chapter of David Diaz’s outstanding career. Philadelphia’s “Hammerin’†Hank Lundy (21-1-1, 11 KOs) defended his North American Boxing Federation (NABF) lightweight title in his first attempt Friday, knocking out Diaz…
Earlier tonight on the 2011 Season Finale of ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights”, 2008 U.S. Olympian, Demetrius Andrade took a step way up in class and won a dominate ten round unanimous decision over tough veteran, and winner of Season 2 of “The Contender”, Grady Brewer.