Boxing 360 has announced today that it has signed unbeaten welterweight prospect Vitaliy “Demyan†Demyanenko (19-0, 12 KOs) to an exclusive promotional contract. “We’re looking forward to introducing Vitaliy to a big Kazak community in New York City, in addition to Russian boxing fans living there,†Boxing 360 Founder/CEO Mario Yagobi announced.
Matthew Macklin hopes that the uproar surrounding his controversial points defeat to WBA Middleweight Champion Felix Sturm in Germany at the weekend will decrease the chances of David Haye suffering a similar fate against Wladimir Klitschko in Hamburg this Saturday. Macklin appeared to have done more than enough to rip Sturm’s title away in front…
Floyd “Money” Mayweather and “Vicious” Victor Ortiz will hold a special event and evening press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 29 to officially announce their WBC Welterweight Championship fight taking place Saturday, Sept. 17 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Nineteen-year-old Toka Kahn-Clary, of Providence, qualified to compete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials by capturing a Silver Medal at last week’s 2011 USA Boxing National Championships in Colorado Springs. Kahn-Clary, who now sports a 76-8 amateur career record, travels again later this week to compete in the final Pan-American Games Qualifier in Panama City….
Advance tickets are now on sale for the next United Boxers Event on Saturday, July 16th at the D.C. Star Nightclub with another evening of world class professional boxing featuring the area’s finest prospects and contenders. Headlining will be undefeated super middleweight prospect Alexander “The Great†Johnson, 11-0-0 (4KO’s) of Oxon Hill , Maryland with…
Saturday night, former heavyweight title challenger, Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson, added another win to his record, scoring a first round knockout over Harold Sconiers in the main event at the Elder Entertainment Center in Decatur, Georgia. It was the third consecutive win, and second by knockout, since Johnson’s decision loss in his first heavyweight championship opportunity…
Junior middleweight rising star Denis “Da Momma’s Boy†Douglin will return to the squared circle Saturday, July 9 when he battles an opponent to be named at Atlantic City’s famed Boardwalk Hall. The bout will be his first since a shocking defeat against cement fisted spoiler Doel Carrasquillo in February. Since his lone setback, Douglin,…
Denver’s Mike Alvarado will risk his WBC Continental Americas super lightweight title, his undefeated record and his Top-10 world rating when he takes on Gabriel Martinez in a homecoming rumble, his first in over two years, on Saturday, July 30, at Softball Country in Denver, CO. The vacant IBF Latino junior welterweight title will also…
Floyd “Money” Mayweather and “Vicious” Victor Ortiz will hold a special event and evening press conference Wednesday, June 29 in Los Angeles to officially announce their WBC Welterweight World Championship fight taking place September 17. This event, which takes at Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill at L.A. Live on the Patio, at Nokia Plaza, 777…
Middleweight prospect Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (17-0,15 knockouts) will return to the ring on July 16th at the Lobodome in Mazatlan, Mexico to confront his first international contender, Colombian veteran Oney Valdez (22-10-1,16 knockouts), a former world title challenger, who is Ramirez’s most experienced opponent so far. The contest takes place at the semifinal encounter “Mexico…
Floyd “Money” Mayweather and “Vicious” Victor Ortiz will hold a press conference Tuesday, June 28 at Hudson Theater in New York City to officially announce their WBC Welterweight Championship fight taking place September 17. The event will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT. Mayweather, who is…
Top middleweight contender James Kirkland will return to the ring in his home state of Texas on Friday, June 24 and is determined to make a statement against Dennis Sharpe Jr. in their eight-round middleweight in-arena featured bout on a hard-hitting card taking place at the Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, Texas. In the eight…