British featherweight champion Paul Appleby believes his April 25 challenger Martin Lindsay represents the toughest test of his 14 bout pro career, but is eager to test the Irishman’s resolve with some well-placed body shots. The 21-year-old Appleby, 14-0 (9), will venture to Belfast for “Hayemaker 8” and is confident of retaining his belt, despite…
New York’s most popular fighter, three-time world champion Miguel Cotto, returns to the Big Apple, risking his WBO welterweight title, to take on IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey in a rumble to determine the true world welterweight champion. Promoted by Top Rank, the Cotto vs. Clottey World Welterweight Championship will take place Saturday, June 13…
Newly crowned Commonwealth Welterweight Champion John O’Donnell believes he can follow stablemate Carl Froch all the way to a world title. O’Donnell lifted the Commonwealth title at the York Hall on Saturday night in front of the ITV cameras after a twelve round thriller to take the belt from defending champion, Craig Watson.
Long regarded as one of boxing’s most underrated champions, WBA featherweight champion Chris John showed the world just what he can do on the sport’s biggest stage when he battled Rocky Juarez over 12 exciting rounds in his United States debut on HBO this past February.
Promising prospect Danny O’Connor recently spent 10 days working out at the famed Athletes’ Performance Institute in Tempe, Arizona. Athletes’ Performance, where Boston Red Sox stars Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury trained during the off-season, is home base for numerous athletes in several sports.
© Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro Hackney based Jamaican cruiserweight Bruce ‘Lionheart’ Scott, 27-9 (18), returns to the ring on May 19, 2009 at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, after a three year sabbatical from the sport.
In what will be a brutal battle of pure power punchers, Vic “Raging Bull’’ Darchinyan will attempt to become a world champion in a third weight class when he challenges IBF bantamweight champion Joseph “King Kong†Agbeko on Saturday, July 11, live on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast.
Former WBC Super Middleweight Champion Richie Woodhall believes Carl Froch can pull off a massive win for British boxing by defeating Jermain Taylor in the U.S. on April 25. Froch is the current holder of Woodhall’s old world title belt and the bookies currently have him as an 11/10 outsider to retain the title he…
Super Channel, Hennessy Sports, and Showtime Championship Boxing are proud to bring Canadian fight fans one of the most compelling match-ups of the year. Undefeated WBC Super Middleweight champion Carl “The Cobra†Froch makes the first defence of his title, taking on former undisputed Middleweight Champion Jermain “Bad Intentions†Taylor, live from the MGM Grand…
An exciting middleweight match-up has been added to the Jason Booth vs. Mark Moran British super bantam title card this Friday, April 17 at the Indoor Sports Centre in Leigh, England. Hot prospects Martin Murray, 13-0 (4), and Kevin Concepcion, 14-1 (3), will clash in a scheduled six round bout between two of the most…
A shakeup of the world welterweight rankings took place last night at Sportspalace Drusba in Donetsk, Ukraine as local prospect Vyacheslav Senchenko dethroned beltholder Yuriy Nuzhnenko for the WBA title. 31 year old Senchenko had come into the contest as the unbeaten WBA Intercontinental titlist but was pushed hard last year by 38 year old…
Newly crowned Irish Welterweight champ Stephen Haughian takes to the ring at the York Hall in London this weekend on the undercard to the Commonwealth title clash between Craig Watson and John O’Donnell. The Lurgan man takes on Drew Cambell on the Hennessy Sports promotion, which is being televised on ITV4 from 7:45. Should he…