Tampa based heavyweight prospect Lenroy “TNT†Thomas improved to 11-1 (7) with a four round unanimous decision win over Terrell Nelson on Saturday night at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Fighting on the off-TV portion of the Top Rank produced “Two World Title Fights—One Night†card, the brick house built southpaw Thomas, dominated Nelson,…
Heavyweight sensation Tyson Fury is predicting another explosive performance in Norwich this Saturday night when he features live on the ITV4 undercard of Jon Thaxton’s first European Lightweight title defence. The unbeaten Fury will be going for his third straight win as a pro on the Hennessy Sports event when he takes on Daniel Peret…
European super bantam champion Rendall Munroe puts his top ten ranking in all four major boxing organizations at risk this Friday, February 27 when he meets mandatory challenger Kiko Martinez in a rematch at the Metrodome in Barnsley, England. The pair clashed during an explosive showdown in March, 2008 with Munroe pulling off a shocking…
In a four round super featherweight contest in Baden-Baden, Germany, Gabor Veto from Hungary took on tough opponent Arthur ʽKingʽ Hambardzumyan from Armenia for his professional debut. Veto came off a very successful amateur career, having fought in many EABA tournaments and international championships as a member of Hungarian national team in several countries, clocking…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Tony Oakey is the Prizefighter Light Heavyweight Champion. Oakey, 33, claimed the title with a unanimous points decision victory over Oldham’s Darren Stubbs after a superb final. “I got better as the night went on,” said Oakey, who wins £25,000 for the achievement.
Yuriorkis Gamboa did it again. Arena’s fast rising featherweight superstar scored another impressive KO win, stopping veteran Walter Estrada in only 35 seconds. “El Ciclon†lived up to his name, simply blowing away his opponent with one of his overwhelming combinations. Gamboa went to the body with his left and followed up with a stunning…
If fighting for the prestigious Ring Magazine and IBO Lightweight Championship belts weren’t enough, on February 28 at Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz will also have the vacant WBA Lightweight Super Championship and WBO Lightweight Championship belts on the line in their highly anticipated showdown.
The talent rich lightweight division will be on center stage at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas on Saturday, April 4, as Golden Boy Promotions presents “Lightweight Lightning.” The bill is an unprecedented pay-per-view event that will feature eight elite 135 pounders in four pivotal match-ups that will undoubtedly re-arrange the hierarchy of the…
Sensational lightweight prospect Luis Ramos will next return to the ring on Saturday, March 7 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California on the off-TV portion of HBO’s Boxing After Dark tripleheader presented by Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. The 20 year old Ramos has quickly become the talk of the Southern…
© Lawrence Lustig Tony Oakey has vowed to prove the critics wrong by becoming Prizefighter Champion tonight. Portsmouth light-heavyweight Oakey, 33, has been defeated in his last two fights and lost his grip on the British and Commonwealth belts.
© Lawrence Lustig Courtney Fry has been installed as the bookmakers’ favourite to win Barry Hearn’s latest Prizefighter event tonight. Fry, who claimed a Gold Medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, is the favourite to take the £25,000 top prize in the light-heavyweights competition.
Big time heavyweight boxing will be played out on March 27 when world-ranked contender Eddie Chambers and world-ranked and former WBC World Heavyweight Champion Sam Peter collide in a monstrous heavyweight battle scheduled for 12-rounds on a special edition of ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights†at10:00 pm ET/7:00 pm PT at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live…