© Gianluca ‘Rio’ Di Caro NABA Light Heavyweight Champion, Yusaf Mack, 25-2-2 (15), returned to his former home gym, The James Shuler Memorial Gym, this week to undertake his final preparations with his former manager/trainer Percy ‘Buster’ Custus for this Friday’s title defense against fellow Philadelphian, Omar ‘Pit Bull’ Pittman 15-4-1 (8), at the National…
Today at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, RI, Demetrius Andrade held a press conference officially announcing the launch of his professional career in front of a standing room only audience. On hand were many of Demetrius’s family and friends, along with a strong contingent of Providence’s high-end officials and politicians, including Mayor Cicilline and…
Tickets to “The Dream Match”, the 12-round welterweight super fight between six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya and boxing’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter Manny Pacquiao, are already gone just hours after going on sale today, making the almost 16,000-seat arena a complete sellout with a gross gate of almost $ 17.0 million, making it…
Banner Promotions president Arthur Pelullo and Golden Gloves president Rodney Berman will present a sensational world championship fight card on Thursday, October 23, 2008, in the Pend O’reille Pavillion at Northern Quest Casino, located at North 100 Hayford Road in Airway Heights, Washington. The main event and co-featured bouts will be televised live on the…
Jon Thaxton is promising to show why he can still become a genuine world title contender when he boxes Juan Carlos Diaz Melero for the vacant European Lightweight title at Norfolk Showground in Norwich on Saturday, October 4, 2008. The former British champion last fought in a European title fight and after a courageous effort…
Two-time Nigerian Olympian Eromosele “Bad Boy†Albert and Ghana-native Ossie Duran fought to a 12-round draw in their IBF Continental Africa light middleweight title bout last night headlining an abbreviated “KnockOut Poverty†pro boxing card, presented by Bob Duffy’s Ring Promotions, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan.
WBO # 10 welterweight contender and former European champion, Christian Bladt, 34-10-1 (10), will defend his WBO Intercontinental title for the first time on November 28, when he takes on Italian challenger Sven Paris, 24-3-1 (16), in Frosinone near Rome on a show promoted by Conti Cavini Boxe.
By Per Ake Persson Wiking Box Team promotes a show in Greifswald / Wusterhusen in the north of Germany on September 27. In the main event, Thomas Troelenberg squares off against Steve Klockow in a German title fight at middleweight. On the undercard, heavyweight Konstantin Airich returns after the loss to Danny Williams and faces…
Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES) has promoted eight shows this year in three different states, including four broadcast nationally on ESPN, in order to build a foundation for world and regional title runs by its fighters in 2009.
Ronald Hearns, 20-0-0 (16), is scheduled to lace up the gloves against Paul Clavette, 14-1-1 (2), on Friday, October 24 at the Bell Centre in Monreal. Hearns earned a TKO1 victory over Alexander Pacheco Quiroz, 14-7-1 (4), last week to set up the October 24 clash. This bout will be the main support to the…
IBF All-African Light Middleweight Championship Eromolsele Albert: 153 lb Ossie Duran: 153 lb
Four undefeated rising stars hope to excite and impress Friday, Oct. 3, on ShoBox: The New Generation when highly touted welterweight prospect “King†James De la Rosa takes on Baltimore ’s own Tim “Pit Bull†Coleman, and local favorite Fernando Guerrero battles Pittsburgh middleweight Tyrone “TT†Watson. Showtime will televise both bouts live at 11…