Any doubts about Martin Murray’s mental state ahead of this weekend’s middleweight championship fight against Gennady Golovkin, boxing’s biggest puncher, can be laid to rest. “This is going to be a war and I’m willing to do anything it takes,†the WBC number one contender has told promoter Rodney Berman. The pair square off for…
World super-middleweight contender ‘Saint’ George Groves has experienced firsthand the quality of reigning WBA Middleweight Super champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin, but insists Martin Murray is the man to test the Kazakh destroyer when they meet on Saturday (February 21) in Monte Carlo. Groves, a two-time world title challenger, spent a week in training camp with…
Newly-crowned WBO Middleweight Champion, Andy Lee, will be in Monte Carlo on February 21 to oversee the WBA middleweight super title fight between Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin and Martin Murray and is keen to face the winner at some point in the next twelve months. Ireland’s Lee picked up his world championship with a stunning sixth-round…
On Saturday, March 14, the historic first Pro/Am boxing event ever to be held in Madison Square Garden will take place. The evening of Irish Boxing will start with the Emerald Society Pipes and Drums leading the FDNY Bravest Boxing team into the ring to take on the the Garda Siochann’ Boxing Club of the…
Celebrated Cuban amateur boxer Marcos Forestal will make his professional debut tonight in a four-round super bantamweight bout against veteran Ignac “The Test” Kassai at 5 Star Banquet Hall in Queens, New York. A three-time Cuban National champion, the 25-year-old Forestal defeated 2012 Olympic gold medalist Robeisy Rameriez 14 months ago in a sensational national…
By Peter Fury Family. It’s the most important thing to me, it’s life’s beating heart, and it means more than all the world titles a fighter can win. Today the Fury family grows stronger as my brother, John, is released from prison following a four-and-a-half year sentence. It’s a happy day, a cause for celebration,…
Paul Smith can settle the score with Arthur Abraham in their WBO World Super Middleweight Championship rematch on February 21 at the O2 World in Berlin, Germany, live on Sky Sports. Smith was left disappointed after finding himself on the wrong end of a unanimous points decision in his first attempt to dethrone the German…
Having spent time with Martin Murray in Johannesburg at the weekend, South African promoter Rodney Berman says he expects a fierce contest when Murray and Gennady Golovkin square off in Monte Carlo for Golovkin’s WBA middleweight super, interim WBC and IBO titles next weekend. Berman’s Golden Gloves is promoting the Monte-Carlo “Thunderbolt†show in association…
On Saturday afternoon, February 28, Carl Frampton will make the 1st defense of the IBF Super Bantamweight title when he takes on mandatory challenger Chris Avalos in a bout that can be seen live and exclusively in the United States on TV Network AWE; A Wealth of Entertainment. The card will originate from the Odyssey…
Keen to make up for lost time, a rejuvenated Hughie Lewis Fury faces Ukrainian Andriy Rudenko on February 21 in Monte Carlo and believes victory will set him up for a big 2015. The talented 20-year-old has been out of the ring since May, due to illness, but is now back to showing his best…
World-ranked bantamweight Lee Haskins looks to steal the show when he faces Omar Lamiri for the vacant European title on February 21 in Monte Carlo. The fight, televised by Channel 5, makes up part of the undercard to Gennady Golovkin’s WBA middleweight super title defence against St. Helens’ Martin Murray, and former European champion Haskins,…
Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) is set to make its debut on Spike TV with a can’t-miss double main event on Friday, March 13 from Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, Calif. culminating with a welterweight showdown between hard-hitting Andre “The Beast” Berto (29-3, 22 KOs) and the always exciting Josesito “Riverside Rocky” Lopez (33-6, 19…