This Monday, January 19, 2015, Southeast Washington, D.C., resident Dusty Hernandez-Harrison, the current WBC Continental Americas and WBC Youth Welterweight Champion, will participate in the Global Peace Makers 8th Annual MLK Peace Walk in his hometown. “It’s pretty cool to be a part of something honoring MLK and his vision,†Hernandez-Harrison said. “My mom is…
Boxing legend Bernard Hopkins is known by many names – “The Executioner,” “The Alien” and “B-Hop” to name a few. Beginning today, he will have yet another moniker – “50-year-old.” This is an important milestone in the life of the future Hall of Famer. He is celebrating a birthday that for most athletes comes long…
For many years, Showtime sports photographer Tom Casino has artfully captured the seminal moments of athletic competitions and focused too on the needs and well being of others. Now he needs our help. Back surgery last summer, then a near-lethal pulmonary embolism and a debilitating stomach virus called c.diff, have depleted Tom’s assets, the misery…
Stiverne vs. Wilder, a 12-round fight for Stiverne’s WBC Heavyweight Championship takes place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, is co-promoted by Don King Productions and Golden Boy Promotions and sponsored by Corona and Mexico – Live It To Believe It!. In the 12-round co-feature, unbeaten WBC Super Bantamweight Champion Leo Santa…
Prospect Boxing today confirmed their first show in 2015 at the Fauldhouse Miners Welfare, in Fauldhouse, Scotland, where local fighter Sean Watson will return to action for the first time since August 2013, when he picked up a points win over James Ancliffe. The card also marks the return for Edinburgh’s Lee Redpath, while Livingston’s…
Dmitry Salita announced today that the WBU America’s Featherweight Title will be up for grabs as an added co-feature to his popular Brooklyn Brawl Boxing Series. Floriano Pagliara, The popular Italian boxer from Cecine, Italy and now residing in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, will take on slick-moving Antwan Robertson from Minnesota.
Rising heavyweight prospect Hughie Lewis Fury aims to make up for recent inactivity with an impressive performance against Ukrainian puncher Andriy Rudenko on February 21 in Monte Carlo. Hughie, cousin of Tyson, has been sidelined since May due to illness, but is now back firing on all cylinders and ready for the biggest test of…
This past Friday night at the Madison Square Garden Theater, previously undefeated Super Middleweight Jerry Odom suffered his first professional defeat when he was controversially disqualified when he was ruled to have hit Andrew Hernandez while he was down following a knockdown. “Jerry dropped the kid and the referee was way out of position. The…
Martin Murray arrives in South Africa this weekend to set up camp ahead of his February 21 clash with WBC Interim/WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in Monte-Carlo on February 21. The Englishman is in the middle of a 12-week training programme his advisor Andrew Mikhail describes as “pure hell†in anticipation of the toughest fight…
We are staging a group photograph for anyone who has boxed or trained at the Empire Boxing Club over the past 50 years on Saturday 17th January at 11.00am outside the boxing gym. This will commemorate the closing of the boxing club that has been a presence in St. Paul’s for 50 years.
WBC heavyweight champion Bermane “B. Ware” Stiverne (24-1, 21 KOs) has trained to hurt, not just knockout, undefeated, mandatory challenger Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs), January 17 in his first defense of the Vitali Klitschko-vacated title he captured last May with his sixth-round technical knocked of Chris Arreola (35-4). The 12-round Stiverne…
Maryland’s undefeated Junior Middleweight prospect, Alantez Fox (13-0-1, 4KO’s), makes his return to the ring on Friday, January 9, 2015 against Patrick Day (9-0-1 5KO’s) from Freeport, NY. The eight-round bout will take place live on Showtime’s ShoBox: The New Generation, at the Morongo Resort and Casino in Cazabon, California. The bout will be promoted…