Scott Lawton insists champion Jon Thaxton’s home crowd will not intimidate him in his British lightweight title challenge on the Hennessy Sports and GoldenPalace.com “Showdowns @ The Showground’ event in Norwich on Friday 16th March. The Stoke challenger expects to have a loyal army of over 100 fans down from the Potteries for his first…
Sultan Ibragimov (19-0-1, 16 KO’s), 221 pounds, of Russia (left) and Mexico’s Javier Mora (23-3-1, 17 KO’s), 256 3/4 pounds, weigh in for Saturday’s heavyweight main event at Madison Square Garden (Thursday afternoon). Seminole Warriors Boxing and Golden Boy Promotions will present the fight Click for larger image© Wray Edwards card at New York City’s…
All tickets have been sold for the “Erin Go Brawl” pay-per-view show on March 16, featuring “Ireland’s” John Duddy and Anthony “The Bullet” Bonsante, live from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Duddy (18-0, 15 KOs), rated No. 7 by the WBO and No. 9 by the IBF, defends his IBA…
This Saturday night in Reading PA, Travis “GW Hope” Kauffman plans to kick off a major 2007 with a bang. At 7-0 with (5 KO’s), the undefeated heavyweight prospect is looking at 10 fights by December and multiple TV dates. This Saturday night at the Riversedge in Reading PA, “GW Hope” takes on the hard…
Welterweight prospect Jeffrey Resto will take on Roberto Valenzuela in a special attraction bout at March Mayhem on March 16 at Cicero Stadium, it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions. Resto, from the Bronx, New York, sports a record of 19-2 with thirteen knockouts,
Former IBF light heavyweight champion Henry “The Gentleman” Maske has come out of his 10-plus year retirement to fight the only man ever to defeat him as a professional, five-time world champion and reigning WBA cruiserweight title-holder Virgil “Quicksilver” Hill, on March 31 in “The Rematch” pay-per-view event at Olympia Hall in Munich, Germany.
Former standout amateur Sam Sexton insists he can be the new face of British heavyweight boxing and give the domestic division a much-needed boost. The Norwich fighter is in Germany sparring with Richel Hersisia, the Dutchman who was out-pointed by London’s 2000 Olympic gold medallist Audley Harrison in 2004, ahead of his fifth professional fight…
Opportunity Knocks for 12 fighters who appear on the Simone Maludrottu vs Ian Napa support card at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre in London on Friday 9 March. Maludrottu and Napa meet to decide the European Bantamweight title on a card that includes the much hyped fifth professional appearance of Scott Belshaw, “The man who was…
Gallagher’s Steak House in midtown was the packed venue to get fight week underway, as the Russian heavyweights head to Madison Square Garden’s Theater this Saturday night, March 10. Sultan Ibragimov (19-0-1, 16 KO’s) will be in the main event against Mexican star Javier Mora (21-3-1, 17 KO’s), while Roman Greenberg (24-0, 17 KO’s) takes…
Unbeaten cruiserweight B.J. “El Peligroso” Flores has positioned himself to crack the top 15 ratings in boxing’s major organizations, primarily based on his last four performances against quality opponents, registering a pair of first-round TKOs and two unanimous 12-round decision victories.
Unbeaten middleweight Tarvis Simms will face Canadian Daniel Stanisavljevic in the main event of “March Badness at the Riveredge” in Reading, PA on Saturday March 10. Tarvis, the identical twin brother of WBA light middleweight champion Travis Simms, is coming off a 23 month layoff due to legal problems with his former promoter.
Edgar Santana (20-2, 13 KO’s), the popular fixture on Broadway Boxing, makes his return to Madison Square Garden this Saturday night, March 10, as one of the co-features on the Ibragimov-Mora fight card. “El Chamaco†has reeled off fourteen straight wins in New York and has his sights set on his fifteenth consecutive victory on…