Click for larger image © Karl Stubbs / Impact Boxing By Keith Chadwick Stoke’s lightweight champion Scott Lawton improved his record to 19-2-1 at King’s Hall on Saturday night thanks to a 7th round disqualification victory over Mauritius born Judex Meemea. London based Meemea, who took a 5-5-2 record into the bout, looked to spoil from an…
Fresh off his latest victory in his hometown of Hartford, Connecticut, undefeated Mike Oliver (16-0, 7 KO’s) enters Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, October 28th to battle Adam Carrera (18-1, 8 KO’s) from Cathedral City, California in a 12-round bout for the vacant USBA Super Bantamweight Championship. The undercard features a group of young talented…
On a Maloney Promotion at the GH Carnall Center in Manchester, England Matthew Macklin lunged out of the starting block and began a high pressure assault on British Light Middleweight Champion Jamie Moore that was to last ten rounds. For almost 30 fiery minutes Macklin applied a textbook version of the style taught by his…
Lenny Daws will make the first defence of his British light welterweight title on a Hennessy Sports event at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday 20th October. Sky Sports will televise live. Whilst many new champions look to make a quick voluntary defence, the popular Londoner goes straight in against his mandatory contender…
Hennessy Sports promoted John Murray, who will now campaign at lightweight, has been voted by the Boxing Writer’s Club as “Britain’s Young Boxer of the Year’. “This means everything to me,†said the 21-year-old on hearing the news. “It’s a very prestigious award that is voted for by boxing people who watch the sport week…
“The Contender Special – Put Up or Shut Up” Oct. 14 in Providence & on ESPN2 The Contender I star Peter “The Pride of Providence” Manfredo, Jr. plans to embarrass his bitter Providence ‘hood enemy Joey “KO Kid” Spina on October 14 in the 12-round main event on “The Contender Special – Put Up or…
Rugged British Light Middleweight Champion Jamie Moore puts his cherished Lonsdale Belt on the line tonight against Irish Middleweight Champion Matthew Macklin on a Maloney Promotion from the sold out GH Carnall Centre in Manchester, England. In his second reign as British Champion, Moore, 24-3 (17), puts his title at risk against a bigger, stronger…
Click for larger image © Showtime Boxing In one of two exciting semi-final match-ups, Jean Paul Mendy will take on Henry Buchanan Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, on SHOWTIME at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast) as the “ShoBox†super middleweight tournament continues. In the other 10-round contest from the Chumash Casino Resort in…
Paul Spadafora returns in co-feature Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown, October 20 on PPV Future Hall of Fame boxer “Iron†Mike Tyson kicks-off the “Mike Tyson World Tour,†a series of four-round exhibitions, on an October 20th pay-per-view event also featuring the return of Paul “The Pittsburgh Kid†Spadafora, at the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown, Ohio….
Ricky Hatton’s trainer Billy Graham travels onto hostile ground this Friday when his fighter Matthew Macklin challenges reigning British Light Middleweight Champion Jamie Moore on a Maloney Promotion from the GH Carnall Centre in Manchester, England. Irish Middleweight Champion Macklin may have taken up part-time residence in the British capital of boxing since joining Graham…
Corrales to Face Former World Champion Joel Casamayor on Saturday, Oct. 7, At 9 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING Two boxers with a genuine disdain for each other will duke it out with bad intentions for a third time when Corrales defends his World Boxing Council (WBC) and RING lightweight titles against former world…
Ex-world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield meets opponent Fres Oquendo today at a press conference in Carson, California as “The Real Deal” continues his quest to regain the world title. The two will clash on Friday night, November 10th at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, as announced by Murad Muhammad, promoter of M&M Sports, and…