In the opening months of the current calendar year, it has been the talent rich Lightweight division which has been attracting the most amount of media attention here in the United Kingdom more than any other division here to date, whether it be domestically or on the world stage. The year of the Lightweights started…
Recently, it was announced that Olympic Gold Medallist of the Beijing Olympics and former European and British Super-Middleweight James DeGale has joined Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Sport Organisation and will also feature on the Carl Froch vs. George Groves rematch at Wembley Stadium on the 31st May. Matchroom Sport is the third major British boxing promoter…
This week it has been announced that Londoners Kevin Mitchell and Anthony Joshua shall be featured on the bill of Carl Froch’s much anticipated IBF and WBA Super-Middleweight title clash with domestic rival George Groves which takes place on the 31st May at Wembley Stadium. The 29 year old Mitchell, who is a former British…
Tonight at the MGM Grand, one of the great Basilicas of World boxing, a pugilistic civil war shall take place between two Mexican warriors aiming for redemption, and maybe even greatness. In one corner stands Saul Alvarez, whose last visit to a boxing ring saw him dethroned and mastered by the best pound for pound…
While his elder brother and retired former WBC title holder Vitali Klitschko campaigns for political change in their native Ukraine, younger Klitschko brother Wladimir, who holds the WBA, WBO, IBO and IBF Heavyweight belts, has announced that he will return to the ring on the 26th April in Oberhausen, Germany’s against the World Boxing Organisation…
Tonight in front of a sold out Phones 4U Arena (formerly known as the Manchester Evening News Arena) in Manchester, at the top of a stacked Matchroom Sports card, one of the most eagerly anticipated match ups in British boxing will take place between two of the best Super-Middleweights, not just in Britain, but in…
Earlier this week it was announced that rising British Heavyweight star Anthony Joshua has been forced to pull out of his forthcoming contest against Argentine journeyman Hector Alfredo Avila with a torn bicep. The match up, which would have been over six rounds on the bill of Carl Froch’s grudge match against fellow British Super…
Yesterday, the winner of the purse bid between Finchley’s Dereck Chisora and Liverpool’s David Price was reported widely in the media as the promotional and managerial backers of the Zimbabwean born Chisora. Chisora is a former World title challenger, ex-British and Commonwealth Champion, who is now the holder of the Heavyweight Championship of Europe. Price…
Recently it has been announced that the former WBO Light-Heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly will return to the ring on the 30th November at the Copper Box Arena at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to challenge the Australian, Daniel Ammann, for the vacant Commonwealth Cruiserweight title. The 26 year old Welshman, who has held the British, Commonwealth…
Within the past two weeks, American two weight world champion Timothy Bradley successfully retained his WBO Welterweight title against the Mexican legend Juan Manuel Marquez at the Thomas and Mack Centre in Las Vegas. It was second time Bradley defended his title, the first being against the Freddie Roach trained Russian crowd pleaser Ruslan Provodkinov….
After months of speculation, it has been announced that Liverpool’s current British and Commonwealth Heavyweight champion David Price has recruited Adam Booth, “the Dark Lord of British Boxingâ€, and the current trainer of two-weight world champion David Haye, to be his new trainer. The decision comes after Price decided to leave his long time trainer…
A date and venue has been confirmed for Tony Bellew, the former British and Commonwealth Champion, and his mandatory challenge of Adonis Stevenson’s WBC light heavyweight title. Bellew was recently an interested spectator ringside in Montreal, Canada to see Stevenson display a previously unseen side to his boxing ability in his seven round demolition of…