Ricky Burns can become a three-weight World champion when he takes on Michele Di Rocco for the vacant WBA Super-Lightweight title at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on May 28, live on Sky Sports. Burns can add World title glory at 140 lb to his reigns as WBO king at Super-Featherweight and Lightweight, with the…
Kell Brook says he’s going to take his frustrations out on Kevin Bizier when he defends his IBF Welterweight title at the Sheffield Arena on March 26, live on Sky Sports. Brook makes the third defence of the crown he landed in August 2014, and the second against a Canadian mandatory challenge, as Bizier follows…
Anthony Crolla will defend his WBA Lightweight title against Ismael Barroso at the Manchester Arena on May 7. Crolla won the belt in stunning style at the vaunted Manchester venue in November, folding Darleys Perez in the fifth round of their rematch for the Colombian’s title. The victory capped a fairy tale comeback from the…
Lee Selby will defend his IBF Featherweight title against mandatory challenger, Eric Hunter, at The O2 in London on April 9, live on Sky Sports Box Office. The Welsh ace returns to the venue where he won the title against Evgeny Gradovich in May and it’s his first defence on British soil following his maiden…
Kal Yafai blitzed Dixon Flores inside the opening round of their clash for the vacant WBA Inter-Continental Super-Flyweight title at the Genting Arena in Birmingham on March 5 live on Sky Sports – and now wants to face WBA king Kohei Kono. Yafai raced out of the traps and floored Flores inside the opening 30…
British and Commonwealth Welterweight champion Sam Eggington says he’ll live up to his ‘brawler’ tag and warned Bradley Skeete that he’ll go home empty handed from their clash at the Genting Arena in Birmingham on Saturday night, March 5. Eggington defends his British strap for the second time and Commonwealth belt for the third against…
St. John’s ABC in Chorlton have become the latest amateur boxing club to benefit from the Matchroom Boxing Foundation. Members of the Manchester club were presented with a cheque for £5,000 by promoter Eddie Hearn at the weigh-in at the Manchester Arena last Friday ahead of the World Super-Bantamweight blockbuster between Carl Frampton MBE and…
Sonny Upton feels he has been left in the lurch after a second opponent pulled out against him. The super-welterweight, 26, was originally due to face Matt McCarthy at York Hall, Bethnal Green, this Saturday night, March 5, but the Essex man withdrew due to injury. Bolton’s Rick Godding agreed to step up to the…
Bradley Skeete has told Sam Eggington he’s ready to outbox and outfight him to rip the British and Commonwealth titles away from him at the Genting Arena in Birmingham on Saturday night, March 5, live on Sky Sports. It’s Skeete’s second crack at the belts and the second time he’s faced a fighter from the…
Kal Yafai says he’ll prove that he’s the top Super-Flyweight in Britain when he takes on Dixon Flores for the vacant WBA Inter-Continental Super-Flyweight title and World title eliminator at the Genting Arena in Birmingham on Saturday night, March 5, live on Sky Sports. Yafai can take a huge step towards a World title with…
The fight fans of Belfast and Manchester will roar their man on tomorrow night as Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg clash in their Super-Bantamweight World title unification blockbuster live on Sky Sports Box Office – and Hall of Fame MC Michael Buffer cannot wait to experience another epic British boxing night. Buffer calls the fighters…
Anthony Crolla has backed gym and stable-mate Scott Quigg to KO Carl Frampton MBE in their World Super-Bantamweight title unification blockbuster at the sold-out Manchester Arena tonight live on Sky Sports Box Office. Crolla will be in Quigg’s corner when he meets the classy Belfast IBF champion in the Arena that Crolla landed his own…