All the weights and photos from today’s weigh-in at BT Studios ahead of tomorrow’s fight night. WBC Silver Middleweight Championship – 12×3 Rounds @ 160 lbsHamzah Sheeraz – 11 stone 5 lbs 4ozFrancisco Torres – 11 stone 5 lbs 4oz The British, Commonwealth & IBF Intercontinental Super-middleweight Championship – 12 X 3 Minute Rounds @…
THE PRESS CONFERENCE for Saturday night’s bumper show at the Copper Box Arena took place this afternoon at the BT Sport studios, just a stone’s throw from the venue, and the headline fighters joined promoter Frank Warren to exchange some final messages ahead of the weigh-in on Friday. Frank was flanked by top of the…
THE 14-0 CRUISERWEIGHT star and Boxxer Tournament winner Ellis Zorro has signed a promotional agreement with Frank Warren and Queensberry. The 29-year-old is trained and managed by Martin Bowers from the Peacock Gym in Epping alongside now promotional teammates Denzel Bentley, Chris Bourke and Louie Lynn. A jeweller by trade, Zorro entered the tournament staged…
NICK BALL WON plenty of plaudits when he returned home to Liverpool after announcing himself on the big stage last time out in April. After all, the pint-sized featherweight delivered a big contender for performance of the night at Wembley Stadium in front of tens of thousands of people and probably millions watching around the…
By Frank Warren WHEN I LOOK down our stacked card for the bumper show at the Copper Box Arena on Saturday I am convinced that it features a good number of future world champions. I have such confidence in our band of elite young fighters and healthy ticket sales suggest that the fans are getting…
RYAN GARNER HOPES that he is bucking conventional wisdom in successfully adding an overseas holiday to the beginning of his training camp. To be fair to the snapping ‘Piranha’ from Southampton, it was never his intention to slot a trip to Mexico into his schedule, but his holiday was planned for after his scheduled fight…
RISING FEATHERWEIGHT STAR Nick Ball will take on the Namibian Nathanael Kakololo in a change of opponent at the Copper Box Arena on July 16. The ferocious Liverpool puncher will be making a first defence of his WBC Silver title he won by stopping Isaac Lowe at Wembley Stadium in April. Ball was originally due…
HAMZAH SHEERAZ IS back on British soil following his US preparations for his headline act at the Copper Box Arena on July 2 in a challenge for the vacant WBC Silver middleweight title, live on BT Sport. Sheeraz, just 23, takes on Francisco Emanuel Torres in what will be his second fight at 160lbs following…
By Frank Warren THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION is about to get very interesting when it explodes fully back into life post August 20. Three of the belts have effectively been parked up since the end of 2020 when Anthony Joshua recorded victory over Kubrat Pulev in London. After this point, Oleksandr Usyk was the next mandatory…
JOE JOYCE DEMOLISHED Christian Hammer to move to 14-0 and retain his WBO International and WBC Silver heavyweight titles at the OVO Arena, Wembley. Hammer gave it a good bash, certainly in the first round, when he caught Joyce flush on three occasions and had the Wembley crowd gasping. The Juggernaut, however, simply shrugs off…
4 X 3 Minute Rounds Cruiserweight ContestArnold Obodai – To Weigh In Tomorrow 6 X 3 Minute Rounds International Super-lightweight ContestHenry Turner – 141.10LbsJakub Laskowski – 142.2lbs 6 X 3 Minute Rounds Welterweight ContestMickey Burke Jnr – 154.12Serge Ambomo – 152.4 Lbs 4 X 3 Minute Rounds International Light-heavyweight ContestTommy Fletcher – 197 LbsAron Vrnoga…
THE FIGHTING CAST for Saturday’s High Stakes card at the OVO Arena gathered today at Wembley for the final press call before blows are traded live on BT Sport. Joe Joyce and Christian Hammer, Jason Cunningham and Zolani Tete, plus Mark Chamberlain and Mark Vidal fielded the questions and a selection of quotes from the…