Former WBA/IBF light welter king Amir Khan burned a few more of his nine lives last night at Sheffield’s Motorpoint Arena, managing to finish the fight on his feet after a knockdown and quite a few shaky moments against opponent Julio Diaz. Working for the second time with Super Middle World Champ Andre Ward’s trainer…
Last night at London’s Wembley Arena, WBO light heavyweight king Nathan Cleverly retained his belt with a 12 round unanimous points verdict over challenger Robin Krasniqi. Krasniqi came into the contest as the WBO’s European titlist but had never faced an opponent at world level, and the gulf in class between the Germany based Albanian…
Draws were the order of the day last evening at Liverpool’s Echo Arena as favorite sons Tony Bellew and Derry Mathews had their homecomings spoiled by performances from Isaac Chilemba and Anthony Crolla. Bellew and Chilemba were tangling for a very high profile prize, with a mandatory title challenge going to the winner of a…
Saturday night at Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, Britain’s Matthew Hatton will contend for the IBO welterweight crown against reigning champion and local man Chris van Heerden. This should be a good clash between two fighters with contrasting styles, van Heerden the southpaw boxer and Hatton the brawler. Van Heerden, 18-1-1 (10), at…
Without a doubt, the Sunday morning headlines heralding Saturday night’s fight results in England contained rather unexpected phrases as Audley Harrison once again managed to pull a Lazarus while David Price proved to be the mountain that couldn’t. Harrison had been selected to participate in the latest Prizefighter heavyweight competition, which was a surprising move…
Irish super bantam phenom Carl Frampton continued his climb to the world stage with a shattering ninth round stoppage of Spain’s Kiko Martinez to annex the European title last night at Odyssey Arena in Belfast. Despite the end result, the bout was difficult, as expected, for the rising Belfast native as the hard-punching Martinez sought…
One brother is 41 and has a thriving second career in Politics while the other is 36 and has recently lost his long-time trainer; will there ever be a better time for Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko to walk away from it all? There has been much talk of a post-Klitschko heavyweight division lately and for…
Let’s welcome in 2013 with a look at what is coming down the pike during this month of January. This Friday, January 4 sees a pair of unbeaten super featherweights who clash for the #2 spot in the IBF rankings at Magic City Casino in Miami, FL. Towering Cuban Rances Barthelemy, 17-0 (11), meets Montreal…
Super middleweight Brian Magee’s big moment in the sun came up last night at Boxen Arena in Herning, Denmark but the Belfast veteran soon encountered stormy seas in the form of local icon Mikkel Kessler. After a three year reign as IBO champ was ended by Robin Reid, and enduring subsequent losses to Vitaliy Tsypko…
American Yusaf Mack didn’t pose much of a threat to IBF super middle champ Carl Froch on Saturday night as “The Cobra” retained his belt at home in front of a packed Capital FM Arena in Nottingham, England. Mack tried to keep the champion at range with the jab but was in trouble as early…
Carl Froch is back in action tonight, fighting in front of a hometown audience for the second consecutive time as the IBF super middleweight champion meets the challenge of America’s Yusaf Mack at the Capital FM Arena in Nottingham, England. Froch, 29-2 (21), is coming off a career best victory in May, belting out longtime…
For a very brief period, Liverpool’s Echo Arena was alive last night with the reverberations of heavyweight David Price’s gloved right hand connecting to the head of opponent Audley Harrison. Undefeated British and Commonwealth champion Price made a mockery of ex-world title challenger Harrison’s challenge in all of 82 seconds, in which Harrison quite possibly…