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Matthew Macklin hopes that the uproar surrounding his controversial points defeat to WBA Middleweight Champion Felix Sturm in Germany at the weekend will decrease the chances of David Haye suffering a similar fate against Wladimir Klitschko in Hamburg this Saturday. Macklin appeared to have done more than enough to rip …

Nineteen-year-old Toka Kahn-Clary, of Providence, qualified to compete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials by capturing a Silver Medal at last week’s 2011 USA Boxing National Championships in Colorado Springs. Kahn-Clary, who now sports a 76-8 amateur career record, travels again later this week to compete in the final Pan-American …

Denver’s Mike Alvarado will risk his WBC Continental Americas super lightweight title, his undefeated record and his Top-10 world rating when he takes on Gabriel Martinez in a homecoming rumble, his first in over two years, on Saturday, July 30, at Softball Country in Denver, CO. The vacant IBF Latino …

© Click the above image for more images from Jane Warburton Last night, at the George Carnall Leisure Centre, Manchester, Steve Wood / VIP Promotions hosted a five-card fightnight. The headliner should have been between Martyn Grainger and Nick Okoth, but a last minute change of opponent saw Grainger facing …

Thursday night, at the Park Hotel, Sheffield (Chesterfield), Richard Poxon hosted a ‘sell-out’ Charity Fund-raising Fight-night and Dinner show. The 3-card event featured local Sheffield boxers and raised money for the Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity. The main event saw Adam ‘The Bomber’ Etches make short work of Bobby Wood …

Middleweight prospect Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (17-0,15 knockouts) will return to the ring on July 16th at the Lobodome in Mazatlan, Mexico to confront his first international contender, Colombian veteran Oney Valdez (22-10-1,16 knockouts), a former world title challenger, who is Ramirez’s most experienced opponent so far. The contest takes place …

NABA Lightweight Champion Logan Cotton McGuinness makes his second title defense this weekend at home in the 10-round main event against veteran Daniel “Canerito” Ruiz on the “Friday Night At The Fights” card at Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The “Friday Night At the Fights” show is presented by …

Promoter Don King has been tenaciously promoting his Saturday fight card in St. Charles—that will make Missouri history with three world championships—but he made time to make sure this fight card will be seen in his beloved Mexico by striking a deal with Mexico’s Cadena Tres (“La Television Mas Abierta …

KZ Event Productions announced today that WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov will make his third title defense July 29, showcased on TeleFutura’s Solo Boxeo Tecate show, live from South Point Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. “ Fire & Fury,” headlined by the WBA/IBA championship showdown between Shumenov (11-1, 7 …

Kell Brook will face Lovemore N’dou in front of a packed crowd at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre on Saturday (June 25) with promoters Matchroom Sport confirming the show is a sell-out. The Steel City show makes it back-to-back sell outs for Matchroom Boxing after the Prizefighter Welterweights II event at …

Over the past few days there have been some highly misleading statements circulating in the media regarding the reason why the planned August 13th rematch between Graham Earl and Michael Katsidis was shelved. Notable scribes around the world have been attributing the failure of Earl-Katsidis II to materialise being either …

On Saturday night close to fourteen hundred hardy souls braved the rain and packed the York Hall to capacity, stormy weather wasn’t going to stop them being ringside, at Spencer Fearon’s Hard Knock Boxing promotions ‘Summer Smash’ event, to watch former Champs Choi Tseveenpurev (WBU/WBF) and Jackson Asiku (IBO) battle …