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In the main event of a nine bout amateur and professional card by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing held at Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, NY, the perfect professional record of Super Middleweight Bryan ‘The Spartan’ Pappas of Yonkers, New York 12-0 (12) received its first minor blemish. His opponent journeyman …

Hatton Promotions boxer Anthony ‘Million Dollar’ Crolla will challenge John Watson for the vacant British lightweight title in Liverpool on Saturday February 12. Crolla, 24, is stepping up a weight division and accepted the short notice job after Gavin Rees decided to vacate. Although the exciting Mancunian has just two …

Stephan Foster Jr is hoping big fight opponent Ermano Fegatilli isn’t as clever in the ring as he is outside of the ropes. The Belgian is arguably the cleverest boxer in the world, having attained a Masters in Economics with the highest honours at Liege University in 2007. Fegatilli, 26, …

Ricky Hatton believes Hatton Promotions will show it means business with a knockout card to start 2011. British boxing’s most ambitious promotional outfit return to a venue fast becoming their adopted home The Premier Suite at Bolton’s Reebok Stadium on Saturday February 26 with another night of world class boxing.

On Saturday, WBO super feather boss Ricky Burns puts his title on the line for the first time, meeting Andreas Evensen at Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. Burns, 29-2 (7), had labored at domestic level for years, losing a European, British and Commonwealth title tilt to Alex Arthur in 2006 …

Brian Rose plans to emulate Blackpool’s amazing Premier League rise in the boxing ring. Unbeaten Rose (14-0-1) is heading towards boxing’s top flight and is booked to challenge British champion Sam Webb in the autumn. He has a warm up at Huddersfield Leisure Centre tonight when he faces Birmingham’s Max …

Carl Johanneson hopes to put the pressure on British super-featherweight champion Gary Sykes this week. Sykes (14-0) makes the first defence of his British super-featherweight title against Kevin O’Hara (17-5) at Huddersfield Leisure Centre on Friday and former domestic champion Johanneson (28-4) has an outing on the same card when …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Friday night, at the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham, England, Frank Maloney Promotions hosted an action-packed fight-card which headlined two title bouts. Jason Booth (Nottingham) v Matthew Marsh (West Ham) 12 x 3 British & Commonwealth Super Bantamweight Title It was …

The resurgence of Jason Booth continued last night as the British super bantam champion stopped former titleholder Matthew Marsh last night at Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham, England, adding the vacant Commonwealth crown to an already impressive trophy cabinet. It was Marsh leading the way in the early rounds …

Frank Maloney again puts on another good line up of fights after last week’s corker between Ian Napa and Jamie McDonnell and Ashley Sexton against Usman Ahmed. Tonight at Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham, England, Jason ‘2 Smooth’ Booth, 34-5 (14), takes on Matthew Marsh, 13-1 (1), for Booth’s …

Jason Booth insists he will walk away from boxing a happy man if he wins a London belt outright this Friday. Booth, 32, makes the third defence of his British super-bantamweight crown when he faces Matthew Marsh (13-1) at Nottingham’s Harvey Hadden Centre, meaning the belt will be his for …

Carl Johanneson ends a ring exile of almost two years when he returns at Nottingham’s Harvey Hadden Centre this Friday night. The Leeds puncher (27-4) faces Youssef Al Hamidi in his first contest since losing the British super-featherweight title against Kevin Mitchell on March 2008.