Tag Archives: ESPN2

Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing has put together a stellar Friday Night Fights undercard for tomorrow night’s ESPN Friday Night Fights event at the Mohegan Sun Arena. ESPN Friday Night Fights is headlined by a sensational ten round IBF North American Junior Middleweight Title clash between longtime New England fan favorite …

Former US Olympian and amateur World Champion Demetrius Andrade (14-0 9KO) takes on rugged Mexican warrior Saul Duran (38-18-2 31KO) in a 10 round Jr. Middleweight contest tonight at the annual “Fight to Educate Night” at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH.

Notre Dame Boxing Champion Mike Lee was welcomed this past Wednesday night along with numerous world class athletes from the Houston area at the sixth annual “Gathering of Champions”, benefiting Houston Children’s Charities. Among the other champions of sports gathered were baseball legend Nolan Ryan, pitching great Roger Clemens, former …

Chris Middendorf has launched United Boxers, a new promotional company which will present its first event on Friday, April 15th at the Maryland Sportsplex in Millersville, just south of Baltimore. The inaugural United Boxers event will showcase an All-Star Card of the area’s best young talent including cruiserweight Russ “The …

Emergence as boxing’s next superstar is imminent now that light heavyweight contender, Ismayl “The Black Russian” Sillakh (14-0, 12 KOs) is scheduled to face fellow new contender Yordanis Despaigne (8-0, 4 KOs) in a March 4 main event on ESPN2. This fight features two of the only three undefeated fighters …

2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six” Estrada, one of the most decorated amateur boxers of all-time, has a new lease on his boxing career after undergoing career-changing foot surgery and signing a promotional contract with Boxing 360. “We’re very happy to sign a former Olympian like Jason,” Boxing 360 Founder …

Next Saturday night, August 28th, sensational lightweight prospect Omri Lowther will battle former world title challenger Edner Cherry in the ESPN2 televised main event from the Club Metropolis in Montreal, Canada, it was announced today by Groupe Yvon Michel.

The co-main event for this week’s ESPN2 Friday Night Fights is heating up as prospects Prenice Brewer and Patrick Lopez have engaged in a war of words leading up to their eight round junior welterweight showdown this Friday night, August 6th at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. After hearing Lopez …

The countdown has begun. In just four days undefeated Viacheslav Uzelkov (22-0, 14 KOs) of Vinitza, Ukraine will take on WBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov (9-1, 6 KOs) in the scheduled 12-round main event of the ESPN2 “Friday Night Fights” (10pm ET/7pm PT).

The final press conference for the July 16th Zab Judah vs. Jose Armando Santa Cruz “Brick City Boxing Series” show at Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, was held at the impressive Global Boxing Gym, North Bergen, NJ. Here are quotes from the event. Kathy Duva: “Zab Judah started his boxing …

This past Friday night boxing fans were treated to the network broadcast debut of top junior welterweight prospect, Joseph Elegele on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights from the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California. Fighting out of Melbourne, Florida, Elegele faced off against William Walton of Salt Lake City , …

Sensational young prospects Randy Caballero and Gabino Saenz scored first round knockouts this past Friday night in the off-TV portion of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California. After the ESPN2 broadcast went off the air, the loud and proud legion of fans from …