An opponent has been named for welterweight prospect Joseph Judah (5-1, 1 KOs), who appears on the under card of the IBF junior welterweight title fight card, on Saturday, March 5th at the Amerihealth Pavillion at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
Joseph King Kong Agbeko will defend his IBF bantamweight championship against undefeated rising star Abner Mares, who defends his WBC Silver bantamweight championship in the eagerly awaited finals of The Bantamweight Tournament: Winner Takes All on Saturday, April 23 live on Showtime at10:30 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast, from Nokia Theatre L.A. Live…
Former IBF Inter-Continental Super Middleweight title challenger Toks Owoh is set to begin his second campaign for championship glory in earnest, albeit this time in the Cruiserweight division. His opponent, at the Steve Goodwin promoted ‘Unleash The Fury’ event at York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, on Saturday 5th March 2011, will be former Southern…
Saturday night at the Silverdome in Pontiac, MI, WBO light welter champion Timothy Bradley added the WBC belt of Devon Alexander to his collection via tenth round technical decision in a battle of unbeaten fighters. The action started off slowly as both fighters were cautious until Bradley began to find range with his southpaw stance…
Steve “the Canadian Kid” Molitor (33-1-0 12 KO) will not box at the Bell Centre on March 19th as previously expected, due to an IBF technicality. Top Rank had won the November 30th Purse Bid to present the Molitor vs. Takalani Ndlovu (31-6-0, 18 KO) bout, and decided to work together with InterBox to place…
Two of the all-time greatest world heavyweight champions, Lennox Lewis and Larry Holmes, will be special guests supporting their former rival, Evander “The Real Deal†Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 KOs), when the living legend defends his WBF heavyweight title Saturday night against challenger Sherman “Tank†Williams (34-11-2, 19 KOs), live from America’s resort, The Greenbrier’s Colonial…
By Per Ake Persson IBF welter champ Dejan Zaveck. 30-1-1, defends the title February 18 at home in the 14,000-seater Sportpark Arena in Ljubljana, Slovenia. An opponent is yet to be announced. The show is promoted by SES and Zaveck will, as always, prepare in Magdeburg under his trainer Dirk Dzemski.
By Per Ake Persson Belgian “Sugar” Jackson Osei Bonsu continues his way back to the top February 20 with a fight against the ever dangerous to be announced. Then April 1 in Gent the former European welter champ will take on Sweden-based Karlo Tabaghua. Jackson is looking to be back in title contention at the…
Gary Shaw announced today the signing of middleweight prospect and former amateur sensation Kurtiss Colvin to an exclusive promotional contract with Gary Shaw Productions (GSP). Colvin (2-0, 2 KOs), from Austin TX., will make his debut under the GSP banner on Friday, February 4, at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, Calif. He will…
Kathy Duva, CEO Main Events, confirmed, “Contracts have been emailed to Kaizer Mabuza’s promoter, Branco Milenkovic. The contract specifies the Judah – Mabuza IBF Jr. Welterweight title fight will be held March 5th.” According to the rules of the IBF purse bid that Main events won last week, Mabuza has two weeks from day of…
The title defense of IBF, IBO, WBO Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko against British and Commonwealth Champion Dereck Chisora has been re-scheduled for April 30 at SAP Arena Mannheim, Germany. Originally, the fight was supposed to happen last year on December 11, also in Mannheim, but had to be cancelled due to an injury of Wladimir…
WBA heavyweight champion David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye has brandished rival titleholder Wladimir Klitschko a ‘coward’, following the Ukrainian’s decision not to unify the belts in a 2011 showdown. A bout between IBF and WBO kingpin Klitschko and Haye appeared close to completion earlier this week, but Wladimir instead decided to announce an April 30 defence…