WBC Super Middleweight Champ Carl Froch is expecting a full house at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham on October 17th when he kicks off his Super Six World Boxing Classic campaign against unbeaten American star Andre Dirrell. Tickets for the event promoted by Hennessy Sports and Gary Shaw Productions are on sale from 1pm…
WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch recently celebrated his 32nd birthday, but the “Cobra†believes he’s still improving and he has the evidence to back it up. Froch is part of the groundbreaking new Super Six concept which will ultimately crown the World’s best super middleweight and produce a leading candidate for the best pound…
Undefeated super middleweight Andre “S.O.G.†Ward will share the stage with his first Super Six World Boxing Classic opponent Mikkel “Viking Warrior†Kessler on a special Saturday primetime edition of ShoBox: The New Generation, on Showtime. Ward (19-0, 12 KOs) will tangle with Shelby Pudwill (22-3-1, 9 KOs) of McGlauglin, S.D., in a 10-round super…
Talented WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel “Viking Warrior’’ Kessler of Copenhagen, Denmark, will make his eagerly awaited debut on Showtime earlier than expected. One of the early favorites in the upcoming Super Six World Boxing Classic, Kessler (41-1, 31 KOs) will make a mandatory title defense against No. 1 ranked Gusmyl Perdomo (16-2, 10 KOs)…
Last week, I previewed Showtime’s “Super Six World Boxing Classic” and gave my predictions for the first round of fights. When I sat down to write that article, I still felt as though this whole thing wasn’t real. In the back of my mind, I thought that Ken Hershman of Showtime was just playing a…
WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch has laughed off any suggestions that unbeaten American star Andre Dirrell has got under his skin ahead of their opening round Super Six clash in Nottingham on October 17th. Dirrell boasted yesterday that Froch would be his “easiest fight†in the groundbreaking new series which also includes WBA champ…
Recently, it was announced by Showtime that they were putting a super six tournament together, comprising of the six top super middleweights, bar one, a certain Lucian Bute, to face off against each other in order to ascertain the new king of the division. As the WBC and WBA titles are on the line, this…
Unbeaten American star Andre “The Matrix†Dirrell has come out all guns blazing ahead of his Super Six showdown with WBC Super Middleweight Champ Carl Froch on October 17th. Froch will have home advantage for the clash with promoter Mick Hennessy confirming that the fight will take place at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham…
© Winfried Mausolf First off, the boxing community is eternally indebted to Ken Hershman, Showtime’s boxing chief. Consider, for a moment, what he has actually managed to do: six fighters with five different promoters across two continents have agree to a 12-fight, round robin tournament over the course of about two years. It sounds like…
Andre Ward arrived in Berlin, Germany yesterday to participate in the announcement of the “Showtime Sports Super Six World Boxing Classic”. Ward had been ill and was unable to attend the initial New York and Copenhagen press conferences. Said Ward, “I am disappointed that I was unable to make the first portions of the announcement…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Britain’s only reigning World Champion, Carl Froch, believes he can cement his boxing legacy by winning the inaugural “Super Six World Boxing Classic”. The “Cobra†is one of six world renowned fighters that have been selected for a groundbreaking new series which will begin later this year and culminate…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Showtime Sports and six of the best super middleweight boxers in the world converged in New York City on Monday to announce an unprecedented new boxing tournament to be presented by Showtime in the United States and throughout the world on various television networks. The inaugural “Super Six World…