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Dmitry Salita’s Star of David Promotions hosted a seven bout amateur and professional card at Oceana Hall in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn on Wednesday evening, July 20, 2011. The first three amateur bouts on the card supervised by USA boxing were good matchups and very competitive. Unfortunately, the pro card lacked …

Hatton Promotions super-featherweight star Gary Buckland will challenge Gary Sykes for the British super-featherweight title at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge Centre on Saturday 24th September. Besides the highly anticipated domestic title showdown the bill will feature some of the Steel City’s finest prospects and is certain to be a sell out. …

WBA light flyweight king Roman “Chocolaito” Gonzalez kept his title last night with a scintillating performance at Plaza de Toros in Cancun, Mexico. The undefeated 24 year old from Managua, Nicaragua had already defended the WBA minimumweight strap three times prior to capturing the light fly crown in March of …

Just steps away from where all the action will take place one month from now at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Joseph King Kong Agbeko and Abner Mares took part in a spirited press conference Thursday at Muse Hall. The press conference was well attended by a …

Busy WBO cruiserweight king Marco Huck steps thru the ropes for the fourth time in less than a years’ time as he faces the challenge of South American veteran Hugo Hernan Garay on Saturday. Huck, 32-1 (23), makes a rare appearance in Munich as the 26 year old is expected …

Hatton Promotions have shown their ambition by winning the purse bids for two eagerly anticipated domestic title fights. They have won the bids for Gary Sykes’s British super-featherweight championship defence against Gary Buckland and Anthony Crolla’s British lightweight title showdown against Scottish ace Willie Limond.

WBA super fly champion Hugo Fidel Cazares lived up to his nickname “El Incredible” last night at Plaza de Toros Eduardo Fontanet in Mazatlan, Mexico. The 33 year old southpaw was fighting in his home state of Sinaloa for the first time in eight years and in Mexico for only …

Although they were kept apart and at opposite sides of the building, the bad blood and war of words between unbeaten WBA lightweight champion Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios (27-0-1, 19 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., and two-time world title challenger Urbano Antillon (28-2, 20 KOs), of Maywood, Calif., continued during a …

Gary Buckland believes his victory on the Saul Alvarez-Ryan Rhodes undercard is the boost he needed to defeat British super-featherweight champion Gary Sykes, again. The Hatton Promotions hopeful outpointed local Jose Roberto Gonzalez on the bill in Guadalajara earlier this month. Buckland, 25, is back home in Cardiff waiting for …

WBC lightweight champion Humberto Soto engaged in a no-holds barred thriller last night with challenger Motoki Sasaki, keeping his title at Parque Andres Quintana Roo in Cozumel, Mexico. 35 year old challenger Sasaki came into the bout as reigning OPBF light welter beltholder but the veteran had also held the …

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 …