Scottish Promoter Thomas Melville made his intentions clear for all to see with his debut event on Saturday night, even with seriously major dramas leading up to the event. Heading up the show was Glasgow’s former Commonwealth Champion Craig Docherty against Dundalk, Ireland’s Michael Kelly for the vacant WBU Super Welterweight title. The atmosphere was…
Glasgow’s former Commonwealth Champion Craig Docherty is set to challenge Dundalk, Ireland’s Michael Kelly for the WBU Super Welterweight title, on the Thomas Melville’s Colloseum Promotions “The Comeback” event at the Lagoon Leisure Centre in Paisley on Saturday 15th August. For Docherty it could be deemed a case of back to the future, as back…
Middleweight Matthew Macklin recaptured the European title he never lost in the ring by stopping Shalva Jormadashvili Saturday night at LG Arena in Birmingham, England. Macklin, 27-2 (19), took the fight to the visitor from Georgia, but Jormadashvili, 27-3-1 (19), appeared to relish an old fashioned slugfest as the pair traded shots on a generally…
© Aidan Walsh Reigning European Middleweight Champion Matthew Macklin knows that a win over Uruguayan Champion Rafa Sosa Pintos at the National Stadium in Dublin tonight will take him another step closer to his dream of becoming World Champion in 2010. The combatants weighed in yesterday with Macklin scaling 161.7 pounds and Pintos one pound…
Brian Peters enjoyed a boxing double last weekend with his charges Paul McCloskey and Matthew Macklin both recording impressive British title victories in the UK. He’s hoping to extend that success to a treble on Saturday night when he promotes the Hunky Dorys World Title Fight Night at The O2 in Dublin.
The nightmare of his defeat to Amir Khan continues for Oisin Fagan as a planned appearance on the Hunky Dorys World Title Fight Night at The O2 on March 21 has had to be scrapped. Fagan suffered a broken leg in his defeat to Khan last December and despite having had his cast removed and…
Andy Lee’s disappointment over a scheduled Madison Square Garden date falling through has proven to be short lived after he secured a place on the Hunky Dorys World Title Fight Night at The O2, Dublin on Saturday, March 21. Lee was set to top the bill at the famous New York venue on March 16,…