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Last night at Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, WBO super feather champ Ricky Burns made his first title defense, outpointing challenger Andreas Evensen. Going into the contest, Burns had far more experience on paper than the challenger, who was coming up from limited experience at featherweight and this almost spelled …

On Saturday, WBO super feather boss Ricky Burns puts his title on the line for the first time, meeting Andreas Evensen at Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. Burns, 29-2 (7), had labored at domestic level for years, losing a European, British and Commonwealth title tilt to Alex Arthur in 2006 …

Last Wednesday at B.B. King’s Blues Club & Grill in New York City in a card promoted by DiBella Promotions, Gabriel ‘Tito’ Bracero pounded out an eight round unanimous decision over rough tough Hector Alatorre in a junior welterweight matchup. Bracero, now 13-0 (1), won every round, but the bout …

The Big Three, the ‘60s version of this troika was comprised of golf’s greatest of that era, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. As the 21st century begins its second decade The Big Three has a new generation, boxing superstars Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Sergio Martinez, multi-division …

Last December, Paul ‘The Punisher’ Williams won a majority decision over Sergio Gabriel Martinez in a non-title middleweight bout that many felt Martinez was the victor. This past Saturday the two fighters returned to Atlantic City for what the Spanish call ‘venganza’ (revenge) and what Paul Williams aimed to show …

WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez won his hotly anticipated rematch with Paul Williams in dominant fashion last night at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. The first time these two met, both were on the canvas in the initial frame before continuing a 12 round slugfest that saw former WBO welter kingpin …

Fighting in his native country for the first time, Miami-based prospect Michael “The Brazilian Rocky” Oliveira had a memorable homecoming, knocking-out Junior “Dangerous” Ramos in tonight’s main event, headlining “A Gala Night of Boxing” pro-am boxing card at Espaco das Americas in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “A Gala Night of Boxing, …

Almost a year has passed since Sergio Martinez, 45-2-2 (24), fought Paul Williams, 39-1 (27), in a classic battle that Williams walked away the victor from, through a majority decision. A very much disputed decision I might add, with 114-114, 113-115 and then, randomly…110-119, which is ridiculous! Tonight comes the …

This Saturday undefeated Bayan Jargal (15-0-3, 10KO’s) will face the toughest test of his young career, when he takes on Steve Upsher Chambers (22-1-1, 6KO’s) at the Boardwalk Hall Convention Center in Atlantic City, NJ. The bout, scheduled for six rounds in the jr. welterweight division, will be one of …

Andy Lee, WBA # 9 and WBC # 15 middleweight world title contender will be in action on December 11 on the undercard of the Wladimir Klitschko V Derek Chisora heavyweight world title fight at the SAP Arena, Mannheim, Germany. The Kronk fighter for the past month has been training …

Thursday night, at the Moat House, Festival Park, Stoke, Paul Dykes promoted a dinner show which featured three contests. Headlining the bill, Rob Hunt of Stafford faced Ben Lawler of Skegness for the British Masters Welter-weight Title, but it wasn’t to be the Stafford mans night! Hunt has a disastrous …

Unbeaten junior welterweight prospect Danny O’Connor will be fighting Nov. 20th on a card headlined by the fighter he has been compared to since he was an amateur boxer, Paul “The Pittsburgh Kid” Spadafora. The 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate O’Connor (13-0, 3 KOs) was supposed to fight Nov. 19 …