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**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Seaburn Centre in Sunderland, England, Frank Maloney hosted a fight night headlined by Bristol-man Lee Haskins’ first defence of the British super flyweight title against active duty British Army soldier Ross Burkinshaw of Sheffield. Ross ‘The Boss’ enters …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Yesterday afternoon at the Tower Ballroom in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, PJ Rowson and Errol Johnson of First Team Promotions hosted a six bout fight card. The Tower Ballroom is a great venue located next to scenic Edgbaston Reservoir. The six-contest bill, which …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing On Sunday, at the Liquid Envy Night Club in Luton, England, PJ Rowson and Errol Johnson of First Team Promotions put on another action-packed fight card. The show was headlined by local-man, the former British and Commonwealth lightweight champion Graham Earl, against …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Saturday night at the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, two British boxers fought on an historical boxing occasion due to the number of people that had packed in the venue. Paul Butlin and Michael Sprott boxed on the undercard of the Wladimir …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night, at the Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 61,000 people enjoyed a night of boxing and entertainment in the home of Schalke F.C. It was indeed the biggest and most lavish boxing event I’ve ever witnessed. There were seven fights in total – …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Friday night at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton, England, PJ Rowson and Errol Johnson of First Team Promotions hosted a fight night headlined by a female title bout. The night should have been headlined by local-man Steve Savilles’ defence of the Midlands …

Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade Miguel Cotto proved that he has the heart of a champion retaining his WBO Welterweight title with a hard fought split decision victory over Joshua Clottey in front of nearly 18,000 …

© Mike Worden / Saddo Boxing Moving his way further up the ladder of the featherweight rankings, WBC #3 ranked Juan Carlo Burgos, 22-0 (15), pulled out a scrappy ten round decision over Russia’s Vyacheslav Gusev, 16-2 (3), on Friday night in order to retain his WBC CABOFE title. Dubbed …

© Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing DiBella Entertainment and Winters Boxing brought the fights back to Long Island and the Westbury Music Fair, now the Capital One Bank Theater at Westbury, NY. The action packed card was headlined by Pawel Wolak, whose pressure style of fighting earned him a unanimous …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Sunday afternoon at the Meadowside Leisure Centre in Burton-on-Trent, England, PJ Rowson and Errol Johnson of ‘First Team Promotions’ hosted a fight card headlined by a British Masters title clash. Robert Kenney (Wolverhampton) faced Dale Miles (Alfreton) in the main event for …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Fenton Manor Sports Complex in Stoke-on-Trent, England, Frank Maloney promoted a fight-night headlined by local-man Chris Edwards’ first defence of his British and Commonwealth flyweight titles. Billed as ‘Lord of the Flys’, Edwards faced Derby boxer Usman ‘Uzzy’ …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Colosseum in Watford, England, Hennessy Sports promoted a fight night which would see Darren Barker’s third defence of his Commonwealth Middleweight title, facing Darren McDermott. Darren McDermott, “The Dudley Body Snatcher”, entered the ring to the sounds of …