World Championship boxing returns to Barclays Center when the “The Siberian Rocky” Ruslan Provodnikov makes the first defense of his WBO junior welterweight title and his Brooklyn debut against undefeated world-rated contender and New York product Chris Algieri. Provodnikov vs. Algieri will take place Saturday, June 14 and will be televised live on HBO Boxing…
In a classic bout that lived up to it’s billing, Ruslan Provodnikov won the WBO junior welterweight championship when Mike Alvarado did not continue after round ten of a scheduled twelve round bout at the before 7.012 fans at a soldout 1stBank Arena in Denver, CO. The two slugged it out from the opening bell…
Local man Mike Alvarado headlines the 1st Bank Center in Denver, CO tonight when he places his WBO light welter belt on offer against Russian challenger Ruslan Provodnikov. Alvarado, 34-1 (23), is coming off a duo of highly competitive fights against Brandon Rios, losing the first contest a year ago in an WBO eliminator when…
On April 28, 2007 Ruslan Provodnikov scored a first round stoppage over Antwon Barrett in his American debut. The result maybe was just a blip on the radar that night because it was a four round bout on the undercard of a highly publicized Lightweight unification bout between Juan Diaz and Acelino Freitas.
Denver’s very own homegrown world champion “Mile High” Mike Alvarado and No. 1 contender the “Siberian Rocky” Ruslan Provodnikov of Russia, both coming off nationally-televised Fight of the Year performances, will go mano-a-mano in their world championship rumble tonight in front of a sold out 1stBank Center audience. The last tickets were sold on Friday…
World ranked Ruslan Provodnikov began training camp today at the Wild Card Gym to start his preparation for his October 19 clash with WBO Jr. Welterweight champion Mike Alvarado that will take place in Denver and will be seen Live on HBO. Provodnikov (22-2, 15 KO’s) arrived in Los Angeles last week and did promotional…
Denver’s very own homegrown world champion “Mile High” Mike Alvarado will make the first defense of his WBO junior welterweight title a “home game,” when he battles No. 1 contender Ruslan Provodnikov of Russia, Saturday, October 19, at 1stBank Center in nearby Broomfield, Colo. This marks the area’s first world championship fight featuring a local…
Ruslan Provodnikov has landed in Los Angeles to begin training camp for his much anticipated showdown with WBO Jr. Welterweight champion Mike Alvarado that will take place on Saturday, October 19th at First Bank Arena in Denver, Colorado. The bout will be live on HBO’s Championship boxing and is promoted by Top Rank and Banner…
He’s won 10 of his last 11 fights since 2008, captured two lightweight titles, fought in front of a worldwide audience four times in 16 months and is now ranked among the Top 20 in two major sanctioning bodies, yet Philadelphia’s “Hammerin’†Hank Lundy still hasn’t gotten the call to fight for a world title….
Russian prospect Ruslan Provodnikov rose to 16-0 (11) with a ninth round stoppage at of Emmanuel ‘The Drunken Master’ Augustus on a televised ESPN2 card broadcast live from Laredo, Texas. Augustus, making his 31st, and perhaps final, appearance as an ESPN opponent, took the bout on four days notice after Frankie Figueroa pulled out with…
There were two domestic title fights at Hall Omnisport in Herstal, Belgium on Saturday, with a pair of prospects rolling on to Belgian title victories. Jean Pierre “Junior” Bauwens, 11-0 (7), of Ghent faced his first opponent with a winning record, Brussels based Tunisian Saber Gasmi, 8-6 (3), and made the best of it, forcing…