Lee Purdy has warned Devon Alexander that he will put on an explosive show in Atlantic City as he bids to rip the IBF welterweight title from his grasp on Saturday night live on Sky Sports HD1. Lee Purdy tackles the St. Louis man at the famous Boardwalk Hall and said he’s far from a…
Luke Campbell will make his eagerly awaited professional debut at Craven Park in Hull on July 13, live on Sky Sports. The Olympic Gold medallist kicks off life in the paid ranks at the home of Hull Kingston Rovers Rugby League, with tickets for the night going on sale on Monday, May 20.
Click the above image to see all photos from this Event Last night, at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenham, England, Frank Maloney promoted a fightnight which headlined Oldham-based Shinny Bayaar’s first defence of the British Flyweight Title against Ashley Sexton of Cheshunt . This proved to be an exciting and bloody (!) contest with most…
Tonight, at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenham, England, Frank Maloney promotes an all-action fight-card which will headline the British Flyweight Title clash between Shinny Bayaar and Ashley Sexton. Mongolian-born Bayaar won the Title by split decision when he defeated Stokes’ Chris Edwards last October. This will be Bayaar’s first defence of the title against Cheshunt’s…
Ashley Sexton believes big fight rival Shinny Bayaar has seen better days. Sexton (9-0) has to show he can shoot from the hip as well as the lip when he challenges for the Oldham based Mongolian’s British flyweight title at Dagenham’s Goresbrook Leisure Centre on Friday (14th May). Cheshunt’s Sexton, 22, said: “I think Shinny…
This coming Friday, Stoke Newington’s rising Light Middleweight star Erick ‘The Eagle’ Ochieng is back in action on the under card of the Sky television broadcast, Frank Maloney promoted, British Flyweight title clash between Shinny Bayaar and Ashley Sexton at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenham, Essex. In his last fight, back in January, Ochieng decisively…
The last time Ricky Hatton was in London to fight was in December 2004 when he faced American Light Welterweight, Ray Olivera. He returns on March 26 but this time promoting the eagerly anticipated Light Middleweight contest between Anthony Small and Sam Webb. The controversial Anthony Small, from Deptford in London, will make the second…
Friday night, at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, Barry Hearn (Matchroom Sport) hosted the next of the Prizefighter Series – ‘Prizefighter the Light Middleweights’. As per the usual format – eight boxers challenged for the £32,000 Prize and winning trophy – the three-round quarter-final, semi-final and final all in one night. Despite his problems…
Prince Arron has been crowned the Prizefighter Light Middleweights Champion. Arron, 22, clinched the £32,000 top prize with a thrilling victory over Brett Flournoy in the final of Barry Hearn’s latest Prizefighter event at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, east London. Droylsden-based Arron floored Flournoy in the third round of the final and that…
**With Slideshow** © Philip Sharkey Today at Lillywhites sports shop in Piccadilly Circus in central London, England, Matchroom Sport hosted the official weigh-in ahead of tomorrow night’s Prizefighter – the Light-Middleweights at the York Hall, Bethnal Green. All weighed in without a hitch except for Prince Arron, who hit the limit, which had to be…
Neil Sinclair admits his 15-year professional career could be over if he is not successful in the Prizefighter Light-Middleweights at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday. The Belfast boxer has gone through a renaissance in the last year after two clinical stoppage wins in 2009 but faces favourite Bradley Pryce in his opening…
Bradley Pryce is confident of revenge over Neil Sinclair in the Prizefighter Light-Middleweights quarter-finals at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday. Pryce was stopped by Sinclair in the eighth round seven years ago but insists it will be different when the competition’s most experienced pair meet in their opening bout.