After two very difficult and controversial title defenses, Ricky Burns puts his WBO lightweight belt on the line for a fourth time as he meets heavily-hyped American contender Terence Crawford tonight at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow. Crawford comes into his first world title opportunity on the strength of a 2013 campaign that saw…
Terence Crawford says all the pressure is on Ricky Burns on Saturday night, as the pair battle for the Scotsman’s WBO Lightweight title at the SECC in Glasgow, live on Sky Sports – and says there’s nothing the 11,000 fans in the Arena can do to stop him [Crawford] from winning. The unbeaten American brings…
Ricky Burns says that the top class sparring he’s had in the build-up will give him the edge in his WBO Lightweight title defence against Terence Crawford at the SECC in Glasgow on Saturday night, March 1, live on Sky Sports. Burns travelled down to Essex recently to mix it with former title challenge foe…
Tickets for Ricky Burns’ WBO Lightweight title defence against Terence Crawford at the SECC in Glasgow, on March 1, out-sold his last defence against Raymundo Beltran five to one after going on sale yesterday. Burns makes the fifth defence of his crown live on Sky Sports against the highly rated unbeaten American Crawford, and the…
March 1 will be the most important day in the career of two-weight world champion Ricky Burns as the Scot meets the challenge of America’s Terence Crawford at Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition Centre in defense of the WBO lightweight title. Burns, 36-2-1 (11), did a genuine tightrope act in 2013, when the level of competition he…
Ricky Burns will defend his WBO Lightweight title against Terence Crawford, at the SECC in Glasgow, on March 1, live on Sky Sports. Burns makes the fifth defence of his crown against American hotshot Crawford, the unbeaten Omaha star with 16 KO wins from his 22 bouts. Tickets for the event will go on sale…
TKO Boxing Promotions was founded two years ago. Between then and now we have signed some wonderful fighters, done forty six shows and crisscrossed the United States trying to build the fighters and the company. Unfortunately, we ran into some financial problems that have set us back considerably, hurt our relationships with many fighters and…
Super middleweight contender Joey Gilbert will square off against Philadelphia’s Dhafir Smith in the eight round co-main event at “Fright Night Fights” on Saturday, October 31st in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Currently training in his hometown of Reno, Nevada, Gilbert 18-2-0 (14KO’s), is coming off a crunching fifth round stoppage of California based veteran Ivan Stovall on…