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Anthony Crolla has admitted he was so gutted by the draw with Darleys Perez in their first WBA Super-Bantamweight title fight that it took him months to watch it again. Crolla and Perez clash in a rematch for the belt on Saturday night at the Manchester Arena live on Sky Sports, with the controversial first…
Zhanat Zhakiyanov was mobbed by his adoring fans when he arrived back in his home town of Petropavl, Kazakhstan. Around 200 people braved temperatures as low as -20°c to see the 32-year-old arrive by train a week on from his WBA interim bantamweight title victory over Yonfrez Parejo. The result made Zhakiyanov the fourth Kazakh…
ShoBox: The New Generation returns on Friday, Dec. 11 live on Showtime at 10 p.m. ET/PT with a quadrupleheader featuring eight undefeated prospects with a combined record of 92-0-3 in the final ShoBox telecast of 2015. Headlining the DiBella Entertainment and Savarese Promotions-promoted event at the Bayou City Event Center in Houston will be talented…
Olympic super heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua faces unbeaten London rival Dillian Whyte on a huge night of boxing on Sky Sports Box Office. Joshua and Whyte come together at The O2 on December 12 for the British and Commonwealth titles, six years after their first meeting in the amateur ranks – and there is no…
Josh Warrington will defend his WBC International Featherweight title at The O2 in London on December 12. The Leeds star is hunting a showdown with IBF champion Lee Selby having defended the title with a shutout win against mutual opponent Joel Brunker in his hometown fortress in Leeds, and will be out to impress on…
Anthony Upton has been handed an early Christmas present – a shot at the English light-welterweight title. The unbeaten 23-year-old, who is trained by Ricky Hatton, will face current champion Joe Hughes at Walsall Town Hall on Saturday, December 5. Upton has been a professional for little over two years, but he feels the time…
WBA lightweight champion, Darleys Perez (32-1-1, 20 KOs), co-promoted by Gary Shaw Productions and Thompson Boxing, is looking forward to his highly anticipated rematch with Anthony Crolla (29-4-3, 11 KOs). Perez returns to hostile territory at the Manchester Arena in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2015, the same location where the first fight took…
Manchester’s Jack Arnfield is buoyant and “raring to go†ahead of his British middleweight title fight with champion Nick ‘Bang Bang’ Blackwell this Saturday, November 14 at Bristol’s City Academy. The 26-year-old accepted the fight with Blackwell last Friday, following the withdrawal of original opponent Elliott Matthews, and now can’t wait to finally get his…
British middleweight champion Nick Blackwell has been seeing a sports psychologist ahead of his November 14 title defence against Jack Arnfield in the hope that weekly sessions will eradicate a tendency to start slow in fights. Blackwell won the Lonsdale belt in May with a stunning seventh-round stoppage of John Ryder at a sold-out O2…
Undefeated former WBA featherweight champion Nicholas “Axe Man” Walters returns to the ring to take on granite-fisted Top-10 contender Jason “El Canito” Sosa in a 10-round junior lightweight rumble. Walters vs. Sosa will take place on Saturday, December 19, at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, NY. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Peltz…
Ruslan Provodnikov (25-4, 18 KO’s) promised to put on a show and he didn’t disappoint, as he overwhelmed unbeaten Jesus Alvarez Rodriguez (14-1, 11 KO’s) in four rounds at the glitzy Salle Des Etoiles in Monte Carlo on Saturday night. With HRH Prince Albert looking on, the former WBO junior-welterweight champion wasn’t unduly stretched as…
Hennessy Sports and Sanigar Events are pleased to announce that Andrew Selby, one of Great Britain’s most decorated amateur boxers, will compete in his second professional fight on November 14 at Bristol’s City Academy. The talented 26-year-old, younger brother of IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby, is a two-time European amateur champion and winner of bronze…