David Price has teamed up with legendary trainer Tommy Brooks after a brief spell with Adam Booth. The former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion will now base himself in his hometown of Liverpool, with Tommy Brooks flying in for training camps. Brooks has one of the most accomplished resumes in …
Read More »“Iron Mike” Joins Line Of Legendary Fighters Turned Promoters
Mike Tyson was the youngest heavyweight champion of all time and in 1987 voted, “World’s Most Popular Athlete.” Now he joins a select list of legendary fighters who became boxing promoters. Jack Dempsey Jack Dempsey, the “Manasa Mauler,” stopped boxing after this fight against Gene Tunney. He promoted a few …
Read More »Hopkins vs. Shumenov Light Heavy Unification On The Horizon?
Reigning WBA Super and IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov (14-1, 9 KO’s) celebrates his fourth anniversary as world champion next month but he really didn’t arrive on the worldwide boxing scene until this past December 14th in his Showtime debut. The 30-year-old Shumenov set a light heavyweight record for …
Read More »Hall Willing To Go To Hell And Back For Coveted IBF Crown
Boxing ace Stuart Hall has said he is prepared to go through hell in order to reign victorious in his hunt for world title glory this weekend. The Darlington dazzler makes his bid for the vacant IBF crown against the seasoned South African – Vusi Malinga, on Saturday night at …
Read More »Stuart Hall Facing Mandela Inspired South African Vusi Malinga
Reformed bad boy Stuart Hall is defiant he can overcome his Nelson Mandela inspired world title challenger. Vusi Malinga, who takes on Hall this weekend at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, will use the memory of South Africa’s greatest icon, who passed away earlier this month, to help spur …
Read More »Etches Gets Chance To Prove Worth In Monte Carlo
Adam Etches will look to prove he is amongst the best Middleweight prospects in the world when he appears on the same bill as the man widely regarded as the division’s greatest. The hard-punching Sheffield man, 22, will face Italy’s tough Salvatore Annunziata on the undercard of Gennady Golovkin’s WBA …
Read More »Mikey Garcia vs. Juan Carlos Burgos Tickets On Sale Friday
Undefeated two-division world champion and Ventura County Police and Sheriff’s Reserve Officer Academy graduate Mikey Garcia returns to the stage where he won his first world title 12 months earlier, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, only this time he’ll be defending his second world championship belt in as many …
Read More »WBA Belt Up For Grabs In Monte Carlo For Murray, Fletcher
Martin Murray will look to fulfil his dream of becoming St. Helens’ first ever world champion in Monte Carlo, on February 1. The popular middleweight, 31, will take on Australia’s highly rated Jarrod Fletcher for the vacant WBA title at Salle des Etoiles and will be hoping to make it …
Read More »Lee Selby vs. Rendall Munroe February 1 For European Title
Lee Selby will face Rendall Munroe for the vacant European Featherweight title at the top of Matchroom Sport’s stacked ‘Reloaded’ card at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on February 1, live on Sky Sports. The Barry star will also defend his British title in the Welsh capital, on a show which also …
Read More »IBF Champ Lamont Patterson Come Back Fight Announced
World-class championship boxing returns to the nation’s capital on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, when hometown hero IBF Junior Welterweight Champion Lamont Peterson defends his 140-pound crown against Montreal’s unbeaten Dierry Jean as part of a live Showtime Championshp Boxing at, 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast, event at …
Read More »Heavyweight Hopefuls Jennings, Szpilka Get HBO Playdate
Gary Shaw of Gary Shaw Productions and Leon Margules of Warriors Boxing are happy to announce an agreement has been reached for rising heavyweight contenders Bryant Jennings (17-0, 9 KOs) and Artur Szpilka (16-0, 12 KOs) to meet in a 10-round showdown on January 25 in New York at Madison …
Read More »Kevin Mitchell Vows To Demolish Late Sub El Quazghari
Kevin Mitchell wants to do a demolition job on Karim El Ouazghari but says the late change of opponent doesn’t mean he will have an easier fight when he defends his IBF Inter-Continental Lightweight title at the ExCeL, London, on Saturday night, live on Sky Sports. Spaniard El Ouazghari replaced …
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