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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Boxing bigmouth Adrien Broner has declared himself as the heir to Floyd Mayweather’s coveted pound-for-pound throne. The three-weight world champion, who defends his WBA welterweight title against Argentine bulldozer Marcos Maidana this weekend, believes that his contemporaries are casting envious glances in his direction as he jostles to take over …

This Saturday night at Pacplex in Brooklyn, NY, Heavyweight contender Derric Rossy will take on Jonta Willis in the eight round main event of a big night of boxing that is promoted by Sal Musumeci’s Final Forum Boxing. Rossy of Medford, New York has a record of 28-7 with 14 …

Lee Purdy and has vowed to show he has become a different fighter since losing to Devon Alexander, when he challenges Italian Leonard Bundu for the European Welterweight Title at the ExCeL, London on Saturday night, live on Sky Sports. The Colchester man has described Saturday’s fight as a ‘must …

Rising pound-for-pound superstar – Adrien Broner, feels his ‘special’ performance this weekend against the ‘bone cracking’ Marcos Maidana won’t get the credit it deserves. The highly touted WBA Welterweight Champion faces one of boxing’s most revered puncher’s in Maidana, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, this Saturday, live on …