Boxing News

Kevin Mitchell will face Marco Lopez for the IBF Inter-Continental Lightweight title at The O2 on October 5, live on Sky Sports – and hopes victory will catapult him to a World title clash with IBF king Miguel Vazquez. Mitchell returned to action in July with a points win over …

Trainer Paul Stevenson insists James “Jazza” Dickens will keep a cool head when he faces Kid Galahad this Saturday night. The unbeaten super-bantamweights clash for the British title on a Channel 5 televised bill at the Magna Centre in Rotherham.

Undefeated Black Country light middleweight, Kyle Spencer is hoping for a shot at a Midlands Title in the near future as he prepares for his first fight of the new season. The impressive 23-year is in confident mood ahead of his showdown with experienced Jay Morris at the Copthorne Hotel …

Boxing’s fastest rising superstar Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will defend his WBA/IBO Middleweight Titles against world ranked contender Curtis Stevens on Saturday, November 2 from The Theater at Madison Square Garden, “The Mecca of Boxing.” The fight will be televised Live on HBO.

Brian Rose will face Javier Maciel in a final eliminator for the WBO Light Middleweight title at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield on October 26, live on Sky Sports. Rose and Maciel provide the chief support to Kell Brook’s blockbuster Welterweight clash with Vyacheslav Senchenko. The Blackpool man steps into …

The boxing community is still reeling from the sad news yesterday that respected Manager, Promoter, Trainer and Matchmaker – Dean Powell, has tragically passed away. Dean had worked in boxing for 25 years and was regularly seen at boxing shows around the country, his last – at York Hall, Bethnal …

Veteran heavyweight Chris Arreola and up and coming contender Seth Mitchell faced both each other and the scales yesterday as they weighed in for tonight’s 12 rounder at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, CA.

Chris “The Nightmare” Arreola (35-3, 30 KO’s) and Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell (26-1-1, 19 KO’s) along with Rafael Marquez (41-8, 37 KO’s), Efrain Esquivias (16-2-1, 9 KO’s), Angel Osuna and Ryan Caballero participated in a media workout at the Boys and Girls Boxing Club just two days before their respective bouts …

Ricky Burns says fatherhood is going to make him even hungrier to stay a World champion, starting with a defence of his WBO Lightweight title against Raymundo Beltran tonight live on Sky Sports 2 HD from the SECC in Glasgow. The Coatbridge star became a father for the first time …

Sergey Rabchenko has started preparations for his rematch with Cedric Vitu by setting up camp in his opponent’s home country. The Belarusian will defend his European light-middleweight crown against the southpaw on an as yet to be confirmed date and has begun conditioning work in Valance, southern France with Nicolas …

Exciting Prizefighter Light Welterweights III champion – Chris Jenkins – is back in action on Sky Sports on Saturday night and the Welshman has promised to show even more of his skills. Jenkins was a late-replacement in the line-up at York Hall, Bethnal Green in July, winning every round of …

“This is his Cup Final and it’s going to end in tears.” The grand showpiece that Liverpool warrior Derry Mathews refers to is his much-anticipated Commonwealth conflict with Driffield’s Curtis Woodhouse on September 21. With battle just over two weeks away, Mathews maintains his amazing sequence of brutal encounters as …