Underdog Alfredo Angulo is looking to draw on his time spent locked away in a detention centre to help push him to victory over Canelo Alvarez this weekend. The man known as ‘El Perro’ spent over seven months in ICE Detention Center in El Centro, California, having voluntarily checked in back in January 2012 due…
Mexican boxing superstar and former world champion Canelo Alvarez, hard-hitting countryman Alfredo “El Perro†Angulo and “Toe To Toe: Canelo vs. Angulo†pay-per-view undercard fighters worked out in front of a throng of media and adoring fans on Wednesday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena lobby. Canelo (42-1-1, 30 KOs) and the dangerous Angulo (22-3,…
Paco Presents in association with A&T Gym, Don Chargin, Golden Boy Promotions and San Diego-based Barron Entertainment, is happy to announce the second edition of its popular boxing series titled “Ringside at Del Mar” taking place at the Del Mar Fairgrounds on April 11, 2014. The eight round main event will feature the return of…
As hundreds of fans and media stood in lines that stretched from the sidewalk outside the main doors to the make-shift ring inside the lobby of MGM Grand in Las Vegas, popular Mexican boxing superstar and former World Champion Canelo Alvarez, his opponent this Saturday, Alfredo “El Perro†Angulo, and five-of-the-six other fighters who’ll compete…
South Yorkshire prospects Adam Etches and Scott Jenkins have agreed to take part in this year’s Sheffield Half Marathon. The punching pair have already raised thousands of pounds for teenage cancer patients at Weston Park Hospital and will representing the charity again on April 6. While the 13 mile run is for a good cause,…
Grammy Award-winning singer/ songwriter, actor and author Ashanti will sing the National Anthem at the rematch between Manny Pacquiao and undefeated two-division world champion Timothy Bradley Jr. Pacquiao and Bradley will be battling for the WBO welterweight title,Saturday, April 12, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev. The world welterweight championship event…
Click the Image for More Photos or Ryan Hardy Vs Steven Pearce Card At Walsall Town Hall on Saturday night, Ryan Hardy of Sheffield won the vacant British Masters Welterweight Title by outpointing local man – Steven Pearce of Stourbridge. And Luke Paddock of Bloxwich won the vacant British Masters Bronze Light-Welterweight Title when Gloucester’s…
Three-division world champion and the Pride of Puerto Rico, Miguel Cotto and WBC middleweight champion and Argentina’s favorite son Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez, will begin their national media tour in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, with a press conference luncheon at Coliseo de Puerto Rico – José Miguel Agrelot next Monday, March 10. MartÃnez and Cotto will…
London 2012 Olympians Adam Nolan and Darren O’Neill both won their semi-finals at the National Elite Championships at Dublin’s National Stadium tonight. Nolan beat Fergal Redmond on a unanimous verdict to move to within one win of his fourth successive welterweight crown. And O’Neill, who captained the Irish team at the London 2012 Olympics, recorded…
Superstar Floyd “Money†Mayweather will be ringside at tonight’s ShoBox: The New Generation from Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y., and will be interviewed during the live telecast on Showtime at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast. This will be the first television interview Mayweather will give since announcing his next fight against…
Japan’s Kazuto Ioka officially announced his resignation of the World Boxing Association 108-pound title with a communication sent to the Championships Committee. Ioka won the title on December 31, 2012, when he defeated the Mexican Jose Alfredo Rodriguez by TKO 6 in Osaka. He made three defenses of his belt in 2013. With record 14-0…
London 2012 bronze medallists Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan will be in action at the National Elite Championships semi-finals at the National Stadium in Dublin this weekend. Twenty six last-four contests will be decided at the South Circular Road venue on Friday and Saturday. Barnes, who fought at flyweight at the 2013 AIBA World Elite…