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Kurt Walker, Michael McDonagh and James Hughes got Ireland off to a flying start at the 2013 European Youth Championships in the Netherlands today.

The Ireland squad arrived in the Netherlands on Saturday ahead of the start of the 2013 EUBC European Youth Championships. 225 boxers from 36 nations have registered to compete in the tournament which begins Monday at the Topsportcentre venue in Rotterdam at 3pm local time. The IABA have named an …

On Saturday night August 24, former world title challenger Teon Kennedy returns to the ring when he takes on upset minded Joselito Collado in a ten round Super Featherweight bout that will originate from Ballys Atlantic City. Kennedy of Philadelphia has a record of 18-2-2 with seven knockouts and will …

Forget David Haye v Tyson Fury for the time being, another massive heavyweight clash takes place on 7th September at York Hall – where Ian Lewison takes on Tom Dallas for the Southern Area title.

WBA bantamweight champion, the Japanese Koki Kameda, celebrates today the seventh anniversary of his triumph over the Venezuelan Juan José Landaeta, to win his first championship belt. It was the mínimum title. Kameda defeated Landaeta by split decision in Yokohama, Japan. The scores were 115-113 and 114-113 for Kameda, while …

Asif Vali, who recently ended an eight year relationship as Business Manager for former unified light welterweight world champion Amir Khan has joined Team Fury as a Business Advisor.

Gary Shaw Productions in association with Lucas Oil look to put on a stellar edition of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights, August 9 at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon, Calif. In action that night, rising lightweight Rustum Nugaev (24-6, 14 KOs) squares off against Jose Hernandez (14-6-1, 6 …

The fans have spoken and round three is the overwhelming favorite from Saturday’s classic slugfest between Omar Figueroa and Nihito Arakawa. During re-airings of this past Saturday’s Showtime Championship Boxing telecast, fans were encouraged to Tweet their favorite round of the tripleheader.

Seven Irish boxers will be aiming for gold in Saturday’s EUBC European Schoolboy Championships finals at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Team captain Aaron McKenna, twin brothers Jason and Jamie Harty, Barry McReynolds, Paul Ryan, Sean Whelan and Jordan Myres all won their semi-finals today.

Detroit was the historical battle site for Thomas Hearns and José “Pipino” Cuevas 30 years ago and where Hearns became the welterweight world champion of the World Boxing Association. The fan expectation was all over Hearns, who had the power to finish his opponent very fast. The Mexican was facing …

In a week when Coldwell Boxing announced the mouth-watering lightweight clash between Derry Mathews and Curtis Woodhouse, promoter Dave Coldwell has also been busy bolstering his booming stable by completing the signing of highly-talented Birmingham middleweight Tommy Langford. A star amateur who had the prestigious honour of captaining his nation …

On Thursday the Kameda brothers made history in the boxing world when the youngest brother won the world championship. Tomoki Kameda became the new Bantamweight champion of the WBO. Tomoki equals the accomplishment of his brother Koki who recently defended his WBA bantamweight title.