This coming week, three distinguished members of the McGirt / Elite Heat boxing team leave for Mesquite, Nevada to compete in the Jr. National Golden Gloves Tournament. Shakur Stevenson will compete in the 15-16 Year old, 114 pound division. Back in November, Shakur was honored as the Junior Olympic Boxer of the Year by the…
The WBC have set a purse bid date of July 26 for Tony Bellew to challenge Adonis Stevenson for the light heavyweight World title.
With the boxing season nearing closing time for a vast portion of the industry, Dave Coldwell has managed to locate a rare moment’s peace to assess the various emotions enjoyed and endured by Coldwell Boxing throughout the last year. Titles were won and lost, prospects tasted victory and swallowed defeat and then there was Kieran…
A press conference was held at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago, home of the Chicago White Sox, to discuss “The Big Fight 2”, taking place on Friday, August 16, 2013
Claire Grace guaranteed herself at least a bronze medal at the EU Women’s Senior, Youth and Junior Championships in Keszthely, Hungary today. The Irish welterweight beat Croatia’s Jovana Vucic on a unanimous decision to book her ticket into Friday’s semi-finals. But there was last-eight disappointment for Kelly Harrington and Sinead Kavanagh after they lost their…
This Saturday questions will be answered as will it be repeat or revenge when Tony Thompson takes on David Price in a rematch of Thompson’s shocking second round knockout of Price that took place on February 23 in the same Echo Arena ring in Liverpool where Saturday’s bout will take place.
Kevin Mitchell returns to action on Saturday night at the sold-out York Hall in Bethnal Green in ‘Mitchell and the Prizefighters’ live on Sky Sports and has set his sights on more mouth-watering all-British showdowns this year.
Ireland won seven of thirteen bouts at the European Union Women’s Senior, Youth and Junior Championships in Keszthely, Hungary today. Amy Broadhurst, Ciara Ginty, Kristina O’Hara, Christine Desmond, Cathy Higgins and Christine Gargan claimed quarter-finals wins. All six are now guaranteed to be taking home at least bronze from the 23-nation tournament.
Fans remained the biggest winners as “The One: Mayweather vs. Canelo†press tour continued Monday with two stops in Texas. In Housto , a couple hundred fans began lining up at 3:00 a.m. for a press conference that started at 1:00 p.m. By the time the press conference officially commenced at Union Station At Minute…
On Thursday night July 11, world renown cutman and boxing promoter Joey “Eye†Intrieri will be taping the pilot of his new talk show, “The Joey Eye Show†in Philadelphia.
Eddie Hearn says that a huge all-British super middleweight World title showdown between IBF and WBA champion Carl Froch and unbeaten Commonwealth champion George Groves could happen later this year. Reacting to reports this morning that the IBF have ordered Froch to face mandatory challenger Groves, Hearn, who promotes both fighters, clarified the position on…
Well-travelled former world champion Souleymane M’baye (40-4-1, 22 KOs) has promised Khabib Allakhverdiev (18-0, 8 KOs) the fight of his life when they contest the WBA and IBO light welterweight title in Monte Carlo on July 13. The fight is the co-feature on the “Monte Carlo Million Dollar Super Four†final bill, taking place in…