Another highly interesting World Boxing Federation title fight will take place on October 20 in Sedan, Ardennes, France, when undefeated Anne Sophie Da Costa takes on former two-time World Champion Teeraporn Pannimit from Thailand for the vacant WBF Women’s Straw-weight Crown. While it may not exactly have the “Super Fight†status of the December 7…
Battle at the Boat boxing will be back to run their shows out of the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, WA. With the continued success of Battle at the Boat, Brian Halquist Productions is looking for another big year of making their presence known in the Northwest fight scene. Making its debut in 1997, Battle…
Thanksgiving arrives early when knockout artists top-rated super welterweight contenders Vanes “The Nightmare†Martirosyan and Erislandy “El Oro del Guantanamo†Lara and undefeated No. 1 featherweight contender Miguel “Mikey†Garcia and former World Featherweight Champion Jonathan “Yoni†Barros, look to knock the stuffing out of each other on an explosive card that will take place…
In front of a huge crowd of Long Island boxing fans, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing presented an action packed evening of professional boxing on Saturday night at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury. Said DeGuardia, “It was a terrific event that Long Island fight fans truly enjoyed, the fights were terrific and the team at the…
Sligo banger Stephen ‘Block’ Reynolds follows up his spectacular July pro debut win in Belfast, as the ‘Block Bandwagon’ packs up and roll south to Dublin after securing a slot on the bumper ‘Rumble In Dublin’ bill at the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght on Saturday, November 3. The five-time Irish senior Heavyweight and Super-Heavyweight…
Rendall Munroe is desperate to get to grips with Scott Quigg in next month’s vacant interim WBA super-bantamweight title clash. The pair meet again at Manchester Arena in one of several big undercard fights when Ricky Hatton (45-2) makes his return against Vyacheslav Senchenko (32-1) on Saturday November 24.
Gary Shaw Productions has been granted an “Exception to Regulations” by the IBF on behalf of unified IBF/WBA middleweight champion, Daniel “Real Deal” Geale (28-1, 15 KOs), to participate in an optional IBF title fight against Anthony Mundine (44-4, 26 KOs) prior to his mandatory defense. “Now that we got the green light from the…
Jamie McDonnell will now face Darwin Zamora in an IBF bantamweight title eliminator in ‘This Is It’ on Saturday night, October 20, live on Sky Sports, replacing Vusi Malinga who was forced to withdraw after a suffering an injury in sparring. Nicaraguan Zamora is the current WBA Fedecentro super flyweight champion and the 24 year…
Kal Yafai steps up to face Scott Gladwin (5-1) in Sheffield on the ‘This Is It’ bill on Saturday, October 20, and both Yafai and his promoter Eddie Hearn are convinced the Beijing Olympian is ready for the challenge. The 24 year old super bantamweight has quickly moved to 3-0 after signing with Matchroom Sport…
Eddie Hearn says that talks over a possible Brit blockbuster between Kell Brook and Amir Khan have begun. The unbeaten Sheffield welterweight star faces an IBF welterweight World title eliminator next Saturday night, October 20, in the Steel City against Argentine Hector Saldivia in ‘This Is It’, with Randall Bailey defending the title against Devon…
Carl Froch has warned Yusaf Mack that he will be in for a rough night in Nottingham as he challenges The Cobra for his IBF super middleweight title in ‘True Brit’ on November 17 live on Sky Sports. Froch welcomes the American light heavyweight champion into his fortress at the Capital FM Arena as Britain’s…
AIBA have confirmed that Katie Taylor will receive the 2012 AIBA World Elite Female Boxer of the Year Award for an historic third time. The 2012 AIBA Award Ceremony will take place in Yerevan, Armenia on December 7th.