Press Releases

On Saturday, May 19, 2012, fans at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nev., as well as those watching around the world, will see one of boxing’s most intense grudge matches re-ignited when WBA Super Lightweight Super Champion and IBF Junior Welterweight Champion Lamont “Havoc” Peterson faces former …

On Saturday, May 19, 2012, fans at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nev., as well as those watching around the world, will see one of boxing’s most intense grudge matches re-ignited when WBA Super Lightweight Super Champion and IBFJunior Welterweight Champion Lamont “Havoc” Peterson faces former Two-Time …

© Lawrence Lustig Kell Brook says he will “smash” Matthew Hatton in Saturday night’s War of the Roses clash at the Motorpoint Arena Sheffield – and there are only 300 tickets left to watch them settle the debate on the number one welterweight in Britain. Tickets have flown out the …

In 2011, former Mexican Olympian Abner Mares left his mark on the professional boxing world by winning and defending his first world championship at bantamweight against former World Champion Joseph King Kong Agbeko. Now, on Saturday, April 21, Mares will begin his quest for a world title in a second …

Lightweights Jose Hernandez and Peter Oluoch will meet Saturday, March 31 in the ten round main event of Halquist Productions’ “Battle at the Boat 86”. Dubbed as “Loco” for his fearlessness inside the squared circle, Hernandez, 12-5-1 (5 KO’s), is consistently fighting top-notch competition. Spending much of his career in …

Matchroom Sport can confirm that Carl Froch’s IBF super middleweight title fight with Lucian Bute will take place at the Capital FM Arena Nottingham on May 26. “We explored the opportunity of taking the event outside but with licensing issues and uncertainty over potential capacity, we decided to remain at …

Curtis Woodhouse vs Dale Miles: A fight that has the word “classic” written all over it. Yesterday, Coldwell Boxing won the purse bids to host this British light welterweight title eliminator, which will be held on June 8th at the Magna in Rotherham.

Ireland won three bouts from four on the opening day of the 39th Chemistry Cup in Halle, Germany today. London 2012 Olympian Darren O’Neill, Adam Nolan and Joe Ward advanced to Thursday’s quarter-finals.

Donald Trump took time out from his busy schedule while in Chicago on Wednesday afternoon to meet with and express best wishes to world ranked light heavyweight professional boxer Andrzej “The Polish Prince” Fonfara.

The circuitous journey for Charlie Ota (19-1, 13 KOs), aka Charles Bellamy, comes full circle Saturday night in New York City as the 30-year-old junior middleweight makes his American debut, ironically, in the city in which he was born, nearly 6,800 miles from where he lives in Tokyo.

Team Kovalev blames Square Ring for a verbally agreed upon NABF title fight between unbeaten light heavyweights, challenger Sergey Kovalev and defending champion Ismayl Sillakh, to fall apart due to a contractal dispute. Sillakh-Kovalev, according to Kovalev’s manager Egis Klimas, had been approved as the main event for a proposed …

Contrary to popular belief, the heavyweight division is alive and well in professional boxing, and Classic Entertainment & Sports is ready to showcase one of the best and brightest on March 24.