Showtime Sports and Premier Boxing Champions unveiled the Showtime Championship Boxing television lineup for the first half of 2018 in an unprecedented, first-of-its-kind Boxing Upfront at Cipriani’s in New York City on Wednesday. Legendary ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. introduced the matchups of 10 marquee events featuring 12 world champions, 14 undefeated fighters and 12…
Friday night fireworks are in store for fans on Facebook as FightNight Live partners with Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing for its first show of the New Year. Fight fans from across the globe can catch all the action beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET live from Long Island, on any device wherever Facebook is available, as…
The highly anticipated showdown between undefeated three-division world champion Mikey Garcia and IBF 140-pound champion Sergey Lipinets has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 10. The Premier Boxing Champions event was set to take place on February 10, but Garcia’s quest for a fourth world title had to be rescheduled following a training injury to Lipinets’…
WBO number one ranked lightweight Ray Beltran and number two ranked Paulus Moses are set to do battle for the vacant lightweight world title exclusively live on BoxNation. The pair will clash on February 16th from the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno for Terry Flanagan’s recently vacated WBO world championship belt as part of BoxNation’s…
BoxNation is set to get 2018 off to a bang this weekend when undefeated IBF welterweight world champion Errol Spence Jr makes the first defence of his title against former two-division world champion Lamont Peterson. ‘The Channel of Champions’ will air the mouth-watering clash exclusively live in the UK and Ireland this Saturday night from…
Undefeated WBO featherweight champion Óscar Valdez will begin the third year of his championship reign by defending his title against former WBA super bantamweight champion and current No. 2 world-rated featherweight contender Scott Quigg. For Valdez (23-0, 19 KOs), of Nogales, Mexico, this will be his fourth title defense since winning it in 2016. Quigg…
Another blockbuster boxing event will come to Barclays Center, the home of Brooklyn Boxing, as unbeaten heavyweight world champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder defends his title against unbeaten contender Luis “The Real King Kong” Ortiz on Saturday, March 3 in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions. Wilder vs. Ortiz is a long-awaited matchup…
Former welterweight world champion Jessie Vargas (28-2, 10 KOs) returned to drop and defeat Aaron Herrera (24-8-1, 15 KOs)by unanimous decision in the main event of a special Friday night edition of Premier Boxing Champions “Toe To Toe Tuesdays” on FS1 and Fox Deportes from Pioneer Event Center in Lancaster, California. “I’m very happy to…
This past week in Salt Lake City, Utah, Vito Mielnicki, Jr. captured the United States Junior National championship in the 145-pound division. Mielnicki, of Roseland, New Jersey, moved up an unprecedented 10 weight classes where he competed at 106-pounds at the 2017 tournament and defeated the number-two seed, Adam Calixto of Tampa, Florida, in the…
Undefeated two-division world champion Terence “Bud” Crawford (32-0, 32 KOs), from Omaha,is ready to move out of the junior welterweight division and up to the welterweight class. Crawford, the 2014 Fighter of the Year, became boxing’s first undisputed world champion in 15 years when he knocked out fellow unified world champion Julius Indongo over the…
Recently, the “Pound-4-Pound” gym, a Las Vegas, Nevada amateur boxing program, sent eight members to the 2017 USA Boxing Elite Youth National Championships & Junior Open. The Barrientes twins, Chavez and Angel, both qualified to represent Team USA in the Junior Division by winning belts at the tournament. Angel Barrientes was voted most outstanding boxer…
Prince Ranch Boxing is happy to announce the signing of super-middleweight Humberto Torres (18-1-1, 12 KOs) and undefeated female bantamweight Cristina Mora (6-0-2, 4 KOs), who both hail from Aguascalientes, Mexico. The duo also signed promotional agreements with Damien Vazquez’ Sugar Promotions. “We are pleased to add Torres and Mora to our outstanding roster,” said…