HBO and filmmaker Peter Berg will team up for the innovative new primetime series “On Freddie Roach”, directed and executive produced by Emmy nominee Berg (“Friday Night Lightsâ€). Presented by HBO and a co-production of Film 44 and Atticus Entertainment, the cinéma-vérité series focuses on Freddie Roach, the world-famous boxing trainer who owns and operates…
Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell will take the biggest step of his thus far unconventional professional boxing career on Saturday, Dec. 10 against Timur Ibragimov in the co-featured bout to the “Capital Showdown: Khan vs. Peterson” championship fight taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC which will be televised live on HBO’s…
Unified WBA and IBF light-welterweight champion Amir ‘King’ Khan has scooped the 2011 British Boxer of the Year gong at the annual awards ceremony held by the British Boxing Board of Control on Sunday. The event saw the Bolton star shake-off stiff competition from contenders such as Ricky Burns, Tyson Fury and George Groves, all…
The acclaimed Off Broadway production Kid Shamrock returns with an exclusive run of 10 performances at the TADA Theater from Friday, November 25 to Sunday December 4. The heart-wrenching and inspiring true story of middleweight contender “Irish” Bobby Cassidy will be directed by former WBO heavyweight champion, Michael Bentt.
Live world championship boxing returns to Epix when newly-minted undefeated WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin makes his first world title defense, against Cedric “The Boz†Boswell, Saturday, December 3. Presented by Sauerland Event, the live broadcast will emanate from Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland.
The Irish Amateur Boxing Association have named a six-man squad for next week’s Olympic Test Event in London. The tournament, which will be contested on a last-eight basis in each weight category, begins at the ExCel, the venue for boxing at the 2012 Olympic Games, next Thursday.
When WBC Silver welterweight champion Selcuk Aydin takes on Jo Jo Dan on November 26th in Trabzon, Turkey, 25% of the income from ticket sales for the show will be donated for the two devastating earthquakes which destroyed big parts of the east-Turkish region Van in October and November.
With the proposed Lee Selby vs John Simpson British and Commonwealth title clash falling through Francis and George Warren pulled out all the stops to ensure that Friday’s BoxNation televised event at the York Hall in London was up to the standard of their previous couple of events. The brothers first elevated chief support –…
WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck renewed his promotional contract with Sauerland Event for two more years. “I am very happy with the way we have been working together over the years and I am looking forward to keeping up the great work”, says Huck.
You don’t see or hear of many top fighters calling out the name of Middleweight Champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez. Martinez, the WBC Diamond belt Middleweight Champion, and 2010 “Fighter of the Year” is currently riding a four-fight win streak (W12 Kelly Pavlik, KO2 Paul Williams, TKO8 Serhiy Dzinziruk, TKO11 Darren Barker) that has seen him…
Unbeaten Middleweight John Ryder has signed a two-year promotional deal with Matchroom Sport. The 23 year-old from Islington impressed fans and pundits alike with his clinical second round stoppage win over Luke Osman at York Hall in Bethnal Green on November 9 on Sky Sports.
Rendall Munroe is dropping down a weight division to Bantamweight and has set his immediate sights on European champion – Jamie McDonnell. The former European and Commonwealth Super-Bantamweight champion will have his first fight in the 118lb division in early February.