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.
First impressions are everlasting and last weekend, undefeated Buffalo light heavyweight Lionell “Lonnie B†Thompson made a smashing United Kingdom debut, knocking out Phil “You Know†Goodwin in the second round in Manchester, England. Thompson-Goodwin was on the Tyson Fury-Neven Pajkic undercard, presented by Hennessy Sports, at EventCity in Trafford Park.
Cancer survivor and unbeaten, top-ranked super middleweight Anthony Dirrell (23-0, 20 KOs), of Flint, Mich., will face fellow world-ranked southpaw Renan St-Juste (23-2-1, 15 KOs), of Canada, in the 12-round main event on ShoBox: The New Generation on Friday, Dec. 2, live on Showtime a t11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast. The telecast…
Former heavyweight boxer and knockout artist Lou Esa has recently announced the creation of his new fighter management company, Winning Method Management.
WBF Featherweight Champion Patrick “The Punisher” Hyland (24-0, 11 KOs), from Dublin, Ireland was the highlight of this week’s Ring 8 meeting.
Canadian welterweight Victor Lupo finally gets his well deserved title shot December 17 against former world title challenger Antonin Decarie for the vacant WBC International Welterweight Championship at Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City. Lupo (19-1-2, 9 KOs), who lives in Toronto, become the mandatory challenger last February by defeating former world champion Junior Witter (37-3-2)…
This Saturday night at The Paramount Theater in Huntington, New York, three undefeated fighters top the undercard on Boxeo Azteca that will be promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing. The show will be broadcasted on Azteca America and will feature the lovely Georgi Vodka girls as hostesses.
It will be a fight fans won’t want to miss on Friday, November 18, when unbeaten rising junior middleweight star Eddie Gomez steps into the ring at the Coliseo Nilmari Santini Martin in San Juan, Puerto Rico and risks his perfect record against Miami’s Antonio Infante in the eight round main event of TeleFutura’s “Sólo…
The maturation process for undefeated 21-year-old middleweight Michael “The Brazilian Rocky” Oliveira (15-0, 12 KOs)spiked last Friday night after his impressive eighth-round win against veteran Xavier “The X-Man” Tolliver (23-7, 15 KOs) in the middleweight prospect’s first fight on American television.
This coming Friday Romford’s hot Cruiserweight prospect Tony ‘Conqueror’ Conquest gets his first shot at a Championship title, when he faces Chalk Farm’s former World ranked star Toks Owoh for the vacant Southern Area Cruiserweight title, at Francis and George Warren’s Queensberry Promotions event at York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday, 18th November –…
Do to unforeseen circumstances, junior middleweight Boyd “Rainmaker†Melson’s bout scheduled for Thursday evening is cancelled. Melson, 6-0 (3 KO’s), was slated to fight at North Bergen, NJ’s Schuetzen Park, but will now be fighting December 17 on the Andre Ward-Carl Froch undercard at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall.
The ultimate confrontation – “World Dominance” – on December 2 between the top two women boxers in the world, American favorite Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm (30-1-3, 9 KOs) and French knockout specialist Anne Sophie Mathis (25-1, 21 KOs), promises to give women’s boxing a much needed boost in worldwide popularity.