Matchroom Sport are delighted to announce that European Middleweight champion Grzegorz Proksa has extended his promotional deal with the company. The unbeaten Polish fighter claimed the vacant European strap after forcing the retirement of Sebastian Sylvester and his dominant display in Germany at the start of the month has seen the 26 year-old become hot…
Gary Buckland will make the first defence of his British super-featherweight title against Paul Truscott at Newport Centre on Saturday November 26. It has meant an immediate return to the gym for Hatton Promotions’ Cardiff sensation who took the title from Gary Sykes in a Fight of the Year candidate last month.
The co-feature between unbeaten Columbian welterweight Samuel Vargas (7-0-1, 1 KO) and outspoken Ahmad Cheikho (6-3-2, 5 KOs), despite neither being natives of Canada, perhaps, best illustrates the provincial rivalry theme between Toronto and Quebec for the October 22 show, headlined by the NABA super featherweight title fight pitting Logan Cotton McGuinness and Benoit Gaudet…
On Friday October 21 at the Brandenburg Halle in Frankfurt, Germany, undefeated WBF Women’s Middleweight Champion Christina Hammer (10-0, 7 KOs) will defend her title against American Vashon Living (5-1, 1 KO). In what will be Hammer’s second defense of the WBF title, the pair will square off on a show promoted by Ulf Steinforth…
One of the UK’s most popular Cruiserweight Champions of the recent past, Bruce ‘Lionheart’ Scott, becomes the latest big name to pledge support for Steatham’s Leon ‘Solid’ Williams, ahead of his British Cruiserweight title battle against reigning Champ Rob Norton at the York Hall, in Bethnal Green, this coming Friday.
The captain of the 1996 U.S. Boxing Team, Lawrence Clay-Bey, will be inducted into the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame (CBHOF) with six others at the seventh annual CBHOF gala induction dinner Saturday, October 29 in the Uncas Ballroom at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville.
Tickets are now on sale as ‘The Polish Prince†Andrzej Fonfara returns to the boxing ring on Friday, December 16th headlining Windy City Fight Night 20 at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion, it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions.
IBF and WBC Silver Bantamweight Champion Abner Mares and former two-time IBF Bantamweight Champion Joseph King Kong Agbeko were the principals at a widely attended press conference Saturday to officially announce their highly anticipated rematch set for Saturday, Dec. 3, at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., which will be televised live on Showtime Championship Boxing.
The Pride of the Philippines, WBC and WBO Bantamweight Champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash†Doniare (26-1, 18 KO’s) will be honored by the Filipino School of New York and New Jersey as part of Filipino American History Month next Monday, October 17, at 4 p.m. ET, at the Jersey City Public Library in Jersey City,…
Javier “El Chino†Flores, the undefeated welterweight from New Haven, Conn., will be featured on next month’s “November Reign†show on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports in association with Global Boxing.
Unbeaten middleweight sensation Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin fought his way out of Grand Rapids hoping to get an opportunity to shine in the ring. The talented Cuban-American boxer gets that shot November 5, fighting for the first time HBO against Craig McEwan in Cancun, Mexico. Quillin-McEwan is the co-feature on a Golden Boy Promotions card…
Hot boxing prospects Thomas Dulorme (12-0, 10KO’s) and Kenny Galarza (15-1, 14KO’s) made pre-weight, 156 and 149 pounds, respectively, equivalent to five-percent above the required weight by the Professional Boxing Commission (CBPPR) in the latter weighing for pre-stellar fights in Panama, as part of XXIV KO Drugs Festival on Saturday night, October 22, at Arena…