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Former world cruiserweight champion and world heavyweight title contender Juan Carlos Gomez is clearly not in the shape of his lifetime these days but slowly on the way back to his old physique. For tonight’s fight against Alexander Kahl in Schwerin, shown live on Eurosport from 9.00pm German time, Gomez …

The mood has been very serious in the Mayweather Boxing Gym as superstar and six-time World Champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather prepares for his May 1 showdown against WBA Welterweight Champion Sugar Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and live on HBO Pay-Per-View. Since arriving back in Las …

Tonight at The Arena in South Philadelphia, one of the most decorated amateurs in recent Philadelphia boxing history, Kareem “Cool Breeze” Cooley will look to go to 2-0 when he takes on Puro Pairol in a scheduled four round Super Featherweight bout as part of a seven bout card promoted …

Chicago welterweight “King” David Estrada believes a win this Saturday, in the 12-round main event for the vacant WBC Fecombox title against unbeaten Orlando “Olympico” Lora, could resuscitate his career. Estrada (23-6, 14 KOs) vs. Lora (26-0-1, 18 KOs) headlines a special Saturday show on ESPN2, live from Agua Caliente …

Michael Sprott has vowed to send Audley Harrison into retirement. Sprott fights Harrison tonight for the vacant European Heavyweight Championship at the Alexandra Palace in north London. Harrison has admitted this is his last chance for glory and said he will quit boxing if he fails to win. “Harrison’s 38 …

Super Six World Boxing Classic competitors Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler participated in an international media conference call to discuss their crucial Group Stage 2 bout in the tournament on Saturday, April 24 on Showtime at 9 p.m., ET/PT, same-day delay, from MCH Arena, in Herning, Denmark. After one round …

Darren Barker believes he is ‘the biggest fighter in the country’ – and has vowed to prove it on Friday. Barker, 27, the current British and Commonwealth middleweight champion, has a chance to add the vacant European belt to his collection at Alexandra Palace in north London. He fights former …

This Saturday night, Anthony Burgin will be looking to give himself a belated birthday present. Burgin, who turned eighteen yesterday will be competing in the finals of the Eastern regional’s of the 2010 Golden Gloves that will be held at The Legendary Blue Horizon. Burgin came to the Joe Hand …

Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) is deeply saddened by the passing of our friend Lorraine Chargin on April 6. GBP had an extremely close working and personal relationship with Lorraine and her husband Don. Both Lorraine and Don were instrumental in building Golden Boy Promotions to where it is today through …

On behalf of all of us at Star Boxing, I would like to send my deepest condolences to Hall-of-Fame Boxing Promoter, Don Chargin, who lost his wife of 49 years today to cancer. Lorraine has been a very significant figure in the boxing world for many years and her presence …

Former three-time world champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero joins forces with the Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Chapter of TheLeukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as it launches its 2010 Man & Woman of the Year competition on April 7th to raise money for cancer research and patient services. Guerrero, along with …

Unbeaten British and Commonwealth middleweight champion ‘Dazzling’ Darren Barker has skipped the Easter eggs ahead of his European title showdown this Friday at the Alexandra Palace in London, which will be shown live on Sky Sports 1 HD from 10pm “I love chocolate like everyone else, but that European title …