The St. Patrick’s Day celebration will extend two days as Irish-American boxers, led by hot, unbeaten prospect Danny O’Connor, the popular “Irish†Joey McCreedy and 4-time world champion Jaime “Hurricane†Clampitt, will be in action March 19 on the “Shamrock’d†pro card, presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES), at Twin River…
World-ranked contender “Sweetness†Allan Green (29-1, 20 KOs), of Tulsa, Okla., has officially been named to replace fellow American Jermain Taylor in the Super Six World Boxing Classic and will take on undefeated WBA 168-pound champion Andre Ward (20-0, 13 KOs) in one-half of a tournament doubleheader on Saturday, April 24, on Showtime, Ken Hershman,…
Filipino sensation “Marvelous†Marvin Sonoma is hungry to capture another world title, as well as overcoming the aftereffect of losing his WBO super flyweight belt on the scales in his last fight, this coming Saturday night in the highly-anticipated showdown against hometown hero Wilfredo “WV2†Vazquez, Jr. for the vacant WBO junior featherweight championship.
Bradley Pryce and Neil Sinclair will clash in a mouth-watering quarter-final contest in Prizefighter Light-Middleweights next Friday. Welshman Pryce, the 5/2 favourite to claim the £32,000 winner’s cheque, was drawn to face experienced Belfast fighter Sinclair in the second of the quarter-finals for the latest Prizefighter event. Manchester’s highly-fancied Prince Arron, 22, will take on…
Martin Concepcion is confident he has The X Factor needed to win the Prizefighter Light-Middleweights at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday, February 26. Concepcion earned his place in the ninth Prizefighter series by out-pointing Kevin Hammond for the Midlands Area Title earlier this month. Now Leicester’s former Commonwealth light-middleweight champion is looking…
Fan favorite Vic “The Raging Bull’’ Darchinyan (33-2-1, 27 KOs) will make his fifth consecutive appearance on Showtime and 11th overall when he defends his WBC/WBA super flyweight crowns against streaking, world-ranked Rodrigo “Gato’’ Guerrero (13-1-1, 9 KOs) in the main event on a special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation Saturday, March 6, at…
Please find below statements from Bernard Dunne and Brian Peters following Bernard’s decision to hang up his gloves. Bernard Dunne: After a lot of thought and reflection the time has finally come to bring my career as a professional boxer to an end. For the past 25 years boxing has been my life but now…
Dan Goosen: “During the time that we’ve been talking about this fight, prior to Adamek’s fight with Jason Estrada, we were getting emails; we were getting messages; we were getting those phone calls ‘Where’s the fight going to be’? I mean excitement! excitement! excitement! “And then once we announced we were having this press conference…
© All Star Boxing “The Double Assault†pay-per-view action on February 27 commences at 9 PM/ET live from Reben Rodriquez Coliseum in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, with hometown hero Wilfredo “WV2†Vazquez, Jr., who plans to make Puerto Rican history when he fights the 19-year-old Philippine sensation, “Marvelous†Marvin Sonsona, for the vacant WBO junior featherweight…
Super middleweight contender Andre Dirrell injured his back earlier this week while sparring in Las Vegas, preventing him from training for his upcoming Super Six World Boxing Classic super middleweight showdown with Arthur Abraham. Dirrell’s injury has forced the fight to be rescheduled for Saturday, March 27, to be televised live on Showtime at 10:30…
Can the renowned Polish warrior withstand the devastating knockout power of “The Nightmare� We will all find out on Saturday night, April 24 when Goossen Tutor Promotions and Main Events in association with Ziggy Promotions presents “Ring Of Fire†on HBO’s Boxing After Dark at 11:15 PM ET/PT.
© Lawrence Lustig Steve O’Meara says he has got nothing to fear ahead of the Prizefighter Light-Middleweights tournament – thanks to a sparring session with Floyd Mayweather Jnr.