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Undefeated Cork based Cuban sensation Alexei Acosta turns 22 on Saturday week (February 13th) and he’ll be hoping for a double celebration when he features on the Yanjing Fight Night at the National Stadium in Dublin. The 2006 World Junior Champion has earned the moniker of “The Hurricane” since turning …

Lee Beard has taken up a training appointment in America and will no longer be connected with Hatton Promotions Ltd, Ricky Hatton or Matthew Hatton. Lee has strong family connections in America and we fully understand his wish to move out there. As far as Ricky is concerned he has …

Jason Booth insists he will walk away from boxing a happy man if he wins a London belt outright this Friday. Booth, 32, makes the third defence of his British super-bantamweight crown when he faces Matthew Marsh (13-1) at Nottingham’s Harvey Hadden Centre, meaning the belt will be his for …

WBC interim lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco hit the bag, jumped rope and posed during a light workout Wednesday in Monterrey, Mexico while WBC lightweight champion Edwin Valero taped his hands and vigorously worked the bag

One night before two-time world champion Edwin Valero (26-0, 26 KOs) defends his WBC lightweight crown against WBC 135-pound interim titleholder Antonio DeMarco (23-1-1, 17 KOs) in Monterrey, Mexico, on Showtime at 9 p.m . ET/PT, once-beaten Freddy “El Riel’’ Hernandez (27-1, 18 KOs), of Lynwood, Calif., will take on …

2008 U.S. Olympian Sadam “World Kid” Ali recently completed a strong training camp and now he’s ready to go Saturday night against fellow Brooklyn welterweight Jason Thompson in Newark, New Jersey. Ali puts his perfect pro record (4-0, 2 KOs) on the line versus Thompson (5-4-1, 4 KOs) in a …

It’s official. Boxing’s biggest superstar and six-time world champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather made his upcoming fight with welterweight mega-star and five-time world champion Sugar Shane Mosley, official today when he signed the contract that pits the two fighters against each other on Saturday, May 1 at the MGM Grand in …

IBF Super Middleweight champion Lucian Bute, 25-0 (20), will defend his title for the fifth time against notorious power puncher Edison “Pantera” Miranda, 33-4 (29), from Colombia on Saturday, April 17th 2010 at the Montreal Bell Centre. Lucian will be lacing up his gloves in a Montreal ring after not …

Hayemaker Boxing have offered Frank Warren Promotions a sum of £50,000 for their super-middleweight prospect James Degale to box George Groves on April 3rd at Manchester’s M.E.N Arena. Should the fight go ahead, Degale’s duel with Groves would act as one of the chief support contests to David Haye’s WBA …

A winner of 12 in a row and unbeaten in his last 16 (15-0-1) dating to May 2006, WBC interim champion Antonio DeMarco (23-1-1, 17 KOs) of Tijuana, Mexico, will challenge devastating Venezuelan and WBC lightweight belt-holder, Edwin Valero (26-0, 26 KOs), in the main event this Saturday, Feb. 6, …

The rematch between heavyweights Tony “TNT” Grano and Mark “Oak Tree” Brown headlines the March 12 pro boxing card, “Brace For Impact,” presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Sports and Entertainment, Inc. (CES), in Fox Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. Brown (15-2, 7 KOs) overcame two knockdowns to …

On Saturday February 6th, Atlantic City’s welterweight contender Shamone “The Truth” Alvarez (20-2, 11KO) will look to get his career back underway and once again begin his ascent into the upper echelon of the welterweight division when he takes on Mexican knockout artist, Alexis Camacho (17-2, 16KO).