Gary Russell Jr. will return to the ring to defend his WBC Featherweight Title against Irish contender Patrick Hyland on Saturday, April 16, live on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT from Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT. In the co-feature, undefeated IBF Super Featherweight Champion Jose Pedraza will defend against mandatory challenger Stephen…
Ricky Burns can become a three-weight World champion when he takes on Michele Di Rocco for the vacant WBA Super-Lightweight title at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on May 28, live on Sky Sports. Burns can add World title glory at 140 lb to his reigns as WBO king at Super-Featherweight and Lightweight, with the…
Chris Eubank Jr. believes British champion Nick Blackwell is merely keeping the throne warm and that, on March 26, he will be relieved of his duties and a superior division ruler will be crowned. Blackwell and Eubank Jr. collide at The SSE Arena, Wembley, live on Channel 5, and the challenger, a former WBA interim…
Nick ‘Bang Bang’ Blackwell is two weeks away from defending his British middleweight title against Chris Eubank Jr. at The SSE Arena, Wembley and claims the hotly-anticipated grudge match is “better than a world title fightâ€. Blackwell and Eubank Jr. lock horns on March 26, following months of heated back-and-forth, and promoter Mick Hennessy’s long-held…
Anthony Crolla will defend his WBA Lightweight title against Ismael Barroso at the Manchester Arena on May 7. Crolla won the belt in stunning style at the vaunted Manchester venue in November, folding Darleys Perez in the fifth round of their rematch for the Colombian’s title. The victory capped a fairy tale comeback from the…
Sanigar Events presents ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ Championship Boxing at Action Indoor Sports, Bristol, England April 16. Unbeaten light heavyweight prospect Hasan Karkardi originally from Iran now based out of Bristol will challenge Newcastle’s Scott Westgarth for the International Light Heavyweight Challenge Belt. Westgarth is no stranger to Bristol boxers having stopped…
Lucas Browne has fired back at rivals keen to gain publicity off the back of his stunning WBA heavyweight title victory over Ruslan Chagaev. The heavy-handed Sydney man wrote his name into the history books when he KO’d the tough Uzbek to become Australia’s first ever world champion in the heavyweight division last weekend.
Showtime Sports on Friday announced seven live boxing telecasts over a 12-week span, a stacked lineup featuring nine world championship fights and 14 overall matches in boxing’s deepest and most exciting divisions. The full slate of programming is free to Showtime subscribers, and the presentation on CBS is the first Prime Time boxing event on…
Lee Selby will defend his IBF Featherweight title against mandatory challenger, Eric Hunter, at The O2 in London on April 9, live on Sky Sports Box Office. The Welsh ace returns to the venue where he won the title against Evgeny Gradovich in May and it’s his first defence on British soil following his maiden…
Former world super-middleweight title challenger Frank Buglioni begins his campaign as a light-heavyweight on March 26 at The SSE Arena and has British and Commonwealth titles in his sights. The popular 26-year-old from Enfield boxed for the WBA super-middleweight belt last September, losing on points to then-champion Fedor Chudinov, but is now making the move…
Julian Williams secured the IBF’s No. 1 position at 154 pounds and called out Junior Middleweight World Champion Jermall Charlo after an impressive seventh-round TKO of Italian Marcello Matano last Saturday on Showtime from Sands Bethlehem Events Center in Bethlehem, Pa. The undefeated Philadelphia native put on a clinic, breaking down his opponent from the…
Kal Yafai blitzed Dixon Flores inside the opening round of their clash for the vacant WBA Inter-Continental Super-Flyweight title at the Genting Arena in Birmingham on March 5 live on Sky Sports – and now wants to face WBA king Kohei Kono. Yafai raced out of the traps and floored Flores inside the opening 30…