With wins in 21 out of 22 fights and a well-deserved reputation as one of boxing’s rising stars, Nestor Rocha has steadily built an impressive resume since turning pro in 2000. On Tuesday, July 14th, the 26-year-old bantamweight gets his long-awaited opportunity to graduate from contender to champion when he takes on Hozumi Hasegawa for…
World ranked junior middleweight Anthony Thompson will now face Grady Brewer, winner of The Contender, Season Two, for the IBO Junior Middleweight title on Saturday August 22nd at “TKO World Championship Boxing at the Pala Casinoâ€. Brewer was originally scheduled to face former European Champion Zaurebek Baysangurov.
© Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro Irish boxing coach and manager John Rooney Jnr. has recruited Terry Edwards MBE, as Director of Coaching and Boxing Development, for his new London based boxing and fitness facility – Rooney’s Boxing Gym – close to the famous landmarks Tower Bridge and HMS Belfast.
On July 16th, two of Joe DeGuardia’s brightest stars, “The New” Ray Robinson (10-0, 4KO) and Yathomas Riley (5-0, 3KO) will look to stay unbeaten as they battle it out against two tough veterans on the Star Boxing promoted show at the beautiful Hilton Rye Town Hotel in Rye Brook, NY.
British super bantamweight Marianne ‘Golden Girl’ Marston’s American visa woes, which prevented her pro debut in South Philadelphia in May, have been well documented over the past few months, however the plucky blonde hasn’t been sitting back and sulking instead she has been training for six hours a day at Rooney’s Boxing Gym in London.
Headlined by the sensational pro debuts of outstanding Russian amateurs stars Dmitry and Fedor Chudinov, TKO Boxing prospects shined on Friday night at the Reno Events on the undercard of an outstanding evening of professional boxing which featured the ten round decision win by Yerington’s Jesse Brinkley over Mike Paschall of Baltimore, MD.
Star Boxing’s Curtis “Showtime” Stevens (21-2, 15) showed why he is one of the most feared super middleweights in the world, with a sensational third round TKO over previously unbeaten Piotr Wilczewski (22-1, 7KO). Stevens came out in the first round firing, eventually dropping Wilczewski hard with a right uppercut. Luckily for Wilczewski, the end…
The European welterweight championship and WBC final elimination bout between WBC #2 “Mini-Tyson†Selcuk Aydin and #3 “Sugar†Jackson Bonsu will be streamed live on the internet!
© Vedat Alyaz / ARENA WBC President Don José Sulaiman has honoured Turkish welterweight star “Mini-Tyson†Selcuk Aydin and former European champion “Sugar†Jackson Osei Bonsu by coming all the way from Mexico to Istanbul for their combined European and WBC international championship that is also a WBC elimination bout today at Besiktas Cola Turka…
Tickets for Houston’s upcoming showdown between four of boxing’s best at Toyota Center are on sale now. On Saturday, August 22nd, Houston’s own and former Undisputed Lightweight Champion Juan Diaz will square off against former Junior Welterweight Champion Paulie Malignaggi in the main event while Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero will challenge for a world title…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Ahead of the big Don King boxing show tonight at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, FL, the principal boxers all weighed in yesterday. IBF Bantamweight Championship Joseph Agbeko: 116.5 lb Vic Darchinyan: 117.5 lb
TV2 Sport will air three reruns of Fightnight Horsens during the coming week. The groundbreaking show held at Sonderbro Kulturhus in Horsens, Denmark on June 19 featured lightweights Kim Poulsen and Sam Rukundo along with light middle Fawaz Nasir.