Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson became the latest mega-star to announce that he will attend the third annual Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame’s induction gala, which will take place in eight days, next Saturday, August 8, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Tyson, a member of the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame’s inaugural class in…
Pembroke’sVinnie Carita (9-1-1, 9 KO’s) will still be in action on Saturday, August 8 at the Hyannis Youth & Community Center (HYCC) as part of the Boston Boxing Promotions event headlined by the Northeast Heavyweight Championship fight between Hyannis’ Jesse Barboza (9-1-1, 5 KO’s) vs. Jesse Oltmanns (10-5, 7 KO’s).
Undefeated Super-Middleweight Sam Stokes (3-0) is the latest prospect to put pen to paper and sign a three year contract with rising manager/promoter Steve Goodwin. Stokes, from Basildon in Essex, last fought in February 2015 and is desperate to get active under his new team and plans to return to the ring on November 5…
Jr. Middleweight, Michael Moore, (13-1, 6 KO’s) is currently out in Las Vegas fine tuning his skills under the leadership and training of Jeff Mayweather. Mayweather is assisting in taking the fighter that’s known as “The Silverback” to the next level. Said Moore, “I have never worked with such an incredible trainer. It’s all about…
The Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on CBS series grew viewership by double-digits with its Saturday, July 18 PBC on the 4-6pm EST CBS telecast headlined by Carl Frampton vs. Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. from the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas. The second installment of the series recorded a +14% increase from its debut on…
2012 Olympian, Cameron Hammond, stretched his unbeaten pro record to 13-0 and retained his WBA Oceania Welterweight Title with a blistering fifth round TKO of Sedat Tasci in Narrabri, New South Wales, on Saturday night. Hammond started off by controlling the action behind his jab before stepping things up in the third. By the fourth,…
Brian Rose says he must beat Carson Jones to keep his career alive as they meet in a rematch on August 1 at the KC Lightstream Stadium in Hull, live on Sky Sports. Rose lost to Jones on Valentine’s Day in a dramatic one-round blitz, hurting Jones early in the piece only for the American…
Former world champions Antonio Tarver and Steve Cunningham exchanged heated words today on a routine media conference call that escalated into a back-and-forth dialogue about mutual respect and ring generalship. Both Tarver and Cunningham joined the call following a much friendlier media interview featuring the televised undercard fighters Marco Huck and Krzysztof Glowacki.
IBF/WBA/WBO Light Heavy Championship, 12 rounds: Sergey Kovalev: 174.5 lb Najib Mohammedi: 173 lb Cruiserweights, 10 rounds: Jean Pascal: 178 lb Yuniesky Gonzalez: 177 lb Light Heavyweights: 10 rounds Sullivan Barrera: 174.5 lb Hakim Zoulikha: 175 lb
Knockout king Sergey Kovalev has labelled Adonis Stevenson as “not a real champion†and dreams of capturing his WBC belt. The unified WBA, WBO and IBF light-heavyweight champion has conquered all before him, including wins over the legendary Bernard Hopkins and Jean Pascal, but a showdown with 175-pound rival and current WBC champion Stevenson has…
British middleweight champion Nick Blackwell and unbeaten challenger Damon Jones both weighed inside the middleweight limit this afternoon in Derby ahead of their highly-anticipated title clash tonight, live on Channel 5. Twenty-two-year-old Jones, unbeaten in 13 professional fights, tipped the scales at 11 stone 5lbs 5oz [159.25 lb], while 24-year-old champion Blackwell, 17-3-1 (7 KOs),…
Stablemates Danny Roman and Isaac Zarate will headline a card this Friday July 26, from the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, California, promoted by Thompson Boxing. Trained and managed by Eddie Gonzalez, two talented rising prospects, bantamweights Danny Roman and Isaac Zarate, will headline the “Locked n’ Loaded” show. Roman (14-2-1, 5 KOs) will be in…