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Two number one ranked middleweight contenders will clash for top challenger status in the division when top rated IBF contender Edison Miranda and WBC #1 Kelly Pavlik collide in “The Right to Fight” on Saturday, May 19th at FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee. The thrilling middleweight contest will be the co-feature …

By Per Ake Persson WBO Intercontinental jr middle champ Lukas Konecny will now face experienced Frenchman Serge Vigne April 7 at the Universum gym in Hamburg. Marco Schulze, also at 154, will take on Sylvain Touzet. SES promotes. WBA and WBC supermiddle champ Mikkel Kessler is heading to the US …

Froch to WBO: do the right thing Carl Froch has asked World Boxing Organisation president Francisco Valcarcel to do the right thing and match him in a final eliminator against Russia’s Dennis Inkin for their Championship, currently held by his long-term rival Joe Calzaghe. Welshman Calzaghe, 35, has held the …

Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions, is preparing for an outstanding month of April with three events featuring world class professional boxing including back to back Friday nights, April 13 and 20, at Cicero Stadium. Said Pesoli, “It’s great to be this busy, it truly validates that our hard work at …

Sycuan Ringside Promotions officials expressed surprise Saturday that a proposed bout between undefeated World Boxing Organization junior lightweight champion Joan Guzman of the Dominican Republic and Michael Katsidis for the Australian’s WBO lightweight interim title is “official.” “We’re more than a little surprised to read that Guzman’s manager, Jose Nunez, …

Joey Gilbert Promotions Brings Championship Boxing to Reno, NV when “Reno After Dark” Championship Boxing comes to the Reno Events Center After a successful first boxing production in Lake Tahoe, Joey Gilbert Promotions will be bringing its second professional boxing event to Joey Gilbert’s hometown of Reno, NV. The “Reno …

“I know what I’m dealing with” Tomasz Bonin, the WBC 11th ranked heavyweight who is on his way to Wembley Arena to take on David Haye, the face of British boxing, on 27 April has released his first comments from his Polish training camp. Bonin is clearly not making the …

6’4″ super middleweight returns April 18 against former title challenger Robert Allen His birth name is Jameson Bostic. His friends know him as Jamie Kang. In boxing, he is rapidly becoming known as the sports best kept secret. Three-time world middleweight title challenger Robert Allen (38-5, 27KO) will find out …

Heavy-hitting heavyweights Walker and Butler co-headline Friday, April 6, 2007, on “ShoBox: The New Generation.” Showtime will air the doubleheader at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast). Travis Walker and Raphael Butler knocked down then WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko during sparring in late 2005, according to trainer …

Undefeated heavyweight contender Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson (13-0, 5KO) made his South Carolina debut a memorable one, crushing journeyman Curtis Taylor via 1st round KO, Thursday night at the Plex in North Charleston, SC. “I hit this dude with my jab and his fighting spirit flew right out of him” said …

The official weigh-in for tonight’s hotly anticpated Virgil Hill – Henry Maske rematch at a sold out Olympia Hall in Munich, Germany took place yesterday and both ex-world champions made it under the contracted weight limit of 190 lb. Virgil Hill, 50-5 (23), weighed in 188.75 lb/85.8 kg Henry Maske, …

Britain’s most avoided fighter John O’Donnell believes that he should be in the shakedown for the British welterweight title this summer. The standout 21-year-old confirmed his credentials with an impressive win over fellow undefeated puncher Stuart Elwell last Friday to claim the English championship on the Hennessy Sports and GoldenPalace.com …