Boxing Previews

The new season gets off to a less than thunderous bang this weekend but there are a few good fight cards happening today and tomorrow in a few select areas. Our first stop is the Energie-Verbund Arena in Dresden, Germany where WBA “regular” light heavyweight champ Juergen Braehmer, 46-2 (34), …

August goes out with a bang tonight at Staples Center in the American city of Los Angeles with the WBA featherweight “super” title on the line in a massive showdown between California based Mexican boxers Abner Mares and Leo Santa Cruz. The combatants are both multi-weight world champions with Mares, …

As Boxing is firmly in the August doldrums, we take a look at happier times ahead in which the new season kicks off with ultra-busy month of September. September 5, Freiberger Arena, Dresden, Germany: WBA “regular” light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer faces challenger Konni Konrad. Awkward southpaw Braehmer, 46-2 (34), …

One Germany’s biggest stars of the ring comes to fight in America for the first time as WBO cruiserweight champ Marco Huck headlines the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. Huck, 38-2-1 (26), squares off against undefeated Pole Krzysztof Glowacki, 24-0 (15), and the 30 year old Berlin resident will put …

Blue-chip Ukrainian middleweight prospect Sergiy “The Technician” Derevyanchenko weighed-in at 159 pounds and former title challenger Elvin “El Lycan” Ayala of New Haven, Conn. measured at 161 pounds during Thursday’s official weigh-in for the main event of this Friday’s ShoBox: The New Generation, live on Showtime at 10 p.m. ET/PT, …

Super bantamweights Scott Quigg, Kiko Martinez and Carl Frampton are all in action this weekend, with Martinez acting as measuring stick for both. IBF champ Frampton has fought and beaten Martinez twice, the first time resulting in a stoppage in the ninth round in 2013 while the second contest went …

As the summer ramps up in the northern hemisphere, Boxing has slowed down a bit but things pick up again tonight with three world title belts on offer. At Getech Arena in Magdeburg, Germany, WBA heavyweight champ Ruslan Chagaev, 33-2-1 (20), defends against Francesco Pianeta, 31-1-1 (17) in an all …

There’s a good clash at welterweight this evening at the outdoor venue StubHub Center in Carson, California as Jesse Vargas moves up in weight to tangle with Timothy Bradley for the Interim WBO title. Vargas, 26-0 (9), is still the current WBA light welter champ and coming off two defenses …

There’ll be big explosions in the ring tonight at New York’s Madison Square Garden when Nicholas Walters and amateur nemesis Miguel Marriaga square off for the WBA “Super” featherweight title that Walters lost yesterday on the scales when he could not make the divisional limit of 126 pounds. Could the …

Light middleweight Erislandy Lara puts his WBA crown on the line tonight at the UIC Pavillion in Chicago as the native Cuban faces off against two-time former world title challenger Delvin Rodriguez. Crafty southpaw Lara, 20-2-2 (12), acquired the belt in his most recent appearance by widely outpointing Ishe Smith …

Miguel Cotto returns to the ring for the first time since capturing the WBC middleweight title against Sergio Martinez one year ago as the Puerto Rican icon faces former world champion Daniel Geale at Barclays Center in Cotto’s adopted hometown of New York. In his most recent appearance, ex-three weight …

The biggest bill in British Boxing this year takes place this evening at London’s massive 20,000 seat O2 Arena as three world title bouts are on tap. Headlining the event is the UK’s top boxer, IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook, who makes a title defense against domestic rival, ex-British and …