Fight Results
A busy time lies ahead for Hennessy Sports. The promotional company are set to stage three events headlined by team members defending British Titles in less than two months – all live on Sky Sports – and Junior Witter’s first defence of his WBC Light Welterweight Title early in the New Year. Team member Howard…
Last night under the bright lights at Madison Square Garden in New York, IBF Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko regained his pre-2003 form and displayed the best boxing skills in the division enroute to stopping an outgunned Calvin Brock in the seventh round. Maybe it came down to Brock not being prepared for this level of…
In a battle of aging former world champions, Manuel Medina grabbed the top spot in the IBF super featherweight rankings with a victory over Kevin Kelley on the Klitschko – Brock undercard last night at Madison Square Garden. The long limbed, high volume style of 35 year old Medina, 67-15 (31), proved too much for…
Any questions that hovered over Irish prospect Bernard Dunne were silenced last night in the twenty six year old’s hometown of Dublin where he thrashed former titlist Esham Pickering for the vacant European Super Bantamweight crown on a Brian Peters promotion. The tone was set from the start as Dunne put his opponent under a…
Belarus lightweight Yuri Romanov has built a career on upsetting favorites since turning pro four years ago and the twenty four year old spoiler did it again last night in Ciudad Real, Spain. Reigning European Champion Juan Carlos Melero was in the process of giving Romanov a boxing lesson and had canvassed the tourist in…
Last night at Borough Hall in Hartlepool, England, local boy and European Champion Michael Hunter faced Canadian tactician Steve Molitor for the vacant IBF Super Bantamweight Title. Both fighters came into the contest, billed as “World Class” by Matchroom Promotions, with unbeaten records but there was big home support for Hunter in the packed Borough…
44 year old heavyweight Evander Holyfield continues to defy the odds and took another step on his quest to regain a world title as the living legend topped Fres Oquendo last night at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The bout was almost over before it started as Holyfield canvassed Oquendo with the first right…
It was 12 rounds of pure, unadulterated fury in the main event of 8 Count Promotion’s Chicago Chill card tonight in Chicago, IL as USBA Featherweight Champion Rogers Mtagwa went to war with Mexican challenger Martin Honorio. This was a spiteful contest from the first bell as both men tore at each other, winging bombs…
Carlos Baldomir’s recent impressive victories over Zab Judah and Arturo Gatti meant nothing last night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas as the Argentine’s opponent this time out was Floyd Mayweather Jr, who lived up to his reputation of being the pound for pound best fighter in boxing today and drubbed the reigning WBC…
The Emperor’s Palace Casino in Kempton Park, South Africa was the scene of one of the best fights of the year to date when unheralded domestic featherweight champion Malcolm Klassen shocked those at ringside by outfighting IBF 130lb Champion Gairy St. Claire to take a twelve round decision by comfortable margins. Despite stepping up a…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Sergei Liakhovich was thirty seconds away from logging a successful defense of his WBO Heavyweight title when the much vaunted punching power of challenger Shannon Briggs turned the contest around sharply and left the champion floored outside of the ring, semi-conscious on a ringside table. After 14 years as…
Click for larger image © Ed Mulholland / Showtime Boxing In an upset last night at Bally’s Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, light welter Kendall Holt took Isaac Hlatshwayo to school, pulling away from the talented South African in the later rounds and dropping the visitor three times enroute to a wide points decision…