The whirlwind three-city press tour that officially announced the May 1 welterweight showdown between superstar Floyd “Money” Mayweather and WBA Welterweight Champion Sugar Shane Mosley ended today as throngs of fans and media gathered at a unique outdoor press event in Nokia Plaza at L.A. Live to see two of boxing’s best fighters kick-off the…
Popular, hard-hitting Vic “The Raging Bull’’ Darchinyan (33-2-1, 27 KOs) will defend his WBC and WBA super flyweight crowns against streaking Rodrigo “Gato’’ Guerrero (13-1-1, 9 KOs) in the main event on a special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation on Showtime this Saturday, March 6, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast,…
Goosen-Tutor promotes a fight card tonight at Pechanga Casino in Temecula, CA. NABO Lightweight Championship, 12 rounds Martin Honorio: 129 lb Wilton Hilario: 128.5 lb NABO Youth Super Bantam Championship, 8 rounds Rico Ramos: 123.5 lb Cecilio Santos: 122.25 lb
CES puts on the “ShamRock’d” fight card Friday, March 19 at Twin River Event Center in Lincoiln, RI. Headlining the show is an eight round light welterweight clash between Danny O’Connor and Franklin Gonzalez. Jimmy Burchfield (CES, President): “This is going to be a great show, a few days before St. Patrick’s Day (Irish), and…
Super Six World Boxing Classic standings leader “King†Arthur Abraham and Andre “The Matrix†Dirrell both took part in a media conference call on Thursday to talk about their Group Stage 2 matchup. The two square off March 27, 2010, at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, MI, live on Showtime at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT,delayed…
Exciting Philadelphian heavyweight, Joey Dawejko (2-0, 1KO) has been added to the Star Boxing promoted card, this Saturday night at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City. Dawejko will square off against Kimani Cunningham (0-2) over four rounds.
Lightweight prospect John Molina, Jr., fighting for the first time since sustaining his first loss as a professional, will be in action Friday night at the same venue where he lost in late November. Molina, Jr., who lost by decision to Martin Honorio at the Pechanga Resort & Casino, will be featured on the Honorio-Wilton…
Former WBC Lightweight Champion David Diaz is in his final week of training in his hometown of Chicago as he prepares for his rumble with Humberto Soto on Saturday, March 13th at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas. Diaz is working with his manager/trainer Jim Strickland and co-trainer Mike Garcia as he looks to regain the WBC…
Frank Maloney, Britain’s leading boxing promoter and UKIP candidate for Barking today slammed the EU rules which mean that it will be illegal to give Londoners – or anyone from the UK preferential tickets for the 2012 Olympics. Frank said, “I am amazed that our public have been paying through the nose with their taxes…
Unbeaten junior welterweight Michael Dallas, Jr. will see his first action of 2010 when he takes on Mexican veteran Fabian Roque at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, CA on Friday night. We go “Inside the Mind†of Michael Dallas, Jr. in the final, prefight days, with “Six Questions†for the hot, Jackie Kallen-managed…
Appropriately-named Danny O’Connor, 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate, headlines his first show March 19 on the post-St. Patrick’s Day card, “Shamrock’d,†presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES), at Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, R.I. Two other popular, Irish-American boxers, “Irish†Joey McCreedy and 4-time world champion Jaime “Hurricane†Clampitt, are…
The Commerce Casino, the world’s largest poker facility in the world, will once again host an evening of world class professional boxing presented by TKO Boxing Promotions on Thursday, March 25th. “We’re really proud to return to the Commerce Casino with our third event. It’s an excellent venue that allows us to present world class…