Jason Booth has been given the chance to realise his European title dreams – but must face close mate Rendall Munroe. The EBU have made the Nottingham star (34-5) mandatory contender for Munroe’s European super-bantamweight championship. Before setting his sights higher Booth must defend his British crown against Matthew Marsh (13-1) in his hometown at…
Highly-regarded lightweight prospect, Bayan “The Mongolian Mongoose†Jargal (14-0-2, 9 KOs) of Arlington, VA, will face ring veteran Louie Leija (21-14-1, 15 KOs) of San Antonio, TX as the eight-round Co-Main event on the March 6 boxing card at the Patriot Center Ice Promotions officials announced today.
On Saturday February 6th, heavyweight fan favorite, Vinny Maddalone (32-6, 23) will get the weekend fireworks started early when he takes on Dominique Alexander (19-7-1, 9KO) in an eight round heavyweight match-up at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, NJ. The show, promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing, and broadcast live on GoFightLive.tv,…
Welterweight Scott ‘The Gent’ Woolford will face his sternest test of his career when he faces former WBF Light Welterweight and British Welterweight Champion Young Mutley at the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham this coming Friday, the 5th February. Woolford’s career seemed to go in to free fall following his loss to Ricky Hatton’s…
In a highly anticipated super-middleweight showdown on Friday night in Reno, Jesse Brinkley beat, and beat-up, Curtis “Showtime” Stevens. Yerington, Nevada’s Brinkley (35-5, 22 KOs) earned the #2 mandatory position in the IBF by out boxing and out punching Brooklyn’s Stevens (21-3, 15 KOs) in a thrilling twelve-round bout.
Last Friday night at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois, fight fans were treated to another great night of boxing as Chicago’s native son, Cestus Management Fighter Donovan George, scored another jaw dropping win. George (19-0-0 w/17 Kos) completely dominated and destroyed Phil “The Drill†Williams knocking him out in 2:43 of the 3rd round….
It was a jubuilant scene last night at Restaurante Arroyo in Mexico City as favorite son Jorge Arce delivered a good performance to capture the vacant WBO super flyweight title. 30 year old Los Mochis resident Arce engaged in a toe to toe slugfest with Indonesia’s Angky Angkota and not surprisingly was dominating the action…
IBF middleweight boss Sebastian Sylvester kept his title last night against late replacement opponent Billy Lyell at Jahnsportforum in Neubradenburg, Germany. American veteran Lyell, 21-8 (4), used his experience to get into the later rounds against the stocky, volume punching champion but Sylvester, 33-3 (16), maintained a pace that proved too much for the challenger….
Irish southpaw Brian Magee scored the biggest victory of his career last night at the NRGi Arena in Aarhus, Denmark by stopping Mads Larsen in a clash for the vacant European super middleweight title. For Magee, 33-3-1 (23), the victory comes at the culmination of a mercurial ten year ride through the professional ranks and…
By Per Ake Persson All time great Evander Holyfield is now reportedly on for a fight in Las Vegas against Derrick Rossy April 24 which leaves his March 6 date open for a possible fight against Francois Botha – meanwhile Francois Botha vs Joey Abell February 27 in Kampala appears to be more likely as…
Last night, at the Bellahouston Sports Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, Tommy Gilmour and Matchroom Sport hosted a Friday fightnight which would see Lee McAllister of Aberdeen defend his Commonwealth Lightweight title for the second time when he faced Ghanaian – Samuel Amaoko. Sporting a red striped hairdo – the colours of Aberdeen, his favourite football…
One of the most popular boxers in Mexico is in action tonight at Restaurante Arroyo in Mexico City as Jorge Arce looks to bounce back from defeat by challenging for the vacant WBO super fly title. Arce, 52-6-1 (40), has lost two of his last three during the last year and is coming off a…