Josh Warrington will defend his WBC International Featherweight title at The O2 in London on December 12. The Leeds star is hunting a showdown with IBF champion Lee Selby having defended the title with a shutout win against mutual opponent Joel Brunker in his hometown fortress in Leeds, and will be out to impress on…
Anthony Upton has been handed an early Christmas present – a shot at the English light-welterweight title. The unbeaten 23-year-old, who is trained by Ricky Hatton, will face current champion Joe Hughes at Walsall Town Hall on Saturday, December 5. Upton has been a professional for little over two years, but he feels the time…
Undefeated super welterweight contender Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade (22-0, 15 KOs) is ready to participate in the proposed WBC 154-pound division tournament to determine its successor for retired champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. A 2008 U.S. Olympian and 2007 AIBA World Championships gold medalist, Andrade is also a former WBO super welterweight champion, who was stripped…
WBA lightweight champion, Darleys Perez (32-1-1, 20 KOs), co-promoted by Gary Shaw Productions and Thompson Boxing, is looking forward to his highly anticipated rematch with Anthony Crolla (29-4-3, 11 KOs). Perez returns to hostile territory at the Manchester Arena in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2015, the same location where the first fight took…
Undefeated Cuban Rances “Kid Blast” Barthelemy (23-0, 13 KOs) and Russia’s Denis Shafikov (36-1-1, 19 KOs) will fight for a lightweight world title on Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on Spike Friday, December 18 from the Pearl at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Televised coverage begins at 9 p.m. ET/PT and will see Interim cruiserweight…
The boxing gem of Puerto Rico, undefeated Top-Five world-rated lightweight contender Felix “El Diamante” Verdejo, and former five-division world champion and 2012 Fighter of the Year Nonito “The Filipino Flash†Donaire, will headline, in separate title bouts, the year-end finale of Friday Night Knockout on truTV, on Friday, December 11. Verdejo will be making his…
Former Ukrainian Olympian and undefeated middleweight prospect Sergiy Derevyanchenko (6-0, 4 KOs) returns to face veteran Jessie Nicklow (25-7-3, 8 KOs) in the eight-round co-feature of ShoBox: The New Generation, this Saturday, Nov. 14, live on Showtime (10:45 p.m. ET/PT from Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. In the opening bout of the…
Middleweights Nick Blackwell and Jack Arnfield will both weigh in at Bristol’s Marriott Hotel on Friday, November 13 ahead of their British title fight the following day. Blackwell is the reigning and defending British middleweight champion and has scored two of the most dramatic stoppage wins of 2015; his seventh-round victory over John Ryder in…
Former Olympian and world amateur star Andrew Selby will face undefeated Hungarian Jozsef Ajtai this Saturday night, November 14, in Bristol as part of the undercard to Nick Blackwell’s British middleweight title defence against Jack Arnfield, live on Channel 5. In what constitutes an ambitious piece of matchmaking, Selby will face a man in Ajtai…
WBC No. 1 ranked super lightweight Amir Imam (18-0, 15 KOs) returns to face Adrian Granados (14-3-2, 9 KOs) in a 10-round bout on Saturday, Nov. 28 on Showtime Boxing on SHO Extreme. The undefeated Imam is the mandatory challenger to WBC 140-pound champion Viktor Postol, who won the vacant title with a 10th round…
Undefeated super welterweight Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade (22-0, 15 KOs) has never forgotten where he comes from, Providence, and for the second year in a row the 27-year-old former world champion is spearheading a Turkey Drive there. The group that Andrade founded, The Andrade Team, Inc., is on a mission to provide the Providence community…
Manchester’s Jack Arnfield is buoyant and “raring to go†ahead of his British middleweight title fight with champion Nick ‘Bang Bang’ Blackwell this Saturday, November 14 at Bristol’s City Academy. The 26-year-old accepted the fight with Blackwell last Friday, following the withdrawal of original opponent Elliott Matthews, and now can’t wait to finally get his…