Even the very best in the business experience setbacks. Alex Miskirtchian found himself enjoying his momentum up the featherweight ladder before he hit a pothole in the road last summer. The Georgia-born fighter with a 26-4-1 mark got caught by vet Cornelius Lock and had to assess himself. He did so, and licked his wounds…
Gary Russell Jr. will return to the ring to defend his WBC Featherweight Title against Irish contender Patrick Hyland on Saturday, April 16, live on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT from Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT. In the co-feature, undefeated IBF Super Featherweight Champion Jose Pedraza will defend against mandatory challenger Stephen…
Ricky Burns can become a three-weight World champion when he takes on Michele Di Rocco for the vacant WBA Super-Lightweight title at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on May 28, live on Sky Sports. Burns can add World title glory at 140 lb to his reigns as WBO king at Super-Featherweight and Lightweight, with the…
Chris Eubank Jr. believes British champion Nick Blackwell is merely keeping the throne warm and that, on March 26, he will be relieved of his duties and a superior division ruler will be crowned. Blackwell and Eubank Jr. collide at The SSE Arena, Wembley, live on Channel 5, and the challenger, a former WBA interim…
Explosive super-featherweight prospect Yusuf ‘Yut’ Safa returns to the ring on March 26 at The SSE Arena, Wembley, eager to make his way towards title opportunities and represent Afghanistan and Britain on the biggest stage. The 22-year-old from Bexleyheath was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, before moving to England with his parents at five years of…
Kell Brook says he’s going to take his frustrations out on Kevin Bizier when he defends his IBF Welterweight title at the Sheffield Arena on March 26, live on Sky Sports. Brook makes the third defence of the crown he landed in August 2014, and the second against a Canadian mandatory challenge, as Bizier follows…
Nick ‘Bang Bang’ Blackwell is two weeks away from defending his British middleweight title against Chris Eubank Jr. at The SSE Arena, Wembley and claims the hotly-anticipated grudge match is “better than a world title fightâ€. Blackwell and Eubank Jr. lock horns on March 26, following months of heated back-and-forth, and promoter Mick Hennessy’s long-held…
Anthony Crolla will defend his WBA Lightweight title against Ismael Barroso at the Manchester Arena on May 7. Crolla won the belt in stunning style at the vaunted Manchester venue in November, folding Darleys Perez in the fifth round of their rematch for the Colombian’s title. The victory capped a fairy tale comeback from the…
Sanigar Events presents ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ Championship Boxing at Action Indoor Sports, Bristol, England April 16. Unbeaten light heavyweight prospect Hasan Karkardi originally from Iran now based out of Bristol will challenge Newcastle’s Scott Westgarth for the International Light Heavyweight Challenge Belt. Westgarth is no stranger to Bristol boxers having stopped…
Lucas Browne has fired back at rivals keen to gain publicity off the back of his stunning WBA heavyweight title victory over Ruslan Chagaev. The heavy-handed Sydney man wrote his name into the history books when he KO’d the tough Uzbek to become Australia’s first ever world champion in the heavyweight division last weekend.
The biggest fight of the weekend took place at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England as old foes Terry Flanagan and Derry Mathews went at it again, this time for Flanagan’s WBO lightweight crown. It was the second installment of the Terry and Derry show as the pair had initially tangled way back in October,…
Click the Image for more Terry Flanagan Vs Derry Mathews Photos Manchester’s Terry Flanagan retained his WBO World Lightweight Title last night by a unanimous points decision over Liverpool’s Derry Mathews. ‘Turbo’ Flanagan was the busier of the two men throughout the contest but the fight was messy at times. The champion had delivered a…