World rated Middleweight Andy Lee believes that Limerick could have European Champions in both boxing and rugby to celebrate in 2010. The Limerick southpaw will have his next professional outing in his native city on Saturday, May 15th on the Yanjing Fight Night when he headlines a star studded night of championship boxing at the…
© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Boxing fans worldwide want to see one fight: IBF, WBO and IBO Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko against WBA Heavyweight Champion David Haye. Now, triple champion Klitschko is taking action and officially calls out David Haye: “David, don’t be a coward and run away!”
Frank Maloney has called for Rendall Munroe fans to create an intimidating atmosphere for Victor Terrazas. Munroe meets the dangerous Mexican in a WBC super-bantamweight title final eliminator at Coventry Skydome on April 23 in the toughest test of the Leicester binman’s 21 fight career. Promoter Maloney said: “Rendall has been fighting in the first…
Female professional boxer Marianne ‘Golden Girl’ Marston announced this week the launch of her new website as well as a series of boxing, and boxing based fitness, classes at The Boxing Clinic in Islington, North London and The Tokei Gym in Southwark, South London. In 2009, Marianne, the protégé of Heavyweight Champion of the World…
This past Friday night at The Arena in South Philadelphia, Featherweight Coy Evans remained undefeated with an explosive third round stoppage over Morris Chule. Evans of Philadelphia is now 8-0-1 with two wins coming by knockout. Both of those stoppages have come in the last three fights.
Lucian Bute is back in Montreal after spending the last nine weeks in Florida training at the Thump Boxing Gym facilities in Miami with Head Trainer Stephan Larouche and Physical Conditioning guru Andre Kulesza.
On Saturday, April 17, WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik defends his titles against Sergio Martinez, the WBC super welterweight champion, at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. Bob Arum: This fight on Saturday, April 17, will be one of the most important middleweight championships that we will see in a very long time — Kelly…
The BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, FL saw a good card of fights last night as Andre Berto continued to cement his hold on the WBC welter title while WBA/IBF super bantam champ Celestino Caballero successfully moved up to featherweight. Berto faced former WBO titlist Carlos Quintana and initially had difficulty with the experienced veteran, getting…
Hall of Fame-bound Evander “The Real Deal†Holyfield added the World Boxing Federation heavyweight title belt to his overcrowded trophy case, stopping defending champion Frans “The White Buffalo†Botha in the eighth round last night in the main event on “The Legend Returns†card, promoted by Crown Boxing, at the Thomas & Mack Center in…
Good weekend on the Continent, highlighted by several big fights including two world title bouts. IBF welterweight champ Jan Zaveck made his first defense a good one, outboxing challenger Rodolfo Ezequiel Martinez before stopping the Argentine in the 12th and final round at Tivoli Sports Hall on Friday in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Martinez, 36-4-1 (13), had…
There were a few surprises in the ring this past week as several big names suffered unexpected losses. The biggest shocker occurred when former world middleweight title challenger Jamie Pittman was dramatically sent down and out by hard-fisted Ghana born Joseph Kwadjo at Le Montage in Lilyfield on Thursday. At stake was the vacant IBF…
Arena’s Cuban heavyweight sensation Odlanier Solis advances to the no. 1 spot in the new WBC rankings. Originally “La Sombra“ was scheduled to fight Ray Austin in a final elimination bout but Austin declared to be unavailable due to legal problems. Therefore Solis took Austin’s spot in the rankings. “This is a great honour for…