Jason Booth insists he will walk away from boxing a happy man if he wins a London belt outright this Friday. Booth, 32, makes the third defence of his British super-bantamweight crown when he faces Matthew Marsh (13-1) at Nottingham’s Harvey Hadden Centre, meaning the belt will be his for keeps if he wins.
WBC interim lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco hit the bag, jumped rope and posed during a light workout Wednesday in Monterrey, Mexico while WBC lightweight champion Edwin Valero taped his hands and vigorously worked the bag
One night before two-time world champion Edwin Valero (26-0, 26 KOs) defends his WBC lightweight crown against WBC 135-pound interim titleholder Antonio DeMarco (23-1-1, 17 KOs) in Monterrey, Mexico, on Showtime at 9 p.m . ET/PT, once-beaten Freddy “El Riel’’ Hernandez (27-1, 18 KOs), of Lynwood, Calif., will take on former world champion, southpaw DeMarcus…
2008 U.S. Olympian Sadam “World Kid†Ali recently completed a strong training camp and now he’s ready to go Saturday night against fellow Brooklyn welterweight Jason Thompson in Newark, New Jersey. Ali puts his perfect pro record (4-0, 2 KOs) on the line versus Thompson (5-4-1, 4 KOs) in a 4-round bout on Saturday night’s…
It’s official. Boxing’s biggest superstar and six-time world champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather made his upcoming fight with welterweight mega-star and five-time world champion Sugar Shane Mosley, official today when he signed the contract that pits the two fighters against each other on Saturday, May 1 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in a mega-bout…
IBF Super Middleweight champion Lucian Bute, 25-0 (20), will defend his title for the fifth time against notorious power puncher Edison “Pantera†Miranda, 33-4 (29), from Colombia on Saturday, April 17th 2010 at the Montreal Bell Centre. Lucian will be lacing up his gloves in a Montreal ring after not boxing in the City for…
Hayemaker Boxing have offered Frank Warren Promotions a sum of £50,000 for their super-middleweight prospect James Degale to box George Groves on April 3rd at Manchester’s M.E.N Arena. Should the fight go ahead, Degale’s duel with Groves would act as one of the chief support contests to David Haye’s WBA world heavyweight title defence, live…
A winner of 12 in a row and unbeaten in his last 16 (15-0-1) dating to May 2006, WBC interim champion Antonio DeMarco (23-1-1, 17 KOs) of Tijuana, Mexico, will challenge devastating Venezuelan and WBC lightweight belt-holder, Edwin Valero (26-0, 26 KOs), in the main event this Saturday, Feb. 6, live on Showtime Championship Boxing…
The rematch between heavyweights Tony “TNT†Grano and Mark “Oak Tree†Brown headlines the March 12 pro boxing card, “Brace For Impact,†presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Sports and Entertainment, Inc. (CES), in Fox Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. Brown (15-2, 7 KOs) overcame two knockdowns to stop Grano, fighting out of…
On Saturday February 6th, Atlantic City’s welterweight contender Shamone “The Truth” Alvarez (20-2, 11KO) will look to get his career back underway and once again begin his ascent into the upper echelon of the welterweight division when he takes on Mexican knockout artist, Alexis Camacho (17-2, 16KO).
Scott Lawton will hope that hometown advantage pays off when he challenges Leva Kirakosyan for the vacant European Super Featherweight title on February 19th at Stoke’s Fenton Manor Sports Complex. This will be Lawton’s first shot at fighting for the European title, though last year he contested the British Lightweight title against John Murray. Despite…
Carl Johanneson ends a ring exile of almost two years when he returns at Nottingham’s Harvey Hadden Centre this Friday night. The Leeds puncher (27-4) faces Youssef Al Hamidi in his first contest since losing the British super-featherweight title against Kevin Mitchell on March 2008.