The Honorable Ted Strickland, Governor of Ohio, will officiate the Official Weigh-in of WBC/WBO Middleweight Champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik, of Youngstown, Ohio, and his opponent, WBC No. 3-rated contender Miguel Espino of Los Angeles, at the Beeghly Center at Youngstown State University, on Friday, December 18 at 1 p.m. ET.
© Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro This coming Friday, at York Hall in Bethnal Green, Ghana’s Charles ‘The Crusader’ Adamu is focusing on regaining the Commonwealth Super Middleweight title, that he lost to Carl ‘The Cobra’ Froch back in 2004.
Promoter Cedric Kushner, president of Gotham Boxing, Inc., announced today with deep regret that WBO #3 rated heavyweight contender David Tua had advised him that, due to family matters, he had to withdraw from his proposed February 6th fight in Atlantic City. “I was really looking forward to coming to America after the holidays but,…
Irish boxing manager Gary Hyde yesterday won a legal judgment in Miami to manage 2-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux. Rigondeaux (3-0, 3 KOs), fighting as a bantamweight, now lives in Los Angeles after defecting from Cuba, where he was a 7-time national champion. The 28-year-old southpaw also won multiple World Championships titles, as well as…
Reports of a bout agreement reached between world heavyweight titleholders David Haye and Vitali Klitschko are wide of the mark, insist ‘The Hayemaker’s trainer and manager Adam Booth. It had been reported that WBC champion Klitschko claimed a ‘preliminary agreement’ was struck with Haye to meet at some stage in 2010. However, Booth has strongly…
© Chris Farina / Top Rank T-minus three days and counting until WBC/WBO Middleweight Champion Kelly“The Ghost†Pavlik (35-1, 31 KOs), of Youngstown, Ohio, defends his title against the WBC’s No. 3-rated contender Miguel Espino (20-2-1, 9 KOs), of North Hollywood, Calif., at Youngstown State University’s Beeghly Center.
By Per Ake Persson Danish Palm Promotions won today´s purse bids for the fight for the vacant European super middle title between Mads Larsen and Brian Magee. Palm bid 303 303 EUR while Sauerland came in with an offer for 255 309 EUR. The fight goes ahead January 30 in Aarhus. In the chief support…
The world championship fight promoted by Arthur Pelullo’s Banner Promotions and Rodney Berman’s Golden Gloves on Saturday, December 19, 2009, at El Palenque in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico, will now televised on Cadena 3 in Mexico, and worldwide. The main event and featured bouts will be televised.
On Tuesday of last week, US Olympian and current undefeated super middleweight boxer Shawn Estrada underwent surgery at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The surgery, headed up by Dr. Roy Meals at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, involved repairing a ruptured extensor tendon in the sagittal band of Estrada’s right ring finger…
Top middleweight prospect Fernando Guerrero will put his unbeaten record on the line against Jesse Nicklow in a 10-round middleweight bout in the main event of the final ShoBox: The New Generation telecast of the year on Friday, Dec. 18 live on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast. Two exciting co-features…
This Saturday night at The Tri-States Sport Complex in Aston, PA a highly anticipated rematch that has been three years in the making will take place as Heavyweights, Jamie Campbell and Dan Mullarkey will square off in the four round main event of a big nine bout card that is promoted by Al Thompson’s Football…
In front of 2,500 boisterous fans at the Shipley Arena, Mark “TNT†Tucker retained his USBO Light Heavyweight championship Friday night with a hard fought ten round unanimous decision over wily veteran George “El Gallo†Armenta of Silver Spring, MD. With a group of US Marines leading his loudly cheered ring walk, Tucker controlled the…