© Vedat Alyaz / ARENA WBC President Don José Sulaiman has honoured Turkish welterweight star “Mini-Tyson†Selcuk Aydin and former European champion “Sugar†Jackson Osei Bonsu by coming all the way from Mexico to Istanbul for their combined European and WBC international championship that is also a WBC elimination bout today at Besiktas Cola Turka…
Tickets for Houston’s upcoming showdown between four of boxing’s best at Toyota Center are on sale now. On Saturday, August 22nd, Houston’s own and former Undisputed Lightweight Champion Juan Diaz will square off against former Junior Welterweight Champion Paulie Malignaggi in the main event while Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero will challenge for a world title…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Ahead of the big Don King boxing show tonight at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, FL, the principal boxers all weighed in yesterday. IBF Bantamweight Championship Joseph Agbeko: 116.5 lb Vic Darchinyan: 117.5 lb
TV2 Sport will air three reruns of Fightnight Horsens during the coming week. The groundbreaking show held at Sonderbro Kulturhus in Horsens, Denmark on June 19 featured lightweights Kim Poulsen and Sam Rukundo along with light middle Fawaz Nasir.
“Renaissance†would be the wrong term to describe what’s happening in the super middleweight division right now. That implies a “rebirth,†but never before has the division seen this depth of talent, and more importantly, a group of talent who actually show interest in fighting one another. Remember the Roy Jones Jr./Frankie Liles/Steve Little days?…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Two of the pound-for-pound hardest hitting boxers in the world could barely contain themselves and had to be separated during Thursday’s press conference at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla.
The press conference for the European/WBC international championship and WBC final elimination bout between WBC #2 rated welterweight Selcuk Aydin and #3 “Sugar†Jackson Osei Bonsu will be streamed live on the internet. The fight takes place this Saturday, July 11th at Besiktas Cola Turka Arena in Istanbul, Turkey.
In a fantastic opening night of ‘SuperBoxer’, the feature event finished with a spectacular 1st Round KO victory by Billy ‘The Kid’ Dib over Kenichi Yamaguchi. With an entertaining, yet unorthodox style, Yamaguchi from Japan,rushed and charged at the ‘The Kid’ and at one point tackled Dib.
Showtime has announced a press conference to announce an ambitious plan surrounding some of the top super middleweights in the world. The conference will take place early next week and is set to include the following fighters. WBA 168-pound Champion Mikkel Kessler, IBF Middleweight Champion Arthur Abraham, WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch, former undisputed…
Five-time world champion Vinny Paz will have a special book signing of his biography, “Fight Or Die: The Vinny Paz Story,†July 17th at the Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, prior to the “Braggin’ Rights†Pro-Am boxing card, presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES). Books will be available to purchase…
18 months ago, Floyd Mayweather Jr announced his retirement, stating “I don’t have the desire I once didâ€. Now, from the sound of that statement, one is led to believe that the motivation that once existed is gone, the desire to train and compete is not what it was so there is no desire to…
Darren Sutherland will have his next fight at the George Carnall Centre in Manchester M41 7FJ. The Irishman, 27, was due to box in Sunderland on Friday night, but suffered a slight cut on his right cheek in his stoppage win over Gennadiy Rasalev last week. Promoter Frank Maloney said: “It was touch and go…