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Golden Boy promotions puts on a fight card tonight at Coliseo Miguel Canto in Cozumel, Mexico with the principal boxers all weighing in yesterday. 12 rounds, vacant NABF Featherweight title Daniel Ponce De Leon: 124.8 lb Marlon Aquilar: 124.8 lb

On April 28, Joe DeGuardia’s premier installment of “VIP Boxing” gets underway at the elegant Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, NY with an intriguing double header featuring Star Boxing’s Vinny Maddalone, 31-5 (22), and Curtis “Showtime” Stevens, 19-2 (14). Maddalone will be taking on Benji Baker, 18-6 (9), …

Former unified welter and IBF 154 pound champ Cory Spinks clashed with local upstart Deandre Latimore in a battle of southpaws for the vacant IBF Light Middleweight title on a good Don King card in font of 9,000 fans at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. Latimore had parlayed …

**With Slideshow** © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing K2 Promotions made the last stop of their press tour at BB Kings Blues Club in New York City yesterday to announce the upcoming title bout between IBF, IBO and WBO Heavyweight Champion Dr. Wladimir “Steelhammer” Klitschko 52-3 (46) against David “The …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last nigh, at ‘The Troxy’ in the East End of London, England, Frank Maloney hosted a St.Georges Day Dinner Event which would show four action packed contests including an English title fight. Billed as ‘The Slayers’ – this special fund-raising event was …

The beginning of a new Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. professional boxing series kicks-off May 22 as world rated light heavyweight Joey “KO Kid” Spina headlines “Rage At The River” at Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, Rhode Island. “Rage At The River,” presented by CES in association with Twin …

An extra 110 tickets have been released for the sensational Sunderland, England show on Saturday, May 2 with a special attraction the homecoming of Olympic Bronze Medal hero Tony Jeffries. Every ticket originally available was sold within hours for the FTM show, which will be televised live on Sky Box …

Golden Boy Promotions is proud to present an action packed weekend of world class professional boxing made up of exciting cards beginning on Friday, April 24. Three explosive events, in two different countries and on three different television networks, will be featured in what promises to be a series of …

© Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing Carl Froch is a supremely confident, unbeaten fighter who opted to come to America to defend his WBC 168 pound title against former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor this Saturday on Showtime (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast) for one sole reason …

As he heads back to the middleweight division, former world title challenger Peter Manfredo, Jr., rejuvenated by his impressive seventh-round knocked out of Walid “Tempete de Sable” Smichet last Saturday, has his sites set on “Ireland’s” John Duddy. The 28-year-old Manfredo, 32-6 (16), star of The Contender, Season I, is …

After giving birth to a baby boy and taking a one year layoff from boxing, former WBC lightweight champion, Jessica “The Ragin” Rakcozy, 30-3 (10), returned to the Tachi Palace Casino where she won a unanimous decision against Belinda “Brown Sugar” Laracuente.

Light heavyweight sensation Beibut Shumenov, arguably the most ambitious fighter in the world, has targeted WBO champion Zsolt “Firebird” Erdei after his May 9 IBA title fight against former IBF super middleweight champion Alejandro “Naco” Berrio, outdoors at Khadjimukan Stadium in Shumenov’s hometown of Chimkent, Kazakhstan.