Two good card in Oz this week with Anthony Mundine coming one step closer to challenging for a major world title at middleweight by capturing the IBO crown and super middle Shannon Taylor winning the vacant IBF Pan Pacific belt. On Wednesday at the Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, ex-two time WBA super middle champ Mundine…
Richard Schaefer, CEO Golden Boy Promotions: “We have a great set up for fights in downtown Los Angeles, with Club Nokia, the Nokia Theatre and Staples Center right here. Golden Boy wants to make this the destination for fights in Southern California.” “Fighters can start at our Fight Night Club at Club Nokia. Then they…
Upon today’s announcement that Valuev-Chagaev II has been canceled, Team Ruiz is demanding an immediate purse bid in order for Valuev vs. Ruiz III to be held by August 30 for the World Boxing Association heavyweight title. Two-time World Boxing Association heavyweight champion John “The Quietman†Ruiz (43-8-1, 29 KOs) lost to Valuev last August…
Boxing promoter Don King has asked the World Boxing Association to declare Nikolai “Giant Russian†Valuev its undisputed heavyweight champion after Saturday’s match between Valuev and WBA “champion in recess†Ruslan Chagaev at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland, was cancelled.
With regard to the vacant European Light Welterweight title fight between nominated challengers Paul McCloskey and Souleymane M’baye, purse bids have been suspended as both parties have come to an agreement. Northern Ireland southpaw McCloskey, 19-0 (9), won the British title last December and has recorded on succesfull defense.
The heavyweight division kicks back into action tomorrow night in the unlikely city of Helsinki, Finland when giant WBA Champion Nikolay Valuev makes the second defence of his belt against former foe and WBA Champion In Recess Ruslan Chagaev. The two men know each other very well. Back in April, 2007, Chagaev became the only…
When Bobby “The Celtic Warrior†Gunn initially challenged Tomasz Adamek in 2007, he had a clear motive. While many fighters call out the best simply for publicity, Gunn had something else in mind: a good old-fashioned slug out. “Styles make fights”, said Gunn, who holds the WBA NABA and WBC USNBC Cruiserweight titles.
Prior to the bill tonight at Du Burns Arena in Baltimore, MD, the principal boxers all weighed in yesterday. Maryland State Super Middleweight title Demetrius Davis: 162 lb Cory Cummings: 166.5 lb
After winning the UBC Lightweight title in Poland in December, David “Silent Danger†Kiilu (30-9-2, 16 KOs) will make another trip to Europe in an attempt to win his fifth championship. He will step back down to his original weightclass, featherweight, and challenge Romanian Viorel Simion (10-0, 4 KOs) for the WBC Mediterranean crown on…
Carl “The Cobra†Froch will be boxing clever tonight when he appears on Question of Sport on BBC One from 7:30pm. The reigning WBC World Super Middleweight Champ will be joined on the popular long running sports quiz by regular team captains Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell alongside fellow guests, England cricketer Ryan Sidebottom, South…
Despite only being a pro since last December heavyweight sensation Tyson Fury graces the cover of this week’s Boxing News. The vastly respected magazine is the only weekly boxing magazine in the World and is this year celebrating it’s centenary having been first published back in 1909.
It was May, 1989 and “The Clones Cyclone”, Barry McGuigan, was approaching the fourth fight on a comeback trail that had begun just over a year earlier. After a year long run as World Featherweight Champion the Irishman lost his title in the horrible heat of Las Vegas, Nevada in June, 1986 against late replacement…