The Gateway City’s biggest boxing stars opened their workouts to the media today to promote Friday’s “Show Me in St. Louis†card at Scottrade Center. The main event features a hometown showdown for the vacant IBF junior middleweight championship when Cory Spinks, 36-5 (11), takes on hard-punching IBF No. 6-ranked contender Deandre “The Bull†Latimore,…
Two-time world champion, Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, has inked a deal with EA Sports. Guerrero, who hails from Gilroy CA, will be one of the select few to be featured in the upcoming EA Sports “Fight Night Round 4” video game. Guerrero joins an elite list of boxers, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis and…
A red-hot rematch headlines Frank Maloney’s upcoming fight card this Thursday, April 23 at The Troxy in London as the promoter kicks off the inaugural event of his traveling St. Georges Boxing Club series. 22 year old Ross “The Boss” Burkinshaw, 5-1-2 (3), and 23 year old Mike “Robbo” Robinson, 4-0-1 (0), go head to…
When Joe Calzaghe left the super middleweight division in April 2008 to face Bernard Hopkins for the light heavyweight title, most thought it was going to be a temporary move. Until that point, Calzaghe held the super middleweight division under siege, making it undeniable as to just who the man in charge was. After Calzaghe…
Exciting super middleweight contender, Curtis “Showtime” Stevens, 19-2 (14), will look to improve to a perfect 3-0 under the Star Boxing banner, when he takes on dangerous Don Mouton, 9-3-1 (8), on April 28 in an eight round super middleweight contest. Stevens vs. Mouton will be the co-feature bout of the evening for Joe DeGuardia’s…
Carl Froch’s trainer Robert McCracken believes that British fight fans should enjoy Carl Froch while they can. McCracken won British and Commonwealth belts as well as challenging for the world title during his own career and as a trainer, he has successfully guided Froch all the way to the WBC Super Middleweight title.
Frank Maloney will be fighting for Britain’s troops when he launches the St George’s Sporting Club on April 23. The inaugural dinner and boxing show at the The Troxy in the heart of London will also celebrate Maloney’s 25 years as a professional boxing promoter.
Belfast featherweight Martin Lindsay hopes to one day emulate countryman and WBA super bantamweight champion Bernard Dunne and scoop world title honours of his own. Gearing up for this Saturday’s April 25 British title dust-up with Paul Appleby, the talented ‘Mac Man’ has been buoyed by the crowning of Ireland’s latest world champion.
From the days when he was a really skinny kid with little amateur experience to today where he is now a skinny young man that has unquestionably become the most feared boxer on the planet, the man behind Paul “The Punisher†Williams has been manager-trainer George Peterson.
Hot New England prospect Danny O’Connor is ready for Saturday night’s throw-down with 21-fight veteran Travis Hartman on the Carl Froch vs. Jermain Taylor undercard at MGM Grand Foxwoods in Ledyard, CT. 2004 U.S. Olympic Team alternate O’Connor, 5-0 (2), will be fighting not too far from his Framingham, MA home for the second time…
A household name in his native England, talented, undefeated Carl Froch will look to make a major statement and enhance his reputation in America when he defends his WBC super middleweight title against one of the most highly regarded and recognizable fighters of this generation, former undisputed middleweight belt-holder Jermain Taylor, Saturday, April 25, on…
Cruiserweight prospect “Awesome†Aaron Williams is in Las Vegas, sparring with unbeaten light heavyweight champion “Bad†Chad Dawson, in preparation for his potential career-changing fight May 9 against former Cuban amateur champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez at Jako-Arena in Bamberg, Bayern, Germany. Nine-time amateur champion Williams, 19-1-1 (13), born in Cleveland and fighting out of Las…