During a national conference call held today for members of the media, Ricky Hatton’s trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr., all but ensured a Hatton victory over his next opponent Manny Pacquiao when the two meet in a world junior welterweight championship on Saturday, May 2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and live on HBO…
Undefeated 22 year old WBC No. 1 ranked super lightweight Devon Alexander “The Greatâ€, 17-0 (10) has made the brash move of actively pursuing a match against former unified lightweight world champion Nate “Galaxxy Warrior†Campbell, 33-5-1 (25). “I will fight anyone that Don King or the television networks want me to fight,†Alexander, a…
Big hearted bantamweight Matthew Edmonds has been added to the mouth-watering Wigan, England bill this Friday, March 6, headlined by Jamie Moore’s long awaited European light middleweight title opportunity against Italy’s former world champion Michele Piccirillo at Robin Park Arena.
Adnam Amar claims he’ll be out to eclipse the mouth-watering top of the bill clash between Wayne Elcock and Matthew Macklin in Birmingham on March 14. The two local middleweights go head to head in a hugely anticipated British title fight that is being billed as “The Battle of Brumâ€, but Amar has set his…
Branco Milenkovic has arguably steered his promotional outfit BSP into the driver’s seat on the South African scene in recent months and has announced a busy upcoming schedule. On March 6 at Nasrec Arena in Johannesburg, Jasper Seroka and Warren Joubert will meet for the South African Junior Lightweight Championship, while BSP’s fighter Vusi Malinga…
It was a great night for boxing. My friends and I got to the fight early. I was sent along to brave the Will Call window alone. There was a group of disappointed girls in line ahead of me that seemed to have bought their tickets from a scalper, only to realize later that they…
Prizefighter heads to Scotland for the first time later this month. Barry Hearn’s all-in-one-evening boxing tournament sees eight British lightweights battle for a £25,000 top prize at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow on Tuesday, March 24. Prizefighter has captured the public’s attention due to the format, which sees four quarter-finals, two semi-finals and a final…
Frank Maloney has in his promotional stable what he feels are the two brightest stars from the 2008 Beijing Olympic boxing competition and this Friday, March 6 sees one of them, Darren “The Dazzler” Sutherland, return to the ring at Robin Park Arena in Wigan, England. Sutherland will be on the bill lending support to…
The late Charles “Babe†Wood will be posthumously inducted into the CES Ring of Honor during a special ceremony Friday night, March 6 at “Mayflower Madness,†promoted by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc., in historic Plymouth Memorial Hall. “Mayflower Madness†is the first in a four fight arrangement, “The Radisson Hotel Plymouth Harbor…
South London champ Simone Harvey plans to pack her punches against 20 different women to raise money for the women’s domestic violence charity refuge. She will be sweating it out on the ropes in three minute rounds as part of International Women’s Day celebrations at Miguel’s boxing gym on Sunday, March 8, 2009. Twenty sparing…
Popular Philadelphia middleweight Jamaal ‘Da Truth’ Davis, better known around the boxing scene as ‘Tyson’, spent his final day at ‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley’s Big Bear, California training camp where he has been preparing for his first fight since being signed by promoter Russell Peltz, which takes place at the Legendary Blue Horizon on Friday March…
© Chris Farina – Top Rank During a blistering two-day UK media tour, superstars Manny “Pacman†Pacquiao and Ricky “Hitman†Hatton set the tone for their world junior welterweight “The Battle of East and West†championship set for Saturday, May 2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and broadcast live on HBO Pay-Per-View.