© Lawrence Lustig The draw for the quarter-finals in next week’s Prizefighter has been made – and there promises to be some cracking encounters. Hotly-tipped pair Tony Oakey and Billy Boyle meet in what could be the tie of the opening round in the light-heavyweight tournament on Friday, February 20 at the York Hall in…
Last night at the beautiful Roseland Ballroom in New York City, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing put together an excellent seven bout card featuring some of boxing’s hottest up and coming prospects. In the main event of the evening, Alexis Camacho lost a hard fought ten round decision to Carlos Molina. Each fighter gave as good…
Integrated Sports will distribute a world-class pay-per-view card headlined by Amir Khan versus “The Baby Faced Assassinâ€, Marco Antonio Barrera, on Saturday, March 14 live from The MEN Arena in Manchester, United Kingdom. Khan, 19-1 (15), a 2004 Olympic Silver Medallist, defends his WBA International lightweight title against seven-time world champion Barrera 65-6, (42), in…
Liverpool lightweight John Watson will move one step closer to a British title shot on March 28 at the Echo Arena when he battles Martin Gethin over 10 rounds at Hayemaker 6: ‘The Mersey Beatdown’. An intriguing mix of pressure fighters, Watson and Gethin will meet in a British lightweight title eliminator. The moment can’t…
Red hot super bantamweight prospect Gary Davies is one of the most exciting young fighters on the British scene today. “I’ve finally got the title shot against Jamie McDonnell for the English Bantamweight title!,” he told SaddoBoxing today in an exclusive. “It’ll be at the Leigh Sports Centre on the 17th April.†An excited Davies…
In 1988, a young Morris Park boxer by the name of Joe DeGuardia won the New York State Golden Gloves open 147 lb championship by defeating fellow New Yorker, Larry Barnes. While DeGuardia would hang up the gloves and choose to pursue a career in law before later forming the world renown boxing promotional company,…
Boxing and football join hands on Sunday, March 29 when Hayemaker Boxing’s triple threat lineup of prospects, Curtis Woodhouse, Patrick Maxwell and Josh ‘The Outlaw’ Wale, invade Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane. Appearing at Sheffield United’s Platinum Suite, Woodhouse and fellow punch machines Wale and Maxwell look to maintain their reputations as exciting, hard-hitting prospects.
Star Boxing puts on a show tonight at Roseland Ballroom in New York, NY, televised by ESPN2 on the Friday Night Fights series. Welterweights eight rounds Alexis Camacho: 147.25 lb Carlos Molina: 148 lb
What happens when two of boxing’s most feared superstars can’t find anyone willing to step up and face them? They fight each other. On Saturday, April 11, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, former Junior Middleweight World Champion Winky Wright will look to stop the meteoric rise of two-division World Champion…
Roy Jones Jr., Eight-Time World Champion, returns to Pensacola to fight for the first time since January, 1999 when he battles Omar Sheika at the Pensacola Civic Center on Saturday, March 21, 2009. It wasn’t that long ago that Roy Jones Jr., 52-5 (38), was the consensus “pound-for-pound†champion and just over 20 years since…
Rendall Munroe has promised to deliver a knockout performance when he defends his European super bantamweight title against old rival Kiko Martinez at Barnsley Metrodome on Friday, February 27. Munroe, 17-1, caused one of the biggest ring upsets of 2008 last March when he outpointed the heavy handed Spaniard to claim the Euro crown. And…
Promoter Mick Hennessy believes Jon Thaxton can crown his “Cinderella Man†career with an audacious world title bid. After almost 16 years as a pro, Thaxton upset the odds to win the European Lightweight title at the Norfolk Showground’s in his native Norwich last October and Hennessy believes he can go one step further. Thaxton…