Yuriorkis Gamboa did it again. Arena’s fast rising featherweight superstar scored another impressive KO win, stopping veteran Walter Estrada in only 35 seconds. “El Ciclon†lived up to his name, simply blowing away his opponent with one of his overwhelming combinations. Gamboa went to the body with his left and followed up with a stunning…
If fighting for the prestigious Ring Magazine and IBO Lightweight Championship belts weren’t enough, on February 28 at Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz will also have the vacant WBA Lightweight Super Championship and WBO Lightweight Championship belts on the line in their highly anticipated showdown.
The talent rich lightweight division will be on center stage at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas on Saturday, April 4, as Golden Boy Promotions presents “Lightweight Lightning.” The bill is an unprecedented pay-per-view event that will feature eight elite 135 pounders in four pivotal match-ups that will undoubtedly re-arrange the hierarchy of the…
Sensational lightweight prospect Luis Ramos will next return to the ring on Saturday, March 7 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California on the off-TV portion of HBO’s Boxing After Dark tripleheader presented by Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. The 20 year old Ramos has quickly become the talk of the Southern…
© Lawrence Lustig Tony Oakey has vowed to prove the critics wrong by becoming Prizefighter Champion tonight. Portsmouth light-heavyweight Oakey, 33, has been defeated in his last two fights and lost his grip on the British and Commonwealth belts.
© Lawrence Lustig Courtney Fry has been installed as the bookmakers’ favourite to win Barry Hearn’s latest Prizefighter event tonight. Fry, who claimed a Gold Medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, is the favourite to take the £25,000 top prize in the light-heavyweights competition.
Big time heavyweight boxing will be played out on March 27 when world-ranked contender Eddie Chambers and world-ranked and former WBC World Heavyweight Champion Sam Peter collide in a monstrous heavyweight battle scheduled for 12-rounds on a special edition of ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights†at10:00 pm ET/7:00 pm PT at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live…
Click for larger image © Emily Harney A large group of supporters attended today’s press conference in Worcester, MA for unbeaten middleweight prospect Edwin “La Bomba†Rodriguez’ formal signing of an exclusive promotional contract with DiBella Entertainment. Friends, family, members of the Worcester Police Gang Unit, local politicians, media, business leaders and boxing dignitaries, as…
A no-nonsense, non-stop action fighter who makes for “Fight of the Year†candidates more often than most, Tomasz Adamek returns to Showtime to defend his IBF cruiserweight title against undefeated Johnathon Banks in the main event Friday, Feb. 27, on ShoBox: The New Generation, live at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast.
© Showtime Boxing Timothy “Desert Storm†Bradley and Kendall “Rated R†Holt met at the historic Bell Centre in Montreal earlier this week to kick off the promotion of their highly anticipated fight that will unify their respective WBC and WBO 140-pound titles. The two champions will clash at the Bell Centre Saturday, April 4,…
Wall-to-wall media at the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown, including two network affiliate television crews broadcasting live, attended today’s final news conference hosted by World Middleweight Champion Kelly “The Ghost†Pavlik of Youngstown, his opponent, No. 1 contender and mandatory challenger Marco Antonio Rubio of Mexico, and Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum, chairman of Top…
Boxing solicitor Zahid Kahut is warning Earl Ling to beware of the long arm of the law when they clash at the Norfolk Showground, Norwich on February 28 on the undercard of Jon Thaxton’s first defence of his European title. The Hennessy Sports show will see Thaxton feature live on ITV4 as he aims to…