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…
Hard-hitting lefty Andre Wilson, of St. Joseph, MO, steps in against unbeaten super bantamweight Teon Kennedy, of North Philadelphia, in the scheduled eight-round semifinal Friday evening, March 6, at the Legendary Blue Horizon in Philadelphia. Wilson replaces another lefty, veteran Paulino Villalobos, of San Diego, CA, who withdrew due to medical reasons.
IBF, WBA and WBO lightweight champion Nate “Galaxxy Warrior†Campbell continued his verbal assault on Ali “Rush Hour†Funeka, the man he will face in the main event on Saturday night at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, FL. “I listened and read what Funeka was going to do to me,†Campbell, 32-5-1 (25), said. “He talks…
An important matchup of British prospects has been added to the Frank Maloney promoted card featuring European super bantamweight champion Rendall Munroe’s rematch against deadly Spaniard Kiko Martinez on Friday, February 27, 2009 at the Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Gary “Five Star” Sykes will put his undefeated record on the line when he meets spoiler…
This Friday the 13th at New York City’s famed Roseland Ballroom in mid-town Manhattan, Star Boxing’s exciting light heavyweight prospect Yathomas Riley, 5-0 (3), will look to showcase his skills for the first time on national TV when he takes on Julius Jackson, 2-2 (0). The pair clash in a four round light heavyweight contest…