Brace yourselves, casual fans and hardcore gamers, Spike TV’s 2008 Video Game Awards, airing live on Sunday, December 14 at 9pm, will premiere some of the most highly anticipated games in the industry – and the only way to see them is to tune in.
The Antonio Margarito vs. Sugar Shane Mosley WBA Welterweight Championship fight is just the ticket for a great holiday gift! Priced at $300, $150, $75 and $50, tickets go on sale today, Friday, December 12, at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET, at all TicketMaster outlets, by phone at 213-480-3232 and online at www.ticketmaster.com….
Brian Magee is looking to revive his career by making sure Irish eyes are smiling at the end of his British Super-Middleweight Title showdown against Stevie McGuire at the Brentwood Centre on Saturday, 13th December 2008. The Belfast boxer has his third crack at becoming British champion after losing to newly crowned WBC world champion…
IBF Cruiserweight Champion Steve ‘USS’Cunningham announced that world renowned luxury timepiece manufacturers Azad Watches are sponsoring him when he defends his crown against Tomasz ‘Goral’ Adamek tonight, Thursday, December 11 at The Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey.
Irish fight fans could witness one of the domestic fights of 2009 on “Hayemaker 5”, when Belfast hero Martin ‘Mac Man’ Lindsay attempts to snatch the British Featherweight title from reigning champion Paul Appleby on March 7 at the Ulster Hall in Belfast. The fascinating battle of unbeaten prospects will match Hayemaker star Lindsay against…
The annual Ring 8 holiday party, featuring an awards dinner and live music, will take place Sunday, December 21, starting at 1 PM/ET at Tony Mazzarella’s Waterfront Crabhouse at 2-03 Borden Avenue in Long Island City, New York.
Irish prospect Paul Hyland could be in line for a shock crack at European bantamweight champion Ian Napa. Hyland, 12-1, is set to challenge the Englishman if he defeats fellow Dubliner Eugene Heagney in their home city on Thursday, December 18. The Irish champion and Heagney settle their differences in a six rounder on the…
Stevie McGuire believes Brian Magee is ready for the taking in Saturday’s Vacant British Super-Middleweight Title showdown at the Brentwood Centre. McGuire (Glenrothes, Scotland) might be the underdog for the fight against Magee (Belfast, Northern Ireland) but he is not lacking confidence after a two-week training camp in Cyprus to get ready for the biggest…
Amateur standouts ‘The Saint’ George Groves and Michael Maguire will return to their old amateur stamping ground on Sunday, February 1, only this time they’ll be appearing at the illustrious York Hall in Bethnal Green as professionals. Now promising, unbeaten pros, Groves and Maguire will form part of “Hayemaker 4”, an intimate non-TV show at…
Darren Sutherland will have Georgi Iliev taped when he makes his long awaited professional debut at Dublin City University on December 18. The Olympic Bronze Medallist faces the Bulgarian who knocked out Castlebar’s Keith Cresham on a previous visit to Ireland in a six-round super-middleweight bout.
Longtime Don King Productions Vice President of Boxing Operations and Public Relations Bob Goodman will join his father Murray and Don King in the International Boxing Hall of Fame during induction weekend in Canastota, NY, set for June 11 through 14. Goodman celebrates a long career in boxing and has worked for King periodically since…
© Gene Blevins – Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions The welterweight division’s two most exciting fighters, three-time world champion Antonio Margarito and three-division world champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley, plan to open 2009 with an explosive world championship fight.