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Click for larger image © ARENA Box-Promotion The “Black Panther” is back in town! After returning to Hamburg on Monday Juan Carlos Gomez, 43-1 (35), currently no. 2 in the WBC world ratings, is full of self-confidence for his upcoming WBC Eliminator against no. 1 rated Vladimir Virchis, 24-1 (20). …

Longtime British boxing fixture Glyn Rhodes promotes a night of quality fights at Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, England on Friday, September 12, 2008. It’s an evening jam-packed with Sheffield’s finest including popular local fighter Dave Howe making his professional debut on the bill, which also features such seasoned luminaries …

© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing John Murray is confident he can win the British Lightweight title this Friday, July 11 and strike a blow for Manchester City over Manchester United.

By Bongani Magasela, courtesy of The Sowetan South Africa’s and the United States’ two top boxing promoters, Branco Milenkovic and Bob Arum, have been ordered by the IBF to begin negotiations for Nonito Donaire and Moruti Mthalane’s envisaged flyweight championship fight. Arum, a Hall of Fame inductee who promotes under …

Coming off of his first pro loss, James McGirt, Jr., 18-1 (9), very well could have settled on his next opponent being a confidence builder. However, instead of fighting somebody brought in to lose and make James look good, Team McGirt jumped at the opportunity to fight former IBO and …

On June 18, in Tokyo, it was categorically confirmed that there will be two female boxing world championships on the same stage and on the same day, precisely on August 11, at Korakuen Hall of Tokyo, the mecca of Japanese Boxing since 1962, with capacity for over two thousand spectators. …

IBF junior welterweight champion Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi, 25-1 (5), had a cast removed from his right hand last Tuesday and he has started rehabilitation. Malignaggi underwent hand surgery May 28 to repair a fractured metacarpal bone of the middle finger on his right hand, suffered during his title-defense …

pugilistmatch.com is an international boxing matchmaker website created as a free marketing tool to aid both male and female professional boxers seeking fights as well as for matchmakers and boxing promoters searching for opponents for their events. The concept behind the website is simple. Fightersʼ representatives, or even the fighter …

IBF World Super Middleweight champion Lucian Bute, 22-0-0 (18), can count on the support of his ever-growing fan base when he laces up the gloves for his mandatory title defense bout against very tough Mexican fighter Librado Andrade, 27-1-0 (21). InterBox was able to close a deal with Andrade’s promoter …

Tickets are now on sale for “Hard Eight”, an outstanding evening of world class professional boxing, headlined by the IBF Light Heavyweight title eliminator clash between undefeated contender Tavoris Cloud and former world champion Julio Gonzalez set for Friday, August 8 at the Aragon Ballroom to be broadcast on ESPN2’s …

“Fight of the Year,” “Round of the Year,” “Minute of the Year”; any and all the above are being used to describe Saturday’s wild WBO Junior Welterweight Championship rematch between defending champion Ricardo Torres and the newly-minted world champion Kendall Holt.

Nadeem Siddique aims to prove he is one of Britain’s top lightweight contenders with an emphatic win over Steve Saville on Friday, July 11, 2008. Unbeaten star Siddique’s eight round contest is chief support to the vacant British Lightweight title battle between Manchester duo Lee Meager and John Murray at …