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Itʼs sure to be another great night of boxing action this Thursday night at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall in West Midlands, England. PJ Rowson and Errol Johnson of First Team Promotions are staging their last event of the season with a full ʽbillʼ which sees former British Champion ʽYoung Muttleyʼ …

Click for larger image © Gianluca Rio Di Caro Following his hugely successful inaugural fight night in Salem, New Jersey last month, promoter Jarvis Robinson and his Fight Night Productions team are in the process of organizing an even bigger event ‘Casino Battle Royale’, which will take place in Atlantic …

Alex Matvienko is on the verge of becoming Bolton’s next professional boxing champion. Matvienko get his big chance when he boxes Lee Edwards for the vacant British Masters light middleweight title at Robin Park Arena in Wigan, England on Sunday, September 14. Commonwealth lightweight champion Amir Khan is the talk …

By Per Ake Persson German paper Bild Zeitung wrote Friday that the German Federation, the BDB, which holds the membership to the EBU, has revoked the license from Arena Box Promotion. No exact reason is given, but it´s no secret there´s been tension all along coming to a head during …

There were two shows of note last night, at University Arena in Limerick, Ireland and one Merseyside at the Olympia in Liverpool, England. At Limerick, local hero Andy Lee, 16-1 (13), returned home after a disastrous first loss, to Brian Vera in America last March, and regained his form by …

Top heavyweight contender Alexander Povetkin, 16-0 (12), stayed busy in preparation to his likely challenge of World Champion Wladimir Klitschko later this year by overcoming America’s Taurus Sykes, 25-5-1 (7), at 0:48 of the second round last night at Olimpyskiy Sports Palace in the Moscow suburb of Chekhov, Russia. 28 …

It was a good Saturday night across Asia and we’ll kick things off Down Under in Melbourne, Australia where there was a superb bill at The Peninsula. PABA Light Heavyweight Champ Daniel “Porky” Lovett, 17-3 (10), was in action in a non-title affair with former Australian titlist Jamie Guy, 9-9-1 …

There weren’t any big shows this weekend but there was a good bit of action strung out across Central and South America and going alphabetically, we begin in Argentina. On Saturday at Club Atletico Adelante in Sante Fe, Alejandro Daniel Gomez, 9-16-3 (2), reversed last December’s loss to crosstown local …

Hard-punching welterweight prospect “Jesse” James Kimori had to settle for a unanimous decision victory on Saturday at the WAB Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, when he dominated and floored, but ultimately couldn’t finish, the extremely game Ken Oyolo in a fight made at light middleweight. With the victory, Kimori moved his …

On Monday, two-time world welterweight champion Antonio Margarito will host an open media workout in Montebello, CA, before breaking camp and heading to Las Vegas, NV. Margarito is in his final days of preparation for “The Battle!”, the four-bout pay-per-view extravaganza headlined by Margarito’s world title rumble with WBA Welterweight …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night, Danny Williams made his first defence of the British Heavyweight title against John McDermott at a packed, and very warm, Goresbrook Leisure Centre in Dagenham, England. In his words – promoter Frank Maloney brought us ‘517 lbs of Raw Power …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing As well as the main bout between Danny Williams and John McDermott at Dagenham last night, there was also a full bill of undercard contests. Featherweight Akaash ʽKash the Bashʼ Bhatia, 12-0 (3), of Harrow scored a third round stoppage over Somerset’s …