The WBC purse offer for the mandatory defense of super lightweight world champion Junior Witter against official challenger Vivian Harris has been rescheduled for this coming Friday, April 13, at 12:00 noon at the Radisson Square Hotel in San Antonio.
By Per Ake Persson AMI Production, headed by Michel Acaries, have cancelled their big April 27 promotion. Instead the mainbouts, European Super Middle champ David Gogiya´s defence against Cristian Sanavia and Christophe Rodriguez vs. Jose Lopez Bueno for the vacant European Union Flyweight title will take place June 1 in Ajaccio on the island of…
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The final news conference for Saturday’s four-fight Pay-Per-View extravaganza “Blaze Of Glory” had the eight principals facing off at The Alamodome for the final time before Friday’s official weigh-in, which will be open to the public. Manny Pacquiao: “I know my opponent Jorge Solis has worked hard and is determined to win. This will be…
Click for larger image © Karl Stubbs / Impact Boxing At 2 pm this afternoon rivals Chris Edwards and Dale Robinson weighed in ahead of their clash for the vacant British and Commonwealth featherweight titles. The bout is scheduled to take place at 9 pm tomorrow evening at Altrincham Leisure Centre and will be televised…
Mogens Palle is wondering whether WBO super middleweight champ Joe Calzaghe, who now admits he broke his left hand in his “cartoon fight” with no-hoper Peter Manfredo Saturday night in Wales, will actually face any credible or capable opponent in London July 21. “Where can promoter Frank Warren find a doctor who would advise a…
Manchester’s John Murray has hit back at Amir Khan, stating his domestic rival is “either seriously confused or lying’ and believes he is a “hypocrite’. Khan, 20, claimed after his 12th professional win on Saturday that he had “played with†Murray during a sparring session and that his domestic rivals are just looking to earn…
Promoter Frank Warren has offered middleweight champion Jermain Taylor the chance to do what 20 other men couldn’t; dethrone boxing’s current longest-reigning world champion Joe Calzaghe in a battle of undefeated world champions . Warren has offered Taylor four million dollars to come to the UK in September to challenge Calzaghe for Calzaghe’s super middleweight…
Howard Eastman continues the process of regaining his triple crown when he faces Evans Ashira for the vacant Commonwealth Middleweight Title at the Dudley Concert Hall on Friday April 20th live on Sky Sports. Former British, Commonwealth and European champion Eastman relinquished his championships in order to challenge then undisputed champion Bernard Hopkins in 2005.
MSG, a world class sports and entertainment network, has acquired the television rights to air the WBA heavyweight championship fight between WBA champion Nikolai “Giant Russian†Valuev and undefeated heavyweight contender Ruslan Chagaev. The fight will be telecast live on MSG from Stuttgart, Germany on Saturday, April 14 at 4:30 pm ET. It will be…
Icebergs in San Antonio? There is going to be a whopper at The Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas this Saturday night! Justin Fortune, trainer of boxing’s pound-for-pound most exciting fighter, the reigning “Fighter of the Year” and Congressional candidate Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, 40-3-2, 33 KOs, from The Philippines, warned undefeated top-rated contender Jorge “Coloradito” Solis,…
“Armed and Dangerous? He’s more like Armed and Shameless” Apparently, word of boxing’s best kept secret made its way to Robert Allen’s training camp. The former world title challenger abruptly withdrew from next week’s scheduled showdown with Jameson “Jamie Kang” Bostic, Team Bostic found out earlier Wednesday. Surely, Allen (38-5-0-1 NC, 27KO) has a good…