Click for larger image © Michael Worden / Saddo Boxing WBC Super Featherweight Champion Marco Antonio Barrera, 63-4 (42), opened up his camp to the media as he finalizes training for his March 17 HBO PPV bout against two time world featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez, 46-3-1 (35), at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, According…
“You are the Weakest Link, Goodbye!†This past Saturday night saw a different round-by-round challenge for our very own Ricky Hatton as he faced the very stern looking Anne Robinson in the weekly quiz programme “The Weakest Link”. A special edition of the show featured sporting celebrities, including British Olympic javelin thrower Steve Backley. Raising…
So you wanna be a fighter? Well, do I have a fight for you! One out if every 150 children born in this world today is born with the brain disorder called Autism, the fasting moving epidemic to hit this world since the beginning of time and at the rate it’s growing the whole world…
Carl Froch believes a marquee all-British clash with WBO super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe can happen and hopes his next fight will be good preparation for a possible future showdown with the Welshman. The British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion can edge closer to earning a world title final eliminator if he beats Russian Sergey Tatevosyan…
European bantamweight champion Simone Maludrottu has landed in England prior to his showdown with Hackney man Ian Napa this Friday, March 2 at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre in London. Maludrottu, the “Sardinian Silencer”, has won his last 18 contests, including six straight European title defenses and promises to leave his mark on challenger Napa.
Marc Callaghan challenges Esham Pickering for the vacant British Super-Bantamweight Title on March 16 confident of continuing his career’s recent momentum after recovering from a family tragedy. Callaghan knows he will be underdog when he climbs into the ring for the co-main event along with Jonathan Thaxton’s British Lightweight Title defence against Scott Lawton at…
Dutch-Dominican Cristian “La Cobra’ Frias moves straight into his first major championship opportunity when he takes on Italian Fedele Bellusci on March 14 in Latina, Italy for the vacant IBF Intercontinental lightwelterweight crown.
The widely popular Fighting Irishmen: Celebrating Celtic Prizefighters 1820-Present exhibit, fresh off a long run at the Irish Arts Center, sets sail down the East River of Manhattan for the South Street Seaport Museum beginning Friday, March 16 , with curator Jim Houlihan again at the helm. The exhibit is a collaborative effort between the…
Anthony Mundine will take on arch-rival Sam Soliman tomorrow night at the Sydney Entertainment Centre for the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight title. Mundine and Soliman have traded verbal jibes since the fight was announced in late 2006 upon Denmark’s Mikkel Kessler dropping of the WBA world title. The Australian rivals fought out…
Young cruiserweight contenders Matt “Too Smooth” Godfrey and Felix “Bad News” Cora, Jr. are on a “Collision Course” to position the winner for a possible major world title fight later this year, headlining the ESPN2 Friday Night Fights show April 6 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
Stoke’s English lightweight champion, Scott Lawton took time out from his busy training schedule to talk about his campaign to relieve Norwich’s Jon Thaxton of the coveted “Lonsdale Belt’. 30 year old father of one, Lawton travels to Norwich on 16th March to challenge local man Thaxton who is making his first defence of the…
Notes from Anthony Bonsante’s Training Camp in Minnesota Duddy-Bonsante headlines St. Patrick’s Day Eve show at MSG Despite frigid temperatures and heavy snowstorms, Anthony “The Bullet” Bonsante has been training hard in Minnesota for his March 16 title fight against IBA World and WBC Continental Americas middleweight champion “Ireland’s” John Duddy in the 12-round main…