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This past Friday night highly touted middleweight prospect Donovan George was to make his much-anticipated Madison Square Garden debut as part of the Duddy-Campas under card. It was not to be though as George’s opponent, Gabriel Rivera, failed his E.K.G. exam the day prior to the fight prompting the New …

Don King Productions is staging their Nickolai Valuev – Monte Barrett WBA Heavyweight title card this Saturday at the Allstate Arena in Chicago and will hold open workouts for this week. Today, Australia’s Paul Briggs, who challenges WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Tomasz Adamek of Poland in a rematch and WBA …

In a crossroads fight in the 140 pound division, Duva Boxing will pit two of the brightest young super lightweight talents in the world when Kendall Holt (20-1, 12 KO’s) squares off against unbeaten Isaac Hlatshwayo (20-0, 9 KO’s) for the vacant NABO Super Lightweight Championship on Friday night, November …

Click for larger image © Karl Stubbs / Impact Boxing By Keith Chadwick Stoke’s lightweight champion Scott Lawton improved his record to 19-2-1 at King’s Hall on Saturday night thanks to a 7th round disqualification victory over Mauritius born Judex Meemea. London based Meemea, who took a 5-5-2 record into the bout, …

There are reports that ex-lightweight world champion Jose Luis Castillo could face former WBA Light Welter titlist Vivian Harris at 140 lb on the Ricky Hatton – Juan Urango undercard in Atlanta next January. Should both Castillo and Hatton get through these contests, an epic bout between the two forward …

Fresh off his latest victory in his hometown of Hartford, Connecticut, undefeated Mike Oliver (16-0, 7 KO’s) enters Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, October 28th to battle Adam Carrera (18-1, 8 KO’s) from Cathedral City, California in a 12-round bout for the vacant USBA Super Bantamweight Championship. The undercard features …

Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing In a hard fought see-saw battle this evening, one of Maloney Promotion’s shining stars, Jamie Moore retained his British Light Middleweight crown in a titanic struggle with a very willful challenger in Matthew Macklin at the GH Carnall Centre in …

Hot middleweight prospect John Duddy’s train almost came off the rails last night when the popular Irish fighter stepped up to face ex-IBF Light Middleweight Champion Yory Boy Campas at Madison Square Garden in New York last night. 35 year old Campas, a battle scarred veteran from Navajoa, Mexico, is …

On a Maloney Promotion at the GH Carnall Center in Manchester, England Matthew Macklin lunged out of the starting block and began a high pressure assault on British Light Middleweight Champion Jamie Moore that was to last ten rounds. For almost 30 fiery minutes Macklin applied a textbook version of …

Former two time WBO Heavyweight Champion Herbie Hide has returned to the sport of boxing after two years of inactivity and is now campaigning as a cruiserweight. His long awaited return to the ring saw Hide blow away one Mitch Hicks in a single round earlier this month. Now based …

Samuel ‘Nigerian Nightmare’ Peter must grant James ‘Lights Out’ Toney an immediate rematch to determine an official challenger to champion Oleg Maskaev, ruled the WBC Board of Governors earlier this week. The decision comes after a sustained public outcry over the outcome of the pairs September 2 bout, which was …

Lenny Daws will make the first defence of his British light welterweight title on a Hennessy Sports event at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday 20th October. Sky Sports will televise live. Whilst many new champions look to make a quick voluntary defence, the popular Londoner goes straight …