On 9th June this year Scott Lawton reached the pinnacle of his career to date when he secured the English lightweight title with an eighth round stoppage of southpaw Stefy Bull in Doncaster. Up to that point Lawton openly admits that the English title was the limit of his ambition, he his quick to add…
Two of the country’s top female boxers battle for the Northwest Boxing Assn. (NWBA) championship in an eight round main event at the Lucky Eagle Casino on Saturday, October 7th at 7pm. Dakota Stone, who hails from Seattle, WA will face Layla McCarter who is currently living in Las Vegas, NV. While McCarter is 10…
Don’t Miss Rocky Juarez’s Rematch Against Marco Antonio Barrera This Saturday On A Golden Boy Promotion At The MGM Grand In Vegas on HBO World Championship Boxing! It was one of those familiar nights where the older champion had to dig down deep to fend off the determined younger challenger. Click for larger image In…
Signing to fight the biggest fight of his career brought other obligations for the modern-day “Cinderella Man,†World Boxing Council and lineal welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir. After a whirlwind press tour that brought his wife and four children to New York and Los Angeles, Baldomir, who’s promoted by Sycuan Ringside Promotions, is ready to get…
A little over a week away from the biggest fight of his career, Edison “Pantera’ Miranda is growing impatient with his desire to strap the IBF World Middleweight Championship belt around his waist – something he is sure will happen when he faces Arthur Abraham on September 23rd at Rittal Arena in Wetzlar, Germany.
Amateur Standout Makes Pro Debut This Week! Two time New York Golden Glove Champion Kristian Vasquez will make his professional debut against Ronnie Howell this Friday at the Huntington Hilton in Huntington, NY. After winning both the 2005 125 lb Novice and 2006 132 lb Open NY Golden Gloves Championships, Vasquez is ready to enter…
It’s the one unwritten clause in boxing, the one thing a promoter can’t put together by himself. This is the unwritten rematch clause. It’s when two fighters who have fought previously both go on independently to have their own big fights canceled, and then once again need each other in order to put one of…
Bradford’s Junior Witter and Washington’s DeMarcus Corley have both predicted that their highly anticipated clash for the prestigious WBC world super lightweight title on the Hennessy Sports “World Honours’ event at the Alexandra Palace on Friday night will not go the distance. The pair appear equally confident going into the contest – being shown live…
NABA and USNBC cruiserweight champion Matt “Too Smooth” Godfrey (12-0, 7 KOS) leaves today for Los Angeles, where he’ll finish training at the Wild Card Gym for his September 23 unification bout against WBC Continental Americas title-holder Danny “Boy” Batchelder (24-2-1, 11 KOs). Godfrey-Batchelder headlines “Night of the Rising Stars, promoted by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic…
It goes without saying that unbeaten Heavyweight contender Sultan Ibragimov is on the fast track to a World Championship. The only question is – who will be the first champion to fall to the Russian power hitter? It may very well be WBO Heavyweight Champion Sergei Liakhovich, as WBO President Paco Valcarcel today informed Seminole…
Silverhawk Championship Boxing has signed unbeaten cruiserweight prospect BJ “El Peligroso” Flores (16-0-1, 11 KOs) to an exclusive promotional contract, Silverhawk vice president Jeff Grmoja formally announced today.
Crowd pleasing Richard Stewart faces one of his toughest tests as a pro when he takes on veteran Ron Boddie in a scheduled six-round light-heavyweight contest Friday, Sept. 29, at the New Alhambra, Swanson & Ritner Streets, next to Forman Mills, in South Philadelphia. First of seven fights at 7.30 p.m.