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In a fight widely ignored here in good old blighty, Olympic Gold Medallist Audley Harrison is back in action this coming Friday against Dominick Guinn on a Goosen – Tutor card from the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, California. For Harrison, this is crunch time. After suffering his first …

Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Diego “Chico’’ Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo are signed, sealed and ready to deliver once again LIVE on SHOWTIME on Saturday, June 3 (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). The world’s most talented and courageous lightweights will collide …

ESPN and Tournament of Contenders today announced the date, venue and fight card for their third boxing special, “The Contender: Latin Warriors,” celebrating the Hispanic fighters of season one of “The Contender.” Launching Las Vegas into an exciting Cinco de Mayo weekend, “The Contender: Latin Warriors” will be held at …

The Malignaggi-Cotto and Taylor-Wright championship mega fights in June are not the only DiBella Entertainment attractions on the horizon. The month of April promises to be a particularly busy month, with a trio of DBE main events set for the next two weeks. Olympian Andre Berto (10-0, 8 KO’s) will …

Former world champion and local favorite Jose Antonio Rivera gets a second chance to win a world championship match in his adopted hometown when he challenges World Boxing Association super welterweight champion Alejandro “Terra” Garcia at the DCU Center on Saturday, May 6. The entire card has been dubbed Dynamite …

“Bobby Bostick Promotions and the Palm Beach County Convention Center Presents Spring Break Boxing and The Battle of the Sexes Best Body Contest” April 19, 2006. The Palm Beach County Convention Center. As the lights go dim there is an electricity in the air. At first the music sounds far …

**Lot of Ringside Boxing Photos** Click for larger image © Mike McGuigan / Saddo Boxing The Blue Horizon was back in business this past Friday as promoter Veronca Michaels and Don Elbaum put together one of the best cards in recent memory at Philly’s legendary fight house. The six bout …

Fight Academy’s Dennis Hobson has welcomed rival promoter Frank Warren’s latest public communication regarding the much talked about Clinton Woods v Joe Calzaghe IBF light heavyweight title fight. At Hobson’s request, Warren is now offering the Fight Academy promoter odds of 7-4 for the well-publicized six figure side bet the …

Frank Warren has once again called the bluff of Clinton Woods’ promoter Dennis “zipper neck” Hobson – and offered him the chance of winning almost a million pounds on the outcome of a fight with Joe Calzaghe. Fright Academy and Hobson first expressed an interest in having money on a …

The 20th anniversary celebration of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING continues with a world championship doubleheader Saturday, May 6, 2006, on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). In one of the 12-round world title fights, Alejandro “Terra” Garcia (25-1, 23 KOs) will defend his World Boxing Association super welterweight …

“Ireland’s” John Duddy (16-0, 14 KOs) makes his first WBC Continental Americas middleweight title defense June 10 against veteran Freddy Cuevas (25-8-1, 17 KOs) in a 10-round bout on the Cotto-Malignaggi pay-per-view card at the famed Madison Square Garden.

Brian Magee is still bitterly disappointed that he has had to give up the home advantage of the Kings Hall in Belfast for his challenge against the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion Carl Froch now that the show has been moved to the famous York Hall in London’s East End. …