The World Boxing Council has received confirmation from at least five promoters who will participate in the purse offer for the promotion of the highly expected fight between WBC world champion Israel Vazquez and his official challenger, former monarch Oscar Larios.
WBA/IBF Light Welter Champion Ricky Hatton took a break from his busy training schedule on Thursday to meet with heavyweight legend Mike Tyson. The two pressure fighters got on like a house on fire at a popular restaurant in Hatton’s hometown of Manchester, England. “The Hitman” is coming off an impressive destruction of Carlos Maussa…
Gary ‘Hot Stuff’ Woolcombe steps up to leading support when he fights Eugenio Monteiro on the undercard of David Haye’s European Cruiserweight defence. Not only is he chief support he also gets his first real test in international boxing against the Manchester based Portugese strongman Monteiro who has wins over the likes of Anthony Farnell,…
Star Boxing and Golden Boy Co-Promote June 10 Showdown on HBO PPV Antonio Tarver & Bernard Hopkins will kick off a 4 city media tour beginining Tuesday, March 21 in New York & Philadelphia with stops in Tampa (Wednesday, March 22) and Los Angeles (Thursday, March 23). Tarver vs. Hopkins, “Fight To The Finish”, which…
photo by Teddy Blackburn Recent DiBella Entertainment signee Edgar Santana celebrates a big victory last week at New York’s Manhattan Center, flanked by his manager Ernesto Dallas (left) and publicist John Cirillo. Both Dallas and Cirillo are graduates of prestigious local institution Fordham University and have been a big part of the Spanish Harlem junior…
The World Boxing Council is honored and very pleased with the news about the candidacy of world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko to the Mayoralty of Kiev, Capital City of Ukraine. If Vitali gets elected, the people of Kiev will have an active, honest, patriotic and hard-working mayor in one of the most exemplary champions who…
Heavyweight prospect Kevin Johnson to make his national television debut on action-packed undercard at the Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday March 31st Heavyweight prospect Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson takes another step in his climb to the Heavyweight crown as he battles veteran Robert “Big Philly” Hawkins in a Heavyweight bout in the Mohegan Sun Arena on…
Just hours before Fight Academy were to confirm that Ricky Hatton would be defending his unified light welterweight crown against Juan Lazcano, the news came through that the Texan had broken a finger in training and would not be able to make the May 13 date for the Hitman’s major US debut. “Just as I…
The San Francisco Golden Gloves has recently announced that six-time world champion Sugar Ray Leonard and The Contender champion Sergio Mora will be in attendance to show their support for the 75th Annual San Francisco Golden Gloves event scheduled to take place between March 21st and 25th at the Bill Graham Civic Center.
The glittering amateur career of Bermondsey cruiserweight David Haye didn’t merely fine-tune the 25-year-old for the professional game – it also comes in handy for research purposes. Following the announcement of Haye’s first defence of his European title on March 24 at the storied York Hall, Bethnal Green, the London puncher revised his extensive amateur…
Chicagoland’s most popular professional boxer, David Diaz, 29-1-1 (16KO’s) returns home this Friday night, March 17th as he faces Silverio Ortiz Jr., 16-8 (7KO’s) of Merida, Mexico in a ten round lightweight bout which headlines Madness in March at the Aragon Ballroom, another fantastic evening of professional boxing presented by Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions,…
With the news that Juan Lazcano has broken a finger and is unavailable to fight Ricky Hatton on May 13 on HBO in the USA, the “Black Panther” Lovemore Ndou has his hand up and is ready to take the fight. “I think there is a greater power working to make this fight,” said Ndou….