It’s England versus Argentina again when boxing wonderkid Amir Khan takes on Diego Alejandro Madole at the Braehead Arena in Glasgow on Saturday 25th March. The unbeaten Bolton hotshot has his seventh professional fight against the first South American opponent of his career and he knows that they come tough. England and Argentina have had…
WBO/IBF World Super-Middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe will lead the Wales team out at the Millennium Stadium today ahead of the RBS 6 Nations clash with Italy. The 33-year-old from Newbridge has been invited by the WRU to make a guest appearance at arguably the home of world sport following his magnificent unification fight victory over…
Tickets are now available for the World Championship Boxing event at Belfast’s Kings Hall on Saturday 20th May. WBO World Featherweight Champion Scott Harrison headlines the show in an explosive showdown against the dynamite-punching Domincan Republican Joan Guzman. Chief-support features an equally electric clash between Belfast hero Eamonn Magee against Takaloo for the WBU World…
Reports on the Internet suggest that Undisputed super lightweight world boxing champion Ricky “Hitman” Hatton will be making his next defence in the USA on May 13, with four boxers being considered as possible opponents in Vivian Harris, Naoufel Ben Rabah, Juan Lazcano and Lovemore Ndou. Team Fenech’s “Black Panther†Lovemore Ndou says there is…
Joe Calzaghe’s sensational win last weekend against Jeff Lacy has inspired fellow Welshman Gary Lockett to win the WBU World Middleweight title this Saturday (11 March) at the Newport Sports Centre. Lockett was due to face Ryan Rhodes but the Sheffield switch-hitter withdrew from the fight citing a back injury sustained in training. Instead, Lockett…
Reigning IBF/IBO flyweight world boxing champion Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan has his knockout targets set on WBC Interim flyweight champion Jorge Arce. 26 year-old Arce defends his title against Rosendo Alvarez on the Floyd Mayweather-Zab Judah card on April 8 in Las Vegas. Should he be successful, Darchinyan wants Arce in the ring next.
Headlining an action packed card is the rematch between Colin Kidd Wilson and Nathan Briggs. Wilson was victorious in their last outing but admitted that the injury to Brigg’s hand during the fight was a telling factor. Nathan Briggs has now had time to recover and is more focussed than ever before. Rarely is an…
The 20th anniversary celebration of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING continues on Cinco de Mayo weekend with a world championship doubleheader Saturday, May 6, on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast) at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass. In one of two world title fights promoted by Don King Productions, hard-hitting Alejandro “Terra” Garcia…
Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion Danny Williams heads to Glasgow to replace Scott Harrison on the March 25 show at the Braehead Arena. Harrison, the WBO World Featherweight Champion, was ruled out of his title defence against Joan Guzman yesterday by doctors following a gum infection after a wisdom tooth was removed.
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING Now Available on the iTunes Music Store iTunes Music Store To Offer First Boxing Download; Super Middleweight World Title Unification – Jeff Lacy vs. Joe Calzaghe – From Saturday, March 4! CBS Corporation’s Showtime Networks Inc. announced that the iTunes Music Store is offering its first boxing match for download. The world…
After great consideration and deliberation with boxing people and Team Magee, Maloney Promotions have today decided to move the classic British and Commonwealth Super-middleweight title fight between Carl Froch the champion and Brian Magee to the home of British boxing the atmospheric York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, this is a venue where many titles…
Hamburg – Even though the main event at Saturday’s Universum show at the Color Line Arena of Hamburg will be the WBA middleweight championship between Felix Sturm and Maselino Masoe, there is another duel on this card that draws almost as much interest. It’s the heavyweight clash between Ruslan Chagaev, 19-0-1 (16), off the Universum…