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By Brian Kirwan Click for larger image© Red Corner Promotions Nathan Briggs recently moved in just around the block from the Broncos Leagues Club in Red Hill, Brisbane where on Friday November 11 he made his return to the boxing ring after a 13 month lay off. He looked an …

Showtime Championship Boxing To Broadcast The Biggest Title Unification Fight Since Leonard – Hearns I Promoter Gary Shaw announced today that the long-awaited world super middleweight title unification fight between IBF/IBO champion Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy and WBO champion Joe “The Italian Dragon” Calzaghe has been signed and will be …

Danny Williams reckons Audley Harrison will need to go on the new series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! to rebuild his career after their fight on December 10 at the ExCeL London. The Brixton puncher, who in the build up to their grudge clash has accused Harrison …

Chris Sanigar’s West Country Boxing Promotions presents a stellar night at the fights this Thursday at the Dolman Exhibition Hall in Bristol, England as an evening with American boxing legend Rubin “Hurricane” Carter kicks off the event. Four bouts then follow, featuring light heavyweight Leigh Alliss against Varuzhan Davtyan, super …

The doors are locked and the windows are shuttered. No one is allowed to look in as boxing superstar Antonio Tarver prepared for the fight of his life. His opponent? Rocky Balboa. But even though Tarver’s acting debut as Mason “The Line” Dixon in the sixth Rocky film – entitled …

Promoter Frank Warren is delighted to announce that WBO World Super-Middleweight Champion Joe Calzaghe will face IBF holder Jeff Lacy in a sensational unification showdown set for early 2006. Warren was in New York last week locked in negotiations with Lacy’s promoter Gary Shaw and US TV Network Showtime and …

Boxing trainer and ESPN/2 Friday Night Fights analyst Teddy Atlas champions the cause of the less fortunate every day, and those works on behalf of the needy will culminate at the ninth annual Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation Dinner on Thursday night, November 17, a the Hilton Gardens Inn in Staten …

Former world title challenger, and world rated featherweight contender, Missy “The Fury” Fiorentino (12-1, 7 KO’s) will battle WIBF world junior featherweight champion Esther “The Blonde Dutch Girl” Schouten for the vacant IWBF world featherweight title on Wednesday, November 23rd at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence’s Down City. …

World Famous Laugh Factory Hosts New York City Boxing Press Conference. DiBella Entertainment’s Ike “Bazooka” Quartey (36-2-1, 30 KO’s) will continue on his comeback road toward a world title opportunity when he squares off against Carlos Bojorquez (25-7-6, 21 KO’s) on Saturday night, December 3, live on HBO Pay Per …

“Bad” Chad plans to unleash venom when he wrangles the “The Cobra” Friday, Nov.18, at 11PM ET/PT on Shobox: The New Generation “Bad” Chad Dawson and Ian “The Cobra” Gardner are both highly regarded prospects, but their styles are as different as preppies and hippies. One is conventional; the other …

R.I. Convention Center in Providence U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six” Estrada (4-0, 1 KO) returns to action in his hometown Thanksgiving Eve, November 23 against Jeremy “Superstar” Brooks (4-2, 2 KOs) in a six-round bout at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence.

If you have ever wanted to know what it takes to be a fighter just go to any amateur show at a local high school or I.U.E hall and the kids there will show you. They don’t yet have the skills of a champion but they do have the will, …