World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight champion Erislandy Lara will face Spike O’Sullivan this Saturday as part of the main event back-up to be held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The bout will be part of the big event in which Gervonta Davis and Rolando Romero will feature the main event in a…
The highly anticipated mandatory fight between World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight champion Gervonta Davis and challenger Rolando Romero will take place this Saturday under great anticipation at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Two young and talented fighters will be in the ring in a bout that has sold very well since the promotion…
British Ellie Scotney will fight for the WBA Intercontinental super bantamweight belt against Argentinean Cecilia Roman. The fight will be one of the attractions in London tomorrow and both met the weight. The 24-year-old Briton weighed in at 121.5 pounds and the Argentinean made the same weight when she stepped on the scales. It will…
HAMZAH SHEERAZ WAS honoured by the Boxing Writers’ Club with the prestigious Young Boxer of the Year award this evening in London. The 22-year-old achievements were acknowledged at the 69th annual dinner at the Savoy Hotel. Middleweight Hamzah, 15-0 (11 KOs), is the current holder of the WBC International Silver title following his defeat of…
Ireland’s Gabriel Dossen is through to the next round of the middleweight division at the European Boxing Championships in Yerevan, Armenia. he Galway native was the first Irish fighter in the ring at the championships. He fashioned a majority 4-1 win over Spain Miguel Entrena Cuadrado. The judges scored the contest 30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 28-29,…
For Cheryl Karian, a 72-year-old retired physician assistant, boxing is medicine. Ms. Karian, whose Parkinson’s disease was diagnosed in 2020, doesn’t compete or spar, but every Tuesday and Thursday, she trains for an hour at Main Street Boxing and Muay Thai in downtown Houston. Before her diagnosis, Ms. Karian ran, played tennis and worked a…
By Frank Warren OUR POPULAR PROSPECT show concept returns on Friday at York Hall with the latest in the series designed to showcase our young fighters and give them the experience of top billing. Of course, we also have a couple of quality title fights as headline acts and the two we have put in…
SAM NOAKES WILL happily step out of the spotlight tonight and let his brother Sean take centre stage for his professional debut at York Hall. Sean, 26 and two years his senior, takes on Lee Hallett at London’s home of boxing and the Noakes’, along with extended family and friends, will be out in force…
BRAD FOSTER WAS unsuccessful in his challenge for the WBC International super bantamweight title, coming up short on points against the rated Romanian Ionut Baluta. All three judges awarded the fight to Baluta by a four-round margin after a fight where styles didn’t gel and it quickly became a messy affair. Foster, later in the…
Boxing world champion Nikhat Zareen on Monday weighed in on the smouldering controversy over Muslim girls wearing the hijab in schools and colleges, saying one’s attire was entirely the subject of their choice. “It is totally their own choice. I can’t comment on their choices. I have my own choice. I like to wear such…
The GB fighter was paired with the man who would go on to win the title in the first round of the AIBA world championships in November. Now as one 14 GB boxers based at Sheffield’s English Institute of Sport selected for the EUBC European Men’s Elite Boxing Championships, in Yerevan, Armenia, he hopes to…
NEW ORLEANS — Famed New Orleans boxing promoter Les Bonano died Saturday night, according to reports. Bonano began working with the NOPD in 1965. In 1974, while working at the Orleans Parish Prison, Bonano started an athletic program which focused on a variety of sports including boxing. Over the course of his career as a…