Female lightweight contender, Selina “Aztec Queen” Barrios (5-1, 2 KOs), will return to the ring on Saturday, August 3rd at the Alzafar Shrine in San Antonio, Texas. Barrios will face Nina Gallegos in a four-round bout. This is Barrios first fight since her first career loss to former WBC world champion Melissa Hernandez in April.
Welterweight prospect, Gilbert Venegas Jr. (11-1, 7 KOs), who is managed by Prince Ranch Boxing and promoted by TMB & PRB Entertainment, is training hard for his upcoming fight with Top Rank Promotion’s, Brian Mendoza (17-0, 12 KOs). The 8-round welterweight bout will take place at the Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, California,…
As Team USA prepares to compete later this week at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, top American female featherweight Yarisel Ramirez, was, ironically, born in Cuba, America’s boxing arch-rival and measuring stick. The 19-year-old Ramirez, who resides in Las Vegas, was born in Guantanamo, Cuba. During her relatively young boxing career –…
Leonard Ellerbe Thank you. I’d like to thank everyone for joining the call today. Mayweather Promotions is really thrilled to bring this very exciting event to where it all started for our two-time super featherweight champion, who really beat the odds to making it to where he is now and it’s only really the beginning…
All-time boxing greats Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera and Winky Wright, plus WBC Welterweight World Champion Shawn Porter,previewed the Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman showdown for media on Thursday ahead the PBC on FOX Sports Pay-Per-View event taking place this Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Two of the most popular Mexican fighters…
Undefeated Super Middleweight World Champion Caleb “Sweethands” Plant and unbeaten Mike Lee had a tense face-off and exchanged words Thursday at the final press conference before their showdown that headlines FOX PBC Fight Night on FOX & FOX Deportes this Saturday night from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Boxing’s hottest star, undefeated lightweight Teofimo Lopez takes what should be the last step towards securing a world title when he takes on Masayoshi Nakatani (18-0, 12 KOs) in the main event of a big card tomorrow night at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The fight is an IBF Title Eliminator, will…
Nathan Heaney (Stoke) won the vacant BBBofC Midlands Area Middleweight Title on Friday night – outpointing Tom Stokes of West Bromwich in a thrilling contest at the Kings Hall, Stoke-on-Trent. There was huge support for Heaney who got off to a good start finding success in round two but his legs seemed to lock momentarily…
It might have been yet another rainy day but it didn’t dampen the spirits of the Stoke crowd at the Kings Hall on Saturday night. The Carl Greaves Promotion (in association with Impact Boxing) hosted a show which featured six contests of local boxers. The main event saw Liam Berrisford of Meir outpoint last minute…
Tommy Fury – brother of Former World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury – began a stint on the popular ITV programme ‘Love Island’ yesterday. Twenty year old Tommy, a light heavyweight boxer from Manchester, has won two out of two in his pro boxing career so far and will be hoping for another win – this…
At Bolton Whites Hotel last Saturday night, VIP Boxing Promotions presented a Bill entitled ‘2 Jacks – 2 English Titles’ in which home boxers Jack Cullen and Jack Flatley were fighting for their first Titles. It was a thrilling contest between Bolton’s Jack Flatley and Ludlow’s Craig Morris who gave us toe-to-toe action throughout their…
Lascelles Oliver Harrison Sunrise: 17 October 1960 Sunset: 26 April 2019 Family, friends and the boxing community gathered together today to celebrate the life of top Trainer/Coach – Oliver Harrison, who sadly passed away on Friday 26th April aged just 58. The sounds of Bob Marley filled the packed St.Thomas’s Church, Pendleton, while Oliver’s coffin…