Showtime Sports will present the WBO Middleweight Championship between defending titlist Andy Lee and unbeaten challenger Billy Joe Saunders on Saturday, Dec. 19, live on Sho Extreme at 5 p.m. ET/PT from Manchester, England. The Showtime Boxing International offering of the Box Nation telecast will feature analysis from Showtime boxing experts Brian Custer, Al Bernstein…
Two-division world champion Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley Jr., in his second reign as WBO welterweight champion, has been named the Ring 8 Fighter of the Year of 2015. Bradley will personally accept the award from his trainer, Teddy Atlas, at the 29th Annual Ring 8 Holiday Event and Awards ceremony on Sunday, December 13, at…
It was the shot heard ’round the Boxing world on Saturday night as British heavyweight Tyson Fury pulled off what nearly everyone outside of his camp thought was impossible – defeating longtime undisputed champion Wladimir Klitschko at Esprit Arena in Dusseldorf. It was easily the biggest upset of a dominant reigning champion by a British…
In front of a big crowd at the Dartmouth Sportsplex in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, local hero Tyson Cave secured the WBU Super Bantamweight Championship with a sensational second round knockout of tough late replacement Walter Rojas. Cave showcased his exceptional boxing and defensive skills against the big punching Argentinian throughout the first round, dancing around…
Love him or hate him, you have to admit that heavyweight Tyson Fury is entertaining, Whether it’s entering a press conference dressed up as Batman, serenading an audience after a fight or running his mouth off like he so often does, its entertaining. And that is a word you can’t use to describe the Champion,…
It’s a big night at the fights with three world title bouts featured in three different countries this evening and we start this review by heading to Germany, where heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko puts the WBA, IBF and WBO crowns on offer against opinionated challenger Tyson Fury at Esprit Arena in Dusseldorf. Finally, Fury, 24-0 (18),…
After hosting separate Coast-to-Coast media workouts in Miami and Marina del Rey, Calif., Peter “Kid Chocolate†Quillin, Jesus Cuellar, Jonathan “Polvo†Oquendo and Chris Algieri spoke to the media about their respective showdowns next Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, live on Showtime. Quillin, Oquendo and Algieri held their media workout at the 5th Street…
Showtime Sports will televise the 10-round welterweight matchup between former world champion and Long Island-native Chris Algieri (20-2, 8 KOs) and Ecuador’s Erick Bone (16-2, 8 KOs) on Showtime Boxing ON SHO Extreme, Saturday, Dec. 5, live at 7 p.m. ET/PT from Barclays Center in Brooklyn. In the opening bout on SHO Extreme, undefeated rising…
Super welterweight world champion and Cuban sensation Erislandy “The American Dream” Lara (22-2-2, 13 KOs) successfully defended his title against former world champion and Slovenian Jan Zaveck (35-4, 19 KOs) in a Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN show from Miami’s Hialeah Park Racing & Casino. Due to weather in the area, the main event was…
Carshalton’s Lenny Daws aims to become European super-lightweight champion at the second time of asking on December 5 at the Westcroft Leisure Centre, just a stone’s throw from his home, and is adamant he’ll leave nothing to chance. The 36-year-old fought for the European title in 2013, when he dropped a controversial 12-round decision to…
After his impressive second-round stoppage of Sergio “Cuatito” Lopez (19-10-1, 13 KOs) last Friday night at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, undefeated blue-chip featherweight prospect Toka “T-Nice” Kahn-Clary (17-0, 11 KOs) has officially graduated from an eight to ten-round fighter. “My performance was good,” Kahn-Clary looked back on his knockout of Lopez. “I didn’t do…
Anthony Joshua MBE believes Tyson Fury will attack Wladimir Klitschko from the opening bell in their World Heavyweight title clash – but that the champion will hold on to his titles, live on Sky Sports Box Office. Klitschko defends his WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts against the unbeaten Manchester man on Saturday night in…