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By Lee Haskins I’ve just had the whole weekend off to rest and let my body heal – it felt good. It always does, in fact. All my weekends have felt good lately. But then I hit it hard on the Monday and the pain begins all over again. Ahead …

Memorial Day weekend started out with a bang as Andrey Fedosov and John Thompson were crowned Boxcino 2015 champions in the Heavyweight and Jr. Middleweight divisions with stoppage wins over Donovan Dennis and Brandon Adams this past Friday night at the Omega Products Outdoor Arena. The Boxcino Tournament was promoted …

By Nick Blackwell For the last two months I’ve been based in Cardiff, training with Gary Lockett, and adding more and more strings to my bow ahead of my British title fight this Saturday, May 30 with John Ryder. To begin with I was there sparring two times a week …

Harwich, Massachusetts Light-Heavyweight Paul Gonsalves (7-7-1, 3 KO’s) will meet tough Mexican veteran Rafael Valenzuela (8-5, 1 KO) in an eight-round co-feature Saturday, August 8 at the Hyannis Youth & Community Center (HYCC) in Hyannis, MA. This is in addition to the previously announced main event featuring Jesse Barboza (9-1-1) …

After a successful show on February 27 at the Fauldhouse Miners Welfare in Fauldhouse, Scotland, Prospect Boxing are making a return to the local venue with a four fight card on June 5. The February 27 bill marked the first professional Boxing card in the West Lothian town’s history, and …

Team Ireland’s medal-laden squads arrived home from the AIBA World Women’s Youth and Junior Championships in Taiwan through Dublin Airport today. This was twenty four hours after Team Ireland arrived home from the EUBC European Men’s Junior Championships in the Ukraine. The Irish squads claimed eight medals in Asia and …

Gary Shaw Productions middleweight contender, Tureano Johnson (18-1, 13 KOs), is now the chief sparring partner for Daniel Geale (31-3, 16 KOs) as he prepares him for his upcoming WBC title clash with Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs). Johnson, who captured the WBA International and WBC Silver middleweight titles in …

While entering the final days of training camp, former two-division world champion, Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (32-3-1, 18 KOs), gives his thoughts on his upcoming PBC on NBC main-event attraction against Aron Martinez. The 10-round bout will take place at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., June 6, 2015 and will …

Evgeny Gradovich received a timely boost ahead of his World title defence against Lee Selby on Saturday night at The O2 in London live on Sky Sports Box Office as the IBF named him their boxer of the year. The Russian Featherweight king defends his belt for the fifth time …

There were two interesting fight cards this weekend, each featuring a world title contest as the IBF super middle and WBC cruiserweight belts were on the line in America and Russia, respectively. On Saturday, the action took place at the Agganis Arena in Boston, MA as super middle southpaws James …

Team Ireland arrived home from the European Men’s Junior Championships in Lviv, Ukraine via Dublin Airport today. Jason Harty (gold), Jim O’Reilly (silver), Anthony Johnston (bronze) and Lorcan Hurley (bronze) finished in podium positions in Lviv.

James DeGale MBE created British boxing history last night when he claimed the vacant IBF Super Middleweight title in Boston against Andre Dirrell – and told his rivals at 168 pounds: “I will fight anyone”. DeGale became the first British Olympic Gold medal winner to land a World title with …