The principal boxers involved in the Premier Boxing Champions on Spike card that will take place tonight at The Taj Mahal Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City weighed in yesterday. Super Bantamweights, 12 rounds Jonathan Guzman: 122 lb Daniel Rosas: 121.2 lb Light Heavyweights, 10 rounds Andre Dirrell: 169 lb Blake Caparello: 167 lb
You better believe Saturday night’s alright for fighting, especially in New York on Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend! Three-time world champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez and WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko will go mano a mano for Martinez’s WBO junior lightweight title and the boxing gem of Puerto Rico, Felix “El Diamante” Verdejo, will risk his…
Belfast’s undefeated Carl Frampton will take on California’s undefeated Leo Santa Cruz for the latter’s WBA featherweight super title on Saturday July 30 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Frampton makes the career defining step up in weight to the Featherweight division having recently dethroned WBA super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg on…
Russia’s undefeated super-lightweight prospect, Sergey Lipinets (9-0, 7 KOs), is adapting well to his surrounding here in the United States. Born in Martuk, Kazakhstan but fighting out of Southern California where he now resides, Lipinets is getting great work with top notch fighters, one of them being Victor Ortiz. Lipinets spent quality time in camp…
Welterweight world champion Keith Thurman and former champion Shawn Porter went face-to-face Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan as they hosted a press conference to discuss their highly anticipated Saturday, June 25 showdown on Showtime Championship Boxing on CBS, presented by Premier Boxing Champions live from Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Televised coverage begins at 9 p.m. ET/6…
On Friday night, May 27, a big night of boxing will kick off a holiday weekend at The Claridge in Atlantic City as Rising Promotions will present a terrific card of boxing. “We are excited to come back to the Claridge. Thanks to the whole staff at Rising Promotions and the AC Boxing Hall of…
Former two-time world champion Andre “The Beast” Berto has wrapped up training camp and is set to travel to Southern California for his highly anticipated rematch against “Vicious” Victor Ortiz that headlines Premier Boxing Champions on Fox and Fox Deportes this Saturday, April 30 at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. Prior to the start of…
Undefeated knockout artist Jonathan Guzman (20-0, 20 KOs) will battle Mexico’s Daniel Rosas (20-2, 12 KOs) in a 12-round super bantamweight title eliminator in the opening bout of Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on Spike on Friday, April 29 from the Taj Mahal Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City. Televised coverage begins at 9 p.m. ET/8…
Shayne Singleton will take on Adil Anwar in a classic war of the roses clash for the vacant WBC International Silver Welterweight title at the Manchester Arena on May 7, live on Sky Sports. Singleton claims home turf for the battle, and it’s the second time the Lancastrian has fought for the strap – having…
In light of this past weekend’s devastating display of shock and awe by middleweight world champion Gennady Golvkin, the question remains; is there any boxer in the world today, at or less than 160 pounds, that could derail the Kazakh destroyer? Dominc Wade came into his challenge of Golovkin’s two world titles, the WBA “Super”…
Anthony Joshua MBE will make the first defence of his IBF Heavyweight title against unbeaten American Dominic ‘Trouble’ Breazeale at The O2 in London on June 25. Joshua took both the belt and unbeaten record of American Charles Martin at the same venue on April 9, and he’ll be looking to take another ‘0’ in…
Pauly Upton says he’s the proudest man on the planet following his vacant Irish super-welterweight title victory in Northampton on Saturday night. The Ricky Hatton-trained 27-year-old halted the experienced Terry Maughan in the sixth round to become the Emerald Isle’s champion and he still hasn’t come down from cloud nine. Upton, the oldest of three…