It was a good Saturday night at the fights at two locations in America and we kick off this week’s report at the outdoor venue StubHub Center in Carson, California. That’s where upstart contender Viktor Postol, 28-0 (12), shocked former world title challenger Lucas Matthysse, 37-4 (34), with a tenth round KO to capture the…
Showtime Sports will present seven live boxing telecasts in a span of just eight weeks to close out 2015, including three presentations of Showtime Championship Boxing, a Showtime Boxing International telecast and three installments of ShoBox: The New Generation. The seven telecasts will air live on Showtime and will feature at least 16 fights, several…
Two days before Adrien Broner goes for his fourth world title in his home state of Ohio, Broner and his opponent, Russia’s Khabib Allakhverdiev participated in a final press conference Thursday at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio. Former three-division world champion Broner (30-2, 22 KOs) returns to his hometown against fellow former world…
Ireland’s seven-strong amateur boxing squad arrived in Doha, Qatar from their training camp in Assisi, Italy this afternoon ahead of opening bell for the AIBA World Elite Men’s Championships and Olympic qualifiers. Boxing at the 18th edition of the tournament begins in Doha next Tuesday.
Professional boxing will return to Cape Cod for the second time this calendar year on Saturday, November 28, 2015 at Barnstable High School. In the main event, Northeast Heavyweight Champion Jesse Barboza (10-1-1, 6 KO’s) will put his title on the line in an eight-round fight against an opponent to be named at a later…
Javier “El Abejon” Fortuna (29-0-1, 21 KOs) used a relentless attack to stop Carlos “Twin Dream” Velasquez (19-2, 12 KOs) in the tenth-round and retain his super featherweight world title on Premier Boxing Champions(PBC) Toe-To-Toe Tuesdays on FS1 and Boxeo De Campeones on Fox Deportes from The Pearl Theater at Palms Casino Resort. Fortuna blitzed…
Sam Eggington and Frankie Gavin pull no punches in Matchroom Boxing’s exclusive extended promo video for their clash for the British and Commonwealth titles on Saturday October 17 at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham, live on Sky Sports. Eggington puts his belts on the line in this all-Birmingham affair and Gavin is looking to regain…
Light heavyweight contender Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez (27-1, 18 KOs) will take on undefeated Michael Seals (19-0, 14 KOs) Friday, Nov. 13, on Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on Spike live from MGM Resorts International’s beautiful Beau Rivage Resort and Casino on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Televised coverage will begin at 9 p.m. ET/PT. “This is…
WBO number-five ranked junior middleweight contender and Boxcino 2015 champion, John “Apollo Kidd” Thompson, arrived Thursday morning in Manchester, England, in advance of his October 10 WBO junior middleweight title clash with Liam Smith that will take place at the Manchester Arena.
Forty-two years after he captured his first National Golden Gloves Tournament title at Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Hall-of-Famer Sugar Ray Leonard returns Saturday, October 10, to the same historic building as a television analyst for Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on NBCSN, promoted by DiBella Entertainment in association with Murphys Boxing, airing live from Lowell, Massachusetts. PBC…
Former world champions Miguel “Titere” Vazquez (35-4, 13 KOs) and Argenis Mendez (22-3-1, 12 KOs) will meet in a 10-round lightweight clash on Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) Toe-To-Toe Tuesdays on FS1 and Boxeo De Campeones on Fox Deportes on Tuesday, October 6 from The Dancehall in San Antonio, Texas with televised coverage beginning at 9…
IBF/IBO Heavyweight Champion and WBA/WBO Superchampion Wladimir Klitschko will defend his titles against Tyson Fury on November 28 at Espirit arena in Düsseldorf, Germany. Tickets keep their validity. Originally scheduled for October 24, the fight had been postponed due to an injury suffered by Wladimir Klitschko. However, after a comprehensive medical examination, the champion has…