Super featherweight world champion Javier “El Abejon” Fortuna (28-0-1, 20 KOs) takes on 2004 Puerto Rican Olympian Carlos “Twin Dream” Velasquez (19-1, 12 KOs) as PBC “Toe To Toe Tuesdays” on FS1 comes to the Pearl at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas on Tuesday, September 29. Televised coverage begins at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m….
Former world champion Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin, Australian middleweight Michael Zerafa, 2012 U.S. Olympian “Sir” Marcus Browne and Staten Island’s Gary Stark Jr. took part in a media workout at Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn on Tuesday before their respective showdowns on Saturday, September 12, at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. Quillin and Zerafa face-off…
Listen to the Full Badou Jack, George Groves Conference Call… [audio:Badou-Jack-vs-George-Groves-PC.mp3] Leonard Ellerbe: I’d like to thank everyone for calling in today to hear from Badou Jack and George Groves, who will be fighting for the WBC Super Middleweight Title on the PPV televised undercard for Floyd Mayweather and Andre Berto, which will take place…
Exciting stars from the Mayweather Promotions stable of fighters will fill out the action-packed day of undercard bouts on Saturday, September 12 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena preceding the Showtime PPV event “High Stakes: Floyd Mayweather vs. Andre Berto“. Featured undercard action pits Chris “Young King” Pearson (12-0, 9 KOs) against Janks Trotter (9-1-1,…
Chris Jenkins and Tyrone Nurse will meet in a rematch for the British Light Welterweight title at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on November 7, live on Sky Sports. Jenkins and Nurse shared a thrilling majority draw in their first meeting for the coveted belt in Manchester in July on the undercard of the World…
Superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr is adamant that his fight with Andre Berto this weekend will be his last. The pound-for-pound king is set to hang up the gloves after his 49th fight, live and exclusive on BoxNation, admitting that he wants to get out of the sport while he has all his faculties intact.
Wales’ most successful amateur boxer Andrew Selby has turned professional, signing a management deal with UK manger Chris Sanigar. Andrew enjoyed a thrilling amateur career where he was crowned double European champion in 2011 and 2013. He also claimed a silver medal at the 2011 World Championships and represented Great Britain at the London 2012…
Gary Cornish says he’ll do his talking in the ring and end Anthony Joshua’s rise in the Heavyweight division when they clash for the vacant Commonwealth title at The O2 in London on Saturday, September 12, live on Sky Sports. Cornish has kept a close counsel in the build-up to the huge showdown in Greenwich,…
It was a very one-sided weekend across the globe with four world titles on the line and only one of those was a test for the defensing champion. We kick things off at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, USA where WBA champion Jamie McDonnell bid farewell to the bantamweight division with a dominant…
The new season gets off to a less than thunderous bang this weekend but there are a few good fight cards happening today and tomorrow in a few select areas. Our first stop is the Energie-Verbund Arena in Dresden, Germany where WBA “regular” light heavyweight champ Juergen Braehmer, 46-2 (34), meets the challenge posed by…
As announced on ‘Bunce’s Boxing Hour’, one of this year’s most exciting fights has landed on BoxNation with knockout artists Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux set to produce a spectacular showdown on October 17. The two world champions meet head-to-head in one of the most eagerly anticipated unification clashes in 2015, as they look to…
Matchroom Boxing former World Middleweight champion Darren Barker is to publish his autobiography. A Dazzling Darkness: The Darren Barker Story will be available in bookshops and on Amazon from September 16. It tells the remarkable story of how Darren recovered from the tragedy of losing his talented boxing brother Gary in a car accident, with…