With fight week officially underway, top media members, fighters and trainers offered up their fight night predictions for the highly anticipated featherweight match-up between Leo “El Terremoto” Santa Cruz and Abner Mares headlining Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on ESPN Saturday, August 29 from Staples Center in Los Angeles. The long-awaited battle is considered to be…
Boxing superstar and the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather will end his iconic career live and exclusive on the world’s number one boxing channel BoxNation when he takes on Haitian hard-hitter Andre Berto on September 12. Unbeaten Mayweather will hang up his gloves following the Berto clash after an illustrious 19-year…
Unbeaten super-welterweight prospect, Marcos “The Madman” Hernandez (6-0, 2 KOs) makes his Fight Club OC ring return at The Hangar in Costa Mesa, California this Thursday, August 27, 2015 against Luis Alfredo Lugo (14-22-1, 5 KOs). The eight round bout will be the third fight of the year for the 6’2 Fresno, CA native and…
Three-time, two-division world champion Randall “The Knock Out King” Bailey (45-8, 38 KOs) has signed an exclusive promotional contract with South Korean-based AK Promotions, Bailey’s manager Si Stern of SHS Boxing Management announced today. Bailey, who fights out of Miami and is trained there by Orlando Cuellar, is scheduled to make his AK Promotions debut…
Ring 8’s annual Family Picnic will be held this Sunday afternoon (Aug, 30), 12-6 p.m. ET, at Brady Park in Massapequa Reserve, Nassau, on Long Island, New York. “All Ring 8 members, along with their families and friends, look forward to our annual picnic,” Ring 8 president Bob Duffy said. “It’s all about having fun,…
Plucked off a rugby pitch as recently as 25th July by boxing promoter Mark Lyons, Shaunagh Brown debuts on the Wiseguys pro boxing bill at the famous York Hall in London on 29th August. Trained by Mark Reefer, a former Commonwealth super featherweight titlist at the Champions Gym in Hackney, 25 year old Brown is…
Thirty year old former Prizefighter Champion – Wadi “Macho Man†Camacho, has been the latest boxer to resurrect his career and sign a three year contract with rising manager Steve Goodwin. Cruiserweight Camacho hit the heights winning Prizefighter in 2013 but has failed to fully fulfil his potential since. Whilst Wadi has featured in thrilling…
Undefeated light heavyweight rising star “Sir” Marcus Browne (15-0, 11 KOs) will take on former world champion Gabriel Campillo (25-7-1, 12 KOs) while undefeated middleweight Hugo “The Boss” Centeno (22-0, 12 KOs) battles Poland’s Lukas Maciec (22-2-1, 5 KOs) as part of the featured undercard bouts on the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on NBC event…
World-renowned boxer Dmitriy Salita and his Brooklyn Brawl series will heat up Coney Island on Tuesday Aug 25, as the former IBF International and NABA Junior Welterweight Champion brings “Boxing At The Beach” back to MCU Park, the home of baseball’s Brooklyn Cyclones. Salita Promotions will open a year’s worth of events with a professional…
Doctors have confirmed that Lucas Browne sustained a broken thumb in his fight with Julius Long last week, but that isn’t going to put him off his pursuit of the WBA heavyweight crown. The Aussie suffered the break in the first round and was forced to box one-handed until he knocked Long cold in the…
As Boxing is firmly in the August doldrums, we take a look at happier times ahead in which the new season kicks off with ultra-busy month of September. September 5, Freiberger Arena, Dresden, Germany: WBA “regular” light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer faces challenger Konni Konrad. Awkward southpaw Braehmer, 46-2 (34), continues to be put in…
Former three-time world champion and Mexican power-puncher Jhonny Gonzalez (58-9, 49 KOs) will take on Puerto Rico’s Jonathan “Polvo” Oquendo (25-4, 16 KOs) in a 10-round junior lightweight showdown that will open up High Stakes: Floyd Mayweather vs. Andre Berto, the live, four-fight, Showtime PPV event on Saturday, September 12 from the MGM Grand Garden…