Luke Campbell MBE says Tommy Coyle won’t want to have a war with him when they meet in an official eliminator for the WBC Lightweight title at the KC Lightstream Stadium in Hull, live on Sky Sports. Campbell and Coyle clash in an east versus west fight that has divided their hometown and, with local…
Clcick Image for more Matty Fagan Vs Adam Kettleborough Photos At the new Sports Village in Ellesmere Port, England, last night, local man – Matty Fagan, won the English Lightweight Title Eliminator by defeating Adam Kettleborough of Newark, Nottinghamshire, on points. It was a thrilling contest with both boxers giving their ‘all’, but Fagan gets…
Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (28-0-1, 25 KOs) and Nadjib “IronDjib” Mohammedi (38-4, 23 KOs) started off the main event slow, just feeling each other out in the first round. At the start of the second round, Kovalev engaged in an aggressive attack on Mohammedi, which knocked the challenger down. In the third round the chants for…
Beibut Shumenov (16-2, 10 KOs) defeated B.J. Flores (31-2-1, 20 KOs) by unanimous decision Saturday night to win a cruiserweight world title on Premier Boxing Champions on NBCSN from the Pearl at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, NV, Shumenov came out aggressive early before using his movement late to earn a world title in…
Brian Rose says he must beat Carson Jones to keep his career alive as they meet in a rematch on August 1 at the KC Lightstream Stadium in Hull, live on Sky Sports. Rose lost to Jones on Valentine’s Day in a dramatic one-round blitz, hurting Jones early in the piece only for the American…
Former world champions Antonio Tarver and Steve Cunningham exchanged heated words today on a routine media conference call that escalated into a back-and-forth dialogue about mutual respect and ring generalship. Both Tarver and Cunningham joined the call following a much friendlier media interview featuring the televised undercard fighters Marco Huck and Krzysztof Glowacki.
IBF/WBA/WBO Light Heavy Championship, 12 rounds: Sergey Kovalev: 174.5 lb Najib Mohammedi: 173 lb Cruiserweights, 10 rounds: Jean Pascal: 178 lb Yuniesky Gonzalez: 177 lb Light Heavyweights: 10 rounds Sullivan Barrera: 174.5 lb Hakim Zoulikha: 175 lb
Knockout king Sergey Kovalev has labelled Adonis Stevenson as “not a real champion†and dreams of capturing his WBC belt. The unified WBA, WBO and IBF light-heavyweight champion has conquered all before him, including wins over the legendary Bernard Hopkins and Jean Pascal, but a showdown with 175-pound rival and current WBC champion Stevenson has…
British middleweight champion Nick Blackwell and unbeaten challenger Damon Jones both weighed inside the middleweight limit this afternoon in Derby ahead of their highly-anticipated title clash tonight, live on Channel 5. Twenty-two-year-old Jones, unbeaten in 13 professional fights, tipped the scales at 11 stone 5lbs 5oz [159.25 lb], while 24-year-old champion Blackwell, 17-3-1 (7 KOs),…
Luke Campbell MBE and Tommy Coyle clash at the KC Lightstream Stadium on August 1 live on Sky Sports, and the pair opened up on their fiery sparring when they were amateurs. The Hull duo meet in an official eliminator for the WBC Lightweight title, but after a spicy press conference, bragging rights on home…
Stablemates Danny Roman and Isaac Zarate will headline a card this Friday July 26, from the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, California, promoted by Thompson Boxing. Trained and managed by Eddie Gonzalez, two talented rising prospects, bantamweights Danny Roman and Isaac Zarate, will headline the “Locked n’ Loaded” show. Roman (14-2-1, 5 KOs) will be in…
Fighters competing in a pair of exciting cruiserweight matchups on Saturday’s Premier Boxing Champions on NBCSN event held a final press conference Thursday in advance of their July 25 bouts at The Pearl at Palms Casino Resort. Televised coverage begins at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and is headlined by former world champion Beibut Shumenov…