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Cork middleweight Christina Desmond has received a bye into the semi-finals of the 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. The Macroom BC southpaw is slated to meet Chen Nien-Chen of Chinese Taipei on Sunday in the last-four of the tournament.

Just days before from the highly anticipated “B96 Boxing at the Ballpark” event set for this Saturday night, August 23 at U.S. Cellular Field, Home of the Chicago White Sox, the main participants held court at the Final Press Conference. The Final Press Conference was held in front of a …

Today is the 41st birthday of former heavyweight world champion Nikolai Valuev, and the World Boxing Association family sends its best wishes to the “Russian Giant” on his birthday. Valuev was born on August 21, 1973 in Saint Petersburg, and at age 20 started in boxing, after practicing disk launching …

The Philippine Supreme Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to stop the enforcement of the Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) ruling which ordered Saranggani Congressman Manny Pacquiao and his wife Jinkee to post a cash bond in the amount of P3,298,514,894.35 (US $74.9 Million) or a surety bond in …

Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, boxing ‘s only eight-division world champion, defends his WBO welterweight title against New York’s undefeated WBO junior welterweight champion Chris Algieri, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Care Management, a Masters degree in Clinical Nutrition and a Ph.D. in Upsets Inside the Ring.

Today, promoter Don King celebrates a new year of life. He has been a great ally and part of the World Boxing Association family, and we send our warmest greeting. He was born 83 years ago in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He began to build his name among the great …

Marcos “El Chino” Maidana, the former welterweight world champion who gets his highly anticipated rematch with Floyd “Money” Mayweather in the main event of “Mayhem: Mayweather vs. Maidana 2” on Saturday, Sept. 13 live on Showtime PPV, met with media members in Carson, Calif., last Saturday at StubHub Center and …

Raul Caiz Sr. from the USA will be the referee of the 108 interim WBA title fight between the Panamanian Walter Tello and the Filippino Randy Petalcorin on August 23 in China. The fight venue will be the Mercedes Benz Arena of Shanghai, Caíz Sr will be accompanied by judges …

2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Odlanier Solis will get a “last chance” to work his way back to the top of the world rankings. The Cuban defector, who suffered a bad knee injury in the first round of his WBC heavyweight championship bout against Vitali Klitschko in March 2011, lost to …

Turns out, Shawn Porter was correct, it was Showtime after all…but for “The Special One,” Kell Brook. In a major upset, Britain’s Kell Brook (33-0, 22 KOs), of Sheffield, England, won a battle of undefeated welterweights and the IBF title with a majority 12-round decision over defending champion “Showtime” Shawn …

In keeping with Mexican Independence Day tradition, Mayweather Promotions has assembled a stellar undercard featuring some of this era’s most exciting boxers to co-feature on “Mayhem: Mayweather vs. Maidana 2” on Saturday, September 13 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena live on Showtime PPV. Featured on the four-fight pay-per-view telecast, …

David Oliver Joyce claimed his third successive European Union Elite Championships gold medal in Sofia, Bulgaria today. The St Michael’s Athy lightweight, who won featherweight gold at this level in 2008 and 2009, beat Georgia’s Otar Eranosyan on a unanimous decision to finish on top of the lightweight podium and …