Luke Campbell MBE and Tommy Coyle face tough examinations at the Hull Ice Arena on March 7, live on Sky Sports, before their blockbuster summer showdown can become a reality. Campbell takes on former British Super Featherweight champion Gary Sykes in a Yorkshire derby in his tenth fight, while Coyle faces former British Lightweight champion…
Promoter Eddie Hearn has revealed that negotiations are underway for mandatory challenger Lee Selby to take on IBF Featherweight champion Evgeny Gradovich this spring. The Welsh star dispatched Australian Joel Brunker inside nine rounds to land the shot at the Californian-based Russian, who has defended the title four times since wrestling it from Billy Dib…
John Wayne Hibbert says he’ll show he is the biggest hitting Light Welterweight in Britain and maintain his KO run when he defends his WBC International title against Tyler Goodjohn at The O2 on January 31, live on Sky Sports. Hibbert landed the title at the Greenwich venue with a fifth round stoppage of Leonardo…
On Friday night, January 16, a mouthwatering title fight has been added as the second co-main event of a championship night of boxing at the Turning Stone Resort Casino and live on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights. Petr Petrov will defend his NABA and NABO Lightweight titles against the popular Hank Lundy in a 10-round bout….
We are staging a group photograph for anyone who has boxed or trained at the Empire Boxing Club over the past 50 years on Saturday 17th January at 11.00am outside the boxing gym. This will commemorate the closing of the boxing club that has been a presence in St. Paul’s for 50 years.
WBC heavyweight champion Bermane “B. Ware” Stiverne (24-1, 21 KOs) has trained to hurt, not just knockout, undefeated, mandatory challenger Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs), January 17 in his first defense of the Vitali Klitschko-vacated title he captured last May with his sixth-round technical knocked of Chris Arreola (35-4). The 12-round Stiverne…
Maryland’s undefeated Junior Middleweight prospect, Alantez Fox (13-0-1, 4KO’s), makes his return to the ring on Friday, January 9, 2015 against Patrick Day (9-0-1 5KO’s) from Freeport, NY. The eight-round bout will take place live on Showtime’s ShoBox: The New Generation, at the Morongo Resort and Casino in Cazabon, California. The bout will be promoted…
The New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF), sponsored by Ring 8, has announced its’ Class of 2015 featuring 20 more inductees. The fourth annual NYSBHOF induction dinner will be held Sunday afternoon at 12:30-5:30 p.m. ET, April 26, at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, New York.
On the verge of nailing down the biggest challenge of his career against quality Japanese operator, Tomoki Kameda, Doncaster’s Jamie McDonnell has the opportunity to put British boxing on the map when he heads to Las Vegas in spring for the likely unification bout. McDonnell has performed as the underdog on several occasions so the…
Tommy Martin says he’ll prove right the adage ‘if you are good enough, you are old enough’ when he challenges Ricky Boylan for the vacant English Light Welterweight title at The O2 on January 31, live on Sky Sports. The 20 year old says he has been told on Twitter that he is too young…
Josh Warrington will face Dennis Tubieron in an official eliminator for the WBC Featherweight title at the First Direct Arena in Leeds on April 11, live on Sky Sports. Warrington is aiming to continue his meteoric rise over the last year inside his intimidating fortress and pick up the vacant WBC International crown in the…
As recently as 2012, Featherweight contender Tevin “The American Idol” Farmer was considered nothing more than a dangerous and useful journeyman. A fighter who would and could compete to a certain level but ultimately would fall a bit short against fighters with a perceived higher class. Enter a bout that took place on October 12,…