Charismatic heavyweight Tyson Fury has claimed that Wladimir Klitschko will avoid fighting him should he overcome Dereck Chisora in their world title eliminator this weekend. The Manchester banger steps into the ring with Chisora this Saturday night at a sold out ExCel London and has claimed that heavyweight kingpin Klitschko will refuse to take him…
Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne believes he’ll be lean and mean as he presses towards a world title shot in 2015. The much-loved Aussie puncher was in the best shape of his career when he defeated tough American Chauncy Welliver earlier this month and he says the days of weighing in heavy are over now he’s…
Click the image for more Joe Murray Vs Gyula Tallosi photos Manchester’s ‘Genius’ Joe Murray scored a second round TKO win against Hungarian Gyula Tallosi last night in Manchester. The Coldwell Promotions show at Bowlers Exhibition Centre billed as ‘The Heat is On’ featured nine contests in total. Results: Joe Murray (Manchester) v Gyula Tallosi…
With the holiday season fast approaching, boxing fans will have plenty to celebrate at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, Dec. 13, as the star-studded “Royal Battle: Khan vs. Alexander†has grown to a quadrupleheader. Added to the previously announced Showtime telecast will be a 10-round featherweight bout featuring former three-division…
Kevin Mitchell will face Daniel Estrada for the WBC Silver Lightweight title at The O2 on January 31, live on Sky Sports. Mitchell returns to action for the first time since his thrilling stoppage win over Ghislain Maduma at Wembley Stadium on May 31, where the Canadian gave ‘Mighty’ Mitchell all he could handle before…
With just over a week until fight night and a couple of days before the Thanksgiving holiday, fighters on the Saturday, Dec. 6 card at Barclays Center shared updates from their camp and talked about their favorite parts of the holidays. Below are answers from fighters featured on the special HBO Boxing After Dark tripleheader…
A fractured thumb that forced the cancellation of his scheduled September 29 fight with veteran Johnathan Banks (29-2-1, 19 KOs) may prove to have had a silver lining for former world light heavyweight champion and 1996 U.S. Olympian Antonio “Magic Man” Tarver (30-6, 21 KOs). The determined and still dangerous southpaw, who turned 46 this…
Jean Bédard, the president of InterBox, announced that the NABF Light Heavyweight Champion, Jean Pascal (29-2-1, 17 KOs), will combat Argentina’s Roberto Bolonti (35-3, 24 KOs), instead of Donovan George (25-4-2, 22 K-.O.) next December 6, at the Bell Centre. This decision was taken after careful consideration following long negotiations with Donovan’s team. Boxing fans…
Brian Rose will face Carson Jones for the WBC International Light Middleweight title at the Manchester Arena on Friday January 23, live on Sky Sports. Rose challenged for the World Light Middleweight title earlier in the year and continues his charge to a second shot with a tough test against Jones, who is familiar on…
Click the Image for more Luke Blackledge Vs Konstantin Alexandrov Photos At King Georges Hall, Blackburn, last night, Steve Wood (VIP Promotions) hosted a fightnight headlined by an eight round Super-Middleweight contest between Luke Blackledge of Accrington and Konstantin Alexandrov of Bulgaria. Blackledge was to have faced Jahmaine Smyle for the vacant English Super-Middleweight Title…
It was another installment of the Manny Pacquiao show on Sunday as the Filipino legend lit up Cotai Arena in Macau, China with a dominating WBO welterweight title defense. Upstart American Chris Algieri, 20-1 (8), came into his challenge of Pacquiao, 57-5-2 (38), after unseating WBO light welter boss Ruslan Provodnikov in June but the…
Ireland’s rising bantamweight star, Ryan Burnett, 5-0 (4), returned to his home city of Belfast yesterday evening on the ‘Back to the Future’ boxing event at the Devendish Complex. The North Belfast fighter made short work of his durable Bulgarian opponent Valentin Marinov by way of a wicked body shot in the first round.