Headlined by a rubber match between current WBA super welterweight champion, Layla “Amazing” McCarter and ex World Champion Melissa “Huracan” Hernandez, Platinum Entertainment in association with The Orleans Hotel & Casino and Roy Jones Jr. Boxing, will bring back live professional boxing to The Orleans Hotel and Casino a venue that has one of the…
Jamie McDonnell has signed up to meet Tomoki Kameda in a World Bantamweight title unification clash next year – providing he beats Walberto Ramos at the sold-out Echo Arena in Liverpool on November 22, live on Sky Sports Box Office. McDonnell tackles Ramos in his first defence of the WBA crown he won at Wembley…
Integrated Sports Media (ISM) announced today that it will deliver the “Bute vs. Bolonti” double feature to United States fans, Saturday, December 6, live from historic Bell Centre in Montreal. Former IBF super middleweight champion Lucian “Le Tombeaur” Bute (31-2, 24 KOs), currently the WBC No. 5 world rated light heavyweight, headlines in a 10/12…
David Lemieux, NABF Middleweight Champion “Thank you to everybody for being here, it is a great honor and great opportunity for me to be able to fight in Brooklyn at Barclays Center. I’m very excited. I didn’t sleep much last night just getting excited to talk in front of you all. “I can’t wait for…
Bernard Hopkins (55-6-2, 32 KOs) isn’t the first elder statesman of the sweet science to hold the light heavyweight crown. With a win on Saturday, November 8 against WBO Champion Sergey Kovalev (25-0-1, 23 KOs at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City live on HBO World Championship Boxing, Hopkins would be just one belt away from…
Matthew Macklin believes he could challenge WBC Middleweight champion Miguel Cotto next if he can see off Jorge Sebastian Heiland at The 3Arena in Dublin on November 15, live on Sky Sports. Macklin meets WBC International champion Heiland in an eliminator for Cotto’s crown as big time boxing returns to Ireland’s capital, with the winner…
Super-featherweight Ben ‘Duracell’ Jones is hoping to bring an army of fans to Glow, Bluewater, Kent, on Saturday, November 8, when he boxes for another professional title. The exciting 32-year-old is a former English and WBO European champion and is renowned in boxing circles for attracting plenty of vocal and passionate fans wherever he goes….
Callum Smith says he will prove that he is ready to step up to World level when he faces Nikola Sjekloca at the sold-out Echo Arena in Liverpool on November 22, live on Sky Sports Box Office. Smith meets Sjekloca in a WBC Super Middleweight eliminator and the unbeaten 24 year old is preparing for…
Boxing has its “Superman”, WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, and from the same country, ironically, comes “Batman” – world super middleweight contender Schiller Hyppolite (13-0-1, 9 KOs). The 28-year-old Hyppolite, like Stevenson, was born in Haiti and he also lives in Montreal. Hyppolite has won eight straight fights and is world rated by the…
Golden Boy Promotions returns to its East Coast home – Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, December 6 with a special HBO Boxing After Dark tripleheader. In the 12-round main event, rising Canadian star David Lemieux will defend his NABF Middleweight Title against the no nonsense Philadelphian warrior “King” Gabriel Rosado. Plus, unbeaten Californian…
Former world heavyweight title challenger ‘Fast’ Eddie Chambers likes what he has seen of fast-rising prospect Anthony Joshua, but fears his run of soft opposition may only serve to hurt him in the future. The 32-year-old Chambers, once of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, now an honorary member of Team Fury in Bolton, speaks from experience. Back in…
WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis “Superman” Stevenson (24-1, 20 KOs), returns to the ring December 19 at Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec to face Russian challenger Dmitry “The Hunter” Sukhotskiy (22-2, 16 KOs), “The Reign of Superman,” featuring the world light heavyweight championship between Stevenson and Sukhotskiy, is presented by Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM) in association…