As we near the epic return of world championship heavyweight action in the United States, WBC Heavyweight Champion Bermane Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KOs) and unbeaten knockout specialist Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) are deep in training camp for their championship showdown on Showtime. Read below for what the fighters have to say about how training…
Undefeated prospect Ivan Redkach (18-0, 14 KOs) was impressive in a sixth-round knockout victory over Yakubu Amidu (19-6-2, 17 KOs), who failed to get off his stool following the sixth round in Friday’s main event of ShoBox: The New Generation from Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa in Cabazon, Calif. Working for the first time with…
This past Friday at the Madison Square Garden Theater, Bahamian middleweight contender Tureano Johnson (18-1, 13 KOs) captured the WBA International and WBC Silver titles, with a bruising victory against Colombian contender Alex Theran (17-2, 2 KOs). Johnson thumped the former Olympian Theran over five rounds, dropping him once in the fourth round, then again…
Friday night at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California, Gary Shaw Productions presented his final show as a promotional company on ESPN “Friday Night Fights”. In the 12-round main event, Darleys Perez (32-1, 20 KOs) won an impressive unanimous decision as he defended his WBA Interim Lightweight Championship against Jonathan Maicelo (21-2, 12 KOs)….
Martin Murray arrives in South Africa this weekend to set up camp ahead of his February 21 clash with WBC Interim/WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in Monte-Carlo on February 21. The Englishman is in the middle of a 12-week training programme his advisor Andrew Mikhail describes as “pure hell†in anticipation of the toughest fight…
ShoBox: The New Generation, the popular, critically acclaimed boxing series that has produced 57 world champions since its inception in 2001, will kick off the new year with a tripleheader featuring five undefeated fighters on Friday,Jan. 9, live on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast, during the premium network’s Free Preview…
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…