We kick things off on our weekend report by heading to Villa Maria, Argentina where WBO super flyweight maestro Omar Andres Narvaez stayed busy with a defense at Anfiteatro Municipal on Saturday. The occasion marked the tenth time that Narvaez, 42-1-2 (23), has retained the WBO belt, as the 38 year old “El Huracan” completely…
Local hero Raja Amasheh won the vacant WBC Silver flyweight championship on Saturday night in front of 2,000 fans at Saarlandhalle in Saarbrucken, Germany, by beating former WBC Youth champion Susana Cruz Perez from Mexico by a hard fought ten round unanimous decision. The fight was a lot closer than indicated by the scores of…
In the opening months of the current calendar year, it has been the talent rich Lightweight division which has been attracting the most amount of media attention here in the United Kingdom more than any other division here to date, whether it be domestically or on the world stage. The year of the Lightweights started…
The acclaimed Showtime Sports series ShoBox: The New Generation returns on Friday, June 6, with what promises to be a thrilling doubleheader featuring the top young talent for which the series is known. Televised live on Showtime from the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif., the 10-round main event will feature undefeated California middleweight…
Lee Selby says he will take a huge step to landing his dream World title when he faces Romulo Koasicha in an official eliminator for the WBC title at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff on Saturday night, live on Sky Sports. Selby finds himself ranked in the top ten in the IBF and WBO and…
Arthur Abraham’s promoter Kalle Sauerland says talks have opened with Eddie Hearn for Abraham to defend his WBO Super Middleweight title against Paul Smith this autumn. Smith is in eight-round action in Cardiff on Saturday night live on Sky Sports and Sauerland and ‘King Arthur’ will be tuning in as ‘Smigga’ gets a valuable work-out…
Stephen Smith will face former World title challenger Mauricio Javier Munoz for the WBC Silver Super Featherweight title and crunch eliminator clash at the First Direct Arena in Leeds on Wednesday May 21 live on Sky Sports, after Fernando Saucedo was forced out of the fight with a mouth injury. Argentine Munoz faced Evgeny Gradovich…
Boxing star Mike Alvarado has vowed to bounce back in style by retiring Mexican legend Juan Manuel Marquez. The pair meet this Saturday night, live and exclusive on BoxNation, with Denver’s Alvarado looking to impress following his punishing ten-round stoppage to WBO Light-welterweight champion Ruslan Provodnikov in his previous outing. The brutal defeat last October…
Ricky Hatton says he cannot wait to get hands-on with personal trainers and group exercise instructors at this week’s BodyPower Expo at the NEC in Birmingham. More than 55,000 people are set to attend the three day event which runs from Friday until Sunday and ‘The Hitman’ will be donning his focus pads to show…
Unbeaten light-middleweight Sergey Rabchenko has relinquished the European title in order to save OPI2000’s show in Rome this weekend. The Belarusian puncher was due to defend his championship against mandatory challenger Emanuelle Della Rosa, but the show’s promoters did not provide the necessary paperwork for Rabchenko to obtain his entrance into Italy in time.
Lucas Browne has received an official letter of praise from the Australian National Boxing Federation for his historic Commonwealth title victory in England last month. Browne, 35, halted Canada’s Eric Martel Bahoeli in the fifth round to become the first fighter from down under to hold the heavyweight version of the crown since the legendary…
On Thursday May 8, 2014, the World Boxing Council announced that Adrien Broner received an indefinite suspension following his comments during a post-match television interview after defeating Carlos Molina on May 3. The comments to which the WBC refers to are: “Anybody can get it. Afri-cans, I just beat the f–k out of a Mexi-can.”…