Despite facing a sharper Chris Arreola in a second fight, Canada’s Bermane Stiverne became the world’s first Haitian born heavyweight world champion by stopping his rival for the WBC title last evening at USC’s Galen Center in Los Angeles, CA. The media build up to the Stiverne vs. Arreola rematch was uneventful until the final…
Heavyweights Bermane Stiverne and Chris Arreola go at it again, this time for the vacant WBC title, held this evening at USC Galen Center in Los Angeles, CA. When the pair met in April, 2013, Haitian born Canadian Stiverne defended his WBC Silver crown by outworking Arreola after dropping the Californian in the third round,…
The World Boxing Council Heavyweight Eliminator between Bryant “By By” Jennings and Mike “The Rebel” Perez, scheduled for May 24 at the American Bank Arena and telecast on HBO, has been cancelled due to Perez suffering a shoulder injury while training. At the present time, the entire show in Corpus Christi TX, has been cancelled….
Golden Gloves has put the finishing touches to its “KO At The Casino†tournament in Monte Carlo on June 21, an event that now includes an intriguing WBA Interim cruiserweight title clash between Mateusz Masternak and Youri Kalenga. The tournament is headlined by Martin Murray of the UK against Max Bursak of Ukraine for the…
Light heavyweight Unified champion, the history-making Bernard Hopkins, was chosen as the Fighter of the Month for the World Boxing Association. Hopkins defeated WBA champion Beibut Shumenov on the scorecards, on April 19 in Washington DC.
After seeing his British title fight against current champion Kevin Satchell postponed due to an ankle injury, Iain Butcher (10-1) will continue his assault on the flyweight division when he takes on tough Ghanaian Isaac Quaye in an eight round contest on June 6. Butcher, the current WBO European flyweight champion, is relishing the challenge…
Boxing star figures who will participate in the boxing show that will take place at the Vargas Sports Center in La Guaira, Venezuela next Saturday, attended the crowded press conference held at the Marriot Hotel in Caracas. Johan Pérez (Ven), Fernando Monte De Oca (Dom), Ogleidis Suárez (Ven), Calista Silgado (Col), Mayerlin Rivas (Ven), Liliana…
The Panamanian Guillermo “Felino” Jones‘ team made ​​the formal request to open sample B of the anti doping test sample taken in Russia. Also there will be the necessary protocol for Jones and his team, should they want to be present at the time of opening.
Selcuk Aydin has only one goal in his mind: The “Turkish Warrior” wants to become world champion. On May 17, he could make a huge step towards a world title when he faces unbeaten Ukrainian Viktor Postol in Inglewood, California. The winner of this WBC super lightweight eliminator will be mandatory challenger for unified WBC…
Undefeated world champions Terence Crawford, the Pride of Omaha, and Cuban sensation Yuriorkis Gamboa, who share identical 23-0 (16 KOs) professional ring records, will battle for Crawford’s newly-won WBO lightweight title, Saturday, June 28, at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha. This will be the first world championship fight Omaha has hosted in 42 years, when…
HBO Sports debuts an all-new installment of “2 Days†when the feature segment returns Saturday, May 24 at 12:15 a.m. (ET/PT) with a behind-the-scenes look at world junior welterweight title-holder Ruslan “Siberian Rocky” Provodnikov, one of boxing’s most fascinating characters. “2 Days†is a revealing and intimate look at a 48-hour span in the life…
A monster May continues on BoxNation, hot on the heels of a jam-packed few weeks which has seen boxing’s leading channel air the year’s biggest bouts including star names such as Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. The rammed BoxNation schedule continues to deliver with a host of top fights lined up over the coming weeks…