Statement From Richard Schaefer: “After more than ten years with Golden Boy, it is time to move on to the next chapter of my career. This decision has required a great deal of personal reflection, but ultimately I concluded that I have no choice but to leave. I have succeeded in banking and I have…
Carl ‘The Cobra’ Froch retained his IBF and WBA Super-Middleweight Titles decisively last night with an eighth round KO of George ‘The Saint’ Groves in front of a packed 80,000 capacity Wembley Arena. The Champion soon settled in after a cagey round one for both men but it was a closely fought contest with Groves…
Good action on tap for this past weekend, with a total of seven world title fights that took place! First and foremost was the IBF/WBA super middleweight title rematch on Saturday in London, England as defending champion Carl Froch once again faced his nemesis George Groves, this time in front of 80,000 rabid fans at…
The 9th EUBC European Women’s Championships in Romania got underway in Bucharest earlier this afternoon. Michaela Walsh and Olympic champion Katie Taylor will be the first Irish boxers in action tomorrow. Taylor, who is aiming for her sixth successive European lightweight gold, meets Switzerland’s Sandra Brugger in a repeat of the 2007 European final tomorrow.
Top Rank, SECA and Sands China Ltd., who have been building the growth of boxing in the People’s Republic of China by producing and promoting five world championship events in Macao over the past 13 months, announced their latest joint venture at a press conference Saturday at The Venetian Macao. The project, a weekly one-hour…
Two-time Chinese Olympic gold medallist and national icon Zou Shiming and undefeated unified junior featherweight world champion and Cuban sensation Guillermo “El Chacal†Rigondeaux will headline Champions of Gold, world championship boxing’s return to The The Venetian Macao’s Cotai Arena. Promoted by Top Rank and Sands China Ltd., in association with Tecate, PS4, Caribe Promotions…
Every title defense, under Don King Productions, Inc., by the people’s Champion Bermane Stiverne, will be given to our overseas troops serving on military bases and ships around the world. The broadcast will be seen via the America Forces Network (AFN.) It is our way of saying “Thank You†to the men and women who…
It is hard to analyse a fight of this magnitude; to try and find an angle or argument that hasn’t already been explored. I am not complaining, this is a fantastic occasion for British boxing and boxing in general. There have only been a few times in history where the general British public have had…
This afternoon there were rowdy scenes at Wembley Arena as hundreds of fans watched Carl Froch and George Groves weigh in ahead of their rematch at Wembley Stadium tomorrow night. A Smiling Groves stepped up to the scales first and weighed in at 11st 12lbs 4oz [166.25 lb]. As Froch entered the weigh-in area, the…
WBA featherweight champion Simphiwe “V12†Vetyeka (26-2, 15 KOs), of Mdantsane, South Africa, and 2012 Fighter of the Year Nonito “The Filipino Flash†Donaire (32-2, 20 KOs), a native of General Santos City, Philippines, now living in Las Vegas, weighed in at 125.5 and 126 pounds, respectively, on Friday in their final faceoff before their…
Detroit’s very own Tony Harrison is set for his first taste of Championship boxing this coming Friday, when he takes on the highly experienced, former WBO/UBO/IBA Champion, Bronco McKart for the Interim World Boxing Union Middleweight title, at the Cobo Centre in Downtown Detroit. Harrison, who is unbeaten in seventeen bouts, earned his shot at…
England’s Martin Murray won’t be attending this weekend’s superfight in London – he’s too busy focusing on preparation for his June 21 fight that tops the Golden Gloves “KO At The Casino†tournament in Monte Carlo. The smooth-hitting middleweight (27-1-1, 12 KOs) meets Max Bursak (29-2-1, 12 KOs) of the Ukraine in a fight for…