Ireland’s five-strong squad arrived in Bucharest, Romania via Dublin Airport this morning ahead of the opening bell for the 9th EUBC European Women’s Elite Championships on Saturday. Olympic champion Katie Taylor is included in the Irish team. The Bray lightweight will be aiming for her sixth successive 60kg title in the Romanian capital, nine years…
Ermano Fegatilli made his professional debut in 2005, and has been forced to combat a number of discrepancies in the business of boxing. Not the sport; which has been at the heart of his ambition, but the business, which has abused so many combatants over the years.
The hottest fight of the summer of 2014 deserves a sizzling undercard, and Golden Boy Promotions and Showtime PPV are pleased to announce the three bouts that will support the main event featuring Canelo Alvarez and Erislandy Lara on Saturday, July 12 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. In the co-main event,…
James DeGale, MBE, says that he is in the right place physically and mentally as he faces Brandon Gonzales in an IBF Super Middleweight title eliminator on the biggest night of his career on Saturday at Wembley Stadium, live on Sky Sports Box Office.
George Groves pulls no punches on tonight’s Behind The Ropes on Sky Sports – describing Carl Froch’s technique as ‘awful’ and rejecting the champion as a fighting man ahead of their clash for Froch’s WBA and IBF Super Middleweight titles on Saturday at Wembley Stadium, live on Sky Sports Box Office.
Carl Froch told Sky Sports’ Behind The Ropes that George Groves has been ‘dining out on his round one knockdown against The Cobra’ and that he won’t let the challenger get under his skin in their rematch for Froch’s WBA and IBF Super Middleweight titles on Saturday at Wembley Stadium, live on Sky Sports Box…
It’s back to the future for four-division world champion and 2012 Fighter of the Year Year Nonito “The Filipino Flash†Donaire as he finishes off a training camp that hasn’t been this rigorous and back to basics since his stellar year in 2012. Donaire is moving up yet another weight division, this time to challenge…
This Friday former WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin takes on former world title contender Manuel Charr for the vacant WBC international heavyweight championship at Luzhniki-Arena in Moscow. It will be Povetkin’s first fight since his sole career loss to supreme unified titlist Wladimir Klitschko last October. Both men know each other very well from their…
This coming Saturday at Wembley Arena in London, England, Charlie Fitch will be the referee of the second 168 lb unification bout between Carl Froch and George Groves. Judges at ringside are Michael Pernick (U.S.), Alfredo Polanco (MEX) and Leszek Jakoviak (POL). In the same program, Britain’s Jamie McDonnell and Thailand’s Tabtimgdaen Na Rachawatwill will…
On May 17, Wraith Promotions showcased a night of boxing at the Leisure Centre in Gateshead, England. Tickets sold well, and a raucous crowd made the night special for Anthony Hardy, who climbed to 4-0 in front of his amassed supporters and won his second fight in the Junior Welterweight division. Behind a spearing southpaw…
Alex “The Brick City Bullet†Perez, 17-1, 9 KO’s, is an old school, all action fighter who wants nothing more than to fight as often as possible. Unfortunately, the business of boxing has often worked against the tall southpaw. Perez takes great pride in his craft and has always had faith that he will become…
WBC Light Heavy Champion Adonis Stevenson had a more difficult than expected defense against unheralded challenger Andrzej Fonfara last night at Montreal’s Bell Centre. The much taller Fonfara pressured the southpaw champ from the start, using a long jab and right hands that troubled the Canadian until the big-punching Stevenson rammed a left through Fonfara’s…