As of Friday morning, Carlos Molina has officially become unavailable for his junior middleweight championship title defense against Jermall Charlo, originally scheduled for tomorrow night. In light of these circumstances, the 10-round lightweight showdown between Ricardo “Dinamita” Alvarez and Sergio “Yeyo” Thompson has been elevated as the opening bout of the four-fight Showtime PPV presentation…
Ricky Hatton’s autobiography War and Peace has been included on the longlist for the 12th annual British Sports Book Awards. Co-written with Boxing News editor, Tris Dixon, the book charts The Hitman’s incredible rise from a Manchester council estate to the bright lights of Las Vegas. No punches were pulled as Hatton revealed the inside…
Underdog Alfredo Angulo is looking to draw on his time spent locked away in a detention centre to help push him to victory over Canelo Alvarez this weekend. The man known as ‘El Perro’ spent over seven months in ICE Detention Center in El Centro, California, having voluntarily checked in back in January 2012 due…
Washington, D.C. is known as a city where history is made. On Saturday, April 19, another historic event will take place in the nation’s capital when IBF Light Heavyweight Champion Bernard Hopkins faces WBA Champion Beibut Shumenov in an attempt, at 49-years-old, to become the oldest fighter in boxing history to unify world titles. The…
Former world champion Joshua “The Grand Master” Clottey will head to Newcastle, Australia on April 2 to clash with former two time WBA Champion and local favorite Anthony “The Man” Mundine in a twelve round junior middleweight clash, it was confirmed today by Joe DeGuardia, Founder and President of Star Boxing. “It’s an excellent opportunity…
Mexican boxing superstar and former world champion Canelo Alvarez, hard-hitting countryman Alfredo “El Perro†Angulo and “Toe To Toe: Canelo vs. Angulo†pay-per-view undercard fighters worked out in front of a throng of media and adoring fans on Wednesday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena lobby. Canelo (42-1-1, 30 KOs) and the dangerous Angulo (22-3,…
Darlington bruiser Stuart Hall makes the first defence of his IBF Bantamweight Title against fellow North East fighter Martin Ward in Newcastle on March 31st. Topping the bill at the Metro Radio Arena caps an astonishing rise to the top for 33-year-old Hall who readily admits that he went wild and “completely lost the plot 
Canelo Alvarez is using the story of ‘The Greatest’, Muhammad Ali, to help inspire him to make his own boxing history starting this weekend. The cinnamon haired superstar will be going toe-to-toe with countryman Alfredo Angulo as they lay their Mexican machismo on the line in front of a packed crowd at the MGM Grand…
Tickets for Carl Froch and George Groves’ rematch for the WBA and IBF Super Middleweight titles at Wembley connected by EE on Saturday May 31, will go on sale at midday on Monday March 10. Froch and Groves meet at the national stadium to settle the score from their epic first encounter in Manchester in…
Paco Presents in association with A&T Gym, Don Chargin, Golden Boy Promotions and San Diego-based Barron Entertainment, is happy to announce the second edition of its popular boxing series titled “Ringside at Del Mar” taking place at the Del Mar Fairgrounds on April 11, 2014. The eight round main event will feature the return of…
As hundreds of fans and media stood in lines that stretched from the sidewalk outside the main doors to the make-shift ring inside the lobby of MGM Grand in Las Vegas, popular Mexican boxing superstar and former World Champion Canelo Alvarez, his opponent this Saturday, Alfredo “El Perro†Angulo, and five-of-the-six other fighters who’ll compete…
In addition to the recently announced lightweight battle between Ricardo “Dinamita” Alvarez (23-2-3, 13 KOs), older brother of Canelo and hard-hitting Sergio “Yeyo” Thompson (28-3, 26 KOs), of Cancun, Mexico, the March 8 undercard for”Toe To Toe: Canelo vs. Angulo” will feature five more can’t-miss bouts for those in attendance at the MGM Grand Garden…