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Tonight, we get to see another test for WBO Lightweight Champion Ricky Burns. Ricky is a good fighter and a very proud, professional world champion, and it isn’t a test really, it’s a defence of his world championship belt, but it feels like another test. Whether that is because I …

Martin Collins and Sean Conroy will be the first two Irish boxers in action at the AIBA World Junior Championships in Kiev, Ukraine this weekend.

Veteran heavyweight Chris Arreola and up and coming contender Seth Mitchell faced both each other and the scales yesterday as they weighed in for tonight’s 12 rounder at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, CA.

Chris “The Nightmare” Arreola (35-3, 30 KO’s) and Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell (26-1-1, 19 KO’s) along with Rafael Marquez (41-8, 37 KO’s), Efrain Esquivias (16-2-1, 9 KO’s), Angel Osuna and Ryan Caballero participated in a media workout at the Boys and Girls Boxing Club just two days before their respective bouts …

Ricky Burns says fatherhood is going to make him even hungrier to stay a World champion, starting with a defence of his WBO Lightweight title against Raymundo Beltran tonight live on Sky Sports 2 HD from the SECC in Glasgow. The Coatbridge star became a father for the first time …

Sergey Rabchenko has started preparations for his rematch with Cedric Vitu by setting up camp in his opponent’s home country. The Belarusian will defend his European light-middleweight crown against the southpaw on an as yet to be confirmed date and has begun conditioning work in Valance, southern France with Nicolas …

Exciting Prizefighter Light Welterweights III champion – Chris Jenkins – is back in action on Sky Sports on Saturday night and the Welshman has promised to show even more of his skills. Jenkins was a late-replacement in the line-up at York Hall, Bethnal Green in July, winning every round of …

“This is his Cup Final and it’s going to end in tears.” The grand showpiece that Liverpool warrior Derry Mathews refers to is his much-anticipated Commonwealth conflict with Driffield’s Curtis Woodhouse on September 21. With battle just over two weeks away, Mathews maintains his amazing sequence of brutal encounters as …

Ricky Burns and Raymundo Beltran came face-to-face for the first time at a press conference today ahead of their WBO Lightweight title clash at the SECC in Glasgow on Saturday night (September 7), live on Sky Sports. Burns defends his title for the fourth time against the Mexican and hot …

Ricky Hatton believes James “Jazza” Dickens can beat Kid Galahad at his own game when they clash at the Magna Centre in Rotherham, on September 14. The pair meet to contest the vacant British super-bantamweight crown and ‘The Hitman’ feels Dickens has what it takes to become the latest boxer …

Canadian southpaw Adonis “Superman” Stevenson (21-1-0 with 18 KOs) will put his World Boxing Council (WBC), Ring Magazine and linear world light heavyweight title on the line against American Tavoris “Thunder” Cloud (24-1-0 with 19 KOs). Stevenson, a native of Haiti who lives in Quebec and who is a rapidly …

If Canelo Alvarez is awestruck by the prospect of trying to do something that no one else has done – defeat pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather – he doesn’t show it. Canelo maintained the same cool, calm expression throughout a nine-city press tour to promote “The One: Mayweather vs. Canelo” – …