After having close calls in his previous two defenses, WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns came up empty handed against challenger Terence Crawford on Saturday in front of a packed house at Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition Centre. The title reign of Burns had been living on borrowed time since getting schooled first by Jose Gonzalez and then…
Three-division world champion and the Pride of Puerto Rico, Miguel Cotto and WBC middleweight champion and Argentina’s favorite son Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez, will begin their national media tour in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, with a press conference luncheon at Coliseo de Puerto Rico – José Miguel Agrelot next Monday, March 10. MartÃnez and Cotto will…
On Saturday night at the Alamodome in San Antonio, TX, ex-WBC middleweight titlist Julio Cesar Chavez Jr gained redemption against Brian Vera and reasserted his place in the super middle rankings while former three-time world champion Orlando Salido held off two-time Olympic Gold medallist Vasyl Lomachenko in a WBO featherweight title bout. Gone was the…
It was awkward. It was ugly. It was hard to watch but after 12 rounds at the Getec Arena in Magdeburg, Arthur Abraham had his hand raised in a third fight with top domestic rival Robert Stieglitz, winning the WBO super middle title. The pair had clashed on two previous occasions with Abraham taking away…
Click the Image for more Photos from Carl Dilks Vs Carl Wild Card At the Floral Hall in the seaside town of Southport on Friday night, Carl Dilks of Liverpool won the vacant International Masters Bronze Cruiserweight Title by outpointing Carl Wild of Sheffield (80-72). Dilks was fighting for his first time at Cruiserweight but…
Sky Arena’s UK representative Mark Dunlop has engaged the services of British & Irish Heavyweights Martin Rogan & Michael Sprott for the world’s biggest ever Super 8 Heavyweight Boxing Tournament, to be held on 4 June 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand. Super 8 will be a supercharged boxing event consisting of eight world class fighters…
London 2012 Olympians Adam Nolan and Darren O’Neill both won their semi-finals at the National Elite Championships at Dublin’s National Stadium tonight. Nolan beat Fergal Redmond on a unanimous verdict to move to within one win of his fourth successive welterweight crown. And O’Neill, who captained the Irish team at the London 2012 Olympics, recorded…
Friday night at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City, CA on a Don Chargin and Paco Presents boxing show, IBA Super Flyweight Champion, Bruno “The Aloha Kid” Escalante (12-1-1, 6 KOs), scored a brutal first round knockout against veteran Lorenzo Trejo (33-29-1, 20 KOs). Escalante used his speed and quickness while throwing punches off peculiar…
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr makes his way back into the ring tonight, five months after winning a highly controversial points verdict over fringe contender Brian Vera as the pair clash again, this time at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The first bout was plagued by delays along with problems Chavez had making the super…
After two very difficult and controversial title defenses, Ricky Burns puts his WBO lightweight belt on the line for a fourth time as he meets heavily-hyped American contender Terence Crawford tonight at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow. Crawford comes into his first world title opportunity on the strength of a 2013 campaign that saw…
Superstar Floyd “Money†Mayweather will be ringside at tonight’s ShoBox: The New Generation from Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y., and will be interviewed during the live telecast on Showtime at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast. This will be the first television interview Mayweather will give since announcing his next fight against…
Japan’s Kazuto Ioka officially announced his resignation of the World Boxing Association 108-pound title with a communication sent to the Championships Committee. Ioka won the title on December 31, 2012, when he defeated the Mexican Jose Alfredo Rodriguez by TKO 6 in Osaka. He made three defenses of his belt in 2013. With record 14-0…