In a classic bout that lived up to it’s billing, Ruslan Provodnikov won the WBO junior welterweight championship when Mike Alvarado did not continue after round ten of a scheduled twelve round bout at the before 7.012 fans at a soldout 1stBank Arena in Denver, CO. The two slugged it out from the opening bell…
Belfast’s burgeoning boxing hero Carl Frampton lit up that city’s Odyssey Arena last night by wiping out visiting Frenchman Jeremy Parodi in front of almost 9,000 adoring fans. At stake were Frampton’s European and IBF Intercontinental super bantam belts, but the real prize for the winner is a shot at the IBF title next year,…
London 2012 bronze medalist Michael Conlan and current European Elite champion Jason Quigley advanced to the last-16 of the AIBA World Men’s Elite Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Saturday. But Tipperary heavyweight Con Sheehan lost out on a unanimous decision to Cuba’s Pan American champion Yohanndi Ortega. Quigley, who boxes out of the Finn Valley…
Last night at the Pico Rivera Arena in Whittier California, Gary Shaw Productions, in association with La Noria Entertainment, presented a fun, exciting night of boxing. In the 10-round main event, fan favorite Alejandro Luna (16-0, 12 KOs) won by way of TKO after his opponent Daniel Attah (28-17-1, 11 KOs) could not continue after…
Local man Mike Alvarado headlines the 1st Bank Center in Denver, CO tonight when he places his WBO light welter belt on offer against Russian challenger Ruslan Provodnikov. Alvarado, 34-1 (23), is coming off a duo of highly competitive fights against Brandon Rios, losing the first contest a year ago in an WBO eliminator when…
Tonight in Leipzig, Germany, Manuel Charr tries to add another WBC belt to his collection when the “Diamond Boy” collides with Russian powerhouse Denis Bakhtov in a clash for Charr’s WBC Silver international, WBC Baltic and WBC Mediterranean titles plus the vacant WBC CISBB championship. “It is my goal to win all WBC titles so…
On April 28, 2007 Ruslan Provodnikov scored a first round stoppage over Antwon Barrett in his American debut. The result maybe was just a blip on the radar that night because it was a four round bout on the undercard of a highly publicized Lightweight unification bout between Juan Diaz and Acelino Freitas.
Belfast duo Paddy Barnes and Tommy McCarthy advanced to the last-16 of the 17th AIBA World Men’s Elite Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan today. But 2011 European Elite champion Ray Moylette bowed out after dropping a unanimous decision to Ermek Sakenov of Kyrgyzstan in the light-welter class.
Denver’s very own homegrown world champion “Mile High” Mike Alvarado and No. 1 contender the “Siberian Rocky” Ruslan Provodnikov of Russia, both coming off nationally-televised Fight of the Year performances, will go mano-a-mano in their world championship rumble tonight in front of a sold out 1stBank Center audience. The last tickets were sold on Friday…
Gary Shaw Productions in association with La Noria Entertainment is thrilled to be giving fans an action packed night of boxing this Saturday, October 19, 2013 at the Pico Rivera Sports Arena in Whittier, CA. The 10-round main-event of the evening is between lightweight prospect Alejandro Luna (14-0, 11 KOs) and the hardnosed veteran Daniel…
“We understand that the IBF have vacated Jamie McDonnell’s title as Bantamweight Champion because he failed to comply with a Resolution of the IBF Board of Directors. “It is sad that Jamie McDonnell has been stripped of his World Title, especially when, in partnership with Dennis Hobson Promotions, he was able to achieve his boxing…
Carl Frampton has called on opponent – Jeremy Parodi, to make it a toe-to-toe war when they face each other in their world title eliminator, live on BoxNation. The two super-bantamweights will face-off in front of a sold out 8,500 at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, as the winner looks to catapult themselves into pole…