Matchroom Renews TV Deal With Sky Through 2016
Matchroom Sport and Sky Sports have extended their partnership to offer viewers an unrivalled choice of fights and fighters, with 20 shows a season for two further years.
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British Prospect Anthony Hardy Meets Chris Bennett October 19
Touted prospects can be found in abundance throughout the United Kingdom. Many of them will ineluctably trade leather some ways down the road of contention. They route themselves differently. Some brawl in their local clubs — while others look for something much greater. To reach those goals, Horden’s Anthony Hardy (1-0) will prepare for his…
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UK Weekend Roundup
On Friday, Rotherham’s Navid Mansouri retained his English Light Middleweight Title on a Technical Draw. A clash of heads in round one caused a nasty cut to the corner of opponent Matthew Mallin’s right eye and the fight was halted. The Dave Coldwell promoted fight-night featured nine contests in total. On Saturday, at the York…
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Scott Quigg Vs Yoandris Salinas Boxing Results
Matchrooms’ Eddie Hearn hosted another great night of boxing on Saturday night – this time at the O2 Arena, London, which featured four title bouts. Scott Quigg of Bury retained his WBA World Super-Bantamweight Title scoring a Majority Draw against Cuban-born Yoandris Salinas of Miami, Florida. The Judges saw it 114-114; 114-114; 115-113. Lee Selby…
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Alexander Povetkin Vs Wladimir Klitschko Boxing Results
In Moscow last night, Ukrainian Heavyweight – Wladimir Klitschko successfully defended his WBA, IBF and WBO Heavyweight Titles scoring a Unanimous Points victory over Alexander Povetkin of Russia. Povetkin’s tactic seemed to be to launch himself at the torso of the Champion like a bull at a gate (!) with Klitschko then smothering the Russian…
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Jon Kays Vs Kevin Hooper Ringside Boxing
Click the image for more Jon Kays Vs Kevin Hooper photos Jon Kays of Ashton-under-Lyne out-pointed Kevin Hooper of Grimsby in a cracking closely fought contest Saturday night to win the English Super-Featherweight Title. The Steve Wood – VIP Boxing promoted fight-night at Oldham Sports Centre also featured Ronnie Heffron in a six round Light-Middleweight…
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What Is The Average Person’s Perception Of Boxing?
To a percentage of average people on the street, the sport of Professional Boxing is nothing more than the barbaric spectacle of two near brainless brutes taking turns knocking the stuffing out of each other in front of a bloodthirsty crowd. In reality, Boxing is a far different endeavor. Boxing is actually the most demanding…
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Navid Mansouri Vs Matthew Mallin Ringside Boxing
Click the Image for more Navid Mansouri Vs Matthew Mallin Photos It was a disappointing end to Friday nights’ boxing at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, when the headlining bout was declared a Technical Draw after one round. Navid Mansouri’s defence of the English Light Middleweight Title ended after the opening frame when a clash of heads…
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Can Scott Quigg Become Britain’s Next World Champion?
Matchroom Boxing are putting on a good show on Saturday night at London’s O2 Arena, in what is effectively a rescued card from the Haye vs.Fury debacle. Which although I was gutted about not seeing, it is boxing, cuts in sparring happens, I think it adds a little bit of extra flavour for when Haye…
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Moscow Meltdown: Alexander Povetkin vs. Wladimir Klitschko
After waiting about two years as a mandatory challenger to Wladimir Klitschko, who holds damn near every title belt in the division, heavyweight Alexander Povetkin finally gets his shot at “Dr. Steelhammer” on Saturday night at The Olympiyskiy in Moscow. That’s homeground for the Chekov-based Povetkin, 26-0 (18), but that is probably the only advantage…
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Olympic Hero Anthony Joshua Thrives Under Debut Pressure
Anthony Joshua, MBE, says he’ll thrive under the pressure of making his professional debut live on Sky Sports, on Saturday night at The O2 in London. The Olympic Gold medal hero takes on unbeaten Italian Emanuele Leo (8-0) as part of a star-studded line-up with Scott Quigg’s WBA Super Bantamweight showdown with Yoandris Salinas, big…
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IBF King Jamie McDonnell Inks Deal With BoxNation
Promoter Dennis Hobson is delighted to announce that he has reached an exclusive agreement with Queensberry Promotions that will see IBF Bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell defend his world title on ‘The Channel Of Champions’, BoxNation. The multi-fight deal will see Hobson promote shows in association with Queensberry Promotions in which McDonnell will headline stacked cards…
