Four-time world boxing champion Ricky Hatton will do a live question and answer session on his Hatton Academy at this year’s Leisure Industry Week (LIW) at the NEC in Birmingham. Running on September 24-26, LIW is the largest exhibition for leisure industry professionals in the country and annually attracts around 7,000 visitors.
Curtis Woodhouse has told Derry Mathews to ‘stand and fight’ when they fight for the Commonwealth Lightweight title at the sold-out Liverpool Olympia, on Saturday night, September 21, live on Sky Sports – and the hometown champion told the challenger he’ll do exactly that. Mathews defends the belt for the first time after his stunning…
Nearly 8-out-of-10 households in Mexico with a television set tuned into last Saturday’s “The One: Mayweather vs. Canelo” mega-fight live on Televisa’s Channel 5. The 12-round majority decision fight, which Mayweather won, garnered a national rating of 41.1 points, which equates to a 77 percent share, 22.1 million viewers and 5.9 million television households, making…
Ireland’s 11-strong squad arrived in Albena, Bulgaria early this morning ahead of the opening bell for the 2nd AIBA World Youth and Junior Championships. Boxing begins on Sunday at the Black Sea Holiday resort.
On Wednesday night October 23, It will be an historic night of boxing at the Sydney Entertainment Center in Sydney, Australia when former three world champion Anthony Mundine (44-5, 26 KO’s) battles six-time world champion and future Hall of Famer “Sugar†Shane Mosley in a twelve round Jr. Middleweight bout for the WBA International championship….
The Whippany Athletic Club, a premier fitness and athletic performance center, will hold its Grand Opening this Saturday, September 21, 2013 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at their state-of-the-art facility located at 156 Algonquin Parkway in Whippany.
Since the much-anticipated launching of Iron Mike Productions last month, Hall of Famer and living legend “Iron” Mike Tyson has had a string of major media appearances, granting interviews to Fox Sports Live, Extra, the Today Show, and Conan O’Brien, where he spoke about his upcoming show, “Being Mike Tyson,” as well as the current…
Kell Brook has set his sights on a blockbuster fight in the spring of 2014 – and says the pressure is on to put in a five-star performance against Vyacheslav Senchenko on October 26, at the Motorpoint Arena Sheffield, live on Sky Sports. Brook returns to topping the bill in his hometown after he put…
Fresh from his two round destruction of Tom Dallas to win the Southern Area Heavyweight title, Ian Lewison is keeping busy as he fights again in just over two weeks time at the Watford Colosseum, in the Goodwin Promotions “Boys are Back in town†show.
Former WBA heavyweight champion David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye plans to destroy Tyson Fury on September 28 in Manchester and believes his roster of sparring partners would do a similar job, too. Just days from wrapping up camp ahead of the all-British showdown, Haye says he has enjoyed some of the best sparring of his career…
The undisputed, pound-for-pound champion put on a clinic against Mexican sensation Canelo Alvarez, handing the 23-year-old superstar his first loss in the toughest test of his career Saturday on Showtime PPV at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Canelo (42-1-1, 30 KO’s) fought with everything he had, but couldn’t solve the puzzle of Floyd Mayweather. Mayweather…
It’s just 25 days until undefeated WBO welterweight champion Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley, Jr. and four-division world champion and Méxican icon Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez, both coming off Fight of the Year performances, collide in a battle for Bradley’s world title. The only two fighters to have defeated Manny Pacquiao in the past seven years,…