Rocky Fielding will face Mohammed Akrong for the vacant Commonwealth super middleweight title at the sold-out Liverpool Olympia on September 21, live on Sky Sports. Fielding was due to defend his English title against fellow Scouser Tony Dodson but after the former British champion pulled out, Fielding now gets the chance to fight the Ghanaian…
Former British featherweight champion Paul Appleby will return to action on the undercard of Ricky Burns’ WBO lightweight title defence against Raymundo Beltran at the SECC in Glasgow, live on Sky Sports on September 7. Appleby, who became Scotland’s youngest ever British champion when he beat John Simpson in 2008, will contest six rounds at…
David Price has announced that it has been mutually agreed that he and Francis Smith will no longer be working together and have parted on good terms. After a careful review of his Career, David came to the decision that a change was appropriate in order to get where he wants to be. It is…
Very few gave Jhonny Gonzales a chance against WBC featherweight champion Abner Mares but the Mexico City gunslinger upset the odds with a vicious first round destruction last night at the StubHub Center in Carson, CA. Mares had won three world titles in as many weight classes, going 6-0-1 in championship bouts since 2010, but…
Bulgarian heavyweight contender Kubrat Pulev stepped up a level last night at the Sport and Congress Center in Schwerin, Germany, defending his IBF International crown by UD over two-time world title challenger Tony Thompson as the headlining bout of a big fight card. Pulev, now 18-0 (9), had been out of the ring for nearly…
After 12 rounds, IBF super feather champ Argenis Mendez and challenger Arash Usmanee were deadlocked on the scorecards Friday night on Mike Tyson’s debut as a promoter at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY. Mendez, 21-2-1 (11), was making his initial IBF title defense after winning it with a KO of Juan Carlos Salgado in…
Big show tonight at StubHub Center in Carson, CA where the outdoor venue sees two WBC title fights in the lighter weights. WBC featherweight ruler Abner Mares, 26-0-1 (14), looks to consolidate his hold atop the 126 pound division after winning world title belts as a bantam and super bantam, but the 27 year old…
Without much press, Miguel Angel Cotto has begun to train for his October 5 fight with the help of future hall-of-fame trainer Freddie Roach. The three time champion of the world will face Dominican pugilist Delvin Rodriguez at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. Although this news is surprising, it’s not unexpected for those who…
Martin Murray believes a clash with Darren Barker would be one for the ages. Barker won the IBF Middleweight Title at the weekend, with a bruising 12 round decision over Daniel Geale and in the days since, the Barnet man has mentioned Murray as a potential opponent for his first defence.
For much of his professional career David Haye has cut a solitary figure, training alone in London or North Cyprus under the watchful eye of coach Adam Booth. But now, in the lead-up to his September 28 clash with Tyson Fury, the hard-hitting heavyweight finds himself flanked by a number of gym-mates, all of whom…
Ricky Burns says he is 100 per cent focused on his WBO lightweight title defence against Raymundo Beltran at the SECC in Glasgow on September 7, live on Sky Sports, despite playing the waiting game for the birth of his first child. The Coatbridge star defends his World title for the fourth time against the…
The fight between former WBC middleweight champion and Son of the Legend Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., returning to the ring in his 2013 debut, and No. 1 contender Bryan Vera has been rescheduled for Saturday, September 28, and will take place at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. The Chávez vs. Vera 12-round super middleweight rumble…