Golden Boy Promotions is pleased to announce that the Showtime doubleheader will now take Saturday, Sept. 7, making it a boxing fans’ weekend at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif. The event was originally slated for Friday, Sept. 6. The telecast features a 12-round clash of heavyweight contenders between Seth Mitchell (26-1-1, 19 KO’s)…
IBF middleweight champion, Daniel Geale (29-1, 15KOs), who battles top contender Darren Barker (25-1, 16KOs), along with IBF Jr. featherweight champion, Jhonatan Romero (23-0, 12 KOs) and his opponent Kiko Martinez (28-4, 20 KOs), posed for the media at today’s press conference.
A training camp injury incurred by former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. has forced the cancellation of his fight with Bryan Vera, which was scheduled to take place Saturday, September 7 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Darren Barker’s trainer Tony Sims expects his man to rip the IBF middleweight title from Daniel Geale in Atlantic City, live on Sky Sports 1 HD from 2am on Sunday – sparking a run of classic all-British middleweight showdowns.
Hometown hero Scott Quigg will challenge Yoandris Salinas for the WBA World Super Bantamweight Title at Manchester’s Phones 4u Arena on September 28, in a bout acting as chief support to David Haye’s blockbuster clash with Tyson Fury. The unbeaten Bury fighter claimed his 26th win and 19th inside the distance with a clinical third-round…
WBC light heavyweight champion, Adonis Stevenson (21-1-0, 18 KOs), will defend his crown for the first time, facing former IBF light heavyweight champion, American Tavoris Cloud (24-1-0, 19 KOs), on Saturday, September 28 in a titanic collision at the Bell Centre in Montreal, airing live on HBO in the United States. “Superman Returns” will be…
The latest ruling by the WBC, allowing its heavyweight champion, Vitali Klitschko (45-2, 41 KOs), to avoid fighting No. 1 mandatory challenger Bermane Stiverne (23-1, 20 KOs), has drawn anger from an increasingly frustrated Team Stiverne.
As far as title challenges go, for Jose Nieves at Tokyo’s Ota City General Gymnasium last night it was the good, the bad and the ugly all rolled into one, with the good expiring the minute he stepped into the ring. The numerical won-loss record, 22-2-3 (11), of Nieves going into the contest against WBC…
Today it was formally announced that adroit southpaw Anthony Hardy (1-0) will be fighting in his second professional boxing match at the sumptuous Rainton Meadows Arena in Houghton Le Spring, Northern England.
Kurt Walker, Michael McDonagh and James Hughes got Ireland off to a flying start at the 2013 European Youth Championships in the Netherlands today.
World ranked Ruslan Provodnikov began training camp today at the Wild Card Gym to start his preparation for his October 19 clash with WBO Jr. Welterweight champion Mike Alvarado that will take place in Denver and will be seen Live on HBO. Provodnikov (22-2, 15 KO’s) arrived in Los Angeles last week and did promotional…
This Thursday night at the Deck in Essington, PA Marty Feldman and former world champion and Olympic Gold Medal winner Meldrick Taylor’s Champions of Tomorrow will present its second show. In the main event, Charles Hayward (8-5, 4 KO’s) of Philadelphia will fight Antonio Liles (1-2, 1 KO) of North Carolina in a Light Heavyweight…