On Friday night, August 23, WBA #13 ranked Heavyweight Travis Kauffman will take on upset minded Arron Lyons in an eight round co-feature at the Valley Forge Casino Resort. The show which is promoted by Kings Boxing will be headlined by a ten round Pennsylvania Lightweight championship bout between undefeated champion Naim Nelson (10-0, 1…
Another addition of the boxing series promoted by Gary Shaw Productions titled “Central Coast Championship” Night” makes it’s return to the Chumash Resort Casino in Santa Ynez, Calif, this Friday. In the main event, local fan favorite Francisco Santana (16-3-1, 8 KOs), will defend his “Central Coast Championship” in a 10-round super-welterweight bout against former…
Denver’s very own homegrown world champion “Mile High” Mike Alvarado will make the first defense of his WBO junior welterweight title a “home game,” when he battles No. 1 contender Ruslan Provodnikov of Russia, Saturday, October 19, at 1stBank Center in nearby Broomfield, Colo. This marks the area’s first world championship fight featuring a local…
WBO No. 4 ranked featherweight contender Joel Brunker (26-0, 15KOs) will aim to keep his undefeated record intact when he competes this Saturday on the undercard of the Gary Shaw Productions promoted HBO Boxing After Dark event that features an IBF middleweight title clash between Daniel Geale and Darren Barker. The card is being held…
Australia’s IBF middleweight champion, Daniel Geale (29-1, 15KOs) and No. 3 rated contender from the UK, Darren Barker, (25-1, 16KOs) held a media workout today at the Mendez Boxing Gym in New York City.
Britain’s brightest young stars will be in action on the undercard of Kell Brook’s clash with Vyacheslav Senchenko at the Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield, on October 26, live on Sky Sports, with tickets on sale now. Olympic Gold medallist Anthony Joshua, MBE, will box for the second time as a pro on the card after his…
Strength will be the main difference between British super-featherweight champion Gary Buckland and challenger Stephen Smith this weekend, says trainer Tony Borg. Borg has already trained Lee Selby to defeat the Liverpudlian and he believes Buckland will score another victory for Wales at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff.
WBA bantam king Anselmo “Chemito” Moreno made his 11th successful title defense last night as the local man handily outpointing challenger William Urina at Megapolis Convention Center in Panama City, Panama. Urina, 24-3 (20), had won seven in a row following his failed bid to unseat WBO super flyweight champ Omar Andres Narvaez two years…
The Ireland squad arrived in the Netherlands on Saturday ahead of the start of the 2013 EUBC European Youth Championships. 225 boxers from 36 nations have registered to compete in the tournament which begins Monday at the Topsportcentre venue in Rotterdam at 3pm local time. The IABA have named an eight-strong squad for the Netherlands…
Undefeated Deontay Wilder says two prayers in his dressing room before a fight. One is a team prayer. The other, he says, is for his opponent. “I know I’m blessed with God-given power,’’ he said after annihilating former world heavyweight champion Sergei Liakhovich in Friday’s main event on ShoBox: The New Generation from Fantasy Springs…
Friday evening on ESPN “Friday Night Fights”, Gary Shaw Productions in association with Lucas Oil presented another exciting night of boxing live from the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon, Calif. In the 10-round main event, Russian sluger Rustam Nugaev continued to impress the boxing world with a spectacular performance against a game Jose…
Manny Pacquiao and Top Rank promoter Bob Arum are backing Raymundo Beltran to blast his way to Ricky Burns’ WBO title at the SECC in Glasgow on September 7, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on Wealth TV in the US. Arum is confident his man will do the business despite travelling to…