Four-time world champion Ricky ‘Hitman’ Hatton is taking his popular Hatton Academy to Ireland. Launched earlier this year, the academy aims to teach fitness instructors, personal trainers and boxing coaches on ways they can improve their teaching methods and skills.
Following months of continuous speculation over whether or not Anthony Joshua, the Olympic Super Heavyweight Gold Medallist at the London Olympics, would follow the example of his teammates Hull’s Luke Campbell the Bantamweight Gold Medalist, Lowestoft Middleweight Anthony Ogogo, who collected a bronze medal, and Thomas Stalker, in joining the professional ranks, the first steps…
Kareem Hackett’s professional debut is in less than two weeks; but it’s a moment he has anxiously waited for during the 22 years of his life. The 6’1 Ontario, Canada local is currently going through vigorous preparations to face a to-be-named opponent at the Powerade Center in Brampton on August 10. After putting in so…
Jamie Harty and Martin McDonagh both won as Ireland posted two wins from two bouts on Day 1 of the 2013 EUBC European Schoolboy Championships at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland today.
This past Tuesday at Chicago’s world-renowned Magnificent Mile, an open workout was held for many of the fighters appearing on the “Big Fight 2â€, ESPN Friday Night Fights boxing event at U.S. Cellular Field on Friday, August 16.
Ever since Daniel Geale (29-1, 15 KOs) pulled off the unthinkable by defeating Felix Sturm on Sturm’s home turf of Germany in September of last year, Geale has essentially cemented himself as one of the elite 160 pounders in boxing. With the prestige and pageantry associated with such esteem comes the responsibility of self-improvement, a…
The City of Fallon, NV and Let’s Get It On Promotions are pleased to announce the sixth installment of “Fallon Fights – Rural Rumble†on Saturday August 24 at the Churchill County Fairgrounds. Rural Rumble 2013 will feature world class professional boxing. Undefeated Heavyweight prospect Ytalo Perea (4-0, 3 KOs) is scheduled to fight his…
Boxer Amir Khan and business manager Asif Vali have parted ways after a mutual agreement. Vali leaves Premier Consultancy UK, the sports management company founded in 2005, after eight years.
Dave Coldwell and Eddie Hearn today had fight fans drooling when they announced the brutal coming together of lightweight entertainers Derry Mathews and Curtis Woodhouse, who will clash for the former’s Commonwealth championship on September 21 at the legendary Liverpool Olympia. The meeting had been highly anticipated for some weeks following Dave Coldwell’s recent admission…
Ricky Burns has warned Raymundo Beltran that he’s going to be at his very best when he defends his WBO lightweight title at the SECC in Glasgow on September 7, live on Sky Sports. Beltran is Burns’ fourth defence of his crown and after surviving a stern test against Jose Gonzalez in May, the 31…
You need only read the latest comments from Sergio Martinez, who told Yahoo Sports that he’ll duck no one, including Gennady Golovkin, to realize the hype surrounding the up-and-coming middleweight fighter who grew up in Kazakhstan but currently resides in Germany. Even in his beginnings as an amateur, there was an aura surrounding Golovkin. He…
On Saturday September 7, former U.S. Olympian and undefeated Demetrius Andrade will vie for his first world championship, when he takes on fellow former U.S. Olympian Vanes Martirosyan for the WBO light middle title in a twelve round bout from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The bout, which will be televised live on HBO…