At a packed press conference in New York earlier this week, the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Canelo Alvarez was formally announced. The tickets went on sale on Tuesday and promptly sold-out within 24 hours! At the Press Conference, Mayweather began by thanking his opponent: “Canelo, I appreciate you for taking this fight. Let’s give…
I was bitterly disappointed recently to see Scott Quigg leave Hatton Promotions to move across to the Matchroom stable. Scott was one of my first signings and a young man I brought up from the boxing dinner show circuit to world title level.
This Saturday, June 29, defending WBA/IBO champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (26-0, 23KO’s) meets Ireland’s top-rated former world title challenger Matthew “Mack The Knife” Macklin (29-4, 20KO’s) in their much-anticipated middleweight championship showdown at the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The championship matchup will be the main event on the HBO…
Floyd Mayweather went home Wednesday and an estimated 2,000 enthusiastic fans, friends and family members were there to see the legendary fighter and his upcoming opponent, Saul Alvarez, at Houseman Field in Grand Rapids, Mich. The third stop of an unprecedented 11-city, two-country, nine-day media blitz to promote Mayweather’s eagerly anticipated Saturday, Sept. 14 showdown…
Ricky Hatton is delighted to have found a new home for his Hatton Promotions stable. ‘The Hitman’ has agreed a co-promotional deal with Frank Warren which will see the company’s stars, including the likes of Martin Murray, Gary Buckland and Sergey Rabchenko, box exclusively on the specialist network BoxNation (Sky Ch. 437/Virgin Ch. 546).
Back in the summer of 2012, the history books were well and truly rewritten, when Womens Amateur Boxing was featured for the first time at the London 2012 Olympics.
Last Saturday night’s hotly contested Paulie Malignaggi vs. Adrien Broner Welterweight World Championship fight attracted an audience of 1.3 million viewers, the second-largest viewing audience for a bout on Showtime since the network began tracking individual fights in 2009. The average viewership for the Showtime Championship Boxing televised tripleheader—promoted by Golden Boy Promotions from Brooklyn’s…
Tonight at the Deck in Essington, PA, Marty Feldman and Meldrick Taylor’s Champions of Tomorrow will present its inaugural show with a terrific seven bout card. In the main event, 2008 Olympic Bronze medal winner, Yordenis Ugas will take on tough veteran Adan Hernandez in a ten round Jr. Welterweight bout.
Promoter Gary Shaw is standing behind Jose Sulaiman and the WBC’s stance against AIBA (International Amateur Boxing Association) and its ruling to have professional boxers at the Olympic Games. “I would like to respectfully inform you that the WBC has expressed its opposition to the monopoly to be instituted at the Olympic Games, by a…
Outstanding amateur star Antonio Counihan is set to make his highly anticipated professional debut on the Dave Murphy, in association with Acourtier Events, promoted ‘Independence Day’, Retzke vs. McKenzie World Championship headlined extravaganza, at York Hall on Friday, 5 July 2013.
Rumors have been rife that former light middleweight world champs Miguel Cotto and Cornelius Bundrage will look to comeback from respective losses with a bout between the two on September 28 at Barclays Center in the traditional Cotto stronghold of New York, NY. If the contest comes off, will it be competitive bout that gives…
They say it takes a village to raise a child. While the 21 year old Anthony Hardy may be a full-grown man in legal terms; he is still lying out in his nursery through his beloved sport of boxing.