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Super featherweights Art “Lionheart” Hovhannisyan and Alejandro “El Alacran” Perez have had a lot of practice trying to knock each other’s block off. They’ve sparred dozens of rounds, helping each other get ready for their fights. Now, they get an opportunity to do it for real this Friday, Feb. 22, …

Undefeated eight-time world champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather, boxing’s pound-for-pound king and the highest paid athlete in the world according to Forbes, has entered into a groundbreaking pay-per-view deal with Showtime Networks Inc. and its parent company, CBS Corporation.

One of the most dynamic prospects in the middleweight division will be making his 2013 debut as Tureano “Reno” Johnson (13-0, 10 KOs) gears up to make a significant push this year towards the upper stratosphere of his weight class. Johnson will lock horns with Willie Fortune (15-0, 7 KOs), …

Bone marrow donated from a total stranger saved Robert Guerrero’s wife. Now the grateful world champion boxer is joining Be The Match in the fight to make life-saving marrow transplants available for every blood cancer patient who needs one. Guerrero will serve as an “Ambassador of Hope” for Be The …

After arriving on a grander stage following his Prizefighter appearance last November, Rotherham’s Nav Mansouri now has an admirable hunger to test himself on more gloried platforms. The Coldwell Boxing prospect was originally set to face tournament nemesis, Terry Carruthers, this Friday at his hometown’s Magna Centre but following the …

It has now been more than a week since a short right hand from Belfast’s undefeated Commonwealth champion Carl Frampton found it’s mark on the Spainiard Kiko Martinez. The shot scrambling the senses of the 26 year old Alicantian to the extent it forced Finnish referee Ansii Perajoki to a …

At Doncaster Dome, Tyrone Nurse of Huddersfield won the vacant BBBofC Central Area Light Welterweight Title by second round TKO. The fight was stopped when opponent Joe Elfidh of Kent suffered an injured shoulder. The Stefy Bull promoted Show featured eight undercard bouts. In Tyne and Wear, Jon Lewis Dickinson …

After almost fourteen months out of the ring due to injury, World Boxing Federation Women’s Super Featherweight Champion Ramona Kuehne is back! On March 2 at the MBS Arena in Potsdam, Germany she will defend her title against Halana Dos Santos from Brazil. This will be the fourth defense for …

21 year-old light-middleweight Billy ‘The Kid’ Cayzer’s professional career was going fully to plan as he rattled off four straight wins (three stoppages) before disaster occurred in his first live TV fight when he was stopped by Bulgarian champion Stiliyan Kostov in September 2012.

Eddie Hearn says that Gavin Rees’ fearless performance against Adrian Broner for the WBC lightweight title in Atlantic City on Saturday will lead to another World title challenge in 2013. Rees’ brave effort ended on the cusp of the bell to end the entertaining contest in the fifth round – …

On Saturday night at the Boardwalk Hall, the house that Arturo Gatti built in Atlantic City, flashy Cincinnati native Adrien Broner displayed why he is widely regarded as one of the brightest young talents in the sport today with a fifth round stoppage over a tough and durable Gavin Rees …

Adrien Broner and Gavin Rees spoke with the media after Broner defeated Rees in defense of the WBC Lightweight Championship last night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Adrien Broner, WBC Lightweight Champion: “I knew he [Rees] was going to come to fight. He’s a world-class fighter. He …