Click the above Image for more Photos from this Event The main event saw Steven Pearce face Sam Eggington in a Midlands Area Welterweight Clash. Pearce won the vacant Title in March when he scored a fifth round TKO over Luke Gallear. Steven Pearce (Stourbridge) v Sam Eggington (Stourbridge) BBBofC Midlands Area Welterweight Title (10…
Last night, in Mannheim, Germany, Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko retained his four Heavyweight titles by scoring a sixth round TKO over Italian Francesco Pianeta of Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Pianeta found himself on the canvas three times during the contest at the packed out SAP Arena. Knockdown number one came in round four when the Champion landed a…
It was skill against will, brain vs. brawn, strategy contending with game; the rapier meets the cutlass. Floyd Mayweather Jr delivered a superb performance last night, taking away any advantage Robert Guerrero may have brought to the table at Mayweather’s home away from home, the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, while maximizing the…
Heavyweight boxing’s top man was in fantastic form earlier tonight at SAP Arena in Mannheim, with Wladimir Klitschko bashing up challenger Francesco Pianeta enroute to producing a stoppage at 2:52 of the sixth frame. Putting the WBA/WBO/IBF/IBO titles on the line, Klitschko was facing his second consecutive undefeated opponent, Italian southpaw Pianeta, who had previously…
Ireland recorded a shut out 10-0 victory over France in Friday night’s Elite international at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork. Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlan, John Joe Nevin, who won silver and two bronze medals at the London Olympics, Sean McComb, David Oliver Joyce, Adam Nolan, Jason Quigley, Joe Ward, Jimmy Sweeney and Con Sheehan…
This Saturday night, Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather looks to increase his unbeaten record to 44-0 against Robert ‘The Ghost’ Guerrero. As much as Mayweather would have you believe that it will be an easy night’s work for him, the general consensus is that Guerrero is not going to be a push over. ‘The Ghost’ has not…
The world’s top heavyweight returns to the ring tonight at SAP Arena in Manheim, Germany as Wladimir Klitschko seeks to defend every belt of note, except the WBC, against the challenger of opponent Francesco Pianeta of Italy. Poor Wladimir. He must envy fighters in lighter divisions; they can move up if they clean out their…
World Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko (59-3, 51 KOs), of Ukraine, in his 2013 debut, will be making title defense No. 14 in his current seven-year reign as heavyweight kingpin. Klitschko meets undefeated Top-10 contender and cancer survivor Francesco Pianeta (28-0-1, 15 KOs), of Italy. “Dr. Steelhammer” will also be going for his landmark 60th professional…
Respect was the name of the game this afternoon as heavyweight contenders David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye and Manuel ‘Diamond Boy’ Charr met at a Manchester press conference ahead of their bout on Saturday, June 29, live on Sky Sports. Though known for their outspoken antics, Haye and Charr left the trash-talk at home, instead choosing…
The stars and scribes always come out when Floyd “Money†Mayweather fights, and there will be an abundance of both when the Eight-Time and Five-Division World Champion returns to the ring to face Six-Time and Four-Division Champion Robert “The Ghost†Guerrero in the highly anticipated main event of “May Day: Mayweather vs. Guerrero†this Saturday,…
InterBox and Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM) are proud to announce all six undercard bouts that will support the historic fight between Lucian Bute (31-1-0 24 KO) and Jean Pascal (27-2-1 16 KO) on Saturday, May 25th 2013 at the Montreal Bell Centre. Four title belts will be on the line for this Mega Card that…
Ken Egan is backing Joe Ward against Abdelkader Bouhenia of France in Cork and Dublin on Friday and Sunday. Ireland meet France at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork on Friday night (7.30pm) and at Dublin’s National Stadium on Sunday (2pm). “Performance on the day is what it is all about. I spoke to Joe…