A keen spectator at Liverpool’s Echo Arena last Saturday was Yorkshire-based promoter, Dave Coldwell, who was in attendance to oversee the progress of two of his booming stable as Chris Metcalf and Derry Mathews were in action. Also catching Coldwell’s eye was Blackpool’s Scott Cardle who prepared for his April 20th meeting with Coldwell Boxing’s…
Sergey Rabchenko’s performance in Monaco on Saturday night received a Royal seal of approval. The undefeated European and WBC silver light-middleweight champ wiped out Adriano Nicchi inside two rounds in front of a clearly impressed Prince Albert II at the wonderful Salle des Etoiles in Monte Carlo. And manager Philippe Fondu believes the Belarusian sensation,…
It’s about to get a lot easier for boxing fans in Sin City to catch one of the year’s biggest nights of boxing during Cinco de Mayo weekend. Mayweather Promotions, Golden Boy Promotions and MGM Resorts International announced today that five MGM Resorts properties will host live closed circuit telecasts of “May Day: Mayweather vs….
“30 Days In May,” a revealing documentary film chronicling the days surrounding Floyd Mayweather’s incarceration in 2012, premieres Wednesday, April 3, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime. The one-hour film was created exclusively from never-before-seen footage and features the only interviews Mayweather has conducted about this “life-changing experience.”
It’s been a quiet Easter Weekend here in the U.K. On Thursday, St Paul’s and Stevie Smith’s Boxing Academies promoted a dinner show billed as ‘United Boxing’ at the KC Sports Arena, Hull. The headliner saw local man Samir Mouneimne win his eight round Featherweight Contest when Ian Bailey of Slough was forced to retire…
Draws were the order of the day last evening at Liverpool’s Echo Arena as favorite sons Tony Bellew and Derry Mathews had their homecomings spoiled by performances from Isaac Chilemba and Anthony Crolla. Bellew and Chilemba were tangling for a very high profile prize, with a mandatory title challenge going to the winner of a…
Undefeated WBA and IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin was in blazing form in Monte Carlo on Saturday night, destroying Nobuhiro Ishida’s ambitions with a clinical third round knockout. A straight right hand over the top caught Ishida high and instantly knocked him unconscious, marking a seventh successful title defence for the impressive champion.
With a last minute pull-out from the original opponent, French Champion Bastien Rozeaux, it was nerve-wrecking to the end if a suitable substitute would be found to fight Timur Akhundov for the vacant World Boxing Federation Featherweight title on Saturday in Kiev, Ukraine. In came Belarusian national champion Khavazhy Khatsyhau, who was fit and ready…
In an outstanding fight and one of the best seen in Namibia in many years, Joseph “Smokey†Hilongwa produced a mercurial performance by outworking a never say die Sibusiso Twani of South Africa to win the vacant World Boxing Federation Intercontinental Super Flyweight title on Friday (March 29). The pair went toe-to-toe in a clash…
It goes without saying that Lucian Bute vs. Jean Pascal is the fight that boxing fans everywhere in Canada have been waiting to see for a long time now. Even if there is no title belt on the line for this fight, both fighters have been vocal in the past few years that they are…
Lightweight contender Marvin Quintero (25-4, 21 KOs) is out of his IBF lightweight final eliminator against Ammeth Diaz (31-11, 22 KOs). Quintero was forced to pull out of the April 5th bout — which was scheduled to be the main event of ESPN Friday Night Fights — after breaking his nose in camp. The main…
Tony Bellew fixed his gaze on Isaac Chilemba at today’s weigh in for tomorrow night’s ‘No Retreat, No Surrender’ bill at the Echo Arena in Liverpool live on Sky Sports, and said he will go ‘to the trenches’ in their official final eliminator for the WBC light heavyweight title. Bellew didn’t take his eyes off…