One of the unheralded stars of Namibian boxing is Joseph ‘Smokey’ Hilongwa. A former Olympian and former Namibian National Flyweight champion, the unbeaten Hilongwa currently holds the WBA African title. While ‘Smokey’ could and should have had other fights and opportunities in the past, his impressive record currently stands at 11 fights with all victories,…
British boxing’s brightest talents will fight live on Sky Sports via the red button for the first time, at the Echo Arena in Liverpool next Saturday, March 30, in ‘No Retreat, No Surrender’. Fight fans can access the action from 7pm on Sky Sports 1HD as Britain’s hottest hopes strut their stuff before the main…
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) has announced “Klitschko” as nominee for the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. The Awards will be given out at the prestigious Frederick P. Rose Hall on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 in New York City.
Boxing fans and sports enthusiasts have spoken to the tune of approximately 50,000 tickets purchased for the unprecedented three consecutive weekends of mega-events in April and May, all of which are promoted by Golden Boy Promotions.
Coldwell Boxing will return to Manchester on June 1 for what will be another exciting event as two of the city’s prized names of recent years will engage in a superb battle as former Lonsdale rulers, Craig Watson and David Barnes, go head to head in a superb welterweight battle that will set the victor…
Tony Bellew’s crunch clash with Isaac Chilemba on March 30 will be shown live in America on WealthTV. Bellew and Chilemba meet in an official final eliminator for the WBC light heavyweight World title at the Echo Arena in Liverpool in ‘No Retreat, No Surrender’, the top of an explosive bill of action including the…
Cuban 2004 Olympic gold medalist and former world heavyweight championship contender Odlanier Solis (18-1, 12 KOs) and former WBC Silver welterweight champion Selcuk Aydin (23-2, 17 KOs) held a press conference in Berlin, Germany, talking about their upcoming bouts at “Universal Hall” this Friday, March 22nd. “It feels good to be back in Germany”, said…
Showtime Sports has scheduled more than 100 hours of diverse boxing and documentary programming across broadcast television, cable television, premium television, and digital portals in advance of the upcoming Showtime PPV presentation of May Day-the mega-event headlined by boxing’s No. 1 pound-for-pound titlist Floyd “Money” Mayweather’s welterweight world championship defense against former world champion Robert…
The long-awaited unification bout between WBA cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev (25-1, 19 KOs), from Chekhov, Russia, and WBA cruiserweight champion in recess Guillermo “El Felino†Jones (38-3-2, 30 KOs), from Colon, Panama, will take place on May 17 at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia. Jones’ promoter Don King is thrilled to have his fighter…
Back in December last year I, wrongly, thought that Miguel Cotto would be too big, too strong, too experienced and generally better in all areas than Austin Trout. As we all now know, Trout won the fight decisively and unanimously. Trout looked impressive in that victory, he didn’t allow Cotto to put the pressure on…
It’s been a quieter weekend for UK Boxing this week. In Leeds, Derek Roche (Rebel Promotions) promoted five contests with four wins and one draw for the home boxers. The Beachcomber Club, Cleethorpes played host to a Carl Greaves promoted fight-night, in which the headliner saw Gary Sykes of Dewsbury win the vacant English Super…
A media lunch for the Los Angeles boxing press was held on Saturday afternoon for WBA/IBO Middleweight Champion Gennady “GGG†Golovkin and contender Nobuhiro Ishida who will clash on Saturday, March 30 in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The Golovkin/Ishida battle will be broadcast live by Integrated Sports Media at 3:00 p.m. ET/12:00 p.m. PT on both…