One of the world’s top light flyweights was in action last night as John Riel Casimero kept hold of his IBF crown against challenger Luis Alberto Rios at Megapolis Convention Center in Panama City, Panama. Casimero, 18-2 (10), is no stranger to fighting in his opponent’s back yard and that’s just what the 23 year…
Kermit Cintron won a world title at welterweight. Take away two suspicious losses to the disgraced Antonio Margarito and he’s never lost as a welterweight. He has almost insurmountable physical gifts of height and superior strength as a welterweight. And so, after losing three of four in a disastrous 18-month stretch, what’s he going to…
As the date of Gennady Golovkin’s title fight in Monte Carlo looms, Golden Gloves promoter Rodney Berman has issued a stark warning to the WBA and IBO middleweight champion: “Underestimate Nobuhiro Ishida at your peril.†Unbeaten Golovkin makes his seventh title defence against the Japanese, who is considered an underdog against one of the world’s…
The Texas Three-Step is over for popular, unbeaten Mexican superstar and WBC Super Welterweight Champion Canelo Alvarez and undefeated WBA Super Welterweight Champion Austin “No Doubt†Trout, who completed their highly successful three-city, two-day press tour in Texas on Thursday. To infer that the three press conferences, all open to the public, were smashing successes…
Nine months after pulling off a massive, albeit controversial, upset of Manny Pacquiao, Timothy Bradley returns to action this evening, where in the first defense of his WBO welter belt, he’ll meet challenger Ruslan Provodnikov at Home Depot Center in Carson, CA. Could Bradley be heading for a letdown? Will Provodnikov turn the tables on…
Ricky Hatton believes his charge Sergey Rabchenko will be firing on all cylinders again when he defends his European light-middleweight crown against Adriano Nicchi in Monte Carlo on March 30. Rabchenko, 26, had looked like a world beater in defeating the likes of Bradley Pryce and Ryan Rhodes, but was a little off top form…
Having practically raised the roof at the Excel Arena during last year’s Olympic Games, Katie Taylor is hoping that Irish fans can repeat the trick on home soil for her bouts in Dublin and Castlebar later this month. The Irish fans famously topped the charts at last years games, as the atmosphere for Taylor’s fights…
When tickets went on sale Tuesday March 12, for the May 4 WBC Welterweight Championship mega event featuring Champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather against Challenger Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., the public responded with a massive rush to the box office and online ticket outlets. Within twelve…
Grays’ exciting middleweight Lee Markham is three weeks away from his first title shot. On 5th April, Markham takes on the tough ‘Pocklington Rocket’ Harry Matthews for the British Masters middleweight title at his hometown venue of Grays Civic Hall, in a show which is already virtually sold out. The show, promoted by Steve Goodwin…
Australian puncher Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne is aiming for a hat-trick of British knockouts. The undefeated 33-year-old has boxed twice in the UK already and says he is prepared to get his passport out again if fights with the country’s best heavyweights can be arranged.
Unbeaten Mexican superstar and WBC Super Welterweight Champion Canelo Alvarez and undefeated WBA Super Welterweight Champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout are set to square off in a 12-round, WBC and WBA Super Welterweight Championship Unification fight on Saturday, April 20 from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas in a fight which will be televised live…
On April 20th, Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez will take on Austin Trout for the WBC light middleweight title and the WBA Super light middleweight title. According to Canelo, the Trout fight is a personal matter. “Of course it is personal. He is a great fighter, an undefeated world champion, a difficult opponent who won’t be easy…