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 withdrawal of the Birmingham brawler,…
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 halt to Martinez’s second defence…
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 of Cumbria won the British…
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 Kuehne, 19-1 (6), who won…
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 – with the Welshman earning plaudits…
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 in the maiden defence of…
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 [Rees] kept coming. He threw…
In front of a packed electric crowd, former world title challenger Delvin Rodriguez put the deeply talented junior middleweight division on notice Friday night with a dominating performance over game George “Comanche Boy” Tahdooahnippah culminating in a sixth round stoppage. Fighting in front of a packed house of loud and proud boxing fans at the…
The penultimate weekend of the Irish Daily Star sponsored Elite National Championships yielded a third successive Joe Ward versus Ken Egan light-heavyweight final. Egan, who was beaten by Ward in the 2011 and 2012 deciders, beat Davey Joe Joyce 13-7 last night to book his ticket into an unprecedented 13th final since 2001.
Fight fans in San Antonio, Texas will be treated to an explosive night of boxing action featuring Texas’ top prospects on Saturday, March 2, when Weslaco’s Omar “Panterita” Figueroa steps into the ring for the first time in 2013 against Colombia’s Henry Aurad in the eight-round junior welterweight main event at the Our Lady of…
Claus Bertino, Timo Hoffmann, Derric Rossy and Albert Sosnowski are the final four names added to the line-up for the sold out Prizefighter International Heavyweights III, live on Sky Sports from the York Hall, Bethnal Green on February 23. The quartet join London fighter Ian Lewison (6-1-1), American KO king Travis Walker (39-8-1) and previous…