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…
After two years, fight fans all around the world will get their chance to once again witness Zahir “King†Raheem (31-3-0, 18 KO’s) back in the ring in pursuit of a world title. Raheem is scheduled to fight on Saturday, March 23 at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, WA where northwest boxing fans will…
Banner Promotions congratulates Ruslan Provodnikov for a great fight and living up to all of our expectations last Saturday night when he took on WBO Welterweight champion Timothy Bradley on HBO World Championship Boxing. The bout, which took place in Carson, California, was a thrilling battle for Provodnikov as he rocked and hurt the undefeated…
Cuban 2004 Olympic gold medalist and former WBC world heavyweight title challenger Odlanier Solis (18-1, 12 KOs) arrived in Berlin, Germany, this morning where he will face unbeaten Norwegian powerhouse Leif Larsen (17-0, 14 KOs) at Universal Hall this Friday (March 22nd) on a card broadcasted live on Eurosport. “It’s important for Solis to get…
There can only be one winner, and that is Arthur Abraham (36-3, 28 KOs). At least, that is the opinion of the WBO Champion himself and his team. The world title rematch between Abraham and Robert Stieglitz (43-3, 24 KOs) is just around the corner and unsurprisingly both camps are convinced that they have the…
Live world championship boxing continues its Epix run in April and May with two more exciting events featuring the kings of the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. Undefeated WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly defends his title against No. 1 contender Robin Krasniqi on Saturday, April 20, at London’s Wembley Arena.
Derry Mathews insists the power in British boxing has shifted from Manchester to Liverpool – and he will prove that by beating Anthony Crolla again in ‘No Retreat, No Surrender’ live on Sky Sports from the Echo Arena in Liverpool on March 30. Mathews ripped the British lightweight title from Crolla in the 2012 fight…
Menay “the emperor†Edwards – fresh from a shut out win over former British Champion Shane McPhilbin, takes on his toughest test to date on April 5 in the Goodwin Promotions promoted “Its Banjo time†show, at Grays Essex, when he takes on Arturs Kulikauskis (9-15-3). Whilst Kulikauskis’ record may not look inspiring – it…