Last week saw the announcement of a much anticipated match up at Super Bantamweight between unbeaten Cuban WBA boss Guillermo Rigondeaux agnd WBO Super-Bantam king and four weight world champion Nonito Donaire. The match up, which pits the two best Super-Bantamweight fighters in the world after former WBC king Abner Mares decided he would step…
The World Boxing Federation continues to enter new territory, and will sanction its first championship fight in Morocco, when Patrick Bois and Serhiy Demchenko fight for the vacant International Light Heavyweight title on Saturday February 23 at the Mazagan Beach Resort in the Atlantic coast city of El Jadida.
Martin Rogan wants to put an end to Audley Harrison’s career this Saturday if the pair clash in the sold-out Prizefighter International Heavyweights III at York Hall, Bethnal Green, live on Sky Sports. The Irishman won the first edition of Matchroom Sport’s eight-man, one night tournament five years ago and that win led to bouts…
Fight fans will be given the chance to learn from the best next month as Martin Murray and Scott Quigg are hosting skills workshops at Hatton Health and Fitness in Hyde. During the three hour sessions, the undefeated boxers will demonstrate various skills and provide tips which will help participants to improve both their technique…
This past Friday in Memphis, heavyweight prospect Travis “GW Hope†Kauffman returned to the ring with a second round destruction over Willie Perryman. Kauffman, 27 years old of Reading, PA dominated the first round and scored what looked like a knockdown in round one but somehow the referee ruled a low blow.
Super featherweights Art “Lionheart†Hovhannisyan and Alejandro “El Alacran†Perez have had a lot of practice trying to knock each other’s block off. They’ve sparred dozens of rounds, helping each other get ready for their fights. Now, they get an opportunity to do it for real this Friday, Feb. 22, on ShoBox: The New Generation…
Undefeated eight-time world champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather, boxing’s pound-for-pound king and the highest paid athlete in the world according to Forbes, has entered into a groundbreaking pay-per-view deal with Showtime Networks Inc. and its parent company, CBS Corporation.
One of the most dynamic prospects in the middleweight division will be making his 2013 debut as Tureano “Reno” Johnson (13-0, 10 KOs) gears up to make a significant push this year towards the upper stratosphere of his weight class. Johnson will lock horns with Willie Fortune (15-0, 7 KOs), a dangerous prospect in his…
Bone marrow donated from a total stranger saved Robert Guerrero’s wife. Now the grateful world champion boxer is joining Be The Match in the fight to make life-saving marrow transplants available for every blood cancer patient who needs one. Guerrero will serve as an “Ambassador of Hope” for Be The Match, a nonprofit organization that…
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…