The Russian “Hawk”, Khabib Allakhverdiev (18-0-0 8 KO’s) made his biggest statement yet last night at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, FL. He defeated heavy-hitting Dominican star and former three weight world champion Joan Guzman (33-1-1 20 KO’s) over eight rounds at light welter with a technical decision, handing Guzman his first career blemish. Guzman…
A host of boxing notables will be giving up their time on Tuesday to attend a huge Fundraiser for Cancer sufferer – Andrew Millwall. Popular Andrew was diagnosed with an incurable and inoperable form of lung cancer earlier this year but has continued to work tirelessly on the WWBPL (Worldwide Weekly Boxing Prediction League) which…
Miguel Cotto has never lost at Madison Square Garden; he will be back there for the eighth time in his career tonight when he faces off against undefeated Austin Trout, who currently holds the WBA light middleweight title. The Garden is Cotto’s home, they love him there as the venue has been the site of…
Ireland’s boxers recorded two wins from two at the 2012 AIBA World Youth Championships in Yerevan today, Kurt Walker and John Joe McDonagh advancing in the Armenian capital. Walker, from the Canal BC in Lisburn, eased into the last-32 with an impressive 14-7 victory over Georgian flyweight Giorgi Gabodze.
Showtime Sports will offer a live stream of Friday’s weigh-in for the world championship showdown between Four-Time and Three-Division World Champion Miguel Cotto and WBA Super Welterweight Champion Austin Trout. Fans can go to sports.sho.com/live at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT to watch the fighters hit the scales live from the Affinia Manhattan Hotel…
The professional boxing card originally set for Friday, December 14 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York has been postponed to Saturday, February 2, 2013, it was announced today by Star Boxing and the Times Union Center. “We had a terrific card planned but the main event featuring undefeated world ranked heavyweight Joe…
In January this year Canning Town’s rising Cruiserweight star Wadi ‘Machoman’ Camacho won his first professional fight, beating Northern Ireland based Ugandan Moses Matovu. Just under eleven months later, on Saturday 8th December, the Barcelona born Cruiser Bruiser will step into the ring at the London Olympia for his first Championship title fight, when he…
When Danish promotional outfit Euro Event closes out the year with a show on December 15 at the Gigantium Arena in Aalborg, the card will feature an interesting Light Welterweight fight between Kim Poulsen (21-1, 6 KOs), and Croatian banger Veljko Saponja (8-1-1, 5 KOs).
In one of the most exciting WBF fights seen in decades, in November 2012, Ali “Rush Hour†Funeka, 31-3-3 (25), won a controversial split decision over former two times world champion Zolani “Invincible†Marali, 21-5 (13) to win the vacant World Boxing Federation World Light Welterweight crown.
Former three division champ champ Miguel Cotto and undefeated WBA Super Welterweight Champion Austin Trout face off on Saturday, December 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Miguel Cotto, Four-Time and Three-Division World Champion “Austin’s team mentioned that he went to Panama and beat a Panamanian guy and they were in Guadalajara to…
Top Rank will debut its latest fan-oriented innovation, “Just Watchâ€, a one-hour live stream of a Manny Pacquiao training session, on Friday, November 30, beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET / 2:30 p.m. PT. “Just Watch†will also be simulcast in Times Square on the NASDAQ building screen, which is seven stories tall, encompassing a quarter-acre…
Irish and boxing have been synonymous for more than a century. Undefeated featherweight Patrick “The Punisher” Hyland, one of three prizefighting Hyland brothers, certainly embodies the popular sobriquet, “The Fightin’ Irish.” Dublin-native Hyland (27-0, 12 KOs) plans to continue making Irish boxing history on December 8, when he fights fellow undefeated challenger Javier “El Abejon”…