Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has become the first active boxer to enter ITV1 show ‘I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!’, after touching down in the Australian jungle this past weekend. A surprise to many, ‘The Hayemaker’ signed up for the challenge just months after vanquishing the threat of bitter rival Derek Chisora…
On Friday night, Derby’s Ovill McKenzie (appropriately named ‘The Upsetter’!) successfully defended his Commonwealth (British Empire) Light-Heavyweight Title by a controversial second round stoppage of Swansea man – Enzo Maccarinelli. Liverpool’s Paul Butler made lightening quick work of John Donnelly by first round TKO to win the vacant British Super-Flyweight Title and Liam ‘Beefy’ Smith…
Saturday night’s massive Showtime World Championship Boxing fight card really brought intrigue to boxing fans as many internationally note-worthy fighters scored dominant wins, and even some adrenaline pumping knockouts. In the first televised fight of the evening, we saw talented prospect Antonio Orozco grind down tough opponent Danny Escobar over six rounds. Orozco had clear…
Saturday’s Epix televised split-site doubleheader defined the classic term, “A win is a win” as plus-size Heavyweights Wladimir Klitschko (59-3-0 50 KO’s) and Robert Helenius (18-0-0 11 KO’s) walk away with decision wins. Klitschko lopsidedly punished but didn’t manage to finish the granite chinned Polish powerhouse Mariusz Wach (27-1-0 15 KO’s) in Hamburg, Germany and…
WBA featherweight super champion Chris John handled a challenge to his eight year title reign on Friday evening, turning back the ambitions of Chonlatarn Or Piriyapinyo at Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore. Piriyapinyo came into the fight with a dazzling 44-0 record, undefeated in his native Thailand, but had yet to ascend the world…
Humberto “Zorrita†Soto proved he is still on top of his game, as he won the World Boxing Federation Welterweight title on Saturday night, November 10, at the Estadio Morelos in Ecatepec, Mexico by dethroning reigning champion Jose “Piston†Lopez by unanimous decision. Soto, a former world champion at Featherweight, Super Featherweight and Lightweight, got…
Unbeaten featherweight contender and 2008 United States Olympian Gary Russell Jr., capped off “The Night of the Olympians†in dazzling style with a brutal third-round knockout win over Roberto Castaneda in the main event Friday on ShoBox: The New Generation live on Showtime from Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif. In a candidate for…
Tonight, live on Showtime’s “World Championship Boxing” event, we will see four excellent 12-round attractions. Headlining the card will be Mexican warrior Abner Mares (24-0-1 13 KO’s) defending his WBC Super Bantamweight championship against former Bantamweight titleholder, the skilled and very slick Anselmo “Chemito” Moreno (33-1-1 12 KO’s). The undercard will also feature brawling fan-favorite…
Click the above Image for more Photos from this Event Another controversial stoppage blighted Friday night’s boxing at Liverpool’s Olympia when Derby’s Ovill McKenzie successfully defended his Commonwealth Light-Heavyweight Belt against Swansea Boxer – Enzo Maccarinelli. Big punching McKenzie ‘took charge’ in the opener then began to offload some headshots in round two while Maccarinelli…
On Saturday, Epix will televise two intriguing Heavyweight collisions from two different venues. 6’6 Wladmir “Dr. Steelhammer” Klitschko (58-3-0 50 KO’s) will face off against undefeated 6’7 Polish powerhouse Mariusz Wach (27-0-0 15 KO’s)in a WBA/WBO/IBF/IBO title fight from the 02 Arena in Hamburg, Germany, plus live from his honored home of Helenski, another monstrous…
Big fight night this evening at Staples Center in Los Angeles with two of the world’s top super bantams, Abner Mares and Anselmo Moreno, facing off for the WBC belt. Mares, 24-0-1 (13), holds the WBC crown after moving up from a two bout reign as IBF bantam titlist, battering veteran Eric Morel for 12…
Houston, Texas is the largest city in the Lone Star State so isn’t it fitting that it get the biggest fight south of 140 pounds? Top-Five pound for pound fighter and four-division world champion Nonito “Filipino Flash†Donaire will risk his WBO junior featherweight crown against five-division world titlist and former WBO junior featherweight champion…