Rendall Munroe is desperate to get to grips with Scott Quigg in next month’s vacant interim WBA super-bantamweight title clash. The pair meet again at Manchester Arena in one of several big undercard fights when Ricky Hatton (45-2) makes his return against Vyacheslav Senchenko (32-1) on Saturday November 24.
Gary Shaw Productions has been granted an “Exception to Regulations” by the IBF on behalf of unified IBF/WBA middleweight champion, Daniel “Real Deal” Geale (28-1, 15 KOs), to participate in an optional IBF title fight against Anthony Mundine (44-4, 26 KOs) prior to his mandatory defense. “Now that we got the green light from the…
Jamie McDonnell will now face Darwin Zamora in an IBF bantamweight title eliminator in ‘This Is It’ on Saturday night, October 20, live on Sky Sports, replacing Vusi Malinga who was forced to withdraw after a suffering an injury in sparring. Nicaraguan Zamora is the current WBA Fedecentro super flyweight champion and the 24 year…
Kal Yafai steps up to face Scott Gladwin (5-1) in Sheffield on the ‘This Is It’ bill on Saturday, October 20, and both Yafai and his promoter Eddie Hearn are convinced the Beijing Olympian is ready for the challenge. The 24 year old super bantamweight has quickly moved to 3-0 after signing with Matchroom Sport…
Eddie Hearn says that talks over a possible Brit blockbuster between Kell Brook and Amir Khan have begun. The unbeaten Sheffield welterweight star faces an IBF welterweight World title eliminator next Saturday night, October 20, in the Steel City against Argentine Hector Saldivia in ‘This Is It’, with Randall Bailey defending the title against Devon…
Carl Froch has warned Yusaf Mack that he will be in for a rough night in Nottingham as he challenges The Cobra for his IBF super middleweight title in ‘True Brit’ on November 17 live on Sky Sports. Froch welcomes the American light heavyweight champion into his fortress at the Capital FM Arena as Britain’s…
From the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, HBO’s Boxing After Dark show last night had two intriguing contests. The headliner was a Super Bantamweight WBO, IBF and WBC Diamond title clash between flashy Pinoy superstar Nonito Donaire and Japanese top contender Toshiaki Nishioka with the co-feature a notable Light Welterweight clash between brawlers Brandon…
For a very brief period, Liverpool’s Echo Arena was alive last night with the reverberations of heavyweight David Price’s gloved right hand connecting to the head of opponent Audley Harrison. Undefeated British and Commonwealth champion Price made a mockery of ex-world title challenger Harrison’s challenge in all of 82 seconds, in which Harrison quite possibly…
On Saturday night at the Echo Arena in the great fight city of Liverpool, local hero David Price will make the maiden defence of his Commonwealth and British titles against perennial underachiever Audley Harrison on a packed Championship card. The bill also sees flyweight prospect and Commonwealth champion Kevin Satchell in a mouth watering crossroads…
Nishioka, 39-4-3, with 24 KO’s, will be putting his WBC super-bantamweight title, the belt he has held since the beginning of 2009, on the line whilst Donaire, 29-1-0 with 18 KO’s, will be adding his recently acquired WBO and IBF belts to the table. Donaire has spent the past five years moving up through the…
The Echo Arena, Liverpool is the venue this Saturday night when in a battle of the Olympians, 2008 Super heavyweight bronze medalist David Price, takes on the gold medalist from the 2000 Sydney games, Audley Harrison, for the British and Commonwealth Heavyweight championship. Its certainly a battle of the giants and certainly in Harrison’s case,…