I am a down to earth kind of guy. As I kid I was never the one to ask Santa Claus for a pony or expect off-the-world career opportunities. Neither am I now in my list to “Uncle Bob” or “Golden Boy”. I have high hopes for 2012 with quality fights on the market but…
World Boxing Federation Super Middleweight Champion Marco Antonio Rubio, 55-6-1 (48), will defend his title on December 22 at the Auditorio del Bicentenario in Morelia, Mexico against fellow countryman Michel Rosales, 32-5 (26). “El Veneno†Rubio won the title by stopping Argentinean Carlos Manuel Baldomir in September, and the clash with Rosales will be his…
On Friday night January 25th, Arthur Pelullo’s Banner Promotions, Gary Shaw Productions and Greg Cohen Promotions will present ESPN 2’s Friday Night Fights featuring the former WBO Jr. Middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk. Dzinziruk will take on perennial contender and world ranked Brian Vera in a twelve round bout for the NABO Middleweight championship that will…
Donegal middleweight Jason Quigley beat German Elite champion Dennis Radovan to claim gold at the European U/23 Championships in Russia today. The Finn Valley BC ace, a gold medal winner at the 2009 European Youth Championships in Poland, was handed a 17-11 decision after the final bell of today’s 75kg final at the Sports Palace…
Former standout amateur boxer, middleweight Enrique “Kikin” Collazo of San Juan, Puerto Rico, has just signed a promotional deal with Gary Shaw Productions and Universal Promotions. As an amateur, Collazo won gold at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games held in Mayagüez, PR. In 2012, he won gold in the “Juan Evangelista Venegas Olympic…
An iPhone game jointly-created by former world heavyweight boxing champion David Haye has taken the gaming world by storm and ended up topping the one-million-strong Apple games charts. ‘David Haye’s Jungle Rumble’ was released on December 14 and took just hours to topple the likes of ‘Angry Birds’ (which has racked up 500 million downloads…
Hugh Myres and Jason Quigley advanced to the 49kg and 75kg finals at the European U/23 Championships following semi-final wins over Israel and Russia in Russia today. Myres, who boxes out of the Ryston BC in Newbridge, Co. Kildare, beat Israeli light-flyweight David Albrdian 16-8 at the Sports Palace in Kaliningrad.
Olympic Champion Katie Taylor will return to ring on Sunday, February 24th at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin. The bout will see Taylor start on “The Road to Rio”, a journey she is hoping will end with a second Olympic Gold at the 2016 games in Brazil. It will be a case of…
Rocky Fielding will return to action as part of Prizefighter Welterweights III bill at the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton live on Sky Sports on January 19. The Liverpool super middleweight will kick off the night in his first fight since sustaining a hand injury when he defeated Carl Dilks with a fifth round stoppage to land…
The first five fighters have been selected for Prizefighter Welterweights III at the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton live on Sky Sports on January 19. Unbeaten trio Glenn Foot, Dale Evans and Chad Gaynor are joined by ‘Notorious’ Nasser Al Harbi and Karl Place in the 28th edition of Matchroom Sport’s eight-man, one night tournaments, with promoter…
Nonito Donaire turned in yet another superb performance as the “Filipino Flash” retained his WBO super bantam crown with a stunning third round KO of former champion Jorge Arce at the Toyota Center in Houston, TX. The battle of highly decorated multi-weight world champions had been highly anticipated with the mobility and power of Donaire…
Two World Boxing Federation Champions successfully defended their titles on Saturday, December 15, as International Welterweight titlist Loic Foure won a unanimous decision over Kobe Vandekerkhove in France, and Women’s Light Flyweight ruler Ju Hee Kim scored a TKO over Ploynapa Sakrungrueng in Seoul, South Korea. In France, Foure, making the first defense of his…