On Saturday, November 17 boxing’s most electrifying young star, Adrien “The Problem” Broner will step up in weight to challenge the hard-hitting WBC Lightweight Champion Antonio DeMarco at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the main event of HBO World Championship Boxing. In the co-main event, two of the United States’ top hopes…
Sergey Rabchenko believes he will soon be challenging for the world light-middleweight title with Ricky Hatton fighting his corner. ‘The Hitman’ began training the Belarussian sensation earlier this year, and their partnership paid immediate rewards when Rabchenko stopped Ryan Rhodes in June to become European champion.
Undefeated welterweight contender, Vitaliy Demyanenko (20-0, 12 KOs) returns to the ring this Thursday October 11, 2012, at the Remington Park Racing Casino in, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He’ll face veteran journeyman, Roberto Valenzuela (65-63-2, 32 KOs) in a scheduled 6-round bout.
In pure throwback style, undefeated middleweight prospect, Tureano Johnson (13-0, 10 KOs), recorded two knockouts in four days when he traveled to the Dominican Republic and defeated Jonalis Reyes (0-3, 0 KOs) on September 29th, followed by a third round stoppage of Jose Morla (1-11, 0 KOs) on October 2nd.
After two big wins against American contenders Jason Escalera and Donovan George on HBO cards, Dominican-American fighter Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez, (22-0-0 15 KO’s), is confident about taking a large step up in his next fight. Following the Escalera win on August 29, where Rodriguez put on a tremendous showing of power and grit over…
It has been announced that former WBC Light-Welterweight, British, European and Commonwealth champion Junior Witter will make the maiden defence of the prestigious Lonsdale belt against Birmingham’s rising star Frankie Gavin on 1st November at London’s York Hall. The 38 year old Witter, who captured the British Welterweight title against former conquest Colin Lynes at…
Two of Brooklyn’s finest, boxers Paulie “Magic Man†Malignaggi and Danny “The Golden Child†Jacobs, participated in a media workout on Tuesday at the legendary Gleason’s Gym as they continue to prepare for their important and historic fights on Saturday, Oct. 20 at the first-ever boxing event at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Reigning World Boxing Federation Women’s Welterweight Champion Holly Holm will be looking to further cement her position as the Pound-For-Pound best female fighter in the world, when she moves down in weight to challenge WBF Light Welterweight Champion Myriam Lamare in a rematch on December 7 at the Route 66 Casino in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Oliver McCarthy, James McGivern and Michael Nevin claimed three gold medals in today’s European Schoolboy Championships finals in Anapa, Russia. The Irish trio produced career best performances to beat Russian and Azerbaijani opponents to be crowned champions of Europe by the banks of the Black Sea.
Golden Boy Promotions super-welterweight contender, Erislandy Lara (17-1-1, 11 KOs) ranked No. 1 in the WBC, and his team are preparing for war as they get ready for their upcoming title elimination bout against WBC No. 2 rated, Vanes Martirosyan (30-0, 20 KOs). Team Lara is training in Houston, Texas, where his trainer Ronnie Shields…
Puerto Rico’s undefeated super-featherweight prospect, Jose “Sniper” Pedraza (10-0, 6 KOs), is embracing his new opponent, Tevin Farmer (7-3-1, 1 KO) as original challenger, Allan Benitez (7-1-1, 1 KO) had to pull out of their scheduled bout due to an elbow injury. Pedraza vs. Farmer will headline an 8-round bout on ShoBox “The New Generation”…
The final Prizefighter show of 2012 sees the Light-Middleweights III take over York Hall in Bethnal Green on November 3, live on Sky Sports. Craig McEwan, Curtis Valentine, Pater Vaughan and Navid Mansouri are the first four names in the line-up for the 27th edition of Matchroom Sport’s eight-man, one night tournament, aiming to be…