Two of the top up-and-coming American-based heavyweights – both from the Goossen Tutor stable – will appear in a non-televised undercard bout on “Ward vs. Dawson: World Champions: Made In America” on Saturday, September 8, at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif. and live on HBO World Championship Boxing at 9:45 p.m., ET/PT. Thirty-one year-old…
This weekend there will be three World Boxing Association Title fight in three different locations. One of them will be 160-lbs title Unification starred by Felix Sturm from Germany. Other title WBA fights will be between Gennady Golovkyn and Grzegorz Proksa, in New York; and in Osaka Teooarith Kokietgym will fight Nobuo Nashiro. The battle…
Undefeated power puncher and Team Puerto Rico member, Jorge “Machito” Maysonet, Jr. (8-0, 7 KOs) will be seeing action off TV this Saturday, September 1, against journeyman, Bryan Abraham (6-13-2, 6 KOs). The fight will be taking place at the Turning Point Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York. The feature bout of the…
On this Friday, August 31, Universal Promotions in conjunction with Gary Shaw Productions and DiBella Entertainment will be presenting the “Night of Champions”, fightcard which will take place at the Guillermo Angulo Coliseum in Carolina, PR. In the feature fight of the evening, Thomas Dulorme (15-0, 12 KOs) will be facing off against Dominican Yoryi…
Reports have emerged from the Southern Hemisphere that New Zealand All Black rugby star and occasional boxer Sonny Bill Williams is rumoured to have signed a contract to fight the veteran South African Heavyweight Francois Botha. The 26 year old All Black star, who is currently playing rugby in Japan for the Top League rugby…
Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Sport are delighted to announce that they have signed a two-year deal to be the principal boxing promoter on Sky Sports. Matchroom Boxing will stage 20 shows in both seasons with the first event of the new deal taking place on September 8 at the Alexandra Palace in north London as…
The highly anticipated world title clash between middleweight stars Sergio Martinez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr is to be screened live and exclusive in the UK and Ireland on Primetime, Channel 498 on Sky. The bout will see two of the world’s very best, in their prime fighters, finally face off against each other at…
Carl Froch will defend his IBF super middleweight title against IBF number six Yusaf Mack at the Capital FM Arena in Nottingham on November 17, live on Sky Sports. Froch became a three-time World Champion with a stunning fifth round KO of Lucian Bute to claim the belt at the same venue in May and…
Lee Purdy will face unbeaten Gumersindo Carrasco for the IBF International welterweight title at Alexandra Palace on north London on September 8 live on Sky Sports – after Darren Barker has been forced out of the bill through injury. Former British champ Purdy faces the Argentine Latino champion, who has a formidable 13 KOs from…
Earlier today, WBA middleweight super champion Felix Sturm and his IBF counterpart Daniel Geale came face-to-face at the final press conference for their Saturday night unification fight at the KoenigPilsener-Arena in Oberhausen, Germany. Both fighters displayed confidence but also respect for their opponent. “I’ve been dreaming about this fight for many, many yearsâ€, Sturm told…
Gary Shaw Productions signs light-middleweight prospect Francisco Santana (13-3-1, 6 KOs) to a promotional contract with the hopes that the Santa Barbra Calif., native can work his way up the rankings. “Santana is a very popular fighter in his region and he brings an exciting style to the ring every time he gets in there,”…
At the fifth annual “Fallon Fights: Rural Rumble ‘12†Oscar and Santos “Titos†Vasquez scored impressive wins. Presented by the City of Fallon, Nevada “The Oasis of Nevadaâ€, and Let’s Get It On Promotions, “Fallon Fights†again delivered exciting boxing action on Saturday night. Junior flyweight Titos Vasquez scored his first professional win over a…