K2 Promotions was very saddened to hear about the death of former heavyweight world champion Corrie Sanders over the weekend. The 46-year-old Sanders was shot in an apparent robbery in Britz, near Pretoria, while celebrating the birthday of a family member. “It was a shock to Vitali and Wladimir as well as myself when I…
On Saturday October 20th, one of the biggest nights in New York Boxing will take place as the brand new, state of the art Barclays Center will play host to four world championship fights that is likely to prelude of big events coming to the new arena. One of the proposed undercard bout was to…
Kell Brook has revealed he was close to taking a fight with WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley but chose to take the mandatory route with the IBF. Brook takes on Hector Saldivia for the mandatory position for the IBF welterweight title in ‘This Is It’ at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield on October 20 live…
On Saturday night, the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow played host to the culmination of one of the UK’s longest brewing domestic clashes as local hero and WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns engaged in a barnburner against popular Dagenham based opponent Kevin Mitchell. Former amateur star Mitchell was now finally getting a world title shot…
Super bantam Carl Frampton passed a litmus test on Saturday night in front of an adoring hometown crowd at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena, delighting the Northern Ireland faithful by dominating former two-time IBF champion Steve Molitor. At stake was Frampton’s IBF Intercontinental strap as well as the Commonwealth belt, which southpaw Molitor once held before moving…
Click the above Image for more Photos from this Event Manchester’s Terry Flannigan retained his English Super-Featherweight Title on Saturday night – out-pointing Coventry’s Troy James in a thrilling all-action contest. The VIP Boxing promoted fight-night at Bowlers, Manchester, also featured nine undercard bouts including an exciting six round Super-Featherweight Contest between Welshman – Mark…
WBC cruiserweight champion Krysztof Wlodarczyk retained his belt with a 12 round decision over visiting challenger Francisco Palacios last night at Hala Stulecia in Wroclaw, Poland. The pair were reprising their April, 2011 clash, which also took place in Poland, in which Wlodarczyk kept his title with a controversial split decision. Wlodarczyk, coming off a…
Unbeaten world-ranked super bantamweight Jonathan Romero (22-0, 12 KOs), of Cali, Colombia, dominated Efrain Esquivias Jr. (16-2, 9 KOs), of Gardena, Calif., en route to a near-shutout 12-round decision in the main event Friday on ShoBox: The New Generation live on Showtime. Romero, in command from the outset, was victorious in an elimination fight for…
Advance tickets are now on sale as Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing will return to Upstate New York’s premier sports and entertainment facility, the Times Union Center on Saturday, October 27 with undefeated heavyweight contenders Joe “The Future” Hanks and Fred “Showtime” Allen battling in the ten round main event for the NABA Heavyweight Title. “Having…
Scotland’s top boxer on the world scene, Ricky Burns, will place his WBO lightweight crown at risk this Saturday night against popular London icon Kevin Mitchell at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. 27 year old Dagenham resident Mitchell, 33-1 (24), hasn’t boxed north of the border since 2005 and this will be his…
World-ranked junior middleweight Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade (18-0, 13 KOs) displayed his entire arsenal tonight, stopping Alexis “Hurricane” Hloris (16-4-2, 12 KOs) in the second round, headlining the11th annual Fight To Educate Pro-Am card at Verizon Wireless Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. The 24-year-old Andrade, a 2008 U.S. Olympian, dropped Fernandez early in the second…
The IBF Welterweight Championship bout between Devon Alexander and Randall Bailey has been added to boxing’s debut event at Brooklyn, New York’s Barclays Center on Saturday, October 20. An already star-studded fight card now features four compelling world championship bouts with titlists in the 140, 147 and 160-pound divisions defending their belts. An undercard featuring…