Credit: Mark Jones A Birmingham Boxing Trainer is helping young people get a better start in life by providing a new children’s class that teaches boxing, fitness and nutrition. Paul Webb (WBC Fight Club) is a boxing trainer offering one-to-one sessions for Pro-Boxers and anyone wanting to learn boxing. Based out of the Butcher’s Shop…
Lucas Matthysse powered his way through previously undefeated Olusegun Ajose to claim the WBC Interim Super Lightweight Championship Saturday night on Showtime from The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Matthysse’s power proved to be too much for the game Ajose and after a fantastic display of courage from both fighters,…
Middleweight Lee Crossland, who trains out of the Venture pro gym in Birkenhead, England, has turned professional this week. Crossland is making his debut on the Brian Rose vs. Vivian Harris undercard at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool on October 5th in a four round fight at middleweight (11st 6lbs). Damian Jones (Astley VIP pro…
The four boxers who’ll appear this Saturday, Sept. 8, live on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast, from Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nev. pronounced themselves fit and ready to go during Thursday’s final press conference. In what should be a terrific, hard-fought main event between two eager,…
K2 Promotions’ week got off to a sensational start this past Saturday, Sept. 1 as WBA/IBO Middleweight Champion Gennady Golovkin became the talk of the boxing world storming to a fifth round stoppage of European Champion Grzegorz Proksa in his highly anticipated US and HBO debut. This Saturday, Sept. 8, WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko…
Gary Shaw Productions and DiBella Entertainment’s, undefeated WBC # 1 ranked Super Lightweight contender, Olusegun Ajose (30-0, 14 KOs), is ready for his first main event, when he challenges, WBC #2 ranked clubber, Lucas Matthysse (31-2, 29 KO’s). On the line will be the vacant WBC Interim Super Lightweight Championship. The 12-round bout will be…
After arriving in the states from Germany this week, promoter Gary Shaw reflects on the incredible week he had with Daniel “Real Deal” Geale and his team as the days led up to their big win against Felix Sturm. Already the IBF Champion, Geale added Sturm’s WBA title, becoming the first Australian born fighter to…
It has been announced by Matchroom Sport that newly crowned IBF and two time WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch will be making the maiden defence of his IBF Super Middleweight title against two time world title challenger Yusaf Mack of the United States at the Nottingham Arena on November 17th. The 35-year-old Froch won…
Matthew Macklin checks in with a training diary after touching down in Las Vegas ahead of his Sin City debut when he takes on former World Champion Joachim Alcine at the Thomas & Mack Center on September 15th. The bout is live on HBO Pay Per View in the US and Primetime Pay Per view…
Edison Miranda touched down in London with a warning for Tony Bellew ahead of their clash on Saturday live on Sky Sports in ‘London Calling’ – telling the Liverpool man he will not be standing by the end of the fight. Bellew and Miranda in a mouth-watering bill-topper in north London, kicking off Sky Sports’…
Sergey Rabchenko will make the first defence of his European light-middleweight title against Cedric ‘Titi’ Vitu. The French southpaw, 27, is the mandatory challenger for the unbeaten Belarussian’s crown and the match has been ordered by the EBU. Vitu has won 35 of his 36 professional contests, with his only loss a majority points defeat…
The negotiating period granted for the fight between Celestino “Pelenchin†Caballero, WBA Featherweight title holder, and the mandatory challenger, Nicholas Walters, is finished, the World Boxing Association has opened the fight to Purse Bid. The Bidding will take place on September 13, at 11 a.m, at the World Boxing Association Offices located at Ave. Aquilino…