Katie Taylor has received a bye into the quarter-finals at the Olympic Games. The number one seed will meet either Queen Underwood of the USA or Great Britain’s Natasha Jonas at the ExCel venue in London early next month looking to secure the win that will guarantee at least a bronze medal.
This Saturday night, July 28th, will mark the 20 Year Anniversary of Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing as they host “Rockin’ Fights 4″ at The Paramount in Huntington, New York. The event is headlined by ‘The Fighting Pride of Huntington, New York”, Chris Algieri and tough Texas fighter Raul Tovar in an eight round junior welterweight…
Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports scored a knockout victory in a New York City courtroom Thursday fighting on behalf No. 1-ranked lightweight “Hammerin’†Hank Lundy. On the eve of Lundy’s nationally-televised showdown with Mexican challenger Raymundo Beltran, inactive promoter Boxing 360 pushed for a last-minute preliminary injunction that would’ve cancelled Lundy’s NABF title defense…
From deep in the heart of Texas, Raul Tovar heads to New York City today to clash with “The Fighting Pride of Huntington”, Chris Algieri this Saturday night, July 28th at Star Boxing’s “Rockin’ Fights 4” at The Paramount in Huntington, New York. “I’m ready for war, I have no fear whatsoever about coming to…
After playing such a demanding role in one of British boxing’s most brutal performances in April this year, Driffield’s Curtis Woodhouse is ready to return to the stage he loves as he aims to return to winning ways on September 28th following his devastating knockout loss to Dale Miles.
Tony Bellew will face Edison Miranda at Alexandra Palace, North London on September 8 in an action packed bill with six title fights live on Sky Sports in ‘London Calling’. The Liverpool fighter tackles the two-time IBF super middleweight title challenger for the WBC International light heavyweight title in a co-headlining show with Darren Barker,…
Turkish welterweight contender Selcuk Aydin presented himself calm and confident at today’s final press conference for his WBC interim championship bout against Robert Guerrero this Saturday at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. Instead of renewing his threat to break Guerrero’s jaw, the reigning WBC Silver world champion said that he was no man of…
After the recent back injury suffered by former WBO Middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (20-0, 15 KOs), WBA Middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (23-0, 20 KOs) will now defend his title against highly regarded Grzegorz Proksa (28-1, 21 KOs) on Saturday night September 1, 2012 as the main event headlining HBO Boxing After Dark.
The much-anticipated showdown between undefeated IBF light heavyweight champion Tavoris Cloud (24-0, 19 KOs), of Tallahassee, Fla., and popular hometown favorite and former WBC light heavyweight titleholder Jean Pascal (26-2-1, 16 KOs), scheduled for August 11 live on Showtime Championship Boxing on Showtime, has been postponed to a later date due to a right-hand injury…
HBO Sports, known for its innovative, award-winning productions, sets the stage for the September super middleweight title fight between Andre Ward and Chad Dawson with the documentary special “24/7 Road To Ward/Dawson” debuts Saturday, Aug. 25 at midnight-12:30 a.m. ET/PT, exclusively on HBO.
The World Boxing Association family greets the former world champion Ricardo “Finito†López on his 46th birthday. Born in Cuernavaca, Mexico in 1966, Lopez began boxing when he was nine years old, when his father took him to a boxing gym and let him try. He turned pro when he was 19, winning his first…
The Irish boxing squad had a light training session at the Olympic Village this morning as the countdown to the opening bell for the 30th Olympiad begins in earnest. The squad will visit the ExCel, the venue for boxing at London 2012, this afternoon. Irish boxing is on familiar terms with the ExCel as an…