The undercard for Jimmy Burchfield’s “Up For Grabs†professional boxing event at Twin River Casino on Thursday, May 24, 2012 is beginning to take shape, and several of the featured bouts could steal the show from the highly-anticipated main event between Joey Spina and Vladine Biosse. The most notable bout is the six-round super middleweight…
World ranked contender Ola Afolabi is once again primed for battle this Saturday night, May 5th in the highly anticipated rematch against defending WBO Cruiserweight Champion Marco Huck at the Messehalle in Erfurt, Germany. On December 5, 2009, Afolabi, born in London, training out of Los Angeles, California, challenged Huck in Ludwigsburg, Germany, losing a…
The Irish women’s squad departed for China this morning, May 3rd, ahead of the opening bell for the 7th AIBA World Women’s Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Qinhuangdao. Flyweight Ceire Smith, lightweight Katie Taylor and middleweight Sinead Kavanagh will represent Ireland at the tournament which will also act as the first ever Olympic qualifying…
After hearing the allegations, the WBA Directorate decided Richard Abril would remain as Interim Champion. There were two strong allegations in this case; the first is based on Brandon “Bam Bam†Rios weight irregularities, and the second, based on the result of the fight held in Las Vegas. The result was a Split Decision; however,…
Carl Frampton will face Raul Hirales for the vacant IBF Inter Continental super bantamweight title at the Capital FM Arena in Nottingham on May 26. Frampton provides the chief support live on Sky Sports in the UK and broadcast in over 30 countries ahead of Carl Froch’s IBF super middleweight title clash with Lucian Bute.
The wait is finally over. After an injury-plagued 2011 campaign, Three-Division World Champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero will return to the ring on Saturday, July 28 at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. to face unbeaten power puncher Selcuk “Mini Tyson” Aydin for the vacant WBC Interim Welterweight Championship in a fight to be televised…
Ricky Hatton has vowed to give his talent stacked stable a new television home after Hatton Promotions split from Sky Sports. The boxing world was shocked when the television network decided not to give the European Promoters of the Year any further dates after their Manchester Velodrome super show on Saturday June 16.
In the co-main event and the final bout of the evening on an eight bout card at Resorts Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Yusaf Mack won the vacant USBA light heavyweight title, his fifth USBA win in six opportunities, and called out for a rematch with IBF champion Tavoris Cloud, or a…
In a battle of super middleweight southpaws at Resorts Hotel Casino Friday night, unbeaten middleweight prospect Derrick Webster, showboating with his hands down at times and showing contempt for his foreign opponent, got taken on a trip to boxing hell in the seventh round by opponent Sabou Ballogou, an 8-4 Togo fighter out of Paris,…
A mismatch between two welterweights on the undercard bout at Resorts Hotel and Casino on Saturday night, April 27, 2012, produced one of the most vicious and brutal of endings seen in Atlantic City in recent memory. Union City, New Jersey welterweight southpaw Juan ‘ The Beast’ Rodriguez Jr., now 9-0, (4), took on a…
The undercard at Resorts Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, featured the lively presence of HBO commentator Harold Lederman, on the night before the Boardwalk Hall televised fight card featuring the Bernard Hopkins versus Chad Dawson Light Heavyweight Title rematch. In a heavyweight mismatch, 21 year old cruiserweight Stivens Bujaj went to 8-0, (6),…
As the two super middleweights stood toe-to-toe for the first time since signing their respective names on the dotted line, the reality began to set in for both Vladine Biosse and Joey Spina. “Now I know it’s right there,†Spina said after chatting with reporters at Tuesday’s informal press gathering at the Providence Downtown Marriott….