Bernard Hopkins, WBC Light Heavyweight World Champion: “I’m a throw back. I live in a time where it is so microwavable that there is no time to cook, season, chop or marinate any more. I’m the last of a dying [expletive] breed. They were calling me old when I beat Trinidad 11 years ago. “Sticks…
Before future Hall of Famer Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins steps into the ring to defend his WBC light heavyweight title against “Bad” Chad Dawson this Saturday, April 28 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, fans will be treated to a full slate of undercard action that includes a heavyweight showdown between Seth “Mayhem”…
If the Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley, Jr. WBO Welterweight Championship pay-per-view undercard was a poker hand it would be two pairs of world title fighters, Arce High! Six gladiators will be going mano a mano in two world championship rumbles and a 10-round junior featherweight brawl.
Former IBF junior welterweight champion Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi (30-4, 6 KOs) is excited that his world title challenge this Sunday against WBA welterweight champ Vyacheslav Senchenko (32-0, 21 KOs) is airing live in the United States on Integrated Sports Meida pay-per-view, live from Donbass Arena in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Undefeated middleweight contender Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin plans to crack Ronald “Winky” Wright’s defensive shell, in addition to possibly becoming the first to knockout the four-time light middleweight champion, June 2 in their 10-round Showtime co-feature at Home Depot Center in Carson, California. “I love crabmeat,” Quillin said. “It’s in a shell and you have…
Fresquez Productions held a press conference today to announce the much-anticipated June 15 rematch between French knockout-artist Anne Sophie Mathis and Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm, universally considered the two best female boxers in the world, at Route 66 Casino Hotel in Albuquerque.
Ryan Rhodes is confident the gulf in class between him and Sergey Rabchenko will show in their ‘Road To Glory’ showdown. Sheffield’s Rhodes (46-5) attempts to regain the European light-middleweight crown when he meets Rabchenko (20-0) for the vacant title at Manchester Velodrome on Saturday 16th June.
Scotty Cardle laces the gloves up for his second pro outing on Friday night as the Team GB star fights on the undercard of Tony Bellew’s British light heavyweight title defence against Danny McIntosh, live on Sky Sports 1HD. Cardle made his pro bow on the undercard of Kell Brook’s welterweight showdown with Matthew Hatton…
The eight fighters in the all-Irish Prizefighter Middleweights came face-to-face at the stunning surroundings of the world famous Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, for the Sky Sports promotional shoot today (April 24). In under two weeks time the King’s Hall in Belfast will be packed to the rafters as they fight for the title and…
On Saturday night at El Paso, TX’s Don Haskins Center, Abner Mares punched his way into the super bantam ranks with a strong performance against veteran Eric Morel, capturing the vacant WBC belt. Having left the bantamweight ranks, where he had held the IBF, IBO and WBC Silver crowns, Mares faced a sharp operator in…
WBA super middle king Karoly Balzsay turned back the ambitions of Dimitri Sartison this past Saturday on a massive fight card at the Sport and Congress Center in Schwerin, Germany. Both Balzsay and Sartison are veterans of the 168 pound European scene with Sartison having been a past holder of the WBA belt over 2009-1010…
A mix of boxing legends, undefeated contenders and a current world champion converged in Los Angeles for a wild, emotional and often heated press conference on Monday to formally announce the upcoming Saturday, June 2 Quadrupleheader live on Showtime from The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. Former light heavyweight kingpin and current Showtime ringside…