Star Boxing’s popular heavyweight contender Vinny Maddalone of Flushing, Queens, returned to the ring on Wednesday night, May 2nd, in a memorable battle against Chris Koval in the headliner of the Sold Out VIP Boxing III event at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, New York.
Paul McCloskey says he must win impressively against ‘Chop Chop’ DeMarcus Corley tomorrow night to land another World title shot. Dudey faces the former World champion as the main event on a huge night of boxing at Belfast’s King’s Hall, with the former unbeaten European welterweight king facing Chop Chop after the all-Irish Prizefighter Middleweights…
Undefeated WBC Middleweight Champion Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. will return to the boxing metropolis of El Paso, Texas for the first time in nearly six years, headlining “Viva Chávez!†on Saturday, June 16, at Sun Bowl Stadium. After initial concerns from The University of Texas System regarding the world championship event from taking place at…
Recently it was announced that Polish two-weight world Champion Tomasz Adamek and American world title challenger Eddie Chambers are to face off against each other on the 16th June at the Prudential Centre in Newark, New Jersey, the state in which the Zywiec born Adamek currently calls home where he is currently trained by Roger…
On Saturday night Hove’s Ben Murphy successfully defended his Southern Area Lightweight title, against Waltham Abbey’s unbeaten Phil ‘The Phil Gill Experience’ Gill, in emphatic fashion. Ben, who is trained by Johnny Eames and Barry Smith at the Trad TKO Boxing Gym in Canning Town, made short work of this his third defense, of the…
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.