Former amateur standout Junior Wright continues his rise as a light heavyweight prospect to watch on Friday, February 24th as he returns to action at Windy City Fight Night 21 at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion. Windy City Fight Night 21 is presented by Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions, celebrating 14 years in business.
Boxing has always made for great drama. And in the history of the sweet science, there are few fighters who can match Roberto Duran’s flair for the dramatic. Whether he won or lost, a Duran fight was an event that transcended boxing and crossed cultural boundaries.
One of Ontario’s best amateur boxers, undefeated featherweight prospect Tyler Asselstine (8-0, 5 KOs), has a second home in Montreal, where he fights Saturday night for the sixth time during his young pro career, against unbeaten Italian boxer Nicola Cipolletta (8-0, 2 KOs).
Undefeated Flyweight prospect Patricia “Patty Boom Boom†Alcivar 5-0 (3KO) is ready to make a big statement while showing the boxing world what she is made of. Alcivar will face Brooklyn’s Keisher McLeod 4-2(1KO), as a part of Lou Dibellas Broadway Boxing, at BB King Blues Club & Grill, New York, New York on Wednesday…
Team Oliveira has collectively decided to drop undefeated WBC South American middleweight champion Michael “The Brazilian Rocky” Oliveira down one weight class to junior middleweight, starting with his Brazilian mega-fight against four-time world champion Acelino “Popo” Freitas, which is tentatively scheduled for May 19 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Greg Proksa will defend his European middleweight title against Kerry Hope on March 17 at the Motorpoint Arena Sheffield, live on Sky Sports. The unbeaten Redhill-based Pole will take on the Welshman as part of a top class undercard ahead of Kell Brook’s welterweight showdown with Matthew Hatton, defending his title for the first time…
This week in a notice published by the British Boxing Board of Control, newly crowned British Cruiserweight Champion Shane McPhilbin has been scheduled to fight former WBO and European Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Maccarinelli on the 23rd March at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton. The 26-year-old McPhilbin from Bulwell in Nottinghamshire won the prestigious British title…
In a world with many sanctioning bodies, championship belts, and title bouts of all kinds, it is often surprising when a new boxing organization ‘pops up’ out of the blue and sanctions bouts. Different organizations have different motivations and reasons for coming into existence and putting together title fights at the junior, local, regional, national,…
Salvador Sanchez II, the nephew of the late legendary World Boxing Council featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez, won his ninth consecutive bout on Saturday, February 11, 2012, at Deportivo Del Sindicato Del Metro in Mexico City, Mexico, retaining the WBC Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) title for the third time with an eighth round stoppage of challenger…
Veteran light middleweight boxer Angel ‘Toro’ Hernandez, who was knocked out at 1:39 of the second round by Demetrius Andrade in the main event of a seven bout card at Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, Connecticut, on Saturday, February 11, 2012, has been suspended from fighting for 90 days by Mohegan Tribe Department of Athletic Regulation…
Reigning NABF lightweight champion “Hammerin’†Hank Lundy has heard all the threats from Dannie Williams as the two prepare to face one another for Lundy’s title on Friday, March 30th, 2012 at Foxwoods Resort Casino’s MGM Grand Theater.
Colombian-born boxer Samuel Vargas has found a home in Mississauga, Ontario, where he packed the house last Saturday night and captured the Canadian welterweight title, knocking out dangerous Manolis Plaitis at Hershey Centre. Vargas-Plaitis headlined a stellar card presented by United Promotions in association with Hennessy Sports.