Showtime Sports has named award-winning sportscaster Barry Tompkins and renowned boxing historian Steve Farhood to serve as the announce team for the inaugural presentation of live undercard boxing on Showtime Extreme—Saturday, Feb. 18 live at 8 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast.
For 12 rounds last December, Lamont “Havoc†Peterson and Amir “King†Khan battled it out in one of the most compelling championship bouts of 2011. When it was over, controversy raged over the officiating and the final judges’ verdict, but in the end Peterson won a split decision capturing Khan’s world championship belts.
Click the above Image for more Photos from the Weigh In Kell Brook and Matthew Hatton will perform the live draw for Prizefighter Light Welterweights II at the sold-out Civic Hall in Wolverhampton, live on Sky Sports 1, HD1 and in 3D.
Unbeaten American five weight world Champion Floyd Mayweather Jnr will be fighting Puerto Rican icon and three weight world champion Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas on the 5th May at the MGM Grand in a challenge for Cotto’s WBA “Super†title at Light-Middleweight. Mayweather’s decision to fight Cotto puts back even further any possibility whatsoever…
Star Boxing president Joe DeGuardia has announced that former world title challenger Angel “Toro” Hernandez (30-10, 17 KOs) has replaced an ill Derek Ennis for Friday’s night’s main event against 2008 US Olympian Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade (15-0, 10 KOs) on ESPN Friday Night Fights at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
Matchroom Sport can confirm that the IBF have made Carl Froch the mandatory challenger to Lucian Bute and his super-middleweight title. The former two-time WBC champion had been linked to a “home and away†clash with Bute and now the 34 year-old looks set to challenge the Canadian for the title after the IBF installed…
United Promotions and Hennessy Sports will hold a public weigh-in and fighter face-off for fans, friends, and the media this Friday afternoon, February 10th, at 3:00PM at Real Sports Bar and Grill in Toronto, in advance of this Saturday’s Canadian Weterweight Title clash at Mississauga’s Hershey Centre.
No. 1-rated contender Mikey Garcia will risk his undefeated record, his NABF and NABO featherweight titles and his rating when he faces two-time world championship challenger Bernabe Concepcion on Saturday, March 10, at Coliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Within the past week reports have surfaced in the British sports media that states James DeGale, the former British Super-Middleweight Champion and current European Champion, has split with his promoter Frank Warren after four years. DeGale, who turned professional after winning gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics at Middleweight, becoming the first British fighter to…
Hennessy Sports have announced this morning that Tyson Fury has vacated his British and Commonwealth Heavyweight titles in pursuit of being a household name on his journey to become Heavyweight World Champion.
Grzegorz Proksa will defend his European middleweight title at the Motorpoint Arena Sheffield on March 17, live on Sky Sports. The unbeaten Pole defends the belt for the first time on the undercard of Kell Brook’s blockbusting welterweight clash against Matthew Hatton, after beating Sebastian Sylvester in Germany to claim the vacant strap in October.
Unbeaten Welterweight star – Kell Brook, has signed a sponsorship extension with Scotts Menswear, continuing his tenure for a second year as the face of the men’s branded clothing specialists. The arrangement will see the Sheffield champ continuing to endorse the clothing company and receiving the benefits from their extensive collection of garments. The deal…