As female boxing gets ready to debut at the Olympics, nearly 45,000 people have joined a campaign on Change.org demanding that female boxers be given the right to choose whether to wear shorts or skirts in the ring. Last year, the Amateur International Boxing Association (IABA) suggested to its national federations that wearing skirts would…
WBO featherweight champion Orlando “Siri†Salido and former WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel “Juanma†Lopez will finally square off for their World Featherweight Championship rematch, Saturday, March 10. Their battle will be televised live from Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, P.R. on Showtime Championship Boxing, beginning at 10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West…
Belarussian sensation Sergey Rabchenko is confident of ending Ryan Rhodes’ big time boxing career. The Hatton Promotions stable-mates will meet for the vacant European light-middleweight title in Ryan’s hometown – Sheffield, on Saturday March 24 at Ponds Forge Arena.
Last night at Baden Arena in Offenburg, Germany, WBO super middle king Robert Stieglitz retained his title for the fifth time by outpointing the vastly less experienced Henry Weber, who was making his debut at world level. It was a slow first round, with the boxers feeling each other out with jabs but Stieglitz did…
The major participants of the February 25 St. Louis fight card, featuring Devon Alexander against Marcos Maidana at welterweight and Adrien Broner vs. Eloy Perez at junior lightweight, met the press yesterday about their upcoming showdown at Scottrade Center.
Katie Taylor scooped the Boxer of the Year award at the Irish Amateur Boxing Association Annual Awards at the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin last night. The Bray woman, the current AIBA World lightweight champion, claimed her fifth European title in-a-row and her fourth European Union gold medal on-the-trot in 2011, the IABA’s Centenary year.
This is an editorial piece on the five most wanted fights for 2012. I will include for each fight the potential outcome, as I see it. The list will be undoubtedly topped by the prospective mega-showdown between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., though no-one that covers boxing is holding their breath. 1. Manny Pacquaio…
After a sound and fair analysis of the facts contained in the appeal filed by Golden Boy Promotions on behalf of Amir Khan with respect to the outcome of the December 10, 2011 WBA and IBF world title fight between Khan and Lamont Peterson, the WBA has ordered that an immediate rematch take place within…
The first Ring 8 monthly meeting of the year will be held Tuesday evening, Jan. 17 at 7 PM/ET, featuring a trio of guest speakers representing the upcoming 85th annual Daily News Golden Gloves Tournament, at the historic Waterfront Crabhouse in Long Island City.
Middleweight contender and New York City native Giovanni “EL Chico Malo†Lorenzo has heard the rumors about a proposed Andy Lee/Peter Quillin bout for St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. The proposed bout would take place on the HBO televised undercard of the Middleweight World Championship bout between Sergio…
Boyd “Rainmaker†Melson will face his most experienced foe to date when he battles Shawn Rawley Wilson in a six round junior middleweight bout Saturday, January 21 at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom. Hailing from Omaha, NE, Wilson’s faced a number of quality opponents including contenders DeAndre Latimore, Grzegorz Proksa and Jesus Gonzalez. In his…
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the massive earthquake that hit Haiti, leaving the country devastated and in shambles, but for former two-time welterweight champion Andre Berto, who will be squaring off against “Vicious” Victor Ortiz on February 11 in a rematch of one of the best fights of 2011, it still seems like just…