Last night at US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, OH, local man Adrien Broner vaulted into the top class at super featherweight with a third round KO of Vicente Martin Rodriguez to annex the vacant WBO title. Argentine native Rodriguez wasted no time in displaying his intention to bring the fight to Broner but the 26…
Ken Egan and Con Sheehan claimed light-heavyweight and super-heavyweight gold following wins in the finals of the Olympic Test Event at the ExCel in London today. But Belfast middleweight Conrad Cummings had to settle for silver after he lost his 75Kg final to Russia’s Maxim Koptyakov.
The “unfinished business“ between WBC Silver welterweight champion Selcuk Aydin and Canada based Romanian Jo Jo Dan led to a dramatic 12 round battle on Saturday night in Trabzon, Turkey, which saw Selcuk Aydin scoring a close but clear unanimous decision win.
Carl Froch has signed a sponsorship deal with West Yorkshire fire and rescue supply company North Fire ahead of his Super-Middleweight unification showdown with Andre Ward on December 17 in Atlantic City. Froch puts his WBC belt on the line in the Super Six final at the Boardwalk Hall and is confident of defending his…
Kermit Cintron is one of those fighters, a fighter who is very capable but yet rarely fights at his full potential. When he does fight to his potential, he can be hard work for any top welterweight out there. Cintron, 33-4-1, Puerto Rican but fighting out of Houston Texas, also has 28 KO’s and so…
Earnie Dee Shaver (born August 31, 1945), better known as Earnie Shavers, is a retired American professional boxer and is widely considered the hardest puncher of all time. Muhammad Ali, Joe Bugner, Larry Holmes, Randall “Tex” Cobb, Ron Lyle and Ken Norton all credited Shavers as being the hardest puncher they had ever faced in…
Michael Nevin edged out Joel Scullion out on a countback in a cracking National Intermediate Championships bantamweight quarter-final at the National Stadium in Dublin tonight. Both boxers were tied at 13-13 at the final bell, but it was Nevin that got the nod on accepted scores at the end of three pulsating rounds.
WBC Silver welterweight champion Selcuk Aydin (22-0) and challenger Ionut “Jo Jo Dan” Ion (29-1) both made exactly the welterweight limit of 147 lbs (66.6 kg) at today’s weigh-in in Trabzon. Dan brought a lot of Romanian fans to Turkey – including IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute – who enthusiastically cheared for their compatriot….
Undefeated Canadian super featherweight Logan Cotton McGuinness has been named the NABA 2011 Fighter of the Year. “It’s a great honor for me to be chosen by the NABA as its Fighter of the Year,” McGuinness said. “I defended the NABA lightweight title twice since winning it in September (2010) and won the NABA super…
Earlier today Francis and George Warren officially announced that British Cruiserweight Champion Leon ‘Solid’ Williams will defend his newly acquired title, against Southern Area champion Tony ‘Conqueror’ Conquest, at York Hall in London on Friday 13th January 2012, and broadcast live and exclusive on BoxNation (Sky 456 & Virgin 546).
With my 30th Thanksgiving on God’s Green Earth finally here, I have more to be thankful for than ever before. The Clinical Stem Cell trial I’ve supported throughout my career is headed in the right direction and could help millions of Americans suffering from Spinal Cord Injuries.
WBA and IBA light heavyweight champion Beibut Shumenov is encouraged by media reports and quotes from WBO titlist Nathan Cleverly claiming he is agreeable to a unification fight in Las Vegas versus Shumenov. Shumenov (12-1, 8 KOs), a 2004 Kazakhstan Olympian, and former European champion Cleverly (23-0, 11 KOs) would match, respectively, a lawyer against…