With wins in four of his last five fights, all by knockout, Mexico’s Heriberto Ruiz is in top-notch form in his mission to hand unbeaten featherweight phenom Gary Russell Jr. his first professional defeat in the 10-round chief undercard support bout of this Saturday’s “Home For The Holidays” card at U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati,…
One of Ontario’s best amateur boxers, undefeated featherweight prospect Tyler Asselstine, steps-up in class December 10 for his first scheduled eight-round bout against Frenchman Philippe Frenois at Bell Centre in Montreal. In his last action this past June in Ireland, Frenois (14-4-1) went the full 12-rounds, albeit in a losing effort, against undefeated Patrick Hyland…
WBA super middleweight champ Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KOs), trainer Virgil Hunter, and promoter Dan Goossen hosted members of the media at King’s Gym in Oakland, CA on Friday to discuss how his training camp has been going in preparation for his upcoming Showtime Super Six World Boxing Classic Final and world championship unification bout…
HBO and filmmaker Peter Berg will team up for the innovative new primetime series “On Freddie Roach”, directed and executive produced by Emmy nominee Berg (“Friday Night Lightsâ€). Presented by HBO and a co-production of Film 44 and Atticus Entertainment, the cinéma-vérité series focuses on Freddie Roach, the world-famous boxing trainer who owns and operates…
Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell will take the biggest step of his thus far unconventional professional boxing career on Saturday, Dec. 10 against Timur Ibragimov in the co-featured bout to the “Capital Showdown: Khan vs. Peterson” championship fight taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC which will be televised live on HBO’s…
Unified WBA and IBF light-welterweight champion Amir ‘King’ Khan has scooped the 2011 British Boxer of the Year gong at the annual awards ceremony held by the British Boxing Board of Control on Sunday. The event saw the Bolton star shake-off stiff competition from contenders such as Ricky Burns, Tyson Fury and George Groves, all…
The acclaimed Off Broadway production Kid Shamrock returns with an exclusive run of 10 performances at the TADA Theater from Friday, November 25 to Sunday December 4. The heart-wrenching and inspiring true story of middleweight contender “Irish” Bobby Cassidy will be directed by former WBO heavyweight champion, Michael Bentt.
Live world championship boxing returns to Epix when newly-minted undefeated WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin makes his first world title defense, against Cedric “The Boz†Boswell, Saturday, December 3. Presented by Sauerland Event, the live broadcast will emanate from Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland.
On Saturday, Barrie Jones (Ferndale, Wales) won the vacant Welsh Area Light Middleweight Title defeating Gary Cooper (Bargoed, Wales) on points. The ‘Inner Core Promotions’ show at Aberdare, Wales, featured five contests. Hatton Promotions hosted a fight-night at Lava & Ignite, Preston, which featured five four-round contests of local boxers. Enzo Maccarinelli made a welcome…
Middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr retained his belt for the first time by halting challenger Peter Manfredo Jr last night at Reliant Center in Houston, TX. Manfredo was aggressive from the start, throwing punches but the quicker Chavez nullified most of those efforts by either backing away or picking off the punches on his gloves….
IBF feather titlist Billy Dib had a short night’s work on Saturday at Homebush Sports Centre in Sydney, Australia, knocking out previously undefeated challenger Alberto Servidei. Dib, 26 years of age, was making the first defense of the title he won in July by outpointing Mexican veteran Jorge Lacierva and from the first bell was…
The Irish Amateur Boxing Association have named a six-man squad for next week’s Olympic Test Event in London. The tournament, which will be contested on a last-eight basis in each weight category, begins at the ExCel, the venue for boxing at the 2012 Olympic Games, next Thursday.