Ghana’s German-based Ben Nsafoah went into the lions den – and tamed the lion to snatch the vacant WBF Intercontinental cruiserweight crown Saturday night in Tuebingen, Germany by inflicting the first pro defeat on local favourite Bjoern Blaschke.
Troy James revealed that former manager Barry McGuigan convinced him to lay his unbeaten record on the line and enter the Prizefighter Featherweights tournament on Saturday, live on Sky Sports. The Coventry man, 9-0-1 since turning pro in, parted with the former World Featherweight king this spring after finding it hard to get fights, but…
Unbeaten British Welterweight star Kell Brook will make his debut on American soil on December 17 as part of the undercard of Carl Froch’s Super Six final against Andre Ward at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Brook took his unbeaten record to 25 fights two weeks ago with a punch-perfect sixth round stoppage of…
Stourbridge man – Rob Norton lost his British Cruiserweight Title on Friday night to Londoner – Leon ‘Solid’ Williams. The Francis and George Warren’s Queensberry Promotions event at York Hall, Bethnal Green, saw a packed out crowd of mainly Williams supporters. Norton’s awkward ‘open’ Southpaw style proved tricky for Williams who got off to a…
Saturday night at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, NJ unbeaten welterweight prospect Raymond ‘Tito’ Serrano of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, traveled through ten rounds of hell to decision veteran Angel ‘White Tiger’ Rios of Bronx, New York. The ten round main event promoted by Star Boxing was the televised boxing debut card of Azteca America’s new boxing…
Bantamweight Nonito Donaire kept hold of his WBC and WBO belts last night at the WaMu Theater in New York’s famed Madison Square Garden with a 12 round points verdict against undefeated WBO super flyweight champ Omar Andres Narvaez. The first round essentially provided the framework of every stanza that followed as Donaire threw punches…
Marco Huck kept hold of his WBO cruiserweight title earlier tonight with a thumping KO of challenger Rogelio Omar Rossi at The Arena in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Southpaw Rossi came into the bout with the Interim WBO Latino, South American and Argentine titles in tow but that same resume was utterly devoid of world level opponents,…
With a dominant performance, WBF Women’s Middleweight Champion Christina Hammer remained undefeated and retained her title for the second time Friday night at the Brandenburg Halle in Frankfurt, Germany. Hammer, now 11-0 with seven wins inside the distance, unanimously outscored American Vashon Living by scores of 100-90 twice (Stefano Carrozza and Manfred Kuechler) and 99-91…
Raymond Serrano remained perfect as he scored an exciting ten round unanimous decision over Angel Rios at the Tropicana Casino & Resort. The card was promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing and was the first show on Azteca America’s new televised boxing series “Boxeo Azteca”
Katie Taylor claimed her fifth European lightweight title on-the-trot with a composed victory over Sofya Ochigava at the 8th European Women’s Championships in Rotterdam this evening. The Irish three-time World champion was rarely troubled before being handed a 10-5 decision over the Russian two-time World champion after four, two minutes rounds of tonight’s 60Kg final.
He has always been known as one of the most exciting Heavyweights in the world due to his never say die attitude but now Vinny Maddalone wants his shot. Maddalone (33-7, 24 KO’s), who fights Mike Sheppard (20-12-1, 9 KO’s) tonight at the Tropicana Casino & Resort knows that he could be just a couple…
Tonight’s fight at the Tropicana Casino, Heavyweight Chazz Witherspoon will get back in action after a lengthy hiatus when he takes on Ty Cobb (14-2, 8 KO’s) in an eight round bout that will be part of a card promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing.