This Friday, Oct 21, Golden Boy Promotions and Cavazos Boxing return to the Rio Grande Valley with an event featuring one of the top young lightweights in the game today. Unbeaten Albuquerque native Fidel Maldonado Jr. (11-0, 10 KO’s) squares off against Puerto Rico’s Erick Cruz (13-7-3, 13 KO’s) in a clash of knockout artists…
In a highly anticipated rematch of one of the year’s most talked about and exciting fights, unbeaten rising star Abner Mares will defend his IBF and WBC Silver Bantamweight Championship titles against the boxer he dethroned, former two-time IBF 118-pound champion Joseph King Kong Agbeko, in the main event on Showtime Championship Boxing on Saturday,…
This Saturday night two members of the Star Boxing stable will be on display as Welterweight Shamone Alvarez and Super Middleweight Jason Escalera will be featured as part of a big night of boxing at the Tropicana Casino and Resort. The card, promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing will be headlined by undefeated Jr. Welterweight…
Rhys Roberts says that beating Choi in the final of the Prizefighter Featherweights tournament live on Sky Sports 1 and HD1 on Saturday 29 October will put him on the boxing map in Britain. The 22 year-old completes the line up for the 22nd edition of Matchroom Sport’s revolutionary eight-man, one night event and with…
Matchroom Sport are delighted to announce that European Middleweight champion Grzegorz Proksa has extended his promotional deal with the company. The unbeaten Polish fighter claimed the vacant European strap after forcing the retirement of Sebastian Sylvester and his dominant display in Germany at the start of the month has seen the 26 year-old become hot…
Gary Buckland will make the first defence of his British super-featherweight title against Paul Truscott at Newport Centre on Saturday November 26. It has meant an immediate return to the gym for Hatton Promotions’ Cardiff sensation who took the title from Gary Sykes in a Fight of the Year candidate last month.
It’s been a busy time for boxing in the UK. This weekend, the annual Beechcomber Club event saw Grimsby Boxer – Kevin Hooper win the vacant British Masters Lightweight Title – outpointing Devon man – Jamie Speight. Also on the Carl Greaves Bill – Cuban born Alexei Collado of Ireland outpointed Franklin Varela of Venezuala…
The co-feature between unbeaten Columbian welterweight Samuel Vargas (7-0-1, 1 KO) and outspoken Ahmad Cheikho (6-3-2, 5 KOs), despite neither being natives of Canada, perhaps, best illustrates the provincial rivalry theme between Toronto and Quebec for the October 22 show, headlined by the NABA super featherweight title fight pitting Logan Cotton McGuinness and Benoit Gaudet…
On Friday October 21 at the Brandenburg Halle in Frankfurt, Germany, undefeated WBF Women’s Middleweight Champion Christina Hammer (10-0, 7 KOs) will defend her title against American Vashon Living (5-1, 1 KO). In what will be Hammer’s second defense of the WBF title, the pair will square off on a show promoted by Ulf Steinforth…
One of the UK’s most popular Cruiserweight Champions of the recent past, Bruce ‘Lionheart’ Scott, becomes the latest big name to pledge support for Steatham’s Leon ‘Solid’ Williams, ahead of his British Cruiserweight title battle against reigning Champ Rob Norton at the York Hall, in Bethnal Green, this coming Friday.
The captain of the 1996 U.S. Boxing Team, Lawrence Clay-Bey, will be inducted into the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame (CBHOF) with six others at the seventh annual CBHOF gala induction dinner Saturday, October 29 in the Uncas Ballroom at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville.
Tickets are now on sale as ‘The Polish Prince†Andrzej Fonfara returns to the boxing ring on Friday, December 16th headlining Windy City Fight Night 20 at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion, it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions.