Captain Boyd “Rainmaker†Melson of New York City will fight for a second straight time in the Garden State when he battles an opponent to be named in a six round junior middleweight contest Thursday, November 17 at North Bergen’s Schuetzen Park. Melson, a West Point graduate and active Army Reserve officer, is fresh off…
Don King’s world championship boxing event tonight has officially sold out just hours before doors open in Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla. “I want to thank our partners at the Seminole Hard Rock in South Florida, the Seminole Tribe of Florida and their Chairman James Billie,…
“Capital Showdown: Khan vs. Peterson” just got more exciting with the announcement that undefeated American heavyweight Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell will make his HBO debut against tough contender Timur Ibragimov in the co-featured bout to the Unified Super Lightweight World Championship between champion Amir “King” Khan and No. 1-rated IBF Contender and Washington, DC’s own Lamont…
It’s a Bonfire night double bill tonight when two title fights take place at the new Wembley Arena in London. The super middleweight division in this country is currently a hotbed of talent. We have the Olympic Gold medallist James DeGale and on Saturday, two more domestic rivals take centre stage when George Groves meets…
Super middleweight Lucian Bute will look to celebrate his fourth year as IBF champion as he puts his crown at risk against former IBF/IBO light heavyweight champion Glen Johnson at Quebec City’s Pepsi Coliseum. For 31 year old southpaw Bute, 29-0 (24), this could turn out to be his most difficult test to date as…
In front of hundreds of spirited onlookers at Laurier Quebec Place, IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute weighed in at 167.5 pounds while title challenger and ageless wonder Glen “The Road Warrior†Johnson tipped the scales at 166.5 pounds, just one day before their Showtime Championship Boxing showdown from Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City on…
Super welters Alfredo Angulo and James Kirkland tangle tonight at the Cancun Center in Cancun, Mexico with the WBC Continental Americas belt at stake in a bout that also serves as a WBC semi-final. WBC Super Welterweight Semi-Final, 12 rounds Alfredo Angulo: 154 lb James Kirkland: 153 lb
Chris “The Nightmare” Arreola (33-2, 28 KOs) and Ralph “The Silencer” Butler (35-11, 28 KOs) took to the scales Friday afternoon to weigh in for their highly anticipated fight tomorrow night at El Domo De La Feria in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. Arreola scaled 239 lb while Butler tipped the beam at 255 lb.
British boxing sensation and reigning WBA and IBF light-welterweight champion Amir ‘King’ Khan will be ringside as a guest commentator for Primetime, Channel 480 on Sky, when his stablemate Manny Pacquiao faces off against the Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez next Saturday night.
Dublin born Jamie “The Nuisance” Kavanagh is a talented young Irish boxer based in Los Angeles, California who fights out of the Golden Boy Promotions stable and currently trains at the Wild Card Gym under legendary trainer Freddie Roach and Sedano Ruiz. Kavanagh is a natural in the truest sense of the word; few individuals…
The Khodynka Ice Palace in Moscow is the venue tonight when a slimmed down James Toney faces Denis Lebedev in a fight for the interim WBA Cruiserweight championship. For Toney , this is his first venture back to the cruiserweight division in over eight years. In his last fight in that division in April, 2003…
Coachella Valley and Los Angeles-area rising stars are ready to shine on Friday night at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif., as Golden Boy Promotions is pleased to announce the entire lineup for the card featuring the middleweight showdown between former World Champion Sergio “The Latin Snake” Mora and longtime contender Shibata Flores. The…