John Joe Nevin turned on the style to move to within one win of qualifying for his second Olympic Games in-a-row at the the AIBA World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan today. But Irish team captain Ken Egan bowed out after he was retired in the third round of his heavyweight clash with Cuba’s Jose Gomez-Larduet.
In June this year the Malta Boxing Commission became the official professional boxing sanctioning organisation for the Republic of Malta. Shortly after becoming affiliated with the European Boxing Union, MBC President Alexander Zammit expressed his desire to help aspiring Maltese pro boxers, by organising exchange programmes with overseas coaches and gyms.
Darren Barker has thanked fight fans for the ‘overwhelming response’ after his fantastic performance in his fight with middleweight king Sergio Martinez in Atlantic City on Saturday night. The 29 year-old returned to England on Monday after he announced his arrival at World class Middleweight level by taking the fight to the Argentine and answering…
WBC Diamond champion Sergio Martinez retained his title and standing as the world’s top middleweight last night with a KO over challenger Darren Barker but it wasn’t an easy fight at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. European titlist Barker kept composed in the face of the showy, hands down style of his far more experienced southpaw…
Former world champion Rafael Marquez hit a roadblock in his return to the super bantamweight division as the Mexican failed to lift the WBC title from Japan’s Toshiaki Nishioka at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV. Marquez started off well, keeping the champion on the defensive with good movement and some success with a hard…
IBF cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham lost his title last night on points at Jahnsportforum in Neubrandenburg, Germany when challenger Yoan Pablo Hernandez was declared unable to continue following a series of head clashes. The first round saw southpaw Hernandez come out aggressively and take the fight to Cunningham, who seemed to be getting a handle…
WBF Women’s Welterweight Champion Anne Sophie Mathis decisively defended her title Saturday night in Yutz, France when she beat Puerto Rican-American challenger Cindy Serrano by wide unanimous decision. After ten one-sided rounds, where Mathis controlled almost every second and put on a very impressive display of her boxing skills, judges Dominique Schmitt, Jean-Francois Toupin and…
Gavin Rees defended his European Lightweight title in at the Newport Centre in South Wales on Saturday night as a clash of heads in the fourth round left Derry Mathews with a broken nose and forced the contest to end in a technical draw. It was Rees’ first defence of the title and it was…
Click the above Image for more Photos from this Event Last night, at The Olympia, Liverpool, England, Steve Wood – VIP Promotions hosted a fight-night of eight contests, billed as ‘The Old, The New and the Brand New’. The headliner saw the return of Liverpool’s Courtney Fry, who hasn’t fought since his loss to Nathan…
Former two-weight world champion Rafael Marquez is back in action this evening as the Mexican bomber challenges Japan’s WBC super bantam titlist Toshiaki Nishioka at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV. Last November, ex-WBC super bantam and IBF bantam champion Marquez followed up his legendary four fight series with Israel Vasquez by challenging WBO featherweight…
David Oliver Joyce recorded Ireland’s second win of the day at the AIBA World Championships and Olympic qualifiers in Azerbaijan this morning. The St Michael’s Athy lightweight posted a 23-11 decision over Mohammad Momevand of Iran in Baku to set up a last-32 clash with Mohammad Khaiber of Afghanistan on Monday.
Ajose Olusegun earned a shot at WBC super lightweight champion and Mexican legend Erik Morales with a unanimous decision victory over Ali Chebah in Friday’s main event of ShoBox: The New Generation on Showtime from Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, Calif. In the ShoBox co-feature, No. 5-ranked WBA and 12th-ranked WBO lightweight Darley Perez…