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…
Day two of press conferences at La Cage Aux Sports here attracted another strong media turnout as rising Canadian junior welterweight star Pier-Olivier Côté and the more-experienced Jorge Luis Teron discussed their 12-round co-featured bout on Showtime Championship Boxing this Saturday, Nov. 5, from the Pepsi Coliseum live on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed…
Undefeated heavyweight prospect “Vicious†Vincent Thompson (9-0-0, 2 KOs) puts his undefeated record on the line against Jonte “Rock Steady†Willis (8-1-1, 3 KOs) at the 84th installment of the “Battle at the Boat†professional boxing series Saturday, November 5, 2011 at the Emerald Queen Casino.
Bob Arum: We are very, very excited as we wind down to the much anticipated Manny Pacquiao – Juan Manuel Márquez fight. The promotion has been a long journey – the promotion started in September in the Philippines and along the way went to México City and then both fighters continued on in their training….
Don King hosted the final press conference today for his world championship fight card on Saturday in Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (WealthTV 8 p.m. ET/PT) in Hollywood, Fla. The main event will feature Guillermo “El Felino†Jones (37-3-2, 29 KOs) defending his WBA cruiserweight title against WBA No….
Top Rank president Todd DuBouef has recently spread the word that he would love to match Cuban phenomenon Yuriorkis Gamboa (21-0, 16 kos) with hard-hitting WBA lightweight champion Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios (29-0-1, 21 kos) sooner or later. “I have seen some tapes of Rios and all I can say is that Gamboa is ready…