Adam Etches believes teaming up with the renowned Ingle family will help take him to the next level. The unbeaten Sheffield light-middleweight prospect splits his training time between Bob Shannon’s HQ at Hatton Health and Fitness, Hyde, and the Ingles – Wincobank gym. Brendan and Dominic Ingle have been brought in after Etches recently split…
Ricky “The Hitman”: Hatton has been successful in applying to the British Boxing Board of Control for his seconds and trainers licences. The former two-weight world champion is now looking forward to training a successful stable of boxers based at the Hatton Health and Fitness gym in Hyde. Hatton, 32, who passed a battery of…
Undefeated junior middleweight Captain Boyd “Rainmaker†Melson of New York City will make his Atlantic City debut Saturday, October 1 at Boardwalk Hall. Melson, a West Point graduate, will face an opponent to be named in a six round special attraction bout prior to an HBO doubleheader headlined by the middleweight title showdown between champion…
Showtime will televise yet another important super middleweight world championship bout when former world titlist Mikkel Kessler of Denmark returns to the ring to challenge WBO kingpin Robert Stieglitz of Germany on Saturday, Nov. 5, from renowned Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark.
WBC Super-Middleweight champion Carl “The Cobra†Froch will perform the first ever live fight-night draw at tomorrow’s sold-out Prizefighter Light-Middleweights II at Bethnal Green’s York Hall, live on Sky Sports 1 and HD1. The Nottingham star will lead the eight contenders to the ring with none of the fighters knowing who they will face in…
War is on the horizon for Curtis Woodhouse and Jason Cook, as the two hard-hitting light-welterweights prepare for a ten-round showdown at the Magna Centre in Rotherham on Saturday, November 26. Considered two of the most exciting boxers on the British Isles, Woodhouse and Cook meet in Rotherham with one eye on producing a Fight…
Gary Sykes insists he will prove that Gary Buckland got lucky when he stopped him in one round last year. The British super-featherweight champion is eyeing revenge when he risks his British super-featherweight title against the Welshman in a rematch at Ponds Forge Arena on Saturday September 24.
For the first time, HBO transforms the HBO Zone channel into a fight-day boxing destination with an unprecedented six-hour block of Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz fight-related programming just hours before their electric pay-per-view showdown in Las Vegas.
Southern Area Cruiserweight Champion Leon ‘Solid’ Williams gets his first outing of the new season, against Battersea’s fighting fireman Nick ‘The Ox’ Okoth, at the Miranda Carter and Bruce Baker co-promoted ‘Great Expectations’ event at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, this coming Sunday.
This Wednesday night’s big card at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark just got bigger as a battle of two undefeated Heavyweight was just added when John Lennox will take on former world amateur champion Joey Dawejko have agreed to square off in a four round bout. The card is promoted by Vincent Ponte’s Gulfstream…
British Super Flyweight Champion Lee Haskins tops the bill in a star-studded Prizefighter Super Flyweights at Liverpool Olympia on Wednesday 12 October, live on Sky Sports. Former English and Commonwealth champ Haskins will be severely tested on the night with St. Helens’ unbeaten English Bantamweight champion Craig Lyon and hotly fancied unbeaten English flyweight champion…
Ricky Hatton has taken over from his father Ray as head of the Hatton group. The former world light-welterweight and welterweight champion insists he can take the organisation from strength to strength after his dad’s decade at the helm. Ricky, 32, who will oversee a mushrooming empire which includes a clothing brand, a private members…