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…
Rendall Munroe will face Japanese star – Ryuta Miyagi -at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge Arena on Saturday 24th September. The ten round non-title battle is chief support when Dewsbury’s Gary Sykes risks his British super-featherweight crown against Cardiff’s Gary Buckland. Munroe is no stranger to fighting boxers from the Land of the Rising Sun, having challenged…
Anthony Crolla will achieve a lifetime ambition when he boxes at the MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas, on Saturday night (Sept 17). Manchester’s British lightweight champion boxes a non-title eight rounder against Mexican – Juan Montiel, on the Victor Ortiz-Floyd Mayweather Jr undercard.
This Wednesday at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, Carlos Velez of Vineland, New Jersey is all set to make his pro debut when he takes on crowd favorite Vinny “The Lion” O’Brien as part of a big night of boxing that is promoted by Vincemt Ponte and Gulfstream Boxing and Gabe LaConte In the…
Paul McCloskey says he wants to challenge Marcos Maidana for the WBA Light Welterweight title in Belfast after defeating Breidis Prescott in a thrilling eliminator contest on Saturday night. The Dungiven fighter bounced back from a first round knockdown and a bloodied nose in the second round to secure a gritty win in front of…
Sheffield boxing’s best talent will fly the flag for the Steel city when Hatton Promotions roll into town later this month. Impressive prospects Adam Etches, Scott Jenkins, Richard Towers and Jezz Wilson are among the local hopefuls boxing at Ponds Forge Arena on Saturday September 24.
Universidad Autonoma in Guadalajara, Mexico was the site of a thrilling fight last evening that saw Juan Carlos Salgado survive a rocky final round to capture the vacant IBF super feather crown against Argenis Mendez. Salgado went into the bout having won two straight after losing the WBA super feather title to Takashi Uchiyama in…
In front of more than 42,000 fans at Stadion Miejski in Wroclaw, Poland, WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko put down IBF International/NABO strapholder Tomasz Adamek’s title challenge in dominant fashion. Coming into the bout at his lightest weight since 1998, Klitschko wasted no time in putting the much smaller ex-light heavy and cruiser world champion…
Undefeated ex-WBA and IBF featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa defeated heavy-handed former WBO super bantam titlist Daniel Ponce De Leon last night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. Delivering a toned-down cautious performance, likely out of respect to southpaw Ponce De Leon’s punching power, former Cuban amateur star Gamboa nonetheless put on a display of…