Boxing 360 has announced today that it has signed unbeaten welterweight prospect Vitaliy “Demyan†Demyanenko (19-0, 12 KOs) to an exclusive promotional contract. “We’re looking forward to introducing Vitaliy to a big Kazak community in New York City, in addition to Russian boxing fans living there,†Boxing 360 Founder/CEO Mario Yagobi announced.
Matthew Macklin hopes that the uproar surrounding his controversial points defeat to WBA Middleweight Champion Felix Sturm in Germany at the weekend will decrease the chances of David Haye suffering a similar fate against Wladimir Klitschko in Hamburg this Saturday. Macklin appeared to have done more than enough to rip Sturm’s title away in front…
Floyd “Money” Mayweather and “Vicious” Victor Ortiz will hold a special event and evening press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 29 to officially announce their WBC Welterweight Championship fight taking place Saturday, Sept. 17 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Nineteen-year-old Toka Kahn-Clary, of Providence, qualified to compete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials by capturing a Silver Medal at last week’s 2011 USA Boxing National Championships in Colorado Springs. Kahn-Clary, who now sports a 76-8 amateur career record, travels again later this week to compete in the final Pan-American Games Qualifier in Panama City….
Advance tickets are now on sale for the next United Boxers Event on Saturday, July 16th at the D.C. Star Nightclub with another evening of world class professional boxing featuring the area’s finest prospects and contenders. Headlining will be undefeated super middleweight prospect Alexander “The Great†Johnson, 11-0-0 (4KO’s) of Oxon Hill , Maryland with…
Saturday night, former heavyweight title challenger, Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson, added another win to his record, scoring a first round knockout over Harold Sconiers in the main event at the Elder Entertainment Center in Decatur, Georgia. It was the third consecutive win, and second by knockout, since Johnson’s decision loss in his first heavyweight championship opportunity…
Junior middleweight rising star Denis “Da Momma’s Boy†Douglin will return to the squared circle Saturday, July 9 when he battles an opponent to be named at Atlantic City’s famed Boardwalk Hall. The bout will be his first since a shocking defeat against cement fisted spoiler Doel Carrasquillo in February. Since his lone setback, Douglin,…
Denver’s Mike Alvarado will risk his WBC Continental Americas super lightweight title, his undefeated record and his Top-10 world rating when he takes on Gabriel Martinez in a homecoming rumble, his first in over two years, on Saturday, July 30, at Softball Country in Denver, CO. The vacant IBF Latino junior welterweight title will also…
© Click the above image for more images from Jane Warburton Last night, at the George Carnall Leisure Centre, Manchester, Steve Wood / VIP Promotions hosted a five-card fightnight. The headliner should have been between Martyn Grainger and Nick Okoth, but a last minute change of opponent saw Grainger facing Howard Daley instead. Mark Evans…
IBF light heavyweight kingpin Tavoris Cloud stopped challenger Yusaf Mack while IBF light middle boss Cornelius Bundrage gained revenge in a rematch against rival Sechew Powell last night at Family Arena in St. Charles, MO. Cloud had to wait a few rounds before he could get to grips with fleet-of-foot challenger Mack, who used good…
WBC lightweight champion Humberto Soto engaged in a no-holds barred thriller last night with challenger Motoki Sasaki, keeping his title at Parque Andres Quintana Roo in Cozumel, Mexico. 35 year old challenger Sasaki came into the bout as reigning OPBF light welter beltholder but the veteran had also held the Japanese 140 pound belt along…
For 12 rounds tonight at Cologne, Germany’s Lanxess Arena, WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm and challenger Matthew Macklin waged a slugfest that could have been fought in a coat closet. The early rounds belonged to Macklin, who stayed on Sturm’s chest, whipping in torrid hook, uppercut and body shot combinations that the champion struggled to…