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…
Headlining a huge show tonight at Family Arena in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, MO is the IBF light heavyweight title defense by reigning champion Tavoris Cloud against challenger Yusaf Mack. After winning his first 18 contests inside the distance, Cloud earned an IBF title eliminator ex-WBO titlist Julio Cesar Gonzalez in 2008…
Thursday night, at the Park Hotel, Sheffield (Chesterfield), Richard Poxon hosted a ‘sell-out’ Charity Fund-raising Fight-night and Dinner show. The 3-card event featured local Sheffield boxers and raised money for the Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity. The main event saw Adam ‘The Bomber’ Etches make short work of Bobby Wood of Walsall in a scheduled…
The WBA Super World Middleweight title is currently held by Felix “Leonidas†Sturm, and he looks to defend that title, for the eleventh time, tonight against Matthew “Mack the Knife†Macklin. Sturm’s record stands at 35-2-1, 15 KO’s while Macklin’s stands at 28-2-0, 19 KO’s. Sturm is an accomplished champion, having only fought outside of…
Floyd “Money” Mayweather and “Vicious” Victor Ortiz will hold a special event and evening press conference Wednesday, June 29 in Los Angeles to officially announce their WBC Welterweight World Championship fight taking place September 17. This event, which takes at Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill at L.A. Live on the Patio, at Nokia Plaza, 777…
Middleweight prospect Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (17-0,15 knockouts) will return to the ring on July 16th at the Lobodome in Mazatlan, Mexico to confront his first international contender, Colombian veteran Oney Valdez (22-10-1,16 knockouts), a former world title challenger, who is Ramirez’s most experienced opponent so far. The contest takes place at the semifinal encounter “Mexico…
Floyd “Money” Mayweather and “Vicious” Victor Ortiz will hold a press conference Tuesday, June 28 at Hudson Theater in New York City to officially announce their WBC Welterweight Championship fight taking place September 17. The event will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT. Mayweather, who is…
Top middleweight contender James Kirkland will return to the ring in his home state of Texas on Friday, June 24 and is determined to make a statement against Dennis Sharpe Jr. in their eight-round middleweight in-arena featured bout on a hard-hitting card taking place at the Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, Texas. In the eight…
NABA Lightweight Champion Logan Cotton McGuinness makes his second title defense this weekend at home in the 10-round main event against veteran Daniel “Canerito†Ruiz on the “Friday Night At The Fights†card at Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The “Friday Night At the Fights†show is presented by United Boxing Promotions, in association…
Promoter Don King has been tenaciously promoting his Saturday fight card in St. Charles—that will make Missouri history with three world championships—but he made time to make sure this fight card will be seen in his beloved Mexico by striking a deal with Mexico’s Cadena Tres (“La Television Mas Abierta que Nuncaâ€), which is seen…
Most of the principal fighters taking part in Don King’s history-making fight card on Saturday (HBO: 9:45 p.m. ET/PT) at The Family Arena in St. Charles, Mo., were on hand for the event’s final press conference. King hosted the press conference, touting the event, St. Charles, St. Louis and Missouri. “It’s a Lou think in…
Patrick “The Punisher” Hyland will look to stretch his unbeaten run to 23 straight wins and capture the WBF world featherweight title in the process when he takes on France’s Philippe Frenois at the National Stadium in Dublin this Saturday. The bout headlines an action packed night at the home of Irish boxing on the…