WBA world heavyweight champion David Haye was handed a priceless pre-fight boost on Tuesday night, when former world super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe visited the fighter’s Vauxhall gymnasium and watched ‘The Hayemaker’ train for the best part of two hours.
The countdown begins. With just a month remaining, Antonio “The Magic Man†Tarver is putting in long hours at the gym in Florida before his July 20 IBO World Cruiserweight Championship showdown with Aussie hero Danny Green at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia. “He’s a good fighter,†said Tarver said of Green. “He’s won…
Independence Day weekend will get off to an explosive start at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California on Friday, July 1, when two of boxing’s rising stars – Frankie Gomez and Randy Caballero – enter the ring in a quest to keep their unbeaten records intact against upset-minded foes. In the main event of…
KZ Event Productions announced today that WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov will make his third title defense July 29, showcased on TeleFutura’s Solo Boxeo Tecate show, live from South Point Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. “ Fire & Fury,†headlined by the WBA/IBA championship showdown between Shumenov (11-1, 7 KOs) and challenger Danny “The…
Sheffield Heavyweight eager to impress in hometown fight Richard Towers fights on the undercard on Kell Brook v Lovemore N’dou on Saturday live on Sky Sports – another step in the remarkable turnaround in his life. The unbeaten Sheffield Heavyweight (10-0) was jailed for 13 years for his part of a kidnapping when he was…
Domo Del Mar, in Ciudad Del Carmen, Campeche Mexico, will be the site for the June edition of Televisa’s hit boxing series “Sabados De Corona,” as Mexican sensation Pablo Cesar “Demoledor” Cano, looks to extend his unbeaten streak on Saturday, June 25 in a 10 round lightweight bout against his fellow countryman Pablo Lugo.
Kell Brook will face Lovemore N’dou in front of a packed crowd at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre on Saturday (June 25) with promoters Matchroom Sport confirming the show is a sell-out. The Steel City show makes it back-to-back sell outs for Matchroom Boxing after the Prizefighter Welterweights II event at York Hall in east London…
Over the past few days there have been some highly misleading statements circulating in the media regarding the reason why the planned August 13th rematch between Graham Earl and Michael Katsidis was shelved. Notable scribes around the world have been attributing the failure of Earl-Katsidis II to materialise being either Graham Earl pulling out or…
Matthew Macklin’s trainer Joe Gallagher wants his charge to go from double M to triple M over the remainder of this week as Saturday nights World title showdown with Felix Sturm in Germany’s draws ever closer. Gallagher want’s Macklin to adopt Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s mantra of “Mean, Moody, Magnificent” as he bids to upset long…
Craig Watson has stoked the flames ahead of his British welterweight championship rematch against Lee Purdy telling the Essex man: “You’re not that good.†Purdy caused the biggest domestic boxing upset so far this year in April stopping Watson in five rounds, taking his treasured domestic title. And Hatton Promotions have handed Watson an immediate…
Anthony Crolla, Joe Murray and Martin Murray have signed contract extensions with Hatton Promotions. And Hatton Promotions President Ricky Hatton purred: “They will all be world champions.†The terrific trio celebrated their new deals by storming to impressive wins at Wigan’s Robin Park Arena on Saturday night.
On Saturday night close to fourteen hundred hardy souls braved the rain and packed the York Hall to capacity, stormy weather wasn’t going to stop them being ringside, at Spencer Fearon’s Hard Knock Boxing promotions ‘Summer Smash’ event, to watch former Champs Choi Tseveenpurev (WBU/WBF) and Jackson Asiku (IBO) battle it out. Was it worth…