Merseyside Police is appealing for information about the whereabouts of 31-year-old Brett Flournoy from Wirral who has not been seen for nearly two weeks. Light-Middleweight Boxer – Flournoy (aka ‘The Soul’), last fought in February 2010 when he reached the final of Prizefighter – losing out to Prince Arron. He has a record of 11…
Craig Watson has revealed how his parents couldn’t sleep after he lost the British welterweight title to Lee Purdy. He gets an immediate chance of revenge when he faces the Essex man at Oldham Sports Centre on July 16. Purdy stopped Watson in five rounds in April causing the biggest upset seen in a British…
It’s the biggest against the best and it doesn’t get much better or brighter. Boxing’s biggest star, undefeated Floyd “Money” Mayweather, and its newest star, WBC Welterweight Champion “Vicious” Victor Ortiz, will align their super powers when they meet in “Star Power: Mayweather vs. Ortiz.” The mega-fight, which will be contested for Ortiz’s WBC Welterweight…
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…