Saul “Canelo” Alvarez: WBC Super Welterweight Champion “Oscar de la Hoya recommended I train in Big Bear and I really liked it. It was a really good place to train. I could really focus up there with no distractions.” “Training camp went by really fast because I love my job. At times training at home…
Two-time Canadian Olympian Troy Ross has issued a challenge to the winner of tonight’s (Friday, June 10) featured fight on ShoBox between undefeated, highly-touted Lateef “Power†Kayode (16-0, 14 KOs) and former world title contender Matt “Too Smooth†Godfrey (20-2, 14 KOs). Ross is the top-rated IBF contender at No. 3 (#1 and #2 are…
Showtime presents a rare Saturday night ShoBox broadcast tonight at Roseland Ballroom in New York, airing live on the network at 10:35 ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast. The quartet of participants made weight yesterday. Featherweights, 10 rounds Luis Orlando Del Valle: 124 lb Dat Nguyen: 124 lb
Catbox Entertainment is very pleased to announce a boxing match in Oklahoma City on Friday, June 17, 2011, that could be a featured main event anywhere in the world. Eric Fields (17-1, 14 KOs) will face Danny Batchelder (25-8, 12 KOs) over eight rounds at cruiserweight.
Scott Quigg will risk his unbeaten record against Franklin Varela in Bury next month. The 22-year-old will make the second defence of his WBA intercontinental super-bantamweight title against the Venezuelan at Castle Leisure Centre on Saturday July 23. Quigg’s popularity is growing all the time, and there are no longer any hometown venues big enough…
If you’re searching for an early insight into what David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye plans to do to Wladimir Klitschko on July 2 in Hamburg, look no further than David Haye’s Knockout, the WBA heavyweight champion’s very own iPhone computer game. Accessible, exciting and gloriously bloody, David Haye’s Knockout matches a pixelated Haye with an anonymous…
It’s June so no better time than Friday for Graduation Day for three talented ShoBox: The New Generation alums returning for a Friday night tripleheader live on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast. Lateef Kayode (199.5 pounds), Chris Avalos (120 pounds) and Archie Ray Marquez (133 pounds) all hit their contracted…
Frankin “Yah Yah†Lawrence is looking to get into the thick of the Heavyweight championship picture. If nothing else, he has earned it. With consecutive stoppage wins over contenders, Lance Whitaker, Jason Estrada and most recently Jason Gavern, Lawrence has more wins over good competition then most of the boxers that make up the top…
Amir Khan, WBA Super Lightweight Champion “Zab’s a tricky southpaw who’s won many world titles but I don’t think this is his time. He doesn’t have the hunger that I do. I don’t think he can take the belt I have off of me.” “We have a game plan for the fight, so I know…
Integrated Sports Media, the undisputed leader in independent pay-per-view boxing, announced today that it will be distributing “The Big Brawl,†featuring exciting, unbeaten British heavyweights Dereck “Del Boy†Chisora and 6’ 9†Irish giant Tyson Fury, live July 23 from Wembley Arena in London. “We’re thrilled to be introducing these two exciting heavyweights and future…
Boxing 360 has made a request to the IBF for a review of the May 27th IBF Heavyweight Box-Off between its fighter, Maurice “Sugar Moe†Harris, and Tony “The Tiger†Thompson,†which was shown live on ESPN Friday Night Fights from Reno Events Center in Nevada. Harris (24-15-2, 10 KOs), rated No. 6 by the…
Nick Blackwell insists he was right to accept an opportunity to win a Lonsdale belt in his ninth professional fight. Blackwell, 20, will challenge Martin Murray for the vacant British middleweight title in front of the Sky TV cameras on Hatton Promotions bill at Wigan’s Robin Park Arena on Saturday June 18. Murray ranked number…