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…
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…