© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing The highly anticipated unification fight between IBF, WBO, IBO and “The Ring†World Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBA titlist David Haye takes place at the Hamburg Imtech Arena, Germany on July 2. The stadium is the homefield of the German Bundesliga soccer club Hamburger SV. After months of…
Dover Downs Hotel & Casino will present two heavyweight championship bouts on Friday, May 27 in the Rollins Center arena. For the IBF Intercontinental Heavyweight Title Franklin “Yah-Yah†Lawrence, 14(9)-2-2, of Indianapolis Ind. vs. Jason “The Sensation†Gavern, 20(9)-7-4 of Kissimmee, Fla.
Former Army boxer Sam Standing is used to a good fight, but come the 7th of May this will take on a whole new meaning for the 25 year old year old, from Plumstead, South London, as he takes a big step up, from amateur to professional status, and makes his pro-debut at the Graham…
On Thursday, April 28, there will be a new host and co-host for the hit series “Fight Night Club,” but the stellar boxing action at L.A. Live’s Club Nokia remains the same, as local favorites Frankie Gomez and Ramon Valadez, as well as Venezuelan star on the rise Alfonso Blanco, all compete in featured bouts…
He was born into it. Grew up around and was engulfed in it. His job now has him working full-time in it, but this Friday night, Kevin Rooney Jr will experience a whole new side of professional boxing that he hasn’t before. He will make his pro-debut on the undercard of Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing…
On Saturday night April 30th at The James Shuler Memorial Gym in West Philadelphia, some of the top amateur fighters in Philadelphia will be on display as well as an exhibition featuring number-one ranked Light Heavyweight in the world Yusaf Mack will take place at the “Philadelphia Golden Gloves Remix†See the future champions of…
© Click Image for more photos by Jane Warburton Saturday night, at the MEN Arena, Manchester, Khan Promotions / Hatton Promotions and Golden Boy hosted a fight-night which featured three Title fights besides the main event. Rendall ‘2Tone’ Munroe (aka The Boxing Binman’) from Leicester, faced Belarusian – Andrei Isaeu for the WBA International Super-Bantamweight…
© Click Image for more photos by Jane Warburton Saturday night, at the MEN Arena, Manchester, Khan Promotions / Hatton Promotions and Golden Boy hosted a fight-night which also featured Craig Watson’s defence of the British Welterweight Title. Watson of Manchester faced Lee ‘Lights Out’ Purdy of Colchester. This was Watson’s first defence of the…
The Weekend was dominated by the Khan v McCloskey fight-night at Manchester’s MEN Arena, in which Khan retained his WBA Light Welterweight Title when a clash of heads and subsequent cut to McCloskey’s brow deemed Irish ‘Dudey’ unable to continue. The contest will be remembered for the angry back-flack following the decision. Khan now returns…
© Click Image for more photos by Jane Warburton On Saturday night, Martin Murray of St. Helens, retained his WBA International Middleweight Title by fourth round TKO over John Anderson Carvalho of Brazil. Murray got off to a steady start against Carvalho but it wasn’t long before he began to land his trademark body-shots. A…
WBC Silver welterweight champion and mandatory challenger Selcuk Aydin wants to fight the new WBC champion Victor Ortiz immediately. “I congratulate Victor Ortiz to his victory and I hope that he is man enough to fight me”, says Aydin. “Ortiz should not forget that he only got his shot at the title because I stepped…
Friday night in Millersville, Maryland, Chris Middendorf and United Boxers thrilled a crowd of over 1,000 Maryland fight fans with a sensational eight bout event at the Maryland Sportsplex. In the main event of the evening, Baltimore’s Russ “The Hammer†Shiflett improved to 11-0-1 (5KO’s) with a dominating shutout six round decision over Willie Chisolm,…