Moroccan stuns Junior Witter to claim the trophy at York Hall Yassine El Maachi lived up to his nickname ‘The Showman’ as he beat former World Champion Junior Witter to win the Prizefighter Welterweights II crown at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Tuesday night, and says he’s ready to gatecrash the British Welterweight scene.
The wait is over and once again Floyd “Money” Mayweather delivers as the undefeated six-time world champion announced today that he will return to the ring on Saturday, September 17, to face the hard-hitting and explosive current WBC Welterweight Champion “Vicious” Victor Ortiz in what is now the biggest international boxing event of 2011. The…
On a second consecutive night of fights on ShoBox: The New Generation on Showtime, two Puerto Rican fighters will climb in the ring against their toughest opponents to date on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City. All the action takes place on a special Saturday edition of ShoBox on…
Martin Murray will not be taking underdog Nick Blackwell lightly in next week’s vacant British middleweight title clash. Murray, ranked number 4 by the WBA starts a big favourite when he meets Blackwell at Wigan’s Robin Park Arena on Saturday 18th June. The popular St Helens fighter will also be risking his Commonwealth and WBA…
A re-match is on, according to United States Senator John McCain and Representative Peter King, to secure a Congressional pardon for the first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. The first resolution was introduced in 2009 but President Barack Obama refused to pass the act that would pardon Johnson from his criminal conviction. There is great…
This past Friday night, popular Lightweight Victor Vasquez got back into the win column as he scored a fourth round stoppage over Gustavo Dailey in a rematch that highlight a terrific seven bout card at Harrah’s in Chester, Pa.
Saturday’s Search & Destroy was set to be an historic occasion right from the off, as the event was being promoted by the youngest professional boxing promoter ever, twenty year old Olivia Goodwin. Considering her tender years Olivia put on one heluva show, initially the event was planned as a sixteen bout double title show…
Undefeated super featherweight Amanda “The Real Deal†Serrano fights at home for her first professional title Saturday night, June 11 at the historic Roseland Ballroom in New York City. The 23-year-old Serrano (9-0-1, 5 KOs), a native of Puerto Rico who is now fighting out of Brooklyn, faces Jennifer Scott in an eight-round bout for…
The IBO light heavyweight championship – long the symbol of the truly elite at 175 pounds – is vacant. Because of an inability to reach a sanctioning agreement with Bernard Hopkins prior to his May 21 fight with Jean Pascal at Bell Centre in Montreal, it was decided going in that a Pascal victory would…
Click the above Image for more Photos from this Event Lee Glover (Tipton) v Dougie Curran (Newcastle) 10 x 3 Vacant International Masters featherweight Title ‘The Tipton Slasher’ entered the ring to huge support from the Walsall crowd. It seems pretty evenly matched as they started this ten rounder, but Glover picks it up in…
Carl Froch kept hold of his WBC super middleweight title and moved into the finals of the Super Six tournament by posting a victory over veteran Glen Johnson last night at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. Johnson had predicted that his aggressive style would be too much for the champion to deal with but the 42…
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr’s long awaited world title opportunity finally came last night at Staples Center in Los Angeles and the son of one of Mexico’s greatest fighters was awarded a majority decision over WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik. Zbik started out strong, taking the fight to Chavez, backing up the younger man and landing…