Cuban featherweight sensation Yuriorkis Gamboa will be ringside when WBO champion Juan Manuel Lopez defends his title against Odlando Salido in Puerto Rico tomorrow (Saturday, April 16). On September 11th 2010, Gamboa won a lop-sided unanimous decision against Salido.
Unbeaten WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel “Juanma” Lopez had a busy Thursday, spending time with his promoter, Bob Arum, and the Mayor of Bayamon, Ramon Luis Rivera, at the Mayor’s Office, and then working out at Jose “Cheo” Aponte Torres Gym in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov (11-1, 7 KOs) remains fully prepared to continue his history-making journey to unify the light heavyweight titles before the end of 2011 with one of the other 175-pound division world champions.
Click the above Image for more Photos from this Event Today, at The Triangle Shopping Centre, Manchester, England, Amir Khan (Bolton) and Paul McCloskey (Dungiven) both weighed in at 9 stone 13 pounds ahead of their WBA Light-Welterweight Title Clash tomorrow night. Master of Ceromonies Legend – Michael Buffer introduced the boxers, with McCloskey (the…
Click the above Image for more Photos On Saturday 16th April, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan, 24-1, defends his title against undefeated Paul McCloskey, 22-0. There have been complications in the run up to this fight, regarding which broadcaster will be showing the contest. It is all a bit complicated at present so forgetting…
Click the above Image for more Photos from this Event This afternoon, at the Town Hall, Manchester, England, media gathered for a Press Conference ahead of Saturday night’s ‘King Khan Returns’ Bill at the MEN Arena, Manchester, when Bolton’s – Amir Khan defends his WBA Light Welterweight Title to Paul McCloskey of Dungiven, Northern Ireland….
The four fighters who will compete in this Saturday’s doubleheader on Showtime (10:30 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) participated in the final press conference Wednesday at the Verdanza Hotel here. In the main event, Juan Manuel Lopez (30-0, 27 KOs) will risk his unblemished record and WBO featherweight title against former IBF 126-pound…
© Chris Farina / Top Rank More than 50 members of the media spent several hours Tuesday at the high-altitude training camp of three-division world champion “Sugar’’ Shane Mosley. Bus transportation to-and-from Las Vegas and Los Angeles was provided by Top Rank, Inc.
Home to some of boxing’s biggest events since its launch in 2009, Primetime (Channel 480) is proud to be the pay-per-view home for an explosive championship tripleheader on Saturday, April 16, featuring the WBA Light Welterweight World Championship bout between World Champion Amir “King†Khan and unbeaten European Champion Paul “Dudey†McCloskey. The broadcast will…
Undefeated Irish star Andy Murray will take to the ring at the MEN Arena in Manchester on Saturday night in a supporing role to gym mate Paul McCloskey who will be bidding to capture the WBA Light Welterweight title from Amir Khan. McCloskey will be bidding to upset local star Khan while Murray will also…
Hennessy Sports are pleased to announce that yesterday at the British Boxing Board of Control’s offices in Cardiff they outbid Frank Warren to stage the highly anticipated British Heavyweight title Super Fight between Tyson Fury and Champion Dereck Chisora. Promoter Mick Hennessy said “I’m delighted to announce that Hennessy Sports have won the rights to…
Just like their first bout in December, it was an ugly affair from start to finish but this time Anthony Mundine defeated arch-rival Grant Wood on points after ten rounds in front of 3,000 spectators last night at the Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Australia. Mundine had been expected to avoid partaking in Wood’s strategy of…