Click the above Image for more Photos from this Event Last night, at the Holiday Inn, Birmingham, England, Pat Cowdell promoted a Dinner/Boxing event which showcased Midlands Boxers. Billy Smith (Stourport) v Luke Gallear (Derby) 6 x 2 Welterweight Contest Shinfield’s boxer Gallear faced experienced ‘Gypsy Boy’ Smith in this six rounder. A good testing…
Carshalton’s Ricky Boylan returned to the Ultrachem TKO Gym in Canning Town this week in order to prepare for his upcoming showdown against Kristian Laight, on the Steve Goodwin promoted ‘Essex Eruption’ quadruple headline show at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre in Dagenham, Essex on Saturday 19th March 2011.
In the history of professional boxing there has never been a division as much dominated by German fighters as the middleweight right now. With Felix Sturm (WBA), Sebastian Sylvester (IBF) and Sebastian Zbik (WBC) there are three reigning world middleweight champions from Germany, and a fourth man is only waiting for his chance to get…
Former WBU Lightweight Champion, turned promoter, Graham Earl is set to promote his second boxing event of the year, ‘Fists of Fury’ at the Nugent Hall at Kings Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Saturday 2nd April 2011. Graham, who over the past year or so has been scouring Northern Ireland for up and coming…
Popular super middleweight Scott “Cujo†Sigmon (14-2, 6 KOs) of Lynchburg, VA will make his highly-anticipated Patriot Center debut on the action-packed Jimmy Lange Boxing card set for March 12th in Fairfax, VA, Ice Promotions officials confirmed today. The event, presented by Valcourt Building Services, features eight bouts, highlighted by Main Event headliner and former…
Former IBF super middleweight champion Alejandro “Naco†Berrio, the Colombian power puncher now living in New Jersey and fighting for Boxing 360, fought last Saturday night for the first time in North American since losing his title in 2007. Berrio (32-5, 29 KOs), who has won his last six fights, stopped 3-time world title challenger…
By Per Ake Persson Rimer Boxe is looking to have former WBA light heavy champ Gabriel Campillo in an interim title fight April 15 in Leganes. Spanish press writes that either Hungarian Zsolt Erdei or Ukrainian Vyacheslav Uzelkov could be the opponent. Campillo was first set to take on Erdei March 12 in the US…
Click the above Image for more Photos by Jane Warburton Yesterday afternoon, at the Heritage Hotel, Derby, Clifton Mitchell promoted an afternoon of boxing which headlined the vacant BBBofC Midlands Area Light Welterweight Title clash between local man Dave Ryan and Northampton’s Leonard Lothian. Dave Ryan (Derby) v Leonard Lothian (Northampton) 10 x 3 BBBofC…
Two good fight cards last night in Mexico with Gilberto Keb Baas holding onto his WBC light fly belt in Merida while Julio Cesar Miranda did the same with his WBO fly strap in Queretaro. Keb Baas, making the first defense of the crown he won in shocking fashion over Omar Nino Romero in November…
In an all action fight, Brandon Rios captured the WBA Lightweight championship from Miguel Acosta via 10th round knockout in the first night of a stacked 2011 lineup for Showtime Championship Boxing and Showtime PPV. In the evening’s co-feature, Antonio DeMarco won a unanimous decision over Reyes Sanchez. “A star was born tonight,†said Hall…
Adam Etches is hoping for a place on the biggest fight card in Britain this year after making it a hat-trick of professional wins. The exciting Sheffield teenager knocked out his first two opponents, but was taken the four rounds distance by Aleksei Tsatiasivili on Hatton Promotions card at Bolton’s Reebok Stadium.
Ricky Hatton will support Stephen Foster Jr in whatever decision he makes on his future, following a shock European super-featherweight title defeat on Saturday night. The Salford braveheart was floored five times by mandatory contender Ermano Fegatillo before losing on points in front of a sell-out 2000 crowd on Hatton Promotions quality show in the…