A terribly upset and disappointed WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov was in near shock to learn that his scheduled opponent for Saturday night’s unification fight, WBO titlist Juergen Braehmer, left Shymkent last night without informing or explaining why he has pulled out of “The Unification.†Beibut Shumenov (10-1, 6 KOs) chose to fight Braehmer…
Evander Holyfield (43-10-2, 21 KOs) will defend his WBF heavyweight title against battled-tested veteran Sherman “The Tank†Williams (34-11-2, 19 KOs) in a 12-round championship fight January 22, headlining the “Redemption In America: The Journey Begins Now†Pay-Per-View Event, live from America’s resort, The Greenbrier’s Colonial Hall in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
To kick off the 2011 boxing season, TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate,” returns with live boxing action for the first time ever at the Sports Center in Fairfield, California on Friday, January 7. In the main event, scheduled for eight rounds in the middleweight division, unbeaten Sacramento prospect Brandon Gonzales puts his perfect record on the…
This is America, the land of opportunity and redemption. On January 22nd, another great American, Evander Holyfield is fighting on a show called “Redemption.” When I heard that I was going to be on the PPV undercard, I said, ‘great, get me the toughest opponent available.’ Since then I was offered guys that nobody else…
Boxing promotional powerhouse, Golden Boy Promotions, has officially joined the Boxing Promoters Association. Golden Boy and the BPA will make it official at the organizations next upcoming meeting on January 10th at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, NV. “It’s terrific to have an outstanding organization such as Golden Boy Promotions join our group,” stated Joe…
On Saturday night, January 22nd, Joey Eye Boxing will stage the first ever boxing event at the Beautiful Harrah’s Chester Casino and Racetrack. In the main event, popular Lightweight, Victor “The Barber†Vasquez will fight an opponent to be named in a bout scheduled for six rounds. Vasquez of Philadelphia has built up one of…
On March 19th 2011, Limerick’s own Cinderella-Man takes another leap into the unknown when he challenges Guillermo Rigondeaux for his WBA Super-Bantamweight title. Having defied all the odds to capture the European title, pummelling Paulie Hyland over four blistering rounds, Willie Casey embarks on a road less travelled by his fellow countrymen. Interestingly, Ireland takes…
Would you call 30,000 people watching on as fierce rivals Anthony Mundine and Danny Green box a non-event? Danny Green’s achievement in getting world boxing great Roy Jones Jnr to Australia, and then knocking him out in round one, a small achievement? The fact that Australia had two true world champions, in Kostya Tszyu and…
From the office of WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán: World Boxing Council Best Of 2010 Fighter of the Year: Sergio “Maravilla†Martinez: He won the WBC middleweight world title by defeating Kelly Pavlik and dramatically knocked out Paul Williams in his first title defense. Two great fights in the year.
By Per Ake Persson It looks like former WBA light heavy king Gabriel Campillo will take on former WBO 175 lb champ Zsolt Erdei March 12 in New York with the WBA regular title at stake. This of course mean that the winner of Juergen Braehmer and Beibut Shumenov, current WBO and WBA rulers, is…
Teeraporn, the first WBO World champion for Asia showed great form. Her fighting style is very attractive, so much that German Promoter Universum contacted Teeraporn aka Female Rambo to challenge WBO,WBA, WIBF flyweight titlist Suzianna Kentikian, considered to be the best in the world. Suzianna is intelligent in fighting style. The 23 years old southpaw…
Solis: “Klitschko is trying to take advantage of me – I will make him pay for that!” After a promising start, negotiations between K2 / KMG on the one side and ARENA Sports-Promotion on the other side for the WBC heavyweight championship between Vitali Klitschko and mandatory challenger Odlanier Solis seem to have stagnated.