Amir Khan returns home. On Saturday, April 16, at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester, England, WBA Super Lightweight Champion Amir “King” Khan will defends his title in England for the first time since December of 2009 when he faces unbeaten European champion Paul “Dudey” McCloskey of Northern Ireland. “I’m thrilled to be coming home to…
With a hand injury forcing Lanard Lane to withdraw from his scheduled February 24 fight against Jessie Vargas, former Lightweight World Champion Jose Armando Santa Cruz has stepped up to face the unbeaten Las Vegan in the main event of the 2011 premiere of “Fight Night Club” at L.A. Live’s Club Nokia.
On Thursday, March 17th, St Paddy’s Day, Star Boxing brings an exciting card to the Plattduetsche Park Restaurant in Long Island. Headlining the “March Mayhem” card is Star Boxing’s popular jr. welterweight prospect, Huntington’s undefeated, Chris Algieri (10-0, 5KO’s), as he takes on upset-minded Martin Tucker (7-7, 3KO’s) in an eight round jr. welterweight contest.
One of boxing’s best and brightest young prospects will get a chance to show if he’s worthy of a world title shot in 2011 when undefeated and WBA No.-1 ranked super bantamweight Rico Ramos takes on former world title challenger Alejandro Valdez on Friday, Feb. 11, live on ShoBox: the New Generation on Showtime at…
London (February 8th, 2011) Phill “Intense†Fury returns to the ring for the first time in 2011 on the undercard of the exciting night of professional boxing at Wembley Arena on Saturday 19th February. The event is being promoted by Hennessy Sports and will be shown live and exclusive on Premier Sport TV, sky channel…
‘Essex Eruption’, the second of the two-event extravaganza during March to celebrate Steve Goodwin’s first anniversary as a promoter, sees Romford Cruiserweight prospect Tony ‘Conqueror’ Conquest, International Masters Light Middleweight Champion Yassine ‘The Showman’ El Maachi and Newmarket’s ‘Phat’ Pat McAleese co-headline the mega show at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre in Dagenham, Essex on Saturday…
While WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko hasn’t even started his preparation for his next title defense on March 19th in Cologne, mandatory challenger Odlanier Solis and his team have already spent one week in their high altitude camp.
Let’s Get It On Promotions is pleased to announce the signing of super-featherweight prospect, “Lightning†Lonnie Smith (12-2-2, 9 KOs) to an exclusive promotional agreement. Smith, of Las Vegas, is coming off an explosive first round knockout of Jose Gomez January 7th. Lonnie, who also goes by “Lonnie Love†and “El Negro Mexicano†is known…
It’s official, Adamek-McBride will take place at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Rumors were flying that Tomasz Adamek, Jersey City, NJ, 43-1, 28KO’s, would be fighting in Poland this April. Kathy Duva, Adamek’s promoter and Main Events CEO, confirmed that the Polish boxing star will instead return to “The Rock” on April 23rd to take…
Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley will embark on a coast-to-coast U.S. media tour, beginning this Thursday, February 10, to announce their mega world championship rumble. Pacquiao and Mosley, who have won world titles in 11 weight divisions between them, will go toe-to-toe for Pacquiao’s WBO welterweight championship on Saturday, May 7, at the MGM Grand…
American challenger Austin Trout went into opponent Rigoberto Alvarez’s hometown of Guadalajara, Mexico last night and walked out with the WBA light middleweight title belt around his waist after 12 rounds of action. 33 year old campaigner Alvarez had won the Interim version of the WBA bauble with a split decision verdict over lanky Japanese…
WBC super flyweight king Tomas Rojas returned to Japan again to retain his belt with a victory last evening over Nobuo Nashiro at Osaka’s Prefectural Gymnasium in a tooth and nail contest. Mexico’s Rojas previously held the Interim version of the title but was KO’d in two by Vic Darchinyan in 2009 when trying to…