There were two excellent fights last night in the hotly anticipated bantamweight tournament from the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington with the favored boxer in each bout coming up on the losing end. Yhonny Perez and Joseph Agbeko rematched their IBF title clash of October, 2009 in which Perez dethroned Agbeko and this time…
Last night, Cristian Mijares returned to the light flyweight ranks for the first time in over two years, taking away the IBF title of Juan Alberto Rosas at Auditorio Municipal in Torreon, Mexico. The 29 year old former WBC/WBA champ had campaigned as a top level bantamweight since 2009 but had been unsuccessful at capturing…
© Tom Hogan – Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions Tonight, Great Britain takes on the world as James De Gale, Nathan Cleverly, Amir Khan, Matthew Macklin, Frankie Gavin, Tony Bellew and Kell Brook are all fighting…not each other, in a massive royal rumble type of affair…individually of course. Amir Khan is topping the bill and…
Tonight, the bantamweight division gets it’s own tournament at Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington as Yhonny Perez rematches Joseph Agbeko and Vic Darchinyan squares off with Abner Mares. Perez, 20-0-1 (14), won the IBF title from Agbeko, 27-2 (22), when the pair initially fought a year ago as Colombian native Perez simply outboxed the…
On Saturday at The Torreon in Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico, IBF super fly kingpin Juan Alberto Rosas meets the challenge of ex-WBC/WBA champion Cristian Mijares. 29 year old Mijares, 40-6-2 (18), will be returning to the division he sat atop of during six title defenses for the first time since suffering a KO loss to…
Former world champion Jeff Lacy faces off with veteran Dhafir Smith tonight at Jannus Landing in St. Petersburg, FL. Super middleweights, 10 rounds Jeff Lacy:168 lb Dhafir Smith:165.2 lb
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing The four outstanding, talented athletes who will compete in The Bantamweight Tournament: Winner Takes All live on Showtime, made weight on their first attempts Friday at Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Wash.
© Tom Hogan – Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions Prior to their clash tonight at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Casino, WBA super lightweight champion Amir Khan and his challenger Marcos Maidana weighed in yesterday. WBA Super Lightweight Championship, 12 rounds Amir Khan: 140 lb Marcos Maidana: 139 lb
In one of the biggest upsets in Aussie boxing history, light middleweight world title contender Anthony Mundine was knocked out in five rounds by the far less experienced Garth Wood in a bout held at middleweight on Wednesday at Acer Arena in Homebush, Australia. Former two-time WBA super middleweight champion Mundine, 35, had campaigned at…
Ring 8 has donated a table of eight to the Wounded Warriors Project at the veteran boxing group’s 24th annual Ring 8 Holiday Event and Awards Ceremony, Sunday afternoon (12:30-5:30 PM/ET), December 19 at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, New York.
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing The promoters and fighters involved with The Bantamweight Tournament: Winner Takes All – a two-stage, single-elimination tournament of 118-pounders – took center stage on Thursday in the final press conference to discuss the two Semifinal bouts set to take place on Saturday, Dec. 11, live on Showtime at 9…
Headlining “Hammond Havoc” will be former IBF super featherweight World Champion and reality star of ESPN’s The Contender series: Steve “2pounds†Forbes in a showdown against Roberto “El Viejo†Valenzuela. Forbes (34-8) is coming off a tough decision loss (majority draw) to Harrison Cuello in March 2010, after knocking out a game Jason Davis in…