This past Saturday night, undefeated Featherweight Jorge “King†Diaz and former world title challenger Emanuel Lucero waged a ten round war at Ballys in Atlantic City before Diaz was awarded a unanimous decision in a bout that will be on the short list for Fight of the Year.
Arena CEO Ahmet Öner will present a “Heavy Night at the Baltic Sea” on November 12th in Stralsund. German hard-hitter Konstantin Airich (16-2-2, 13 kos) faces unbeaten Turk Yakup Saglam (26-0, 23 kos). Airich is best known for losing a controversial slugfest to Danny Williams in May 2008 in Spain when both men had been…
On Saturday Yassine El Maachi left his London home to travel to the Scottish Highlands, for a four week training camp to prepare for his upcoming first defense of the International Master Light Middleweight title, against European Number 4 ranked Jimmy Colas, at the Steve Goodwin promoted ‘Judgement Day’ super show at York Hall, London,…
It will be a lollapalooza of a show when Zab “Super” Judah takes on heavy handed Argentine knock out artist Lucas Matthysse on Saturday, November 6th when the “Brick City Boxing Series” returns to Newark’s Prudential Center. A total of ten supporting undercard fights are scheduled by promoters Main Events, Golden Boy Promotions and Super…
On Saturday, December 4th, Star Boxing returns to Bally’s in Atlantic City, when Shamone “The Truth” Alvarez (21-2, 12KO’s) squares off against Ghana’s Ayi Bruce (16-3, 11KO’s) in a twelve round welterweight title fight for the IBA Championship. “We are excited to be returning to Bally’s and looking forward to showcasing Shamone in the main…
Lenny Zappavinga needed just 101 seconds to transform himself from undefeated Top-10 contender to IBF mandatory lightweight challenger when he blasted out top-rated Jin Hoon Kim last night in their IBF-sanctioned lightweight title elimination bout. The fight took place last night at the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Center. “Lenny looked spectacular in knocking Kim out…
Last Saturday at Bally’s Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, junior welterweight Ronald Cruz of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, remained undefeated at 10-0 (7), with a turnaround stoppage of Jeremy Bryan of Paterson, New Jersey, a former two time national Golden Gloves champion, who fell to 14-2 (7). Bryan appeared to win the early rounds in what initially…
Jorge Diaz of New Brunswick, New Jersey, remained undefeated at 15-0 (9) last Saturday night, with an ugly looking ten round decision over veteran Emmanuel Lucero of Mexico City, Mexico, now out of Albany, New York 24-6 (14). The bout promoted by Pound for Pound Promotions featured numerous low blows, head butting, shoves to the…
If you missed European title protagonists Willie “Big Bang†Casey and Paul Hyland’s encounter on RTÉ’s Saturday Night Show you can watch it back on links below as the two men enjoyed a lively debate and tested their punch power on Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine of Jackass fame ahead of their European Super Bantamweight…
IBF middleweight champion Sebastian Sylvester retained his title with a convincing victory over challenger Mahir Oral at Stadhalle in Rostock. Sylvester’s busy close quarters style put the Griefswald based “Hurrikan” in good stead against the much taller Hamburg man Oral. The champion put most of the early rounds in the bank by outworking Oral but…
One of the biggest punchers in boxing was in action last evening as middleweight David Lemieux lit up the Montreal night with a sparkling KO of Hector Camacho Jr at The Casino. Just 21 years of age, Lemieux came into the contest having knocked out all but one of 23 previous opponents but had never…
Former Heavyweight Title Challenger, Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson (23-1-1, 10KO’s) returned with a vegenance earlier tonight, knocking out veteran, Charles Davis (19-21-2, 4KO’s) in the 4th round, in the main event bout of the evening at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte, NC.