World-ranked bantamweight Chris Avalos measured 118 pounds and Chris “The San Diego Kid†Martin weighed in at 120 pounds during Thursday’s weigh in at Grand Casino Hinckley, in Hinckley, Minn. The hard-hitting Avalos (16-0, 13 KOs), of Lancaster , Calif. , by way of San Diego , will face fellow unbeaten Martin (18-0-2, 5 KOs),…
Local stars will be shining bright deep in the heart of Texas tonight, August 6, when Antonio Escalante, Omar Figueroa, Jermell Charlo and Cesar Valenzuela enter the ring in separate televised bouts at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso for this week’s edition of TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate.” In the main event, scheduled for…
Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Larry Holmes, will be the honored guest during an anti-bullying campaign fund-raiser designed to ‘Knockout Bullying’, that is being held at one of New Jerseys’ historic pieces of landscape, the Linwood Country Club on August 26th, 2010. Rocky Marciano Jr.,will host the event that will be filled with entertainment, special guests…
Final details have been announced for a sensational evening of world class professional boxing tonight at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion. The seven bout action packed card is presented by Chicago ’s 8 Count Productions in association with Vega Boxing Headlining is a ten round welterweight showdown between hard punching Columbian banger Breidis Prescott and Dominican veteran…
© David Martin-Warr The final press conference was held on Wednesday at Scottrade Center in St. Louis promoting Don King’s world championship tripleheader, and a fourth championship match, on Saturday.
Undefeated super middleweight prospect Lennox “2 Sharpe†Allen, a native of Guyana, makes his “new†home debut Saturday night (Aug. 7) at the Aviator Sports Arena in Brooklyn, New York. Allen (12-0, 7 KOs) is a much traveled, 25-year-old now living in Brooklyn. The aggressive southpaw faces his stiffest test to date, veteran Darnell Boone…
ShoBox: The New Generation fans will see a familiar face in the corner of Lateef “Power’’ Kayode on Friday’s telecast from Hinckley, Minn., as perhaps the world’s most well-known trainer Freddie Roach will be coaching the undefeated upstart cruiserweight from Nigeria in a 10-round co-feature bout on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the…
The co-main event for this week’s ESPN2 Friday Night Fights is heating up as prospects Prenice Brewer and Patrick Lopez have engaged in a war of words leading up to their eight round junior welterweight showdown this Friday night, August 6th at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. After hearing Lopez express that Brewer has an…
Tomasz Adamek: “I am ready to fight! We are training hard 9 weeks, this week is 10. I am ready for a great fight, a tough fight.” About training with Roger Bloodworth: “Every day I am a little better. He is a good teacher. I want to be heavyweight champion with him. He is teaching…
Despite it’s well deserved reputation as the home of Irish boxing the National Stadium in Dublin has yet to stage a European title fight. All that will change on Saturday, September 11th when the South Circular Road venue plays host to a European title double header on the Hunky Dorys Fight Night.
Undefeated light middleweight prospect Dante “The Phenom†Moore will be facing the toughest challenge of his young career on August 20 when he fights Corey “Collateral Damage†Rodriguez in the co-feature bout at the Nautica Pavilion in Cleveland, Ohio. At 20-years-old Moore has already put together a professional record of 6-0 (4 KOs) in addition…
The Mexican Independence Day Bicentennial celebration will be a big boxing weekend as Golden Boy Promotions presents “200: Celebrate And Dominate” featuring Five-Time and Three-Division World Champion Sugar Shane Mosley against former World Champion Sergio “The Latin Snake” Mora in a junior middleweight showdown.