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Two-Time Chinese Olympic Gold Medallist headlining an exciting card featuring two World Championship battles
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Marco Huck is gearing up for part 3 of the Afolabi trilogy
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Vasyl Lomachenko, the pound for pound king of amateur boxing and double olympic gold medallist has turned professional writes Dmytro Mossienko, in Kiev
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Alexander Miskirtchian easily retains his European Featherweight strap in Belgium
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Adrian “Confesor” Hernandez (27-2-1, 16 KOs) overcame tough Yader Cardoza (15-5, 5 KOs) to successfully defend his WBC world light flyweight title on Saturday night
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Lee Purdy challenges Devon Alexander for the IBF World welterweight title next weekend in a fight that has shocked many
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Adrian Hernandez and Yader Cardoza both make weight for their WBC light flyweight world title bout
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Hall of Fame boxing promoter Don King invites the leaders of Russia and Panama to his world title bill in Moscow featuring Dennis Lebedev v Guillermo Jones
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Vic "Raging Bull" Darchinyan weighs in under the Super Bantam limit ahead of his fight with Francisco Javier Gallo - photo courtesy of Top Rank/Chris Farina
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Jamie McDonnell and Julio Ceja both scale 1lb under the championship limit ahead of their fight for the vacant IBF Bantamweight crown
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World title challenger Jose A. Gonzalez talks exclusively to Anson Wainwright about his opponent, WBO lightweight boss, Ricky Burns
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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr is keen to face recent Sergio Martinez victim, Martin Murray in his next fight scheduled for August 3rd in Mexico
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Reports from South Africa confirm the passing of highly respected trainer Jabulani "Jabu" Malinga
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Reports suggest that Bob Arum is looking to stage Manny Pacquiao v Brandon Rios in Macau, China on November 23rd
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Jose Gonzalez was put through his paces during a training session in Glasgow ahead of his WBO lightweight world title challenge this Saturday against Scotland’s Ricky Burns
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A former three-division world champion, the talented Guerrero is ready for the difficult challenge of moving up in weight to face number one rated WBC welterweight contender Aydin in hopes of winning a world championship in a fourth weight class.
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I would like to thank all my fans and well wishers for the amazing support I’ve had from you since my defeat on Saturday night. Obviously the fight never went as planned but credit has to go to Danny Garcia who caught me with a good shot in the third round that I couldn’t fully recover from.
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On behalf of Goodwin Promotions and trainer Don Charles we were extremely disappointed to learn of Ali Adams positive drugs test for a banned substance.
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By Peter Lerner: Denis Shafikov last night retained his European light welter title and cleaned up the only blemish on his record by unanimously outpointing Brunet Zamora in Ufa, Russia.
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By Andrew Wake: Paul McCloskey’s fans claimed their man was ‘cheated not defeated’ following his world title loss to Amir Khan last year and after seeing the Dungiven southpaw controversially halted by DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley, they’ll surely be saying the same thing once again.
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GBU light welterweight champ Gabor Veto scored a second round knockout over veteran former world title challenger Justin Juuko at the Hotel Marsoel in Chur, Switzerland on Saturday.
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WBC bantamweight champion Shinsuke Yamanaka won a 12 round unanimous decision win over Vic Darchinyan in Tokyo, Japan on Friday night.
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Brian Magee and Rudy Markussen have weighed ahead of their Interim WBA super-middleweight title dust up tomorrow night (Saturday 18 January)
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By Danny Winterbottom: When a fight ends in controversial circumstances the best solution to rectify the perceived wrongs is an immediate rematch. That’s exactly what happens on Saturday February 4 at the Fraport Arena in Frankfurt, Germany, when Cuban southpaw Yoan Pablo Hernandez (25-1) defends his IBF cruiserweight title against American veteran Steve Cunningham (24-3). Sauerland events promote and Boxnation televise live in the UK. The Ring Magazine belt is also on the line.
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IBF cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham and Yoan Pablo Hernandez have weighed in ahead of their rematch at the Fraport Arena in Frankfurt Germany tomorrow night.
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By Adam Santarossa: As Danny Green prepares to step into the ring with Krysztof Wlodarczyk on Wednesday night, it presents a chance for the Australian to finally capture a title which has long eluded him.
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Saul Alvarez and Kermit Cintron both scaled bang on the 154lbs limit ahead of Saturday’s WBC light middleweight title fight in Mexico City.
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Marco "Captain" Huck is back in training! The WBO world cruiserweight champion is keen to already lay the foundation for a successful 2012.
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After Odlanier Solis was prohibited to leave Miami and fight as co-feature for Selcuk Aydin vs. Jo Jo Dan II this Saturday promoter Ahmet Oner will send heavyweight prospect Erkan Teper into his toughest test so far against Alex Mazikin.
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About fifty local and international journalists were listening to Selcuk Aydin and Jo Jo Dan expressing mutual respect for each other at their final press conference befpre Saturday’s WBC Silver welterweight championship bout.
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WBA Middleweight Champion Gennady Golovkin will defend his title against Lajuan Simon in Dusseldorf, Germany on December 10.
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Prior to their title fights at Helsinki on December 3 Robert Helenius and Cecilia Braekhus today held an open training session at Berlin´s Max-Schmeling-Gym.
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Filipino pound for pound top 10 boxer Nonito Donaire. will face Wilfredo Vazquez Jr for the vacant WBO super bantamweight title.
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By Derek Bonnett
I just can’t live like this anymore.
For years and years, I have been lying to myself. Among crowds of boxing writers and fans, I stay silent or nod quietly in agreement with their disparaging remarks concerning Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. I go home and look into the mirror and say, I’m just blinded by my feelings for his legendary father.
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By Lwazi ndzobongo: Michael Grant knocked out Fransie Botha with just seconds left in the 12th and final round here at Montecasino on Saturday night.
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IBF featherweight world champion Billy Dib, (33-1, 20 KOs), destroyed Italian challenger Alberto Servidei, (31-1-2, 7 KOs), inside a round to retain his title at the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre in Sydney, Australia.
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By Danny Winterbottom: After almost a year’s sabbatical from the ring due to a plethora of weight making and personal problems, talented “Little Tyson” Joan Guzman returned to the ring with a routine first round KO victory over an out of his depth Florencio Castellano.
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Jorge “Travieso” Arce has vacated his World Boxing Organization (WBO) Super bantamweight championship to fight for the WBO Bantamweight title.
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The big ”Urban War” bill in Johannesburg, South Africa Saturday is getting close, and the weigh-in today revealed some in-shape and focused fighters
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WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck has renewed his promotional contract with German promoter Sauerland Event for two more years.
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By Peter Lerner: A fighter who has always seemed to be on the outside looking in finally gets his big chance on Saturday Night.
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World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman has hit back at Top Rank Promoter Bob Arum after the legendary promoter insulted him.
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By Danny Winterbottom: Having seen his career blighted by severe weight making problems, a positive drugs test and the subsequent banishment from our television screens, it is a wonder that talented Joan Guzman is still around at 35 years old.
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There is more live boxing on YouTube on 18th November when Hatton TV brings you LIVE and exclusive coverage of the Midlands Area welterweight title fight between Sean McKervey & Jason Welborn.
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On Friday former three-time world champion Joan “Little Tyson” Guzman returns to the ring after an eleven month absence when he takes on the tough Florencio Castellano in a 12 round bout in the Dominican Republic.
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After his surgery due to an injury on his left elbow from his last fight on September 24th, heavyweight Alexander Dimitrenko is on a good road of recovery.
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By Mikko Salo: Good news: In December we will have a two-weekend stretch, where one of The Undisputed Heavyweight Champions and two of The Ring Top 5 heavyweight contenders are stepping in the squared circle. Then the bad news: None of them is facing another Ring Top 10 opponent.
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By Mikko Salo: Now it is official: Robert “Nordic Nightmare” Helenius will face Derek “Del Boy” Chisora for the vacant European heavyweight title at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland on December.
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By John Lumpkin: Watching Max Kellerman’s Face Off promo featuring Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito made it clear that Cotto sincerely believes that Margarito cheated in their first bout.
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By Peter Lerner: There is the interesting grizzled veterans’ club clash between Silvio Branco and Giacobbe Fragomeni at the end of November but it won’t change anything.
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By Mikko Salo: Urheilutalo in Pori, Finland was the venue for an entertaining card of Finnish fight action on Friday 11th November.
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Last night WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck publicly called out both Klitschko brothers in one of Germany’s biggest TV shows ’TV Total’.
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By Peter Lerner: Many fighters have that bogeyman from the past who they try to keep trapped in the closet. Some try to settle the score and exorcise the demons, some succeed and some fail.
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On November 26th, 2011, WBC Silver welterweight champion Selcuk Aydin and Ionut "Jo Jo Dan" Ion will clash in a re-match.
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The career of colourful former multi weight world champion James Toney seems to be at an end, at the highest level at least- after he lost a clear and unanimous 12 round decision to Denis Lebedev of Russia for the interim WBA cruiserweight title at the Khodynka Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia on Friday.
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By Mikko Salo: At today`s press conference promoting the December 3rd “The Night of the Heavyweights” card in Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland the most interesting question was the one concerning the opponent.
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WBA and IBF light-welterweight champion Amir ‘King’ Khan will be ringside as a guest commentator for Primetime (Channel 480 on Sky) when his stablemate Manny Pacquiao faces off against Mexican challenger Juan Manuel Marquez next Saturday night.
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By Peter Lerner: This hectic little period of Italian world title activity continues on Sunday in Tokyo, Japan
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By Peter Lerner: Friday night sees the rematch between unbeaten Italians Leonard Bundu and Daniele Petrucci for the vacant European welterweight title.
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Filipino bantamweight AJ "Bazooka" Banal may get a chance to fight for the WBO interim bantamweight title IN 2012.
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Becoming a world champion in your chosen sport is quite an accomplishment.
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Tony Thompson has been named as the IBF’s mandatory challenger to Wladimir Klitschko’s heavyweight title.
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WBA Heavyweight Champion Alexander Povetkin has laughed off the comments from Tyson Fury, who most recently claimed he was ready to “take Povetkin out.”
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Takalani Ndlovu made a successful defence of his IBF super-bantamweight title Saturday night by scoring a unanimous 12 round points win over Giovanni Caro at the Palenque de la Feria in Colima, Mexico.
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WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko has denied he plans to have two more fights then retire to pursue a career in Politics.
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By Peter Lerner at ringside: Moruti Mthalane made the third defence of his IBF flyweight title a no-fuss, clinical one by totally dominating Andrea Sarritzu in six and a half rounds on Friday night in Cagliari.
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WBC heavyweight champ Vitali Klitschko has revealed he may fight once or twice more before retiring from the sport of boxing.
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Yesterday promoter Ahmet Oner and Hall of fame coach Emanuel Steward agreed that Steward will work as head coach to Cuban phenomenon Yuriorkis Gamboa.
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WBA, WBC & WBO Female Welterweight Champion Cecilia Braekhus will take on Hawaiian Kuulei Kupihea at Helsinki´s renowned Hartwall Areena on December 3.
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By Peter Lerner: Andrea Sarritzu’s come so close before. Almost nine years ago he lost a split decision to Omar Narvaez for the WBO flyweight title.
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Li Wen Yang made Chinese Boxing History on Tuesday (October 25) when he became the country’s first ever male professional ’world’ champion.
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by Peter Lerner: Last Saturday(Oct 22) Italian light welterweight Brunet Zamora braved the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City to try win the vacant interim WBA light welterweight belt
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Despite having struggled to shine as a heavyweight and failing to score a stoppage win for five years former cruiserweight champ Jean Marc Mormeck has threatened to smash Wladimir Klitschko’s ‘Glass’ chin.
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Kell Brook will make his debut on American soil on December 17 as part of the undercard of Carl Froch’s Super Six final against Andre Ward at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
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Ghana’s German-based Ben Nsafoah went into the lions den – and tamed the lion to snatch the vacant WBF Intercontinental cruiserweight crown Saturday night (Oct. 22) in Tuebingen, Germany
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By Lwazi Ndzobongo: Luzuko Siyo successfully defended his Jnr Flyweight title by beating Sebelomzi Zimela via first round TKO here at the Orient Theatre in East London on Sunday afternoon.
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Undefeated Puerto Rican boxer Thomas Dulorme improved his record to (with a dominating, nine-round unanimous decision last night against world title contender Charlie Jose Navarro at Roberto Duran Arena in Panama.
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Unbeaten WBA Heavyweight Champion Alexander Povetkin will make a first defence of his title on December 3 when he takes on Cedric “The Boz” Boswell at Helsinki´s renowned Hartwall Areena.
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Marco Huck successfully retained his WBO cruiserweight title by stopping Rogelio Rossi in the sixth round in Ludwigsburg, Germany on Saturday night
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WBC flyweight king Pongsaklek Wonjongkam retained title via unanimous 12 round decision over No. 1 contender Edgar Sosa on Friday at 11st Royal Infantry Regiment in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Unbeaten through his first 15 bouts, middleweight prospect Brandon Gonzales is expecting next Friday’s ShoBox: The New Generation telecast to be nothing short of exciting.
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This Saturday night Jr. Welterweight prospect Raymond "Tito" Serrano will take on Angel Rios in the main event of a six bout card at the Tropicana Casino & Resort.
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Marco Huck and Rogelio Rossi scaled inside the cruiserweight ahead of their WBO title showdown in Ludwigsburg, Germany on Saturday night.
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By Peter Lerner: Four of the five Italian boxers who’ve already qualified for next year’s London Olympics are well-known to followers of amateur boxing.
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Former two time world champion Ivan "Iron Boy" Calderon will face a new foe at the Coliseo Mario "Quijote" Morales in Guaynabo on October 29
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By Adam Santarossa: Anthony Mundine Out-pointed Rigoberto Alvarez over 12 rounds at the Entertainment Centre in Newscastle, NSW, Australia on Wednesday to win the WBA Interim light-middleweight title.
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WBO Cruiserweight Champion Captain Huck could not believe his eyes when he met challenger Rogelio Rossi at today´s press conference in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
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Matchroom Sport are delighted to announce that European Middleweight champion Grzegorz Proksa has extended his promotional deal with the company.
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Rogelio Rossi slept through today´s press training after his arrival in
Germany was delayed for more than 24 hours.
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After last Friday’s controversial heavyweight fight in Obertraubling (Germany) the protagonists looked back on the evening’s fights with mixed feelings.
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Former world champion Carlos "El Indio" Quintana will face big punching prospect Jorge "Destroyer" Melendez at the Coliseo Mario "Quijote" Morales in Guaynabo on October 29.
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By Derek Bonnett: In the last few weeks boxing fans have been left feeling as unsatisfied as an adolescent whose hands got stopped from roaming beyond the beltline. High-stakes matchups between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Victor Ortiz and Steve "USS" Cunningham and Yoan Pablo Hernandez ended prematurely just as things were about to get interesting.
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Marco Huck will defend his WBO Cruiserweight Title for the eighth time in Ludwigsburg, Germany next Saturday when he is challenged by Argentinian southpaw Rogelio Rossi
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Konstantin Airich won the vacant IBF intercontinental heavyweight championship in front of 1,500 fans at the Mehrzweckhalle Obertraubling,Germany on Friday night.
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Celestino Caballero (35-4, 23 KOs) out-pointed Victor Barros (33-2-1, 18 KOs) via 12 round decision at the Estadio Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Friday night to win the WBA featherweight title.
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Undefeated WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez will make the first defense of his title, against “The Pride of Providence” Peter Manfredo Jr.at Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas on Saturday, November 19 .
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By Peter Lerner: Secondsout recently caught up with Christian Cherchi of Italian promotional outfit OPI2000 and knockout artist Luca Giacon about their trip to the Wildcard Gym in Los Angeles.
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