Boxing News

WORLD BOXING COUNCIL NEWS October 29, 2012 – Mexico City. From the office of WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán: Published in The Bangkok Post – October 28, 2012 ‘Little Mike Tyson’ edges to...

By Scott Gilfoid: WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (24-0, 11 KO’s) will be reportedly finding out this Thursday who will be facing him on November 10th at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, Californ...

GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO- Former two time world champion, Ivan “Iron Boy” Calderon, announced today his retirement of boxing in an event held at the new Amelia Municipal Boxing Gym Felix Pagan Pintor, where Cald...

MILLVILLE, NEW JERSEY (October 29, 2012)—On Saturday night November 10th, a great night of professional boxing will take place at the New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, New Jersey. This great night of boxin...

Tomorrow (Tuesday, October 30th) Hamid Rahimi and Said Mbelwa will make history when they step into the ring for the “Fight 4 Peace” in Kabul, the first professional boxing event in the history of Afghanistan...

World Boxing Organization (WBO) World Light-Heavyweight Champion Nathan Cleverly met with new pro Freddie Flintoff today at the Peacock Gym in London. Unbeaten Cleverly spoke to the media before he heads off to the US fo...

Dillian ‘the villain’ Whyte’s trajectory has been both an upward one, and a very rapid one. 2012 has been his breakthrough year, with an impressive six wins out of six fights under his belt; all but o...

LIVE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING MAKES AN EPIX RETURN ON NOVEMBER 10TH WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO vs. MARIUSZ WACH Plus ROBERT HELENIUS vs. SHERMAN WILLIAMS; TRIBUTE TO HALL OF FAME TRAINER EMANUEL STEWARD EPIX SNAGS EXCLUSI...

New meets old at the York Hall this Thursday evening, when rising former world amateur star Frankie Gavin challenges wise old warhorse Junior Witter for the British welterweight title. Witter v Gavin is live and exclusiv...

RICKY HATTON has continued to expand his promotional arm despite preparing for his boxing comeback. ‘The Hitman’ has launched Hatton Promotions Asia Pacific where he plans to feature top boxers from the Far ...

Lausanne, Switzerland, 29 October 2012 – The APB/WSB workshop in Incheon, South Korea, which sees the world’s best Referees & Judges take part in a five-day intensive training course, made history yesterday...

Promoter Bobby Hitz of Hitz Boxing will continue his yearly tradition of doing a boxing event on Thanksgiving Eve with his final “Fight Night at the Horseshoe” instalment of the year on a very special date: W...

By Chris Williams: #5 IBF Mercito Gesta (26-0-1, 14 KO’s) is being given a title shot against IBF lightweight champion Miguel Vazquez (32-3, 13 KO’s) in a Mexico vs. the Philippines type bout on the underca...

Long Island — October 28, 2012 — It is with the complete support and encouragement of the New York State Athletic Commission and chairwoman Melvina Lathan that Bob Duffy’s Ring Promotions has announc...

By Dan Ambrose: #3 WBA welterweight contender Thomas Dulorme (16-1, 12 KO’s) looked lost out there and confused in getting blown out by #10 WBC Luis Carlos Abregu (34-1, 28 KO’s) by a 7th round TKO defeat a...

By Jason Kim: 32-year-old Mariusz Wach (27-0, 15 KO’s) is getting IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (58-3, 50 KO’s) at a really vulnerable time with his trainer Emanuel Steward having ...

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao has been putting in more of an effort on his conditioning in getting ready for his fourth fight with Juan Manuel Marquez on December 8th compared to some of Pacquiao’s recent figh...

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA World interim super middleweight champion Brian Magee (36-4-1, 25 KO’s) is getting the 33-year-old Mikkel Kessler (45-2, 34 KO’s) at the exact right moment in his career when Kessler i...

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao (54-4-2, 38 KO’s) arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday, nearly two weeks later than had been originally anticipated. The unofficial reason put forth by the P...

You play football…you play baseball…you play basketball. You don’t play boxing…you fight. Many people think that boxing is no more than two people throwing punches at each other within a squared ...

By Scott Gilfoid: The moments is almost upon is with the talented former IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (30-1, 24 KO’s) will be returning to action on Saturday night against big puncher Denis Grachev ...

By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated featherweight contender Mikey Garcia (29-0, 25 KO’s) will be back in the ring next month against Jonathan Victor Barros (34-3-1, 18 KO’s) in a 10 round fight on the Erislandy Lara...