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By Johnny Jobbler Character is the springboard for success in boxing. Every great boxer down the years has had great character and charisma. From Sugar Ray Robinson to Floyd Mayweather, Muhammad Ali to Roy Jones Jr all h...

CANASTOTA, NY - MAY 16, 2013 - The International Boxing Hall of Fame announced hard punching 1970s heavyweight contender Earnie Shavers will attend the Banquet of Champions on Saturday, June 8th. The banquet is part of f...

Irish middleweight contender, Andy Lee (30W-2L, 21KO's) returned to United States yesterday evening to make a statement of intent at the jam packed BB King Blues Club, NYC in the latest edition of DiBella Entertainment's...

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Deontay "Bronze Bomber" Wilder has signed with power broker Al Haymon as his personal adviser. Wilder, 28-0 with 28 knockouts in the heavyweight division was set to fight Dereck Chisora June 15th in London but legal prob...

By Samuel Roy Junior: Boxing. Of all the mainstream sports in the world, it demands EVERYTHING physically and mentally from its participants. Yet in the eyes of the general sport fanatic we've seen boxing slip a little, ...

MIAMI (May 16, 2013) -- Rejuvenated by back-to-back victories over favored fighters, light heavyweight Lionell "Lonnie B" Thompson is back on the right track, and still following his dream. A decorated amateur out of Buf...

By Jack Scales: Amir Khan's most recent performance against Julio Diaz, was in some respects typical of the Amir we have grown to know and appreciate over the years. As usual he displayed tremendous valor and the fans we...

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By Scott Gilfoid: Huge, huge underdog Lee Purdy (20-3-1, 13 KO's) thinks he's going to pull off a big upset on Saturday night against IBF welterweight champion Devon Alexander (24-1, 13 KO's) in their fight on Showtime a...

By Eric Thomas: WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (25-0, 17 KO's) has decided to slip in a stay busy tune-up fight against little known fringe contender Andrzej Wawrzyk (27-0, 13 KO's) this Friday night at the ...

By Allan Fox: Heavyweight contender Chris Arreola (35-3, 30 KO's) had nose surgery last Friday to repair his badly broken nose, which was completely shattered by a huge right hand from the big punching Bermane Stiverne (...

by Scott Gilfoid: #7 WBO, welterweight contender Kell Brook (29-0, 19 KO's) faces Carson Jones (35-9-3, 25 KO's) on July 13th in a fight that should tell us what we need to know about the talent and the destiny of the 27...

By Chris Williams: On paper the November 23rd fight between Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios in Macau, China isn't particularly interesting one. Rios just got beat and got a questionable win over Richard Abril last year i...

by Nick Hagan: The middleweight/Super middleweight and Light Heavyweight divisions were the elite divisions, from the mid 1990's up to 2008 (when Joe Calzaghe retired). The world of boxing was blessed with Roy Jones Juni...

By Chris Williams: The Golden Boy promoted WBC featherweight champion Abner Mares (26-0-1, 14 KO's) says he wants to face WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux next if the fight can be put together suc...

By Scott Bells: It says a lot when promoters have to pad out fighters records to ensure they remain unbeaten simply due to the fact that the two who sit at the top of the tree (The Klitschkos) are so much better than the...

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (46-2, 35 KO's) isn't worried about IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch's long reach or big power in their fight on May 25th. Kessler plans on whipp...

SAN ANTONIO, May 15, 2013 - San Antonio, Texas will once again be the site of a major boxing event when SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® returns to the Lone Star State on Saturday, July 27 with "KNOCKOUT KINGS II," a spect...