The biggest bill in British Boxing this year takes place this evening at London's massive 20,000 seat O2 Arena as three world title bouts are on tap. Headlining the event is the UK's top boxer, IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook, who makes a title defense against domestic rival, ex-British and Commonwealth king Frankie Gavin. Gavin, [...]
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Miguel Cotto returns to the ring for the first time since capturing the WBC middleweight title against Sergio Martinez one year ago as the Puerto Rican icon faces former world champion Daniel Geale at Barclays Center in Cotto's adopted hometown of New York. In his most recent appearance, ex-three weight world titlist Cotto, 39-4 (32), [...]
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Light middleweight Erislandy Lara puts his WBA crown on the line tonight at the UIC Pavillion in Chicago as the native Cuban faces off against two-time former world title challenger Delvin Rodriguez. Crafty southpaw Lara, 20-2-2 (12), acquired the belt in his most recent appearance by widely outpointing Ishe Smith in December of last year [...]
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There'll be big explosions in the ring tonight at New York's Madison Square Garden when Nicholas Walters and amateur nemesis Miguel Marriaga square off for the WBA "Super" featherweight title that Walters lost yesterday on the scales when he could not make the divisional limit of 126 pounds. Could the blown weigh-in by Walters, 25-0 [...]
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There's a good clash at welterweight this evening at the outdoor venue StubHub Center in Carson, California as Jesse Vargas moves up in weight to tangle with Timothy Bradley for the Interim WBO title. Vargas, 26-0 (9), is still the current WBA light welter champ and coming off two defenses of the belt he won [...]
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As the summer ramps up in the northern hemisphere, Boxing has slowed down a bit but things pick up again tonight with three world title belts on offer. At Getech Arena in Magdeburg, Germany, WBA heavyweight champ Ruslan Chagaev, 33-2-1 (20), defends against Francesco Pianeta, 31-1-1 (17) in an all southpaw clash. Chagaev previously held [...]
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Super bantamweights Scott Quigg, Kiko Martinez and Carl Frampton are all in action this weekend, with Martinez acting as measuring stick for both. IBF champ Frampton has fought and beaten Martinez twice, the first time resulting in a stoppage in the ninth round in 2013 while the second contest went the distance last year, with [...]
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Blue-chip Ukrainian middleweight prospect Sergiy “The Technician” Derevyanchenko weighed-in at 159 pounds and former title challenger Elvin “El Lycan” Ayala of New Haven, Conn. measured at 161 pounds during Thursday’s official weigh-in for the main event of this Friday’s ShoBox: The New Generation, live on Showtime at 10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast. [...]
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One Germany's biggest stars of the ring comes to fight in America for the first time as WBO cruiserweight champ Marco Huck headlines the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. Huck, 38-2-1 (26), squares off against undefeated Pole Krzysztof Glowacki, 24-0 (15), and the 30 year old Berlin resident will put his belt at risk for [...]
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As Boxing is firmly in the August doldrums, we take a look at happier times ahead in which the new season kicks off with ultra-busy month of September. September 5, Freiberger Arena, Dresden, Germany: WBA "regular" light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer faces challenger Konni Konrad. Awkward southpaw Braehmer, 46-2 (34), continues to be put in [...]
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August goes out with a bang tonight at Staples Center in the American city of Los Angeles with the WBA featherweight "super" title on the line in a massive showdown between California based Mexican boxers Abner Mares and Leo Santa Cruz. The combatants are both multi-weight world champions with Mares, 29-1-1 (15), having held the [...]
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The new season gets off to a less than thunderous bang this weekend but there are a few good fight cards happening today and tomorrow in a few select areas. Our first stop is the Energie-Verbund Arena in Dresden, Germany where WBA "regular" light heavyweight champ Juergen Braehmer, 46-2 (34), meets the challenge posed by [...]
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I would have to agree with the vast majority of boxing fans, and say that Floyd Mayweather Jr's clash against Andre Berto on Saturday night at MGM Grand in Las Vegas is a bit of an anti-climax to the end of a glittering career. Whether this is truly the end of his career, who can [...]
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Tonight, Gennady Golovkin (33-0) faces off against Canadian puncher David Lemieux (34-2-0) in what is being hailed as the next Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns. How many times have we heard that before? Why are people so excited for this fight to come about? Well, the knockout statistics of these two are very high, Golovkin [...]
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It's one of the bigger Saturday nights we've had this autumn with four world title clashes on offer but one of the big fights slated for tonight was scraped when the champion failed to make weight on a massive scale. IBF bantam boss Randy Caballero of America was set to meet the challenge posed by [...]
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It's a big night at the fights with three world title bouts featured in three different countries this evening and we start this review by heading to Germany, where heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko puts the WBA, IBF and WBO crowns on offer against opinionated challenger Tyson Fury at Esprit Arena in Dusseldorf. Finally, Fury, 24-0 (18), [...]
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Love him or hate him, you have to admit that heavyweight Tyson Fury is entertaining, Whether it’s entering a press conference dressed up as Batman, serenading an audience after a fight or running his mouth off like he so often does, its entertaining. And that is a word you can’t use to describe the Champion, [...]
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The big boys are the highlight of the top level bouts that occur this weekend with two pairings of interest which happen on the same card in America. On the double bill at Barclays Center in New York, two of the four major world titles at heavyweight will be argued over as WBC kingpin Deontay [...]
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Unfortunately, I have to be as clichéd as everyone else in looking forward to this bout by saying the obvious, it’s a 50/50 contest, a ‘pick-em’ fight. And whilst it is a fantastic, intriguing matchup, the fighters have different strengths and weaknesses, which will play a big part in who loses their unbeaten record tonight, [...]
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First and foremost, congratulations to 'Prince' Charles Martin, Anthony Joshua and both camps for making this fight happen. A genuine 50/50 fight for a portion of the heavyweight title between two relative novices. As first defences go, it's a ballsy move by Martin to offer himself and his title up as a target for red [...]
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