KOVALEV V YARDE FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES ANTHONY YARDE will take on WBO World Light Heavyweight Champion Sergey Kovalev on Saturday night in Chelyabinsk, Russia live on BT Sport 2. Yarde (18-0, 17KOs) met Kovalev (33-3-1, 28KOs) for the first time today at their fight week press conference. Here are a selection of quotes from the […]
MORE ...British title showdown lands on Davies Jr vs. Ritson undercard Ted Cheeseman will defend his British Super-Welterweight title against Scott Fitzgerald at the Utilita Arena Newcastle on Saturday October 19 in support of Robbie Davies Jr vs. Lewis Ritson, shown live on Sky Sports in the UK and DAZN in the US. Fitzgerald (13-0, 9 KOs) is coming off a career-best win as […]
MORE ...Nonina Defends WBF World Bantamweight Title Against Hamzaoui After a one-off foray into the featherweight division, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Womens World Bantamweight Champion Bukiwe “Anaconda” Nonina will defend her title against former WBF World Flyweight ruler Amira Hamzaoui on August 31 in Sterkspruit, South Africa. 27-year-old Nonina, 15-5-1 (2), from Johannesburg, won the title […]
MORE ...ANTHONY YARDE WAS quick to dispel the notion that his forthcoming mission into Russia to face Sergey Kovalev bears some sort of comparison to the storyline behind Rocky IV. The unbeaten light heavyweight KO-artist this week travels to the outpost of Chelyabinsk, the home town of the man known as Krusher, in a bid to prize […]
MORE ...Former Irish Super Welterweight Champion and current #1 rated British Championship Referee Lee Murtagh recently received official accreditation from West Virginia Athletic Commission in the United States. Murtagh, whose eighteen year boxing career culminated in a trip to Rochester, USA to fight Hector Camacho Jr. in August 2013. Following his retirement from active competition Murtagh […]
MORE ...On Friday August 30 at the Wynberg Military Base in Cape Town, South Africa, Angola-born but locally based World Boxing Federation (WBF) All Africa Welterweight Champion Antonio Mayala returns to defend his title. In the main event of a show billed as “The Battle of the Young Guns”, Mayala, 11-3-1 (6), takes on challenger Onke […]
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THE SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT former amateur standout Lewis Edmondson has signed a promotional agreement with Frank Warren and he will make his Queensberry Promotions debut at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday September 27. The 23-year-old, who is trained by Josh Burnham in Bushey, narrowly missed out on a place on the GB team for the Rio […]
MORE ...THE LONG RUNNING quest of Lucien Reid to become involved in title fights certainly rings true with the old saying about London buses. Reid has been waiting, impatiently, for a title opportunity to come along then all of a sudden, like the buses, two have arrived at once. ‘Lethal’ Lucien, 25, will challenge for the British and […]
MORE ...Rising Light-Heavy star returns on August 31 Joshua Buatsi will defend his WBA International Light-Heavyweight title against Ryan Ford on the undercard of the huge Lightweight World title showdown between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Luke Campbell at The O2 in London on August 31, shown live on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK. Buatsi (11-0, 9 KOs) was last seen taking […]
MORE ...Former World champion and Irish World title challenger in action on August 24 Liam Smith and Jono Carroll will aim to move into position to get World title shots in the winter when they travel to at the Centro de Usos Múltiples in Hermosillo, Mexico, on Saturday August 24, live on DAZN in the US […]
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