Ovill Mckenzie has been forced to withdraw from his challenge for the IBO World Cruiserweight Championship against Marco Huck on medical grounds. Mckenzie, 36, was due to face Germany’s Huck this Saturday 24th September at the Festhalle Arena in Frankfurt.
Derby-based McKenzie, 25-12-1 13 KO’s, narrowly missed out on claiming a World Title when he pushed former IBF ruler Emilio Ramirez to a controversial draw in Argentina last October and is devastated at missing out … Read Article
Goodwin Boxing are pleased to reveal talented and highly touted super featherweight Jimmy Cooper as the latest boxer to sign Managerial terms. The undefeated 24 year old from Hampshire has chosen Goodwin Boxing to help move his career on towards championship level.… Read Article
It’s no secret that middleweight king Gennady Golovkin wants two things more than anything else as far as his boxing career is concerned: a mega-fight with Saul Alvarez, and to own all the major middleweight belts. The Alvarez fight will have to wait (probably until next September at the earliest) but a fight with reigning WBO 160-pound champ Billy Joe Saunders could happen in the next few months – if Saunders really wants it, according … Read Article
MGM are delighted to announce the signing of Olympian, Paddy Barnes, on a management contract. The signing of Paddy Barnes has everyone at MGM very excited. An impressive amateur career has produced one of Ireland’s most popular Olympians. Three appearances at the Olympic Games produced consecutive bronze medals in 2008 and 2012. This led to Paddy being given the honour of being Ireland’s flag bearer at the most recent Olympics in Brazil.… Read Article
Twice in two weeks British world champions – Kell Brook and Liam Smith – have stepped up to the elite level and come up short. Of the two a case can be made that Kell Brook does belong at the elite level, just not at middleweight; and certainly not at middleweight against the machine that is Gennady Golovkin. The Sheffield welterweight world champion’s next outing at light middle will prove beyond doubt if he’s as … Read Article
Kell Brook lost in a brave and exciting attempt at taking middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s belts. Liam Smith lost in a brave and exciting attempt at defending his super-welterweight title against Canelo Alvarez. Now, as both fighters attempt to bounce back after losing their unbeaten records, word is the two warriors who enhanced their reputations in defeat could meet each other in what would be a British super-fight.
Brook, who is still healing after taking … Read Article
By Jake Jones
With the days looming to Luke Heron’s bout with Kieron Gray on Black Country Boxing’s ‘High Stakes’ show at Walsall Town Hall this weekend, the Birmingham based boxer is remaining focused on the task ahead writes Jake Jones.… Read Article
Peter Fury is urging fans to get along to the Lancashire County Cricket Club in Manchester on October 1 to watch the next big sensation in heavyweight boxing.
Already the trainer of current world champion Tyson Fury, along with talented son Hughie, it’s fair to say Peter knows a good heavyweight when he sees one – and Con Sheehan has got him excited. … Read Article
Unbeaten middleweight prospect Grant Dennis (6-0) has been handed a shot at the prestigious Southern Area title on November 12th at the Metropole Hotel in Brighton.
The 32-year-old ‘Go-Getter’ from Chatham will face the current holder Nicky Jenman (15-8-1), 30-years-old from Brighton, on a Warrior Promotions show.… Read Article
What a perplexing figure former British middleweight champion Chris Eubank Junior really is. The vocal, seemingly cocksure fighter has, in the past month or so: gone from being on the verge of challenging world middleweight ruler Gennady Golovkin in a £million pound fight (and beating him, according to Eubank Jr and Senior) to being set to defend his British title against the far less known Tommy Langford for a far less substantial payday, to vacating … Read Article
