Top Rank chief Bob Arum is currently in the UK to discuss options for some of his fighters and has held a meeting over the weekend with Matchroom Sport chief Barry Hearn, father of Eddie, ostensibly with a view to making match-ups for Matchroom world champions Kell Brook and Scott Quigg.
On his twitter account on Sunday, the elder Hearn posted a picture of himself with the long-time Top Rank chief alongside the caption, “Great … Read Article
Watching the latter day Floyd Mayweather in interviews and at media scrums is a little bit like watching a small child who has been told by it’s mother – “think carefully before you speak,” such are the deliberate pauses for careful consideration every time he opens his mouth these days.
The delay each time he’s asked a question grows more amusing every time he is interviewed, and if there were silence you’d probably hear the … Read Article
Former four division champion Roy Jones Jr. (62-8) picked up his third victory of the year with a brutal 6th round knockout of Eric Watkins (12-10-2) in the Knockout series finally brought to you by NUVOtv.
Jones dominated the action from the opening bell and stopped Watkins at the end of the 6th round with a check left hook that his opponent couldn’t recover from. The official time of the stoppage was 2:59.
In the … Read Article
Britain’s former 2 weight world champ Ricky Hatton, who himself boxed both Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas, has spoken out to the ‘expressandstar.com’ to suggest that if “jilted bride” Amir Khan cannot secure the mega fights he craves with either of the two P4P giants, then he should just do what most right thinking fans want him to do – fight IBF 147 lb champion Kell Brook.
Khan has ostensibly talked himself … Read Article
In a do or die fight for two older heavyweights looking for one last opportunity at a world title bout, Antonio “Magic Man” Tarver and “USS” Steve Cummingham gave everything they had in a hard fought, competitive twelve round split decision draw. Scores were 115-113 for Cunningham, 115-113 for Tarver, and 114-114. This main event at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey was part of the Premier Boxing Champions and was broadcast on Spike … Read Article
New WBO lightweight champion “Turbo” Terry Flanagan (28-0, 11ko) hasn’t got an easy 1st defence of the title he won last month in Manchester, with the unbeaten Brit set to face solid American former world title challenger Diego Magdaleno (28-1, 12ko) on the Queensbury Promotions October 10th bill from the M.E.N Arena, Manchester, UK.
Promoter Frank Warren revealed on Friday as part of the “Bunce’s Boxing Hour” show on Boxnation that Flanagan would be fulfilling … Read Article
Former IBF 168lb champ Lucian Bute (32-2, 25 KOs) came out on top tonight in defeating Italy’s Andrea Di Luisa (17-3, 13 KOs) by a 4th round TKO after Di Luisa’s corner threw in the towel in the 4th round at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
Bute knocked the 33-year-old, Ink-covered Di Luisa down with a left to the head in the 4th. Di Luisa got to his feet at the count of 8. … Read Article
Northern Irish middleweight contender and IBF #3, Eamonn O’Kane (14-1-1, 5ko) is set to face far and away the biggest test of his career when he enters a considerable underdog against Bahamian former Olympian and IBF #4 Tureano Johnson (18-1, 13ko) on the under card of the highly anticipated Gennady Golovkin/David Lemieux HBO PPV bill on October 17th at Madison Square Garden, New York.
The winner of the bout will become mandatory challenger to the … Read Article
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Little known Krzystof Glowacki pulled off a stunning upset in New Jersey last night, knocking out long reigning WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck in the 11th round of a thoroughly entertaining scrap, sending the large Polish contingent in attendance at the Prudential Center absolutely wild.
Glowacki was flat on his back in the 6th after a solid left hook, and after rising to his feet looked as if he might get waved off, but … Read Article
Mexico’s former WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco announced his retirement from boxing after his one sided loss to unbeaten Cuban Rances Barthelemy in June, yet less than two months after releasing the statement bringing the curtain down on his career, it appears he has had a change of heart.
“I feel at peace and at the same time disappointed with myself,” DeMarco said in the aforementioned statement. “I thank God and boxing and the people … Read Article
