BROOKLYN (Feb. 23, 2018) – Middleweight contender Hugo Centeno Jr. suffered a rib injury while training and his Interim WBC Middleweight World Championship bout with Jermall Charlo has been rescheduled for a Premier Boxing Champions event on Saturday, April 21 live on SHOWTIME. The March 3 SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast continues as a doubleheader…
LAS VEGAS – Unbeaten two-division world champion Rances Barthelemy worked out for Las Vegas media Thursday as he prepares for his rematch against Kiryl Relikh for the vacant WBA Super Lightweight World Title Saturday, March 10 live on SHOWTIME from Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio and presented by Premier Boxing Champions. The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP…
WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (39-0, 38 KO’s) and dangerous Cuban contender Luis Ortiz (28-0, 24 KO’s) had plenty to say during a heated conference call ahead of their anticipated showdown on Saturday, March 3rd, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. Check out the conversation below!
LOWELL –The championship finals of the 72nd annual New England Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions, which will take place this Thursday evening ,will include blasts from the past. Prior to Thursday’s championship fight card at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium (7:30 p.m. start), many of New England’s all-time great amateur boxers, several of whom went…
EDMONTON, Canada (February 21, 2018) – World Boxing Council (WBC) Diamond champion Callum “Mundo” Smith (23-0, 17 KOs) takes on late replacement Nieky “The Natural” Holzken (13-0, 10 KOs) this Saturday in the last World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) semifinals-round match in the super middleweight division, at Nurnberger Versicherung Arena in Nuremburg, Germany The…
Three-division world champion Mikey Garcia and IBF Junior Welterweight World Champion Sergey Lipinets participated in an open media workout in Los Angeles Tuesday as they prepare for their world title showdown Saturday, March 10 live on SHOWTIME from Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio and presented by Premier Boxing Champions.
NAIROBI, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) — Kenya will have American Hanif Abdullah leading the coaching pool of the boxing team ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast in April. Abdullah, who is in the country, has been hired to improve the skills and fighting tactics of Kenyan national boxing team, Hit Squad. This…
Check out Eric Armit’s comprehensive report in The Week In Boxing – February 20, 2018!
Despite losing his world title fight against Raymundo Beltran on Friday night, Paulus ‘The Hitman’ Moses was received as a champion on his return to Namibia on Monday. At a press conference at MTC, the chief administrator of the Namibia Sport Commission, Fred Mwiya, congratulated the veteran pugilist, who vowed to continue fighting, on…
Ghana’s Fredrick Lawson (26-1, 21 KO’s) is one of eight world class fighters welterweights who have been chosen for the “Jose Sulaiman World Invitational,” presented by Evander Holyfield’s The Real Deal Boxing in association with the World Boxing Council. The first round of the single elimination tournament will take place on Friday, April 27…