PROMOTER BOB ARUM CONFERENCE CALL HIGHLIGHTS
BRANDON RIOS & URBANO ANTILLON, NEW YORK (June 30, 2011) – Team Rios and Team Antillon spent time with the boxing media on a teleconference call hosted by Top Rank’s Bob Arum on Thursday, a week before their upcoming world title showdown on Saturday, July 9, LIVESHOWTIME® at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast) from The Home Depot […]
REES AND MURRAY PRIMED FOR EUROPEAN TITLE CLASH
Welshman and Irishman weigh-in ahead of Saturday’s Cardiff showdown Gavin Rees and Andy Murray comfortably made the weight ahead of their European Lightweight title clash at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff tomorrow night (June 7) live on Sky Sports. Rees, Murray and the majority of the undercard for the show weighed in at Cardiff City […]
ELITE SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHTS ANDRE WARD, LUCIAN BUTE, MIKKEL KESSLER WEIGH IN ON FROCH-JOHNSON SEMIFINAL
This Saturday, June 4, LIVE on SHOWTIME® at 9 p.m. ET/PT NEW YORK (June 2, 2011) – Carl Froch is the heavy favorite to defeat Glen Johnson Saturday in Atlantic City live on SHOWTIME® (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast), but Super Six World Boxing Classic Finalist Andre Ward believes there’s a decent chance that “The Road Warrior” […]
REES: TWO-WEIGHT WORLD GLORY WILL FOLLOW EURO BELT
Welshman full of respect for Irish opponent Murray ahead of June 4 clash Gavin Rees says his dream of becoming a two-weight World champion will begin with victory against Irishman Andy Murray in their June 4 fight for the vacant European Lightweight title in Cardiff. The 31 year-old claimed the WBA light-welterweight crown in 2007 […]
Ex-Boxing champion John “The Quietman” Ruiz to be 22nd annual Phantom Gourmet Safari Grand Marshal
Saturday at Suffolk Downs for The Joey Fund BOSTON (May 9, 2011) – Two-time world heavyweight boxing champion John “The Quietman” Ruiz is the Grand Marshal for Saturday (May 14) afternoon’s (12 noon—4:00 PM) 22nd annual Phantom Gourmet Safari (PGS), benefitting The Joey Fund to raise a cure for Cystic Fibrosis, at Suffolk Downs […]
Barry training KZ Event Quartet
LAS VEGAS (Jan. 26, 2011) – 1984 Olympic Silver Medalist Kevin Barry is training a unique, talented quartet of boxers from Kazakhstan, featuring WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov, and Uzbekistan out of his gym, Team Barry Boxing, in Henderson, Nevada. Shumenov (11-1, 7 KOs) and light welterweight Alexandr Zhuravskiy (10-0, 8 KOs) are Kazakhstan […]
Cuban missile Rigondeaux to terminate ‘Big Bang’ Casey March 19 in Dublin
CORK, Ireland (January 2, 2011) – Interim WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion Guillermo “El Chacal” Rigondeaux, arguably the greatest amateur boxer of all-time, is preparing to school challenger Willie “Big Bang” Casey when they square-off March 19 in Dublin. The Guillermo-Casey title fight features a pair of unbeaten boxers headlining a show promoted by Top […]
Nov. 27 SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING Recap
This past Saturday, SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING delivered an action-packed doubleheader: Super Six World Boxing Classic Group Stage 3 bout Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham for the vacant WBC Super Middleweight Championship and Andre Ward vs. Sakio Bika for the WBA Super Middleweight Championship. Don’t miss a replay of Saturday night’s SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast, TOMORROW, […]
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