Oleg Maskaev has an injured back and ankle and has pulled out from his scheduled fight with Samuel Peter on Oct. 6 at Madison Square Garden.
The Peter camp will attempt to lobby the WBC to allow Peter to fight an opponent TBD for the interim title.
Stay tuned…
HBO Sports is presenting a thirty- minute special analyzing the upcoming HBO Pay-Per-View super featherweight bout between Manny Pacquiao and Marco Antonio Barrera. The highly anticipated rematch is set for Saturday, October 6 in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay. The fight is an intriguing match-up between two of the elite fighters in the 130-pound division, …
The International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI), the world’s number one team-based professional mixed martial arts league, today announced that longtime television executive, event producer and boxing industry icon Jay Larkin has been named to the newly-created position of President and Chief Operating Officer. Larkin will report directly to IFL CEO Gareb Shamus and will …
The CES debut of unbeaten (35-0, 28 KOs) “Babyâ€? Joe Mesi and the return of 2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Sixâ€? Estrada co-headline in a pair of heavyweight bouts on October 12 in “Clash Of The Titans,â€? promoted by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc., continuing “The Budweiser Night at the Fightsâ€? series, at …
Boasting a combined record of 154 victories – 80 by knockout — against just 12 losses and a winning percentage exceeding 92%, the three-bout pay-per-view undercard for “Will to Winâ€? promises to be 100% action!
Promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank, …
Leading up to the welterweight championship match between pound-for-pound boxing king Floyd Mayweather and hard-hitting British challenger Ricky Hatton — to be carried live from Las Vegas Saturday, Dec. 8 on HBO Pay-Per-View — HBO Sports presents the exclusive four-episode, all-access series MAYWEATHER/HATTON 24/7 in the weeks before the showdown.
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World Boxing Council No. 1-ranked mandatory challenger Adrian “The Shark� Diaconu, scheduled to fight for a title against WBC lightweight champion “Bad� Chad Dawson at ARCO Arena in Sacramento, suffered a training injury on Thursday forcing him to pull out of the Sept. 29 match.
Dangerous light heavyweight knockout artist Epifanio Mendoza (28-4-1, 24 KOs), …
Adrian Diaconu of Canada hurt his wrist and has removed himself from a planned fight with light heavyweight titleholder Chad Dawson, ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports.
The bout was scheduled for Sept. 29 at Arco Arena in Sacramento, Calif., and was to run on Showtime.
Showtime hopes a replacement foe will be found and the show …
After more than three years of inactivity, always tough and exciting Juan “El Pollo� Valenzuela will make his much anticipated ring return and will headline November 2nd Warner Center War promoted by former NABO Champion Kahren Harutyunyan’s Art of Boxing Promotions.
Juan was quickly moving up the world rankings by defeating 2000 U.S. Olympian Ricardo Williams …
When boxing promoter Don King could not come to acceptable terms to deliver the services of his heavyweight contender DaVarryl “Touch of Sleep� Williamson to fight unretiring WBC “champion emeritus� Vitali Klitschko, he unknowingly set in motion the circumstances for another fight.
Klitschko later announced he was going to face Jameel McCline on …
