Hometown hero Cletus Seldin patterns his boxing style to the throwback fighters from the 20’s and 30’s and in his HBO debut he scored a third round TKO victory over Roberto Ortiz (35-2-2, 26 KOs) on the Daniel Jacobs-Luis Arias undercard at the Nassau Coliseum.
Promoter Eddie Hearn took a small break from promoting the first ever Matchroom Boxing card in the United States to discuss the current landscape of the Heavyweight division.
Jarrett Hurd (21-0, 15 KOs) defeats Austin Trout (30-4, 17 KOs) by 10th round TKO victory in a firefight with sensational back and forth action causing both fighters to be sent to the hospital afterwards.
Light Heavyweight contender Marcus Browne (20-0, 14 KOs) stopped local crowd favorite and previously unbeaten Seanie Monaghan (28-1, 17 KOs).
Rising Heavyweight contender Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller (18-0-1, 16 KOs) will return to the ring following a self-imposed hiatus which lasted nearly a year to take on former world-title challenger Gerald Washington (18-1-1, 12 KOs).
In only her fourth professional bout, two-time Olympic gold medal winner Claressa Shields (3-0, 1 KO) will challenge Nikki Adler (16-0, 9 KOs) for the WBC Super Middleweight world title in the main event of Showtime’s ShoBox series on Friday, August 4 at the MGM Grand in Detroit.
The immediate reaction to Andre Ward’s successful title defense over former world champion Sergey Kovalev revealed three observations which emerged from the grudge match.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields (2-0, 1 KO) weighed in at 162.4 pounds today in Detroit while her opponent, Sydney LeBlanc weighed in at 164 pounds even.
2016 U.S. Olympian Shakur Stevenson (2-0, 1 KO) made short work of Argentina’s Carlos Suarez (6-4-2, 1 KO), scoring a first-round TKO at Madison Square Garden on the undercard of the main event featuring Terence Crawford-Felix Diaz.
Vladimir Lik looks at the three keys to victory for “The Son of the Legend,” Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to defeat Canelo Alvarez.
On Saturday night, March 18, 2017, in New York’s Madison Square Garden, Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) puts his undefeated record and Middleweight world titles on the line against Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs).
There were two common themes repeated over and over again at this afternoon’s New York City leg of the press tour to announce the Anthony Joshua-Wladimir Klitschko heavyweight championship bout to take place April 29 at London’s Wembley Stadium.
World-rated Heavyweight contender Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller(18-0-1, 16 KOs) is trying to stay in the holiday spirit, but he also knows he is so close to a world title shot that the nearly 300-pound Brooklyn native can taste it.
It would not be a stretch to call the 6'3" Oleksandr Usyk a YouTube sensation as much for the victory dance he performs in the ring--a traditional Ukranian Hopak dance--and equally for his thrilling fighting prowess.
On Wednesday, November 23, 2016, promoter Dmitriy Salita and his older brother Michael took a packed public library full of first graders on read-along to their new children’s book “B is for Boxing” right before the Thanksgiving holiday.
