British Boxing

Seven names announced for York Hall showdown on September 15 Former two-weight World champ Takaloo tops the bill for the Prizefighter Light-Middleweights II at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Thursday 15 September – leading a classic mix of fighters aiming to triumph live on Sky Sports.

MATTY ASKIN believes he is ready to face British cruiserweight champion Robert Norton Askin boxes an eight rounder in his hometown at Blackpool Tower on Friday 19th August against a selected opponent, and hopes victory will lead towards a Norton challenge.

Irvines Prizefighter winner Ryan Brawley heads a card of international fights in Prospect Boxing’s next fightcard at Ayr Town Hall on 10th September. Coming off a loss to Stuart Green for the Scottish title in January,Brawley will be looking to bring himself back into title contention and fights over eight rounds!

Tommy Stubbs has turned professional with Hatton Promotions and signed a three year deal with Britain’s most ambitious promotional outfit.

Prizefighter returns for a new season on Thursday 15 September with the Light-Middleweights II at York Hall, Bethnal Green, live on Sky Sports.

DOUBLE ABA heavyweight champion Danny Price has signed a three year managerial and promotional deal with Frank Maloney.

By William Mackay: The recently beaten Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) will be announcing who his next opponent will be for his September 10th fight at the Odyssey Arena. Dan Rafael from ESPN said that it could be Breidis Prescott that McCloskey ends up fighting. However, the talk is now that McCloskey won’t be facing [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former World Boxing Council (WBC) light welterweight champion Junior Witter (39-5-2, 22 KO’s) took a parting shot at Ricky Hatton recently when asked what his favorite Hatton moment was during his career by the Shefield Star. Instead of remembering some of Hatton’s impressive knockout shots or great victories, Witter said “When Floyd [...]

By Shawn Holt: Age: 26 Weight Class: Super Middleweight-Light Heavyweight Record: 8-0-1 (6) Fighting out of: Sunderland, England

By Sean McDaniel: We may have seen the last of Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) after he recently retired from boxing with only two career losses on his record. Sky Sports News analyst Glen McCrory doesn’t think Hatton can come back from retirement, saying at Sky Sports “It’s caught up with him now in his [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Recently, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan mentioned unbeaten number #2 WBO ranked welterweight contender Kell Brook (24-0, 16 Ko’s) as someone he plans on fighting if he can get by IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah on July 23, and after Khan faces aging former champion Erik Morales in his fight [...]

Fight # 1 – 18:05 hrs 4 X 3 Minute Rounds Light-Heavyweight Contest CALLUM JOHNSON v LEE DUNCAN

By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro: There’s a real buzz around the London Boxing scene at the moment thanks to the plethora of new young promoters strutting their stuff.

LEE PURDY hopes successfully defending his British welterweight crown against Craig Watson this weekend will book a return clash against Denton Vassell. Colchester’s Purdy narrowly lost on points to Vassell in a Commonwealth title challenge last year, but in April shocked Watson to become British champion.

With the rematch of his classic 2007 ‘Fight of the Year’ encounter with Michael Katsidis firmly on hold for the foreseeable future, Graham Earl is keeping busy by presenting his third event of the year, ‘Renaissance’, which will take place in his home town of Luton on Sunday 31st July.

HATTON PROMOTIONS are delighted to announce that their next two big promotions will be available for FREE on the internet. It means fans will get to see a British title fight and a world title eliminator by simply turning on their computer.

By Scott Gilfoid: We saw plainly how easily IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko was able to figure out and defeat WBA heavyweight champion David Haye recently by a lopsided 12 round decision. Wladimir and his trainer Emanuel Steward picked apart Haye’s trainer Adam Booth’s strategy of having Haye throw pot shots and use a lot [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (32-5, 25 KO’s) is back with his old trainer Enzo Calzaghe and is hoping to find success at light heavyweight. Maccarinelli, 30, has been knocked out four times in the past three years and it looks like he realizes that he needed to [...]

Hot-prospect Callum Johnson has vowed to bridge the north south divide as a professional. The 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist has his first pro fight in England on July 16 at the Liverpool Echo Arena.

RICKY HATTON has announced his retirement from professional boxing following a glorious career which saw him win world titles at light-welterweight and welterweight. ‘The Hitman’ will now concentrate on continuing to build Hatton Promotions that has produced many champions in just over two years.

Rocky Fielding says he can’t wait to fight in front of his home fans at the Liverpool Echo Arena. The 23-year-old Prizefighter winner will have his first outing for new promoter Frank Warren on July 16.

GARY BUCKLAND believes his victory on the Saul Alvarez-Ryan Rhodes undercard is the boost he needed to defeat British super-featherweight champion Gary Sykes, again.

By Sean McDaniel: Former 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist and British super middleweight champion James DeGale (10-1, 8 Ko’s) was reportedly struck in the mouth while at a pool party in Spain by a youth, according to livefight.com. The punch was thrown by a youth and landed hard enough to knock out DeGale’s false tooth. DeGale [...]

By Ian Aldous: Jon Thaxton (34-11) retired from boxing in October 2009 after a very successful career that saw him win British, European and WBF titles in the lightweight division. He’s widely known as one the nicest guys in the sport. Jon gave me a few minutes of his time this week go over a [...]

Kirk Goodings, winner of boxing’s version of the X-Factor, will make his debut for top promoter Frank Warren on his big Excel show on Saturday 9th July.

Wayne Reed faces former World Boxing Council (WBC) World Champion Robin Reid at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre on Saturday – and says he’ll end the 40 year-old’s career at the sell-out show live on Sky Sports.

Purchase your tickets here for next month’s hotly anticipated ‘Big Brawl’; a night of incredible British boxing on July 23rd at Wembley Arena.

By Byron Wallin: When reading articles on this site concerning Joe Calzaghe (46-0 32 KO’s) the common themes seem to comprise whether Calzaghe really was as good as his record would suggest, or whether infact he was nothing more than a carefully matched fighter who fought in a weak division in a poor era.

RICKY HATTON has received his first major award as a promoter after being named European Promoter of the Year. The Hatton Promotions President landed the prestigious accolade at a gala ceremony in Dublin on Friday night.

Top prospect Paul Butler is hoping to be fast-tracked to title glory. The Ellesmere Port sensation, last year’s ABA Flyweight Champion, has had just two professional fights, but the dearth of little men for him to face in the UK means it might not be long before he is mixing it at championship level.