Chris Billam-Smith Returns To Bournemouth For The Second Time This Year Manchester, England – 15 November 2022 – Get ready for an early Christmas gift as cruiserweight hero Chris Billam-Smith comes back to town to headline a cracking BOXXER card at the Bournemouth International Arena on Saturday, December 17th – live and exclusive in the UK & Ireland on Sky Sports. ‘The…
Ben Whittaker’s Injury Will See Him Sit Out Until March 2023 NoSmokeBoxing Understands 2020 Olympic silver medalist Ben Whittaker (2-0, 1 KOs) was late to his professional debut due to surgery on his right shoulder that had been affecting him for three years and saw him out of the ring for 11 months. On his…
British Champion Dan Azeez Ordered To Face Thomas Faure For European Honours Undefeated British champion Dan Azeez (17-0, 11 KOs) has been ordered to face France’s Thomas Faure (21-4-1, 2 KOs) for the vacant European Light Heavyweight Championship with purse bid deadlines set for December 1. This comes after the shock retirement of Callum Johnson…
WBO Orders Chantelle Cameron To Face Ex-Katie Taylor Opponent In Her Next Fight The World Boxing Organisation (WBO) today ordered undisputed super lightweight champion, Britain’s Chantelle Cameron (17-0, 8 KOs) to face her mandatory challenger, Greece’s Christina Linardatou (14-2, 6 KOs) in her next bout. The WBO informed promoters Eddie Hearn (Cameron) and Lou DiBella…
Former world cruiserweight title challenger, California’s Michael Hunter (20-1-2, 14 KOs) has officially split with Ben Shalom‘s BOXXER (Sky Sports Boxing) and is officially a market free agent. American Heavyweight Michael Hunter Splits With Ben Shalom’s BOXXER Hunter signed a 3-fight deal with Shalom’s BOXXER earlier this year starting with Hughie Fury in a WBA…
WBC Orders Alen Babic To Face Ryad Merhy As A Final Eliminator For Oscar Rivas’s Title At the 2022 WBC Convention, Croatia’s all-action Alen Babic (11-0, 10 KOs) was ordered to face Belgium’s former WBA (Regular) champion Ryad Merhy (31-1, 26 KOs) in an final eliminator bout for the WBC Bridgerweight World Title currently held by Oscar…
Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton returns to the ring this Saturday in an 8 Round exhibition match with former sparring partner Marco Antonio Barrera. Live on Sky Sports Saturday night, Mancunian idol, Ricky Hatton returns to the Manchester arena almost 10 years to the day since a loss to Vyacheslav Senchenko called time on his illustrious…
Eddie Hearn In Favour Of Open Scoring For World Championship Fights Moving Forward Eddie Hearn explained that he had seen it used by the WBC in certain jurisdictions where they read out the judge’s scorecard “after the fourth and eighth round” in a championship fight. “It’s quite interesting because it changes the dynamic of a…
Britain’s Sunny Edwards (18-0, 4KOs) defends his IBF flyweight world title against tough Nicaraguan mandatory challenger Felix Alvarado (38-2, 33KOs) in the Steel City on Friday, November 11 at the Sheffield Utilita Arena live and FREE on FITE TV in the UK. Edwards vs Alvarado Will Be Free On FITE In the chief support, Jack Bateson (17-0, 4 KOs)…
A Source tells NoSmokeBoxing that unbeaten Panamanian Rafael Pedroza (13-0, 11 KOs) has withdrawn from his Featherweight bout with Liverpool’s Nick Ball (16-0, 9 KOs) that was supposed to headline the York Hall, Bethnal Green this Friday, November 11 live on BT Sport for Ball’s WBC Silver strap. Pedraza Pulls Out, Nick Ball Gets Mexican…
Eddie Hearn Confirms There Is A Rematch Clause In Place For Canelo Bivol 2 But Without Specific Terms When asked to specify the nature of that rematch clause, Hearn stated that whilst they “Do have an agreement in place to look at the Canelo Alvarez fight”, however, it does not appear that the terms are…
Oscar De La Hoya has fumed in various interviews this week about the current state of boxing and his plans to expose who he claims are the culprits. We are all aware of the collapse of recent pound-for-pound blockbusters and this week the fallout of the potential clash between Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Ryan Garcia…
Undisputed Welterweight champion Jessica McCaskill (12-2) meets unified super lightweight champion Chantelle Cameron (16-0, 8 KOs) for all of the 140-pound marbles in a real pick’em fight this Saturday, November 5 at the Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi. Jessica McCaskill Eyes A World Title Should McCaskill emerge victorious in her fight, she revealed to ID Boxing that she would like to face Britain’s WBA…
Eddie Hearn Explains Why He Believes PBC And Showtime Are To Blame For Gervonta Davis vs Ryan Garcia Potentially Falling Through Eddie Hearn vented out his thoughts on why the highly anticipated matchup between Ryan Garcia (23-0, 19 KOs) and Gervonta Davis (27-0, 25 KOs) is not happening in a Boxing Social interview today. Hearn…
