Huge!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday, September 10

HBO (5:30PM ET/PT)
Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook
(WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight titles)

Finally! Kovalev vs. Ward is official

Tickets for the most anticipated fight of the year go on sale to the public on Friday, Sept. 2 at 11:00 a.m. PT. The Saturday, Nov. 19 showdown between WBO, WBA and IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (30-0-1, 26 KOs) and Two-Time World Champion Andre “S.O.G.” Ward (30-0, 15 KOs) at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Tickets start at $55 and are available on axs.com and the T-Mobile Arena box office.
Kovalev vs. Ward “Pound for Pound” is presented by Main Events, Roc Nation Sports, Krusher Promotions and Andre Ward Promotions and sponsored by the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino. The championship event will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View.

World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to defend title in November

Bundu ready to take on Spence


Photo: Marco Chiesa

By Marco Bratusch

IBF #6 welterweight Leonard “The Lion” Bundu (33-1-2, 12 KOs) is eager to prove himself on Sunday afternoon against IBF #2 Errol “The Truth” Spence jr. (20-0, 17 KOs). The fight, set to take place at the new Ford Amphiteater in Coney Island, NY, is an elimination bout to determine the new IBF mandatory challenger in the welterweight division. Bundu-Spence will top a PBC card promoted by DiBella Entertainment. NBC will broadcast the fight live in the USA starting at 5PM ET/ 2PM PT. BoxNation will show the contest in the UK as well as Sportitalia TV in Italy.
For the Italian fighter, born in Sierra Leone, this will be his third fight on USA soil after his loss on points to Keith Thurman in December 2014 and the following comeback fight against Mexican Pablo Munguia in Seattle last year.
“I feel really good,” Bundu told Fightnews.com®, “after my first loss I went through a short period of discouragement for a while, then I’ve found my pleasure in training soon again. I know Spence is a young talent and a very accurate puncher but I think he will have to be cautious against me.
“I’ve seen he’s now fighting more on his front foot at close quarters, looking for the KO. It would suit me well as I also love fighting and countering, provide a good clash for the fans. We’ve had a very good training camp, divided between my conditioning training in Cisterna and the technical and sparring part in Florence during last month. There we used a quick Swiss southpaw, Ricardo Silva, a worthy sparring partner that my promoter Mario Loreni provided. I’ll land in New York City on Monday evening, so I’ll have plenty of time to acclimate and overcome the 6-hours of jet lag. I’m looking forward to a very good performance.”
Long-time trainer Alessandro Boncinelli, owner of the Accademia Pugilistica Fiorentina (Bundu’s gym in Florence), gives his thought on the contest:
“I can see Spence as a little ‘tank,’ although he’s also really accurate punching from the inside. This young southpaw has very good offensive skills even though I still want to see how good his defense is. We studied a couple of tactics that can work out well going into this fight, but of course I don’t want to reveal them now.
“For this fight I wanted Leonard to have a very hard training camp because, you know, when you’re in your early forties you can’t overlook anything. Leonard did a very good job, running many miles, doing uphill sprints, working at high-intensity at the heavy bag and showing me good recover from those works. I couldn’t ask him more in training. Now he must do the right things even into the ring. I expect a very hard but entertaining fight.”

This was discussed on bbc radio 5 as the permutations of fury failed drugs test.

Would you go for that if you are Joe?

https://www.facebook.com/events/1221802971184947/

Hey everyone

After being in boxing community for 2 years (including being a Boxrec editor and Boxing Judge for a year)
I have decide to do my first Boxing event as a promoter

http://boxrec.com/show/736953

http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2016/btw-promotions-presents-fight-charity/auckland/eden-terrace

let me know your thoughts and I hope to see some of you there in Auckland

KB says, "go to the body."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/boxing/news/article.cfm?c_id=23&objectid=11681649

I thought it would be interesting to start a thread about what boxers do after there careers finish.
Years and years ago I worked on a building site on upper queen street Auckland and got talking to Joe Jackson, former NZ light heavyweight champ, had a brilliant afternoon at work. He talked about his fight in Sydney with Tony Mundine and life since boxing, he was labouring there and the stories blew me away. So I was wondering if anybody has been in contact with Maselino Masoe? He won the World WBA middleweight title, I see his last fight was when he was 44 back in 2011, anybody know what he's up to? Its a shame he didn't get the credit he deserves and even after being world champ is not well known. Cheers.

Right, who might be on the undercard?
It sounds like Izu is fighting in America in September so is very doubtful, Nik the Greek has said he's back out in November now. Who'd do we think (or would like to see) on the undercard. I'm not counting the celebrity crap or buttabollox.
Jeff Horn? Maybe a few stablemates of the big Ukrainian would be a nice change.