DAVID PRICE will meet Tony Thompson in a rematch at Liverpool’s Echo Arena on Saturday 6th July. Secret negotiations between Price’s promoter Frank Maloney and the Washington DC southpaw have been going on for two weeks. Contracts for the big 12 round international heavyweight return were finally signed late on Tuesday night. When the pair clashed last month, two-time world title challenger Thompson caused a monumental upset stopping the...
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MATTY ASKIN believes the outcome of his clash with English cruiserweight champion China Clarke will make or break his career. The pair meet at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool on April 20, and Askin says he cannot afford to lose. 12 months ago the 24-year-old was riding high and many expected him to go on to big things in the 14st 4lbs division, but defeats to Jon-Lewis Dickinson and...
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RICKY HATTON believes Anthony Crolla will be back on the road to the top if he can gain revenge on Derry Mathews next weekend. Crolla, 26, goes into the lion’s den to face Mathews on a Matchroom Sport show at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. Victory will earn him the vacant Commonwealth lightweight crown, but more importantly it will dispel any lingering demons from their first meeting. Last April,...
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By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro This coming Friday, March 15th, promoter Frank Maloney returns to the York Hall in Bethnal Green for his latest offering ‘Loaded and Dangerous In London’, which is headlined by Matt Skelton versus John McDermott for the vacant English Heavyweight title. This event is a sort of homecoming for Peckham London born Frank, having not promoted at the Capital’s home of boxing since his huge...
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Written by: Andrew Picken In another display of defiance Hopkins now, (53-6-2, 32 KO wins) rolls back the years and defies the critics by comprehensively beating Tavoris Cloud, (won 24 (KO 19) + lost 1 (KO 0) + drawn 0), to claim the IBF Light Heavyweight title of the world on Saturday night. If there’s a nickname he could steal it would have to be Paulie Malignaggis...
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Written by: Andrew Picken Boxing don’t you just love it! No Soap writer in our land could have written that script for a television show or even compete with what happened last night in the Squared Circle at the Echo Arena. Frank Maloney’s script was well and truly torn to shreds and a new one is to be rewritten soon! In another twist Frank Maloney was rushed...
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By Andrew Picken I was not sure with this guy, the latest boxer to start the wheels turning of the American hype machine, an unstoppable media circus feeding the self -confessed egomaniac. Hailed as the next Floyd Mayweather, a superstar in the making and the saviour of boxing, Broner (won 26 (KO 22), lost 0) has America’s high expectations on his shoulders and boy did he deliver...
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DAVID PRICE’S big fight against Tony Thompson at Liverpool’s Echo Arena on Saturday 23rdFebruary is ON. Rumours had swept Twitter and some minor boxing websites claiming that the 12 round heavyweight contests had been scrapped. But Frank Maloney, promoter of British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Price is livid at the misinformation that has been put out. He believes that lies about the fight being called off were spread after...
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TONY THOMPSON believes he is just days away from ruining all hopes of David Price and Tyson Fury meeting. The American double world title challenger (36-3) meets British and Commonwealth champion Price (15-0) in a 12 round international heavyweight contest at Liverpool’s Echo Arena on Saturday February 23. Price v Fury is the biggest domestic clash right now, and purses bids were due to be held on Wednesday, but...
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