Ballymena boxer Joe ‘Sugar’ Rea is handed the opportunity of a lifetime by being selected as one of the 8 fighters to compete in the SKY Sports phenomenon known as ‘Prizefighter’, which comes to Belfast for the first time this Saturday, May 5, with a...
SKY Sports weekly boxing magazine show rolled into Huddersfield, Yorkshire last Friday to witness local fighter Gary Sykes, 15-0 (4 KO’s) lift the vacant British super featherweight title as he defeated Manchester’s Andy Morris, 18-3 (6 KO’s), in a...
Steve Goodwin recently put a price on his London based Moroccan fighter Yassine El Maachi’s head. The bounty of £15,000 goes to any fighter that can defeat the 30-year-old member of the ‘Who Needs Him Club’ on the Goodwin Promotions card at York Hal...
Whilst the majority of eyes in the British boxing scene were turned towards Stoke-on-Trent and the Hatton Promotions show featuring the European super-featherweight battle between hometown boy Scott Lawton and evergreen predator Leva Kirakosyan last...
By Leonard Gunning - Bernard Dunne, Ireland’s former WBA super bantamweight world champion has walked away from the sport he loves and announced his retirement from boxing at the tender age of 30. Whilst some journalist and pundits may claim that th...
Oisin Fagan (25(15) – 7) is a fighter from the old school, there in lies his popularity amongst Irish fight fans. He has never shied away from a fight, never trash talked, never ducked an opponent and never given anything less 100% no matter what the...
Roman leader Julius Cesar triumphantly exclaimed “veni, vidi, vici” after he vanquished Pharnaces II following a failed coup in 47 BC and now over 2,000 years later the hendiatris has become the maxim of exciting heavy handed Belfast prospect Carl ‘T...
In a spectacular performance, Brian Magee claimed the vacant European super middleweight title extending his record to 33–3–1 (23) by completing a stunning seventh round knockout of hometown favourite Mads Larsen at the NRGi Arena in Aarhus, Denmar...
A beaming Ricky Hatton said, “That it is was the best performance of his career” as his protégé Kieran Maher continued the steady start to his burgeoning career by extended his professional record to 3-0 (0) after gaining a hard fought four round poi...
Now that we have seen the end of the most exhilarating and exciting, not to mention busiest, year in Irish professional boxing since St. Patrick drove the snakes from the Emerald Isle the time has come for BoxingScene.com to hand out plaudits to thos...
Matthew Macklin never got out of third gear as he extended his record to 26-2 (18) by cruising to a comprehensive ten round points victory over Uruguay’s Rafael Sosa Pintos, 34-5 (13), to end his year on a high in front of a packed out National Stadi...
With another six pages torn from the calendar, it is time again to reassess the progress boxers of the Emerald Isle have been making. Over the last six months Irish boxing has certainly been subjected to the high highs and low lows that our beloved...
By Leonard Gunning - Unbeaten Irish fighter Paul McCloskey took his record to 20-0 with 10 wins inside the distance by cantering past Spain’s Daniel Rasilla in nine rounds to claim the vacant European light welterweight title in front of an ecstatic...