While most established pros are opposed to fighting in the Olympics, there are two stars that will take the chance to qualify. One is former WBO middleweight champ Hassan N´Dam, who represented Cameroon in the 2004 Olympics but is now a French citize...
WBO #12 welterweight Victor Plotnikov (31-2, 15 KOs) of Ukraine will clash horns with British contender Denton Vassell (21-2, 11 KOs) on February 28 At Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland for the vacant IBF I/C welterweight title. The fight wi...
Scott Cardle (16-0, 4 KOs) hasn't looked any better than that in the first-round blowout of defending BBofC English lightweight champion Kirk Goodings (11-2, 3 KOs). Goodings was put down with a very short right uppercut in an early exchange. Cardle...
Denton Vassell hopes Frankie Gavin will grant him a rematch if he wins his British welterweight title eliminator. The former Commonwealth champion will end a 14-month absence from the ring when he faces Sam Eggington in Manchester on September 13,...
When Chad Gaynor came out of last year’s Prizefighter: The Welterweights he didn’t bag the £32,000 prize nor did he have a gleaming silver trophy to show for his efforts. Instead, the man from Rotherham, Yorkshire walked away from the competition wi...
Ricky Burns suffered the agony of a broken jaw in his last fight, a draw with Raymundo Beltran in September, so he could be forgiven for wishing that his first bout back wasn’t against an undefeated, highly rated American mandatory challenger who has...
The fans in attendance and those who tuned into BoxNation on Friday night to watch Frankie Gavin versus Denton Vassell got to see the best of boxing from both sides of the argument, even though the fight itself failed to fire into a competitive clash...
Joe Murray (14-0, 5 KOs), a former amateur star from Liverpool and the younger brother of perennial lightweight contender John Murray, barely overcame resistance of the ultra tough and very determined journeyman Dan Naylor to score a close decision o...
Commonwealth welterweight king Denton Vassell is known as ‘The Quiet Storm’ but he has designs on causing serious carnage when he puts his belt on the line in a title unifier with British champion Frankie Gavin at Liverpool Olympia on Friday night....
Frankie Gavin says he’ll be too quick and clever for Denton Vassell when they clash at the Liverpool Olympia on Friday 28th June. The Birmingham ace puts his British Welterweight title on the line against Vassell’s Commonwealth belt in a battle o...
The art of pugilism, as Howard Cosell once said, “Is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man”. The practice of Bikram Yoga, a 90 minute series of Hatha Yoga postures performed in a room heated to 40...
As reported on BoxingScene previously reported, Denton Vassell's showdown with Birmingham's Frankie Gavin has been switched from Wembley Arena to Liverpool's Olympia venue. The Commonwealth and British welterweight title fight was originally due to...
Frankie Gavin and Denton Vassell’s British and Commonwealth Welterweight showdown will headline promoter Frank Warren’s show at the Liverpool Olympia on Friday 28th June. The highly-anticipated domestic dust-up between the unbeaten champions - wi...
Manchester's Denton Vassell and Birmingham's Frankie Gavin will have to wait a little bit longer for their Commonwealth and British welterweight title fight after Frank Warren revealed that his June 15 bill at Wembley has been postponed until July 20...