WBC International Featherweight champ, Lee Selby, is in Omaha, Nebraska to take in the IBF Featherweight Championship fight between Evgeny Gradovich and Jayson Velez. Selby, 20-1 8 KO's, is coming off a TKO 9 over Joel Bunker on October 11th. Selby also holds the British and European featherweight titles. Selby, the IBF's #1 contender, plans on calling out the winner of … [Read more...]
Rees vs. Buckland: an all-Welsh showdown Saturday in Cardiff
Gavin Rees needs a win. The former BBBofC and EBU lightweight champion meets former BBBofC super featherweight title holder Gary Buckland (27-3, 9 KO’s) at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales Saturday night. A win in this British title eliminator would put Rees back in the mix among the top British lightweights. A loss would more than likely kill his status as a serious … [Read more...]
The British Boxing Year – Not So Much As A Bang But A Whimper…
It’s been a year of near-misses for British boxing in 2011. The UK entered the year with four legitimate world champions and exited with one, and in-between eleven British fighters failed to win in world title fights. December turned out to be our winter of discontent. Amir Khan surrendered his IBF and WBA light-welterweight belts to a resurgent Lamont Peterson, and promptly … [Read more...]