
Singh Outpoints Hope In Delhi, Wins Fringe WBO Crown
Vijender Singh outlined his star quality as well as his credentials as a champion as he picked up his first professional title.
Kerry Hope: record, next fight and profile →

Vijender Singh outlined his star quality as well as his credentials as a champion as he picked up his first professional title.

Former world champion Amir Khan wants to take the legendary India-Pakistan rivalry inside a boxing ring through Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). "I am waiting for the day two nations, India and Pakistan compete in a cage. That will be a fair fight which people wants to see and it will entertain them," said Khan through a video conference at an event to promote MMA.

Former European champion and an experienced Australian boxer Kerry Hope has dared Indian knockout king Vijender Singh ahead of their WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight championship title to be held at the Thyagaraj Sports Complex here on July 16.

Sanjeev Singh Sahota will box in India next month. The 24-year-old has raced to 2-0 since joining Frank Warren in February and looks set to make a return to his birth country in just under four weeks’ time.

Former European champion Kerry Hope will face Indian boxing star Vijender Singh in the WBO Asia title bout to be held on July 16 in New Delhi. The 30-year-old Indian fighter has been unbeaten since turning pro last year, winning all his six contests so far via knockouts.

Former European middleweight champion Kerry Hope has told BoxingScene that a fight with Chris Eubank Jnr will not happen in July on the undercard of the much anticipated rematch between Tyson Fury and Dereck Chisora in Manchester despite comments made by the unbeaten Brighton man following his out classing of Robert Swierzbinski at the Olympia in Liverpool on Saturday night. “Kerry Hope is next but he has no hope!” Eubank Jnr told BoxNation’s John Rawling. BoxingScene contacted Hope, who is due to relocate to Brisbane, Australia, from his home in the fighting town of Merthyr Tydfil in the next few months and he revealed that he knew nothing of a bout between himself and

Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales - Former EBU champion Kerry Hope (20-6, 1KO) scored a six round decision over previously undefeated but also inexperienced Paul Mofett (3-1-1, 2KOs) in a super middleweight contest. Hope struggled in the fight, with Mofett giving him all he could handle.

Hard-hitting 21-year old bantamweight prodigee Ryan Burnett (3-0, 3 KOs), nursed by non other than Ricky Hatton, easily dispatched Nicaraguan veteran Reynaldo Cajina (13-18-3, 10 KOs) in two. Murderous right hands of Burnett did all work for him, delivering unsustainable damage to both floors of Cajina. Midst into the second, Burnett trapped the Nicaraguan in the corner and finished him off in style, dropping to the canvas. Cajina got up but was in no position to continue. Time was 1:52. ----------------- In a shocker, 24-year old professional loser Pavels Senkovs (3-64-5, 3 KOs) delivered the fight of his life and knocked out previously undefeated banger James Tennyson (8-1, 7 KOs) in the fifth round. Senkovs, 24, shots extremely seldom, but when he does, someone is definitely gonna be hurt.

Ellesmere Port star Paul Butler gets his first taste of Mexican when he takes on hard-hitting Ruben Montoya at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Saturday 7th December. The 24-year-old makes the first defence of his WBO Intercontinental Super-Flyweight title on the title-packed card alongside Liverpool stars Paul Smith, Stephen Smith, Liam Smith, Derry Mathews and Joe Selkirk, live and exclusive on BoxNation (Sky Ch. 437/Virgin Ch. 546). One of Britain’s best young fighters, Butler is in hot form as he goes into his fifth fight this year with knockout wins over Anwer Alfadli, Yaqub Kareem and Najah Ali, and showing he can go the championship distance last time out by defeating Chilean Miguel Gonzalez.

Although Darren Barker may be in line for a world title shot after dismantling Kerry Hope over four rounds, the repercussions could be even greater for Hope himself. After a galling loss such as this, a fighter’s next decision is always paramount. Still, it can be difficult for a boxer to make any concrete judgment on perhaps dropping down a level or switching promoters when their pride has been wounded in the heat of battle. The Barker loss, it seems, hit Hope in more ways than one.