Kiko Martinez: record, next fight and profile →
After a couple of free weekends following the thrills and spills provided by our Leicester show, we are now ready to rock up in Leeds on Saturday for part three of what will become a long-running boxing thriller shown across BoxNation and BT Sport on Saturday night.
Former IBF Super-Bantamweight World Champion Kiko Martinez has sent a warning to Josh Warrington ahead of their May 13 showdown at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, broadcast live on BT Sport and BoxNation. Martinez follows Patrick Hyland, Hisashi Amagasa and Joel Bunker into the unbeaten Leeds man’s hometown fortress as the 26-year-old looks to cement his place on the World scene before landing a World Title shot.
Leeds warrior Josh Warrington is stepping up in class in his hometown against former World Champion Kiko Martinez on May 13th. Warrington knows the Spaniard is several levels above anyone he’s fought previously but has supreme confidence in his abilities.
Josh Warrington has had his next opponent confirmed. The WBC International featherweight champion will return to the ring on May 13, exclusively live on BoxNation and BT Sport. Warrington (24-0, 5 KOs) tops a bill at the First Direct Arena in his home city of Leeds and features alongside Nicola Adams OBE who’ll fight for the second time in the paid code after making her debut on April 8 in Manchester.
Josh Warrington will not fight Marco McCullough on his ring return. The WBC International featherweight champion, who is a former British, Commonwealth and European titlist at the weight
EU super middleweight champ Mariano Hilario is currently in Nykoping (Sweden) to spar with IBF # 3 light heavyweight Erik Skoglund. Hilario, based on the Spanish Canary Islands trains for a defence on December 17 in Helsinki against Niklas Rasanen and as Nykoping has been hit by an early winter Mariano also gets a good chance to get used to the cold in Finland.
Former IBF super bantamweight world champion Kiko Martinez (35-7) headlines a show in Benidorm (Spain) on July 23. This is Martinez's first fight since getting knocked out earlier this year by WBA featherweight king Leo Santa Cruz.
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Leo “El Terremoto” Santa Cruz defended his WBA Featherweight World Championship in convincing fashion on Saturday night, knocking down Kiko “Sensación” Martinez twice in the first round, then ending it on a barrage of punches as the fight was called at 2:09 in the fifth round in the main event of a SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING doubleheader at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Leo “El Terremoto” Santa Cruz defended his WBA Featherweight World Championship in convincing fashion on Saturday night, knocking down Kiko “Sensación” Martinez twice in the first round, then ending it on a barrage of punches as the fight was called at 2:09 in the fifth round in the main event of a SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING doubleheader at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
Leo Santa Cruz picked up the first defense of his featherweight title, stopping a game Kiko Martinez in five rounds Saturday evening at Honda Center in Anaheim, California.