Friday’s planned fight between Akeem Ennis Brown and Sam Maxwell has unfortunately been postponed after Brown suffered an injury in training. The man known as ‘Riiddy Riiddy Riival” was due to defend his British and Commonwealth super-lightweight titles against Maxwell in a clash of unbeaten fighters, but the bout will now be unable to take place this week.
Zhan Kossobutskiy has signed a co-promotional agreement with Queensberry as he seeks to close in on a shot at a world heavyweight title. The 15-0 (14 KO's) knockout-artist has stopped all but one of his opponents since turning professional in September 2017 and is considered as a heavyweight version of Gennady Golovkin in his homeland.
There is still no agreement for the heavyweight clash between top contenders Oleksandr Usyk and Joe Joyce. The World Boxing Organization has approved Usyk vs. Joyce to have the WBO's interim-heavyweight title at stake. The winner of their contest would have a mandatory world shot at the victor of the WBO/WBA/WBC/IBF/IBO unification clash between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.
WE ARE NOW fast closing in on our much-anticipated double-header nights of boxing that will take place at London’s Copper Box Arena across the Friday and Saturday nights of March 26/27.
Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, has reacted to the angry comments from Frank Warren, who co-promotes WBC world champion Tyson Fury. In a recent interview, Warren explained that he was blindsided by Hearn's recent interview with ESPN, where the Matchroom promoter revealed that both Fury and Joshua had signed contracts to face each other in a two-fight series.
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is not happy that Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO champion Anthony Joshua, provided confirmation to the media that a two-fight agreement was signed and sealed between their boxers.
Promoter Frank Warren believes WBO super middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders is more than capable of shocking Canelo Alvarez, who holds the WBC, WBA world titles. The two champions will collide on May 8th in a three belt unification.
PROBABLY THE MOST practical and least problematic solution to us twice losing the main event for Saturday’s first show of the year at the Copper Box would have been to pull the plug on it and plan for another day. Whether we went ahead or postponed, the inevitable brickbats would still be flying in our direction from the usual social media quarters.
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, says a deal is very close for summer unification with IBF, WBA, WBO, IBO champion Anthony Joshua. Warren calmed down the critics who became frantic after a recent interview where Fury claimed an agreement was nowhere near done.
I AM DELIGHTED we have been able to add two top quality, already battle-hardened operators to our squad at Queensberry Promotions with the signings of Callum Johnson and Zach Parker.