Ricky Burns: record, next fight and profile →
AFTER months of waiting for a potential title-tilt against WBO super-featherweight champion Ricky Burns, highly-touted and unbeaten Australian prospect "Wild" Will Tomlinson will finally get his chance to become a world champion.
WBO super featherweight champion Ricky Burns is ready for the challenge of undefeated Adrien Broner, the mandatory challenger. Burns will travel to Broner's backyard of Cincinnati on the 26th of November
Sources within Scotland have advised BoxingScene.com that a deal has been reached for Ricky Burns (39-2, 9 KOs) to defend his WBO super featherweight championship against undefeated Adrien Broner (21-0, 17 KOs). Burns will provide Broner with the homefield advantage by traveling to the United States to face Broner at the U.S. Bank Arena in place Cincinnati. HBO will televise the fight. Broner's promoter, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, confirmed the information to Lem Satterfield of RingTV.com.
Earlier this week, promoter Frank Warren had a meeting in London with Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer. The Golden Boy exec is interested in matching their unbeaten super featherweight, Adrien Broner (21-0, 17KOs), against Warren's WBO's champion, Ricky Burns (32-2, 9KOs), on the tentative HBO televised date of November 5th.
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BoxingScene.com has been advised by Golden Boy COO David Itskowitch and CEO Richard Schaefer that undefeated junior lightweight Adrien Broner will stay sharp ahead of a pivotal fall bout with RING No. 2 and WBO titlist Ricky Burns. Broner's return is "targeted" for Friday, Sept. 16 against an opponent to be determined.
Former IBF super-featherweight champion Mzonke Fana and WBO champion Ricky Burns’ chances of meeting in a 130lb unification battle earlier this year were scuppered by Burn’s promoter Frank Warren, according to the South African’s promoter Branco Milenkovic.
Ricky Burns could kick off the new boxing season with a showdown against South African Mzonke Fana - if the Scotsman gets his way.
Ricky Burns could be on a collision course with the man who looks to be one of the biggest current threats to his status as the best super-featherweight in the world, Adrien Broner.
Alex Arthur has come out to defend himself in the wake of claims by WBO super-featherweight champion Ricky Burns and trainer Billy Nelson that Arthur was supporting Englishman Nicky Cook at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on Saturday night.