Scottish and Irish boxing fans on the East Coast of America are gearing up for their Fight of the Year as Holywood-based, Edinburgh middleweight Craig McEwan takes on Limerick's Andy Lee at the Foxwoods Caino, Connecticut on 12th March.The fight ,which is being billed by top promoter Lou Di Bello as the ‘Celtic War’ [...]

At the Waterfront Hotel Casino in Cebu City, Philippines, Rey Boom Boom Bautista (30-2, 23 KOs) stopped Alejandro Barrera (21-4, 14 KOs) in the third round of their rematch [...]

BoxingScene.com has confirmed with Glen Johnson's co-promoters, Lou DiBella and Leon Margules, that several published reports about their boxer facing Carl Froch on May 21 at the O2 Arena in London - are 100% erroneous. Johnson will challenge Froch for the WBC super middleweight in a Super Six semi-final bout on May 21. [...]

BoxingScene.com was advised that junior welterweight contender Breidis Prescott (23-2, 19KOs) rejected a lowball offer to fight former champion Robert Guerrero (28-1, 18KOs) on the April 9 pay-per-view undercard to Juan Manuel Marquez-Erik Morales at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. [...]

SILVERDOME, PONTIAC, MICHIGAN - In an entertaining heavyweight battle, Bermane B-Ware Stiverne (20-1, 19KOs) picked up the vacant WBC International, WBC/USNBC and WBA Fedelatin heavyweight belts when he knocked out previously undefeated Kerston Manswell (20-1, 15KOs) [...]

Former four division champion Roy Jones Jr. has issued a warning that people should not sleep on the boxing ability of Sugar Shane Mosley on May 7 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas [...]

SILVERDOME, PONTIAC, MICHIGAN - Junior welterweight Vernon Paris (24-0) defeated Emanuel Augustus (38-34-6) via unanimous decision. The scores were 76-73 and 77-72 twice. Augustus, who took the fight on less than two weeks notice, had previously announced that this would be the final fight of his rollercoaster career [...]

WBA junior welterweight Amir Khan appeared on Sky Sports and discussed his possible next opponent for April 16 at the MEN Arena in Manchester, and put tough Australian Michael Katsidis on top of his wanted list, along with confirming that there is a possibility of an all-Manchester showdown with John Murray.Khan [...]

At the Estadio Banorte in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, close to 12,000 hometown fans turned out to watch WBC silver middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0, 30 KOs) win a ten round unanimous decision over rugged contender Billy Lyell (22-9, 4 KOs). The scores were 99-92, 96-94 and 98-92. [...]

Pontiac, Michigan - Before a crowd of 6,247 at the Silverdome, Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11KOs) won a ten round technical decision over Devon Alexander (21-1, 13KOs) to unify the WBO and WBC junior welterweight titles. [...]