Bobby Rimmer phoned BBN to confirm that he has parted company with his fighter Michael Gomez. After discussions the pair came to an amicable parting of the ways. Kevin Maree will now train Gomez.
Jon Thaxton is promising to show why he can still become a genuine world title contender when he boxes Juan Carlos Diaz Melero for the vacant European lightweight title at the Norfolk Showground in Norwich on Saturday, 4th October 2008.
Two top class super-middleweights are set to put their respective unbeaten records on the line in a battle for the WBC belt - and it will be live, at a decent hour, on British terrestrial telly. Hurrah!
Scotland's Ricky Burns will now headline the Sports Network show at the York Hall this Friday, 26th September, when he challenges for the Commonwealth super-featherweight title against Ghana's Osumana Akaba.
John Rooney, manager of featherweight Martin Lindsay, contacted BBN yesterday to give his side of events after his celebration of the savage knockout of Derry Mathews was labelled 'very distasteful'.
Amir Unsworth remains unbeaten but had a torrid last round with Ali Wyatt after getting staggered by a big right hook and being badly hurt, although he never went down to claim a points win in a cracking evenly matched contest at The Grove Leisure Centre, Newark.
Josh Wale suffered a set back in his progress through the super-bantamweight division last night, losing on the undercard of Ryan Rhodes' British title defence at Sheffield's Hillsborough Leisure Centre. Trainer David Coldwell had no choice but to pull him out of his bout with Harry Ramogoadi at the end of the third due to a badly swollen right eye.
If ever a Scotsman deserved the ‘Braveheart’ tag, it's light-middleweight Jamie Coyle. The man from Stirling, challenging for Ryan Rhodes’ British title in front of the champion’s home city crowd at Sheffield’s Hillsborough Leisure Centre last night, was taken into deep, dark waters - but simply refused to be drowned.
If Tuesday was New York (and it was, see Jonny Callender’s piece) then Thursday must have been London. Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jr appeared before the British press who had assembled at the Hard Rock Café on Old Park Lane to hear the two veterans convince us all that we were going to witness something special.
The press tour to promote the Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jr clash on November 8th kicked off on Tuesday in New York, where the fight is set to take place - Madison Square Garden.