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Boxxer
Boxxer, stylised as BOXXER, is a British professional boxing promotional company. Founded by Ben Shalom, Boxxer began as Ultimate Boxxer, organising eight-man professional boxing elimination tournaments starting in April 2018 and preceding to host a total of six tournaments under the original name. In August 2020, Ultimate Boxxer rebranded to Boxxer, and announced its first signee; the winner of the Ultimate Boxxer 3 tournament, Derrick Osaze. The following month, and under the new branding, Boxxer announced its seventh tournament, "Boxxer Series 7", would take place in November 2020 with a new four-man elimination format. In June 2021, it was announced that Boxxer had signed a four-year deal with Sky Sports. In September, Boxxer revealed their roster of fighters, including Hughie Fury, Savannah Marshall and Caroline Dubois (boxer), Caroline Dubois, as well as co-promotional deals with Claressa Shields and Chris Eubank Jr., Chris Eubank Jr. A co-promotional deal was also made wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakan Pitters
Shakan Pitters (born 31 July 1989) is an English professional boxer who held the British Boxing Board of Control, British light-heavyweight title in 2020. Professional career Pitters made his professional debut on 18 March 2017 as a Cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight, scoring a four-round points decision (PTS) victory over Remigijus Ziausys at the Holte Suite in Villa Park, Birmingham. he secured three more PTS victories in 2017; Over Jevgenijs Andrejevs in June; Dmitrij Kalinovskij in September; and Jiri Svacina in November. He began 2018 with a PTS win over Elvis Dube in March, followed by stoppage wins over Kent Kauppinen in May and Imantas Davidaitis in September. In August, Pitters was announced as a contestant in the Boxxer#Ultimate Boxxer II, second edition of the Ultimate Boxxer tournament. The eight-man tournament was contested over 3 rounds, taking place on 2 November at the indigo at The O2 in London. Pitters' first fight of the night came against Sam Smith, winnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derrick Osaze
Derrick Osazemwinde (born 11 October 1993) is a British professional boxer. He became Ultimate Boxxer III middleweight champion in 2019. Osaze was born and raised in Peckham, London, but is now based in Nottingham where he also preaches at the God's Vineyard Ministry where he was ordained as a minister in 2018. Early life Osaze was born and raised in Peckham, South East London, and is the fifth born of six children. Aged 15, having been excluded from school thirteen times and on the verge of being permanently expelled due to anger management issues, he turned to Boxing in 2009 after it was recommended to him by a friend who said it would be a great way to channel his energy positively. He quickly fell in love with the sport and repeatedly states "God led to me Boxing which ultimately saved my life, the sport has taught me so much, the biggest lesson being self-discipline, it's positively shaped my character and kept me out of trouble". He states, "Boxing went from a hobby, to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kieron Conway
Kieron Conway (born 2 May 1996) is an English professional boxer who has held the Commonwealth middleweight since November 2024 and the British middleweight title since May 2025. Professional career Conway made his professional debut on 25 February 2017, scoring a four-round points decision (PTS) victory against Sonny Whiting at the Civic Hall in Bedworth, Warwickshire. After scoring five more wins, two by stoppage, he defeated Chris Monaghan via seventh-round technical knockout (TKO) to capture the British Challenge middleweight title on 9 March 2018 at The Deco in Northampton. Following another three wins, he participated in the Ultimate Boxxer III tournament on 10 May 2019 at the indigo at The O2. Conway won his first bout of the evening, defeating Kaan Hawes via unanimous decision (UD) over three rounds with all three judges scoring the bout 30–27. In his second bout, which served as the semi-finals of the tournament, Conway suffered the first defeat of his career, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Shalom
Ben Shalom (born 1995) is a British boxing promoter. He is the youngest ever British boxing promoter and the founder of Boxxer. Early life Shalom was born in Manchester and grew up training with a number of local area boxers, giving him an early interest in the sport. He subsequently attended the University of Nottingham in pursuit of a law degree. During his time in university, he developed an interest in organizing and promoting night events. Career as a promoter At the age of 23, Shalom shifted careers. He obtained a promoter's licence from the British Boxing Board of Control and founded Boxxer, stylised as "BOXXER". The company rose to prominence in 2021 when Shalom and Boxxer were awarded an exclusive broadcast agreement with Sky Sports. The deal was signed as a four-year contract, aimed at replacing an outgoing contract with Eddie Hearn, who had left to join DAZN. Shalom has signed and acted as promoter for prominent boxers such as Adam Azim and Chris Eubank Jr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Eubank Jr
Christopher Livingstone Eubank Jr. (born 18 September 1989) is a British professional boxer. He has held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) middleweight title since 2024. Previously, he held the World Boxing Association (WBA) interim middleweight title twice between 2015 and 2021. He also held the (IBO) super-middleweight title twice between 2017 and 2019. At regional level, he held the British middleweight title in 2016. He is the son of former two-division world champion boxer, Chris Eubank Sr. Early life Eubank Jr. was born in Hove, East Sussex, the son of boxer Chris Eubank and Karron Suzanne Stephen-Martin. He was a pupil at Brighton College, Shoreham College for one year, and Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas for two years. Eubank featured alongside his father in the reality TV series '' At Home with the Eubanks''. At the age of 16, Eubank Jr. and his brother Sebastian (1991–2021) moved to the United States to live with a guardian named Irene Hutton. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Dubois (boxer)
Caroline Sara Dubois (born 11 January 2001) is a British professional boxer. She has held the WBC women's lightweight world title since December 2024. As an amateur Dubois was Youth Olympic champion, World Youth champion and four-times European Youth champion. She is the younger sister of heavyweight boxing world champion Daniel Dubois. Early life Dubois is one of eleven children. She was raised in a single-parent family by her father, a native of Grenada. Amateur career Dubois started boxing at the age of nine. While there were all-girl amateur boxing clubs in her city, her father wanted her to practice at a top-flight club where her older brother Daniel had trained. For her first few months at Repton Amateur Boxing Club, Dubois pretended to be a boy named Colin. At the 2017 European Junior Championships, Dubois beat Nune Asatryan by unanimous points decision in the final to take the title. The following year, she had a win at the English National Youth Championships (60&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middleweight
Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the middleweight division is contested above and up to . Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the Bare-knuckle boxing, bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler (boxer), Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867. Chandler won, becoming known as the American middleweight champion. The first middleweight fight with gloves ''may'' have been between George Fulljames and Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey (no relation to the more famous heavyweight Jack Dempsey). Current world champions Current world rankings =''The Ring''= As of April 29, 2025. Keys: : Current ''The Ring (magazine), The Ring'' world champion =BoxRec= As of , . Longest reigning world middleweight champions Below is a list of longest reigning middleweight champions in boxing measured by the individual's lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruiserweight (boxing)
Cruiserweight, also referred to as junior heavyweight, is a weight class (boxing), weight class in professional boxing between light heavyweight and heavyweight. Before the advent of the current cruiserweight class, "light heavyweight" and "cruiserweight" were sometimes used interchangeably in the United Kingdom. Professional boxing The current weight limit for the division is . When originally established, the weight limit was . The division was established in order to accommodate smaller heavyweight boxers who could not compete with the growing size of boxers in that division. While many great heavyweight champions (such as Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis) weighed around 190 pounds during their careers, during the 1970s it became fairly standard that fit heavyweight boxers weighed at least . Many boxing authorities felt that asking men weighing between and to fight these larger men was unfair. The North American Boxing Federation (NABF) was the first sanctioning body to recogniz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altrincham
Altrincham ( , locally ) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is southwest of Manchester, southwest of Sale, Greater Manchester, Sale and east of Warrington. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the built up area had a population of 49,680. It lies within the Historic counties of England, historic county boundaries of Cheshire, and became part of Greater Manchester in 1974. Altrincham developed as a market town following the right to hold a market being granted in 1290; the market continues today. Further socioeconomic development came with the extension of the Bridgewater Canal to Altrincham in 1765 and the arrival of the railway in 1849, stimulating industrial activity in the town. Outlying villages were absorbed by Altrincham's subsequent growth, along with the grounds of Dunham Massey Hall, formerly the home of the Earl of Stamford, and now a tourist attraction with three Grade I Listed Buildings and a deer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. In a narrower sense, a city can be defined as a permanent and Urban density, densely populated place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, Public utilities, utilities, land use, Manufacturing, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations, government organizations, and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving the efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Lawal
Mikael Lawal is a British professional boxer who held the British cruiserweight title from 27 November 2022 until October 2023. Early life Lawal was born in Lagos, Nigeria but moved to the UK at age 1. He lived in the UK until the age of 13 when he moved back to Nigeria with his mother, who died a short while later. Lawal, then aged 14, moved in with his birth father and his stepmother. He claims he did not get along with his stepmother, who he has said told his father lies about him so that he would be beaten. Eventually Lawal says he ran away from home, where he lived on the streets for a short period before visiting the British High Commission, after which he was placed in an orphanage, before eventually receiving a temporary passport and returning to the UK at age 16. Lawal began living in a hostel, where his key worker referred him to boxing as a means to deal with his behaviour and anger issues. He immediately took an interest to the sport but after a while began to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigo At The O2
The O2 (formerly known as the Millennium Dome) is a large entertainment district on the Greenwich peninsula in South East London, England, including an indoor arena, a music club, a Cineworld cinema, an exhibition space, piazzas, bars, restaurants, and a guided tour to the top of the O2. It was built largely within the former Millennium Dome, a large dome-shaped canopy built to house an exhibition celebrating the turn of the third millennium; consequently ''The Dome'' remains a name in common usage for the venue. It is sometimes referred to as The O2 Arena, but that name properly refers to the indoor arena within The O2. Naming rights to the district were purchased by the mobile telephone provider O2 from its developers, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), during the development of the district. AEG owns the long-term lease on the O2 Arena and surrounding leisure space. From the closure of the original Millennium Experience exhibition occupying the site, several ways of reus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
