Lightweight John Murray (31-1, 18KOs) is planning for immediate revenge. He challenges WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios (28-0, 21KOs) on December 3rd at New York's Madison Square Garden, with the Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito rematch headli...
John Murray will seek to put July's disappointing loss to Kevin Mitchell behind him on December 3rd when challenging Oxnard's Brandon Rios, 28-0-1 (21), for the WBA lightweight title. Murray succumbed in eight rounds to Mitchell but will profit from...
John Murray and Kevin Mitchell closed out the boxing season on July 16th by making good on their promises to tear the roof off Liverpool’s ECHO Arena when going toe-to-toe to see who would move into world title waters. The WBO Inter-Continental ligh...
As previously reported, WBA/IBF junior welterweight champion Amir Khan has made his gym in Bolton available to Manchester trainer Joe Gallagher and his stable of fighters after they were forced to leave their premises in Denton and look for a new bas...
When Kevin Mitchell looked out into the Upton Park stands last May the 2003 ABA featherweight title winner must have feared that he could glimpse his top-level career disappearing over the horizon. There was no shame in the result that night, a thir...
Kevin Mitchell returned to his brilliant best with a superb performance to stop John Murray in their eagerly-awaited lightweight showdown in Liverpool on Saturday night. The Londoner outboxed his unbeaten Manchester rival and battered him to defeat i...
Echo Arena, Liverpool - In a very grueling lightweight battle, Kevin Mitchell returned for the first tim since last year's shocking knockout to Michael Katsidis, and stopped previously undefeated John Murray in eight rounds. Mitchell slowly broke him...
John Murray turned professional on the undercard of a John Sheppard-promoted Ringside bill in Huddersfield on September 6 2003. 2003 ABA featherweight champion Kevin Mitchell made his way into the paid ranks two months earlier with a knockout on the...
Top Manchester trainer Joe Pennington takes his charge Craig Watson into a high-pressure rematch with Colchester’s Lee Purdy at the Oldham Sports Centre on Saturday night. Purdy, 24, stopped Watson in five rounds to register a shocking upset on the...