"Monte Carlo Showdown V"
Matchroom Boxing heads to Monaco as former unified Super Bantamweight champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev (12-1) takes on Ricardo Espinoza Franco (30-4), with the winner to be crowned interim WBA world champion at 122lbs.
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Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.
Pablo Cesar Cano (34-8-1, 24 KOs), a two time world title challenger locks horns with Zachary Ochoa (21-3, 7 KOs) in the main event from Plant City, Florida.
Newark’s Emma Dolan defends her Commonwealth Super-Flyweight Championship against Worksop’s Nicola Hopewell.
Three-division world champ Emanuel “El Vaquero” Navarrete defends his WBO junior lightweight world title against one-time rival Oscar Valdez in an all-Mexican main event at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
International superstar “King” Ryan Garcia (23-1, 19 KOs) makes his highly anticipated return to the ring in what will be a collision of knockout power against Oscar “La Migraña” Duarte (26-1-1, 21 KOs) of Parral, Mexico.
It’s the “Quiet Storm” versus a “Royal Storm,” a can’t-miss featherweight matchup with a title shot on the line. Two-time world title challenger Joet Gonzalez will take on former junior featherweight world champion Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe in a 10-round main event Saturday, July 23, at Grand Casino Hinckley in Hinckley, Minnesota. Gonzalez will put his WBO International belt on the line, with the fight also serving as a WBC world title eliminator. In the 10-round lightweight co-feature, undefeated contender Giovanni “El Cabron” Cabrera hopes for a signature win against the flashy Gabriel Flores Jr.
Jai Opetaia defends his Ring and IBF cruiserweight world titles against Huseyin Cinkara in the Gold Coast, Australia.
Lewisham's Ellis Zorro (16-0, 7KO) makes the first defence of his WBO European cruiserweight title at London’s York Hall against Italian Luca D'Ortenzi (17-3, 4KO).
Batyrzhan Jukembayev (21-1, 16 KOs) squares off against France’s Mohamed Mimoune (23-5, 4 KOs) at super lightweight over 10 rounds.
Following Vladimir Klitchsko's retirement after Joshua's last fight and mandatory challenger Kubret Pulev pulling out of the fight with a late injury, Carlos Takam was given just 12 days notice to fight the current WBA, IBF and IBO Heavyweight Champion. Widely regarded on the boxing scene as having one of the toughest granite chins in the business Takam took a considerable height and weight disadvantage into the ring, Anthony Joshua subsequently weighed in for what was then a career high 18st 2lbs and brought massive reach advantage. Before either fighter got into their rhythm this late match up resulted in blood spilled from both sides as old vs new battled in front of 75,000 fans in Cardiff, Wales. This became a world record high attendance for an indoor boxing event.
Anthony Joshua faces Francis Ngannou in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Milwaukee born Feliciano and Connecticut’s Williams face off in a ten round bought at the ProBox Events Center in Plant City.
Ed Matthews headlines the first MF & DAZN: X Series event of 2024, but he is yet to find out who he will face.
Joshua Franco vs. Andrew Moloney III
Christian Medina (26-4) makes his highly-anticpated promotional debut for Matchroom, as he seeks to make a first WBO bantamweight title defence against Adrian Curiel (26-6-1) in a huge all-Mexican showdown on DAZN.
On December 10th the 8 division world champion Manny Pacquiao faced off with the martial artist DK Yoo in a 6-round exhibition bout.
Undefeated heavyweight champion Claressa Shields faces Danielle Perkins, at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan, USA. Shields aims to make history as the first boxer ever to become undisputed in three different weight classes. Perkins, an undefeated contender with a decorated amateur background, provides a significant challenge in what promises to be a compelling matchup.
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected...
Boxing’s newest superstar, renowned content creator Jake Paul, looks to continue his meteoric ascent by facing the most dangerous challenge of his young career, former UFC Champion and striking specialist Tyron Woodley. The hard-hitting veteran Woodley aims to stop the newcomer’s path to glory in its tracks. The undefeated Paul scored consecutive viral KOs over former NBA star Nate Robinson and former UFC fighter Ben Askren. Will lightning strike a third time? The fight sold 500,000 PPV buys.
Manny Pacquiao vs. Yordenis Ugás: World Welterweight Championship
A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter Joe. Back in training, years after anyone thought he was a contender, he risks his life, as he tries to stand tall and regain his place in the world.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
Two brothers compete in the world's deadliest underground fighting tournament, where they must decide whether to play by the rules or to cast their honor aside and team up to bring down the dark syndicate running the tournament.
Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a "shootfighter" (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.
The Undisputed WWE Universal Championship will be on the line when Roman Reigns defends his title against the winner of the 2024 Royal Rumble, Cody Rhodes. The Scottish Warrior Drew McIntyre will finally get his chance to win a world title in front of the masses as he faces World Heavyweight Champion Seth "Freakin" Rollins at The Showcase of the Immortals. Plus a big tag team match on night 1 where Cody Rhodes and World Heavyweight Champion Seth "Freakin" Rollins will go head to head with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns in a match with huge WrestleMania implications. Bayley is hellbent on seizing the WWE Women's Champion when she goes to war against her former ally IYO SKY at WrestleMania. 'Mami' Rhea Ripley defends her Women's World Title against 'The Man' Becky Lynch in what should be a legendary championship fight and many more.
MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal champion Xavier Grau.
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children. He is determined to leave a positive legacy for his grandson, but the criminal underworld isn’t done with him and won’t loosen their grip willingly.
An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.
After a blood- soaked jujitsu match in Dubai, fighting legend Mickey Kelley falls to superstar Blaine. But years later, an online video proves that Blaine cheated, and the world demands a rematch. Can the aging underdog get back into shape in time to vanquish his foe, get revenge, and claim his prize?
A former fighter reluctantly returns to the life she abandoned in order to help her sister survive the sadistic world of illegal fighting and the maniac who runs it.
Picking up after the events of Never Back Down 2, former MMA champion Case Walker is on the comeback trail to become champion once again.
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
Four fighters from different backgrounds come together to train under an ex MMA rising star and then ultimately have to fight each other and the traitor in their midst.
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
WrestleMania XX was the twentieth annual WrestleMania . It took place on March 14, 2004 at Madison Square Garden in New York. The main match for the Raw brand was a Triple Threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship between champion Triple H, Shawn Michaels and Chris Benoit. The main match for the SmackDown! brand featured Eddie Guerrero versus Kurt Angle for the WWE Championship. The event featured the return of The Undertaker, who challenged Kane. Also on the card was a match between Goldberg and Brock Lesnar with Stone Cold Steve Austin as the special guest referee. WrestleMania XX was the third WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden but the fifth to take place in the New York metropolitan area (following WrestleMania I, WrestleMania 2, WrestleMania X and Wrestlemania 29). The event grossed US$2.4 million in ticket sales, making the Pay-Per-View the highest grossing event ever for WWE at Madison Square Garden. More than 20,000 people attended the event.
After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their biggest mistake of all – they weaponize the man they are trying to catch.
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting. When Harvey offers Shawn help at making the real cash, the two form an uneasy partnership.
When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.