Richard Schaefer

Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer has advised BoxingScene.com that a deal has been reached for Amir Khan (26-2, 18KOs) to challenge WBC junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia (23-0, 14KOs) in an HBO televised main event on July 14th, either from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California or the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas read more ...

Amir Khan’s promoter told Sky Sports News HD the WBA have informed him they will order a re-match between the British fighter and Lamont Peterson. Khan lost his WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles to Peterson on a split decision in Washington in December, a verdict that has been hotly disputed ever since read more ...

At the post-fight press conference following Amir Khan’s impressive fifth-round knockout of Zab Judah, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer laid out the blueprint for his new unified WBA/IBF super lightweight champion’s future. «The plan will be to have Amir fight at 140 [pounds] in December in the United States, then at 147 in the U.K. after that to make his debut with the fans there,» Schaefer said read more ...

Richard Schaefer, CEO for Golden Boy Promotions, told BoxingScene.com that a featherweight clash between Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16KOs) and Daniel Ponce De Leon (41-3, 34KOs) will likely happen on September 10 at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City read more ...

According to promoter Kathy Duva of Main Events, her boxer Zab Judah (41-6,28KOs) is possibly going to make a defense of his IBF junior welterweight title against former three division champion Juan Manuel Marquez (52-5, 38KOs) on either July 30 or August 6. Marquez-Judah would headline an HBO Pay-Per-View event read more ...

Richard Schaefer, CEO for Golden Boy Promotions, would like to see his friend and business partner Bernard Hopkins retire from the ring. Hopkins, 45, finally got his revenge on Roy Jones Jr. on Saturday night in Las Vegas by winning an ugly, foul-filled twelve round decision. Hopkins nearly fainted after the fight was over. He felt dizzy, blaming his post-fight reaction on Jones hitting him with illegal punches to the back of the head read more ...