Poker news tagged with 'boxing'

888poker celebrates its 20th anniversary by signing former two-time IBO-super middleweight world champion Chris Eubank Jr. as Cultural Ambassador.

Currently ranked no. 1 by the World Boxing Association and BoxRec's in the global middleweight division, Chris has marked his place high up in the boxing world.

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The boxing match prop bet between Esfandiari and Hart may have been moved a month further than scheduled, but it still went on - with the underdog amazingly taking home the prize in the end.

Both of them were 39 years old when the prop bet was struck. Kevin Hart only stands at 5 feet 4 inches (according to his Wiki page), whereas Esfandiari's height is around 6 feet tall (there's no official height info for him available online).

Read more » Antonio Esfandiari Wins vs Kevin Hart in Boxing Match Prop Bet

partypoker ambassador and former British pro boxer Carl Froch showed the other poker pros that he still has what it takes to knock down his opponents.

Carl Martin Froch, a popular super-middleweight pro boxer active from 2002 to 2014 and currently works as a boxing analyst and commentator for Sky Sports, has decided to launch a new career in 2015, and that is, to play poker. A few years later, it sure looks like he's doing pretty well in the poker world.

Read more » partypoker High Roller event won by Retired Champ Boxer Carl Froch

Antonio Esfandiari sure has made many knockouts at the poker table, but when it comes to the boxing ring, he may have a difficult time landing his punches against comedian Kevin Hart.

Read more » Antonio Esfandiari vs Kevin Hart in Boxing Match scheduled March 2019

Yesterday the long-awaited kickboxing match between PokerStars Pros Lex "RaSZi" Veldhuis, from Holland, and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, from France, took place. The 27-year-old Dutchman had a lot more experience in kickboxing and took the command straight away.

ElkY survived the first round, but a bit into the second round he got a kicked in the face and fell to the floor. He managed to get up again for a few minutes before Veldhuis kicked him down once again.

Here you can see the whole match:

On November 22nd it's time for the long-awaited boxing match between Lex Veldhuis and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. The winner of the match will take home amazing $100,000 - and a whole lot of prestige. This is what Lex Veldhuis, from Holland, had to say about the upcoming match...

"We are gonna fight, I want to knock him out, which will be a bit of a shock to him, it will really play with his mentality. I think the fight is gonna have something ElkY has never experienced before, the pressure of someone really wanting to hurt him badly. I know he has the drive, but I have the same personality which is why we do a lot of prop bets." Veldhuis said in an interview.

Read more » Poker stars to battle it out in the boxing ring