Fights return to NYC's Times Square on Friday

Press Release

16/09/2025

Fights return to NYC's Times Square on Friday

Boxing Insider Promotions returns to Sony Hall in Times Square on Friday, September 19th with lightweight Kurt Scoby headlining and heavyweight Josh Popper making his New York City debut in the revived "Broadway Boxing" series. Scoby (17-1) returns in the main event against Alex Martin (19-8), who is coming off a big win on Boxing Insider’s July show against Daiyaan Butt. Popper (4-0) will battle Braxton Smith, a bare knuckle and MMA veteran making his traditional boxing debut. TIckets for the live event can be purchased here and at the Sony Hall box office. The matches will air on tape delay on SNY, the home of Broadway Boxing for eighteen years, available in 14 million homes in the NY Metropolitan region and beyond. Streaming to be announced soon.  This marks Boxing Insider's twelftth event at Sony Hall, which is located at 235 W 46th Street, just off Times Square.
 
 
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Super middleweight Nadim Salloum, perhaps the first professional boxer from Lebanon, faces Andres Martinez in his return to New York...
 
Junior middleweights Armando Barbier and Ricardo Jimenez will duke out another New York rivalry, between natives of Yonkers and Harlem and ...
 
In another super middleweight contest, Donte Layne makes his third appearance on a Boxing Insider card against the rugged Mirady Zola.