Archive for January, 2008

In an act of either pure bravery or a sign of confused thinking, International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (29-1, 27 KOs) has reportedly signed to fight a rematch with his former conqueror Antonio Margarito (35-5, 25 KOs) on April 26th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Apparently, the winner of [...]

According to the latest news from the boxing world, undefeated WBC/WBO middleweight Kelly Pavlik (32-0, 29 KOs) will be defending both his middleweight titles against John Duddy (23-0, 17 KOs) on June 7th, in Madison Square Garden. Though Pavlik has a bout before then, a rematch with former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor on February [...]

Undefeated World Boxing Association welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (31-0, 25 KOs) will be making his fourth title defense when he takes on Alfonso Gomez (18-3-2, 8 KOs) on April 12th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Gomez, a former star from the reality television series The Contender, is mostly known as being [...]

By Chris Thomas: According to the final numbers, last Saturday night’s bout between former boxing champions Felix Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. did remarkably well, selling more than 500,000 PPV subscriptions and making $25 million in domestic television revenue. Base don these numbers, it would seem to indicate that there is still an audience out [...]

Undefeated World Boxing Council light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (25-0, 17 KOs) expressed disappointment recently with Roy Jones Jr, who called out a number of fighters after beating Felix Trinidad last Saturday at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Specifically, Jones, 39, said that he’d be interested in fighting all comers, naming Joe Calzaghe, Oscar De [...]

HBO’s late-night boxing series kicks off the new year with a heavyweight showdown when HBO BOXING AFTER DARK: ALEXANDER POVETKIN VS. EDDIE CHAMBERS is seen SATURDAY, JAN. 26 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT), from the Tempodrome in Berlin, exclusively on HBO. The HBO Sports team of Bob Papa, Max Kellerman and Lennox Lewis will be ringside [...]

Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez produced two of the most exciting, bloody, give-and-take slugfests of 2007 which inevitably has led to one of the most highly anticipated rubber matches in history. Now they battle for the World Boxing Council (WBC) 122-pound title and super bantamweight supremacy in the third and final chapter of boxing’s best [...]

The training camp of WBO Heavyweight Champion Sultan Ibragimov is in full swing, and as the champ prepares for his February 23rd unification bout with Wladimir Klitschko in New York’s Madison Square Garden, the action at the South Florida gym affectionately referred to as “Sultan’s House” has been fast and furious, something trainer Jeff Mayweather [...]

By Chris Thomas: According to the latest rumor mill, Oscar De La Hoya is considering fighting former junior welterweight Steve Forbes (33-5, 9 KOs) for his May 3rd tune-up bout. Nothing has been nailed down at this time, but the 30 year-old Forbe’s name has rose to the head of the list for potential opponents. [...]

“Saloon-keeper Tom Sharkey, retired heavyweight contender, is doing some fancy footwork in avoiding the current NYC ban on boxing by awarding ‘membership’ to every fighter he books for his Athletic Club brawls in his Lincoln Square cellar.”—The New York Times, 1909 The kid comes down Sharkey’s stairs slapping Snow off his great-coat, the threadbare elbows [...]

In the latest boxing news, former three-time champion James Toney (70-6, 43 KOs) is reportedly planning on making a March comeback against an un-named opponent. Toney, now 39, has been out of action for almost a year since winning a 10-round split decision against Danny Batchelder in May 2007. After the bout, however, Toney tested [...]

This Saturday night, #2 rated heavyweight in the IBF, undefeated Alexander Povetkin (14-0, 11 KOs) goes up against what I personally consider to be the best American heavyweight Eddie Chambers (30-0, 16 KOs) when they meet in the International Boxing Federation elimination fight at Tempodrom, Kreuzberg, in Berlin, Germany. Most people feel that Povetkin, 28, [...]

Despite accomplishing little in his career in recent years, eight-time title winner Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 38 KOs) has firmly set his sights on the winner of Jermain Taylor vs. Kelly Pavlik or the Joe Calzaghe vs. Bernard Hopkins bouts which are coming up. Of the two bouts, Jones would prefer to fight Calzaghe, 35, [...]

In an outcome that surprised few, Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 38 KOs) defeated Felix Trinidad (42-3, 35 KOs) by a 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, in New York. Trinidad, 35, was taking the fight after a two and half year layoff, without any kind of a tune-up bout before hand. [...]

In a fight that was marred by excessive wrestling on the inside, undefeated World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev (24-0-1, 17 KOs) won a hard-fought unanimous decision over 40 year-old Matt Skelton (21-2, 18 KOs) on Saturday night at the Burg-Waechter Castello, in Dusseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. In the opening round, Skelton found a way [...]

Undefeated junior welterweight prospect Devon Alexander (14-0, 9 KO’s) had little trouble grinding out a 12-round lopsided unanimous decision against former World Boxing Organization junior welterweight champion DeMarcus Corley (31-8-1, 17 KOs) on Saturday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Aside from the opening round when the 33 year-old Corley appeared to land the [...]

Undefeated super bantamweight champion Steve Molitor (26-0, 10 KOs) won an impressive, albeit bloody, 12-round unanimous decision over the hard-hitting Ricardo Castillo (33-5, 22 KOs) on Saturday night at the Casino Rama, Rama, in Ontario, Canada. Molitor, 27, had problems with the power of Castillo, the younger brother of famous fighter Jose Luis Castillo. However, [...]

Polish heavyweight Andrew Golota (41-6-1, 33 KOs) continued with his successful comeback effort when he defeated prospect Mike Molla (19-2, 12 KOs) by a 12-round unanimous decision to win the World Boxing Association Fedelatin heavyweight title on Saturday night to win the Madison Square Garden, in New York City, New York. Golota, now 40 years-old, [...]

In a shocking upset, junior middleweight Alex Bunema (29-5-2, 15 KOs) knocked #4 ranked International Boxing Federation junior middleweight Roman Karmazin (36-3-1, 23 KOs) down two times in the process of stopping in the 10th round of a scheduled 12-round bout for the World Boxing Association Inter-Continental light middleweight title on Saturday night at the [...]

Undefeated Russian heavyweight prospect Denis Boytsov (20-0, 18 KOs) obliterated his badly out of shape and overmatch American opponent Tommy Connelly (17011, 13 KOs) in the 1st round of a scheduled eight-round bout on Saturday night at the Burg-Waechter Castello, in Dusseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Boytsov, 21, a former amateur standout from Russia, had little trouble [...]

It only took undefeated former two-time U.S amateur champion Eric Fields (11-0, 9 KOs) about a minute to completely destroy Kelvin Davis’ (24-8-2, 17 KOs) hopes of a successful comeback, as the undefeated 25 year-old cruiserweight prospect made easy work of Davis, stopping him in the 1st round on Friday night at the Mallory Square, [...]

Hard-hitting welterweight prospect Ed Paredes (18-2, 11 KOs) destroyed a badly overmatched but game Cesar Vega in the 5th round of a scheduled six-round bout on Friday night at the Mallory Square, in Key West, Florida. Paredes, 22, an exciting fighter regularly shown on ESPN, cornered Vega, 30, against the ropes in the fifth round [...]

Undefeated bantamweight contender Raul Martinez (21-0, 13 KOs) continued with his success, winning a grueling eight-round unanimous decision over journeyman fighter Alex Baba (26-12-1, 19 KOs) on Friday night at the Jacob Brown Auditorium, in Brownsville, Texas. Martinez, ranked #9th in the World Boxing Organization & World Boxing Association bantamweight division, had a little too [...]

Welterweight contender Jesus Soto-Karrass (19-3-3, 14 KOs) won a hard-fought 10-round unanimous decision on Friday night over veteran Germaine Sanders (27-5, 17 KOs) at the Jacob Brown Auditorium, in Brownsville, Texas. Karrass, 25, cruised through the first four rounds of the fight, out-punching the 37 year-old Sanders with hooks to the body and head. Karass, [...]

It’s a special edition of BOXING AFTER DARK when HBO Sports presents FELIX TRINIDAD VS. ROY JONES, JR. the exclusive replay of their light heavyweight showdown, this SATURDAY, JAN. 26 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on HBO. The HBO Sports broadcast team, which was ringside for the live event at Madison Square Garden in New York, [...]

Former World Boxing Organization and World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Randall Bailey (36-6, 33 KOs) obliterated his over-matched opponent Anthony Mora (15-2, 10 KOs) in the 5th round last night to win the vacant WBC Latino light welterweight title at the Mallory Square, in Key West, Florida. Bailey, 33, who was coming off a [...]

Sham Pickering (33-6, 13 KOs) gained revenge on Friday night against Sean Hughes (14-7-1, 1 KOs) by stopping him in the 9th round of a scheduled 12-round bout for the BBofC British super bantamweight title at the Meadowside Leisure Centre, in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Pickering, hurt Hughes with two big right hands in the 9th [...]

On March 22nd, undefeated knockout artist Michael Katsidis (23-0, 20 KOs), the World Boxing Organization lightweight champion, will be going up against WBC lightweight champion 36 year-old Joel Casamayor (35-3-1, 21 KOs) at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, in Cabazon, California. It’s a make a break fight for Casamayor, who is coming off of [...]

During this past week with all the news on the old timers bout between Felix Trinidad and Roy Jones, I took another look at Trinidad’s bout with Winky Wright (51-4-1, 25 KOs), which turned out to be a lopsided 12-round unanimous decision victory for Wright in May 2005. I wondered why, a fighter with as [...]

In the latest boxing news, former six-time champion Oscar De La Hoya (38-5, 30 KOs) will be fighting a tune-up bout on May 3rd against an un-named opponent before Oscar takes Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a rematch which will likely be held on September 20th. Best of all, De La Hoya’s tune-up fight will be [...]