Archive for February, 2008

By Tim Williams: IBF super flyweight champion Dimitri Kirilov 29-3-1 (9 KO’s) fought to a 12-round majority draw on Thursday night against challenger Cecilio Santos 22-8-3 (12 KO’s) at the Roseland Ballroom, in New York City, New York. Though only ranked #14 in the IBF super flyweight division, Santos gave as good as he got, [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former heavyweight 2004 Gold medal winner Odlanier Solis (7-0, 5 KOs) destroyed his badly overmatched opponent Adrian Rajkai (15-7, 4 KOs) in the third round of a scheduled eight-round bout on Friday night at the Palalido, in Milano, Lombardia, Italy. Solis, 27, knocked Rajkai down three times, once in the 2nd round [...]

By David Lar: According to boxingtalk website, former IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Chris Byrd (40-4-1, 21 KOs) is reportedly moving down to the light heavyweight division, skipping the cruiserweight division altogether, in hopes of winning another title at the lower weight class. Byrd, 37, told boxingtalk that he plans on bringing excitement to the light heavyweight [...]

By Jim Dower: Super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez, 42-4 with 31 KOs hopes to get his second consectuve over Rafael Marquez on Saturday night when the two meet at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California for their third bout in the past year. Each fighter has split a victory in bouts that have been [...]

By Eric Schmidt: World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (31-3, 23 KOs) won a lopsided 12-round unanimous decision on Wednesday night against his Australian challenger Nader Hamdan (40-6, 18 KOs) at the Entertainment Centre, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The bout had little suspense, as Mundine, 32, easily defeated Hamden, who came [...]

By Nick Kelly: After Saturday’s rather lacklustre fight there was discussion as the whether Klitschko’s single handed victory merited a place within the top 10 or 15 of boxing’s pound for pound rankings. Like his wins against Ray Austin and Lamon Brewster prior, Klitschko did not have to get out of first gear against Sultan [...]

By Nick Adams: Now that IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (50-3, 44 KOs) has taken the WBO title from Sultan Ibragimov after last Saturday’s unanimous decision victory, Klitschko is looking at the prospect of having to defend the WBO title, almost immediately, against the number #1 challenger Tony Thompson (31-1, 19 KOs). For his part, [...]

By Tim Williams: The Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya (38-5, 30 KOs) has come in the past two days, saying that it’s time for him to hang up his gloves after he completes three more fights that he has on the agenda, thus wrapping up a 16 year professional boxing career, including a Gold [...]

By Nick Adams: I was one of the vocal minority who felt that IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (50-3, 44 KOs) was wasting his time in taking a unification fight with WBO heavyweight champion Sultan Ibragimov (22-1-1, 17 KOs) last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. I thought nothing good could possibly [...]

By Dan Ambrose: The father of Joe Calzaghe, Enzo, has recently come out with a stern warning to WBA/WBC cruiserweight champion David Haye, letting him know that his career may be in jeopardy if his upcoming March 8th bout against WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli goes 12-rounds. Haye, a knockout artist accustomed to ending his [...]

By Manuel Perez: In a move that comes to no surprise, former welterweight champions Shane Mosley (44-5, 37 KOs) and Zb Judah (36-5, 25 KOs) have reportedly come to an agreement for a bout to take place on May 31st, which will be shown HBO PPV. Neither of them currently have titles, but because of [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to the latest gossip, undefeated WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs) will be taking part in WWE’s “WrestleMania XXIV” at Citrus Bowl, which takes place on March 20th. For his role in the affair, Mayweather, 30, will be reportedly receiving a payment of twenty million dollars, an almost [...]

By Jim Dower: Undefeated cruiserweight contender Alexander Alexeev (14-0, 13 KOs) obliterated American Talmadge Griffis (24-8-3, 16 KOs) on Saturday night, stopping him in the 3rd round of a scheduled 12-round championship bout for the WBO Inter-Continental cruiserweight title at the Brandberge Arena, Halle an der Saale, in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Alexeev, 26, dropped Griffis twice [...]

By David Larh: In an impressive performance, unbeaten middleweight contender Joe Greene (18-0, 13 KOs) stopped Francisco Antonio Mora (52-13, 35 KOs) in the 10th round on Saturday night on the undercard of Wladimir Klitschko vs. Sultan Ibragimov heavyweight unification title bout at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Mora, 34, was knocked down four times [...]

By Jim Slattengren: Former 2004 Olympic light flyweight Gold Medalist for Cuba Yan Barthelemy (5-0), now fighting as a bantamweight, easily defeated Antonio Maria Cochero Diaz (9-9, 6 KOs) by a six-round unanimous decision on Friday night at the Xtreme Indoor Karting, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The final judges’ scores were 59-53, 59-53 and 59-53. [...]

By Jim Slattengren: In another unimpressive performance, welterweight contender Richard Gutierrez (24-1, 14 KOs) won a dull 10-round unanimous decision over Nicaraguan Jose Varela (23-3, 16 KOs) on Friday night at the Xtreme Indoor Karting, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The final judges’ scores were 99-91, 98-92 and 98-92 for the 29 year-old Gutierrez. The fight [...]

By “Big” Nate Anderson: Undefeated super middleweight Dimitri Sartison (22-0, 14 KOs) stopped Argentinian Pablo Daniel Zamora Nievas (19-3-1, 13 KOs) in the 8th round on Saturday night at the Brandberge Arena, Halle an der Saale, in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Referee Manfred Kuechler halted the fight at 1:46 of the 8th round shortly after Nievas had [...]

By Tim Williams: In what was supposed to have been an easy set up fight for a potential shot at WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik, undefeated Irish middleweight John Duddy (24-0, 17 KOs) won an ugly 10-round majority decision over Tunisian Walid Smichet (17-4-3, 13 KOs) on Saturday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden. [...]

By Eric Schmidt: IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (50-3, 44 KOs) won a listless safety first 12-round unanimous decision over WBO champion Sultan Ibragimov (22-1-1, 17 KOs) tonight at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The bout was important in that Klitschko, 31, unified one of the titles, the WBO, which he took from Ibragimov in [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Super featherweight contender Yuriorkis Gamboa (9-0, 8 KOs) demolished his overmatched opponent Johnnie Edwards (13-2-1, 7 KOs) in a 1st round TKO last night to win the vacant NABF super featherweight title at the Xtreme Indoor Karting, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gamboa, 26, a former 2004 Olympic Gold medalist for the Cuban [...]

By Jim Dower: Light middleweight contender Zaurbek Baysangurov (17-0m 12 KOs) had a much harder than expected victory tonight over Romanian Gheorghe Danut (7-9-5), beating him by tough 10-round unanimous decision to win the vacant EBU (European) light middleweight title at the Sport Palace, in Kiev, Ukraine. The final judges’ scores were 114-113, 114-113 and [...]

By Jim Dower: Undefeated light heavyweight Vyacheslav Uzelkov (18-0, 11 KOs) made easy work of Julio Cesar Dominguez (18-4-1, 12 KOs), stopping him in the 3rd round tonight at the Sport Palace, in Kiev, Ukraine to defend his WBA Inter-Continental light heavyweight title. After a slow start, the end came suddenly when Uzelkov, 28, dropped [...]

One of the best prospects in all of boxing, Unbeaten southpaw middleweight Joe Greene (17-0, 12 KOs) will be facing Francisco Antonio Mora (52-12, 35 KOs) on Saturday night on the undercard of Wladimir Klitschko vs. Sultan Ibragimov’s heavyweight unification bout at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Like prospect Peter Quillin, Greene, 22, a former [...]

Undefeated middleweight prospect Peter Quillin (16-0, 13 KOs will be fighting tomorrow night against Thomas Brown (11-3-1, 7 KOs) on the undercard of Wladimir Klitschko vs. Sultan Ibragimov at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Quillin, 24, will be taking a second seat to middleweight challenger John Duddy, who will also be fighting on the card [...]

By Eric Thomas: In the latest boxing news, undefeated WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (31-0, 25 KOs) has called out WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (39-0, 25 KOs), saying to “stop making excuses” for not fighting him. As of now, Mayweather, 30, has a scheduled rematch with Oscar De La Hoya to take place [...]

By David Lahr: World Boxing Council super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez (42-4, 31 KOs) will defend his title in the rubber match between him and challenger Rafael Marquez (37-4, 33 KOs) on March 1st at the Home Depot Center, in Carson, California. This is a bout that reminiscent of the ancient gladiators as both fighters [...]

International Boxing Federation heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (49-3, 44 KOs) equaled the lowest weight of his career when he weighed in at 238 lbs at today’s weigh-in at New York’s Madison Square Garden for his unification bout with WBO heavyweight champion Sultan Ibragimov (22-0-1, 17 KOs. In Wladimir’s last bout, against Lamon Brewster in July [...]

By Manuel Perez: In the run up to IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s (49-3, 44 KOs) unification bout with WBO heavyweight title holder Sultan Ibragimov (22-0-1, 17 KOs) this Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, I’ve noticed that has been almost zero fans interest in the fight for some reason. It seems especially bizarre in [...]

By Eric Thomas: Recently I’ve been wondering about why and how undefeated Irish middleweight John Duddy (23-0, 17 KOs) could be ranked so highly despite his lack of top level opposition. As of now, Duddy, 28, is ranked #3 in the WBC, #4 in the WBA, #11 in the IBF and #3 in the WBO. [...]

By “Big” Nate Anderson: Comparing himself to former two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman, who recaptured the heavyweight title late in his career at the ripe old age of 45, light heavyweight Bernard Hopkins (48-4, 32 KOs) had this to say in yesterday’s press conference to promote his April 19th bout against undefeated super middleweight Joe [...]