Archive for March, 2008

By Chet Mills: Unbeaten welterweight prospect Mike Jones (13-0, 12 KOs) had to struggle to defeat veteran Germain Sanders (27-6, 17 KOs) by a 8-round unanimous decision on Friday night ESPN fights at the Seneca Allegheny Casino & Hotel, in Salamanca, New York. The final judges’ scores were 78-74, 78-74 and 78-74. I personally had [...]

By Eric Thomas: Undefeated super flyweight Alejandro Perez (12-0-1, 7 KOs) annihilated his opponent Omar Adorno (16-10-1, 10 KOs), stopping him in the 1st round on Friday night at the Expos Center, in the City of Industry, California. The end came suddenly when Perez connected with a big right that flattened the 28 year-old Adorno. [...]

By Chet Mills: Former IBF light middleweight champion Kassim Ouma (25-5-1, 15 KOs) was defeated by former star from The Contender reality television series Cornelius Bundrage (28-3, 16 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous decision on Friday night at the Seneca Allegheny Casino & Hotel, in Salamanca, New York. It was spectacular but Brundige, 34, did [...]

By Eric Thomas: In what some people felt would be an easy victory for previously unbeaten featherweight prospect Juanito Garcia (14-1, 5 KOs) ended up being an easy knockout victory for his opponent 29 year-old Cornelius Lock (17-3-1, 10 KOs), who stopped him in the 4th round on Saturday night at the Expo Center, in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated British light middleweight Danny Reynolds (12-0, 7 KOs) easily destroyed his overmatched opponent Jason Rushton (17-5, 3 KOs) in a 1st round TKO on Saturday night at the Metrodome, Barnsley, in Yorkshire to win the BBBofC Central Area light middleweight title. Reynolds, 29, blitzed Rushton early and often, knocking him down [...]

By Eric Thomas: Undefeated lightweight prospect John Molina (11-0, 8 KOs) defeated Carlos Madrid (8-5-2, 2 KOs) on Friday night by six-round unanimous decision at the Expo Center, in the City of Industry, California. Molina, 25, showed some decent skills in the process of pounding out a relatively easy decision, but he also showed some [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Once promising super middleweight Mads Larsen (50-2, 37 KOs) won a dull eight-round unanimous decision over journeyman fighter Ross Thompson (26-12-2, 16 KOs) on Saturday night at the Sparkassen-Arena, Kiel, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Larsen, 35, thought to be the next opponent for IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute, did little other than [...]

By Chris Stein: In one of the silliest wrestling matches I’ve ever seen, Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeated professional wrestler “Big Show” last night at the Citrus bowl in the WrestleMania XXIV match. Mayweather, not a particularly good actor, looked especially fake in going up against the 7-foot 441 lb Big Show, though he did [...]

By Aaron Klein: British super flyweight champion Chris Edwards (11-13-3, 3 KOs) lost his BBBofC British super flyweight title on Friday night against the young 22 year-old challenger Andy Bell (11-3, 3 KOs), who defeated Edwards by a 12-round unanimous decision at the Metrodome, Barnsley, in Yorkshire, England. Edwards, 31, put on an exciting display [...]

By Nate Anderson: In a much harder than expected fight, unbeaten IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (26-0, 21 KOs) struggled through 12 rounds against #15th ranked Elvin Ayala befoe finally stopping him at 2:32 of the 12th round after connecting with a big left hand. Along the way, Abraham was hit often by Ayala, who [...]

Andy “Iceman” Bell put on the performance of his young career on Friday night at the Metrodome in Barnsley, England by taking the British super flyweight title from reigning champion Chris Edwards in a thrilling fight on a Frank Maloney promotion televised by Sky Sports.

By Eric Thomas: In an impressive raw display of pur punching power, undefeated light heavyweight knockout artist Tavoris Cloud (18-0, 17 KOs) annihilated an over matched Mike Wood (19-7-1, 11 KOs) last night, stopping him in the 1st round of a scheduled 12-round bout for the USBA, NABA and WBO NABO light heavyweight titles at [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In somewhat of an upset, former WBC cruiserweight champion Wayne Braithwaite (23-3, 18 KOs) stopped previously undefeated Cuban prospect Yoan Pablo Hernandez (14-1, 8 KOs) in the 3rd round tonight to claim the WBA Fedelatin cruiserweight title & WBC Latino cruiserweight titles at the Sparkassen-Arena, Kiel, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Braithwaite, 32, rallied [...]

By Chris Stein: Taking up his ever-growing cause to fight former super lightweight/welterweight champion Ricky Hatton a notch, WBC super lightweight champion Junior Witter (36-1-2, 21 KOs) has reportedly offered to fight Hatton for free, saying “My people have got to get paid, my training expenses have got to be paid but I’ll do it [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC cruiserweight champion Wayne Braithwaite (22-3, 18 KOs) steps up to the plate tomorrow night against undefeated Cuban prospect Yoan Pablo Hernandez (14-0, 8 KOs) in a 12-round championship bout for the little known WBA Fedelatin and WBC Latino cruiserweight titles at the Sparkassen-Arena, Kiel, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Braithwaite, a former [...]

By Nate Anderson: Much has been made of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s comments made recently to the BBC Radio 5 Live, saying this about WBA/WBC/WBO cruiserweight champion David Haye (21-1, 20 KOs): “He’s an exciting fighter so why not?…If he wants to bring excitement then I wish him best of luck. He better get [...]

By Nate Anderson: With yesterday’s news of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (50-3, 44 KOs) to fight his #1 mandatory for his WBO crown, Tony Thompson (31-1, 19 KOs) next, where does that leave Klitschko’s number one mandatory for his IBF title, Alexander Povetkin? It seems to me that Povetkin just finished winning the right [...]

By Erik Smight: As expected, unbeaten light welterweight prospect Devon Alexander (15-0, 8 KOs) defeated Panamanian Miguel Callist (24-7-1, 17 KOs) last night, beating him by a one-sided 12-round unanimous decision on the undercard of the dull Cory Spinks vs. Verno Phillips IBF light middleweight title bout at the Scottrade Center, in Saint Louis, Missouri. [...]

By Chet Mills: In somewhat of a shocker, two-time light middleweight champion Verno Phillips (42-10-1, 21 KOs) defeated IBF light middleweight champion Cory Spinks (36-5, 11 KOs) by a 12-round split decision last night at the Scottrade Center, in Saint Louis, Missouri. The final judges’ scores were 116-112 and 115-113 for the 38 year-old Phillips. [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated light welterweight prospect Devon Alexander (14-0, 8 KOs) takes a step up in opposition tonight when he goes up against Panamanian Miguel Callist (24-6-1, 17 KOs) at the Scottrade Center, in Saint Louis, Missouri. Alexander, 21, the former 2004 United States Amateur light welterweight champion, will be defending his lightly regarded [...]

By Dan Ambrose: IBF light middleweight champion Cory Spinks (36-4, 11 KOs) defends his title tonight against 37 year-old former IBF/WBO light middleweight champion Verno Phillips (41-10-1, 21 KOs) at the Scottrade Center, in Saint Louis, Missouri. Spinks, 30, hasn’t defended his IBF light middleweight title in a year dating back to February 2007, when [...]

New York, NY –– Don King Productions and 2K Sports today announced they will team up for an exclusive giveaway of five copies of the most anticipated sports release this spring, Don King Presents: Prizefighter, during the launch of King’s very own digital network, www.DonKingTV.com. A spectacular “Meet Me in St. Louis” championship doubleheader [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In the past couple of years the heavyweight division has all but dried up as far as talent and excitement goes. This coincides with the beginning of the Eastern European heavyweights, like Wladimir Klitschko, Sultan Ibragimov, Ruslan Chagaev, Nikolay Valuev, Oleg Maskaev and Alexander Povetkin, whom have slowly taken control over the [...]

By Tony Krebs: With former super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler backing out and opting not to fight the Colombian knockout artist Edison Miranda (30-2, 26 KOs), he has now set his sights on IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (22-0, 18 KOs) in hopes of lining up a bout with him instead of Kessler. Bute, [...]

By Manuel Perez: Undefeated IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (25-0, 20 Kos) puts his title and unbeaten record on the line this Saturday night when he goes up against American Elvin Ayala (18-2-1, 8 Kos) at the Sparkassen-Arena, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Abraham, 28, is making his seventh defense of his IBF title which he won [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news, Irish middleweight prospect Andy Lee (15-1, 12 KOs) may be fighting a rematch with former star from The Contender reality television series Brian Vera (16-1, 10 KOs) in July, as long as Lee’s badly cut up face has been healed by that time. Lee, 23, whom [...]

By Donald Geranen: WBA light heavyweight champion Danny Green (25-3, 22 KOs) n 25 (KO 22) announced his retirement from boxing, saying “I woke up at 1am Sunday morning with my stomach churning, and it was telling me to hang up my gloves, basically.” Apparently, Green, 35, had lost his interest in boxing seemingly at [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBO Lightweight champ, Michael Katsidis (23-1, 20 KO’s) came up short against ring veteran Joel Casamayor (36-3-1, 22 KO’s), who stopped him in the 10th round on Saturday night Morongo Casino in Cabazon California. Katisidis, 27, was knocked down three times in the bout, two of them coming in the first round [...]

By Michael Tornay: Super middleweight contender Librado Andrade (27-1, 21 KOs) overwhelmed Russian Robert Stieglitz (31-2, 19 KOs) with punches, stopping him in the 8th round of a scheduled 12-round IBF Super Middleweight Title Eliminator on the undercard of the Michael Katsidis vs. Joel Casamayor bout at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, in Cabazon, [...]

By Erik Smight: Undefeated EBU (European) light middleweight champion Zaurbek Baysangurov (18-0, 13 KOs) successfully defended his EBU title on Sunday night in his first title defense, stopping Ukrainian Roman Dzuman (23-5-1, 10 KOs) in the 8th round of a scheduled 12-round bout at the Sportpalace Meteor, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Baysangurov, 23, a former amateur [...]