Archive for June, 2008

By Jim Dower: Undefeated super middleweight prospect Andre Ward (16-0, 11 KOs) completely outclassed his opponent Jerson Ravelo (18-3, 12 KOs) stopping him in the 8th round of a scheduled 10-round bout on Friday night at the Royal Watler Cruise Terminal, in Georgetown, Cayman Islands. Ward, 24, the former 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist in the [...]

By Nate Anderson: In a fight that I feel was poorly scored, middleweight Steven Bendall (23-4, 13 KOs) defeated previously unbeaten Paul Smith (23-1, 13 KOs) by a 10-round decision on Saturday night to win the BBBofC English middleweight title at the National Indoor Arena, in Birmingham, West Midlands. Using a punch and an immediate [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight prospect Alonzo Butler (26-1, 19 KOs) lost a 10-round unanimous decision to veteran Friday Ahunanya (24-5-3, 13 KOs) on Friday night at the Thomas & Mack Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada. After dominating the first three rounds of the fight, Butler, 28, got careless and was nailed by a big right [...]

By Michael Lieberman: I hate to say I told you so, because it pains me to gloat when I’m right but I predicted this outcome, although I was off by two rounds in my prediction. Instead of Edison Miranda (30-3, 26 KOs) being knocked out in the 6th round, as I previously predicted, he only [...]

By Nate Anderson: BBBofC British middleweight champion Wayne Elcock (19-3, 9 KOs) defeated challenger Darren McDermott (14-1-1, 9 KOs) in the 2nd round of a scheduled 12-round bout at the Civic Centre, Wolverhampton, in West Midlands on Friday night. Elcock, 34, was mostly having his way with McDermott in the 1st round, hitting him with [...]

By Chris Williams: Undefeated lightweight contender Amir Khan proved one thing tonight, he proved that he’s not ready to take on either WBO lightweight champion Nate Campbell or the winner of Manny Pacquiao vs. David Diaz WBC title fight slated for next week. Khan 18-0, 14 KOs), looking almost invincible, dropped Gomez in the 1st [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Former super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (40-1, 30 KOs) easily destroyed Dmitri Sartison (22-1, 14 KOs) in an impressive 12th round stoppage to win the vacant WBA super middleweight title tonight at the Brondby hallen, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sartison, 28, was totally dominated all fight long, badly beaten in every round and [...]

By Michael Lieberman: I personally can’t stand either one of these guys. Neither of them are all that good, especially the annoying chatterbox Edison Miranda (30-2, 26 KOs) who talks as if he’s the king crap of the super middleweight division, when in all probability, he may never rise above being one of the middle [...]

By Jason Kim: HBO’s Boxing After Dark will show two of the best fights this year on Saturday evening with undefeated heavyweight prospects Chris Arreola (23-0, 21 KOs) and Chazz Witherspoon (23-0, 15 KOs) go head to head in an important heavyweight bout for the two young prospects. In the main event, the number #1 [...]

By Nate Anderson: Tomorrow night, we’ll be seeing arguably the second best super middleweight in boxing when the Danish Mikkel Kessler (39-1, 29 KOs) faces little known Dimiri Sartison (22-0, 14 KOs) for the vacant WBA super middleweight title in Copenhagen. Kessler, known mostly for his technical boxing skills and well as his excellent power [...]

By Tony Krebs: Undefeated lightweight contender Amir Khan (17-0, 13 KOs) defends his Commonwealth (British Empire) lightweight title on Saturday night against Michael Gomez (35-8, 24 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round bout at the National Indoor Arena, in Birmingham, West Midlands. Khan, 21, is hoping to get by Gomez, who comes into the fight clearly [...]

By Chris Williams: Heavyweight contender Eddie Chambers (30-1, 16 KOs) will be making his long awaited return to the boxing ring tonight when he takes on the hard-hitting Raphael Butler (31-4, 24 KOs) tonight in a scheduled 12-round bout for Chamber’s USBA heavyweight title at the Royal Watler Cruise Terminal, in Georgetown, Cayman Islands. For [...]

By Aaron Klein: Showing as much promise as he did flaws, once-beaten lightweight prospect Vicente Escobedo (18-1, 11 KOs) defeated 10-year veteran Cristian Favela (15-16-4, 9 KOs) by an eight-round unanimous decision on Wednesday night at the Arco Arena, in Sacramento, California. The final judges’ scores were 78-74, 80-72 and 80-72. Escobedo, a former amateur [...]

By Aaron Klein: In an exceptional fight on Wednesday night, super featherweight fringe contender Cornelius Lock (18-3-1, 11 KOs) stopping Roger Gonzalez (27-2, 18 KOs) in the 10th round at the Arco Arena, in Sacramento, California. Both fighters were hurt in the bout, with Gonzalez going down once in the 1st round, and twice in [...]

By Manuel Perez: With only a week to go before super featherweight Manny Pacquiao (46-3-2, 35 KOs) faces off with WBC lightweight champion David Diaz (34-1-1, 17 KOs) for his lightweight crown at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada, it’s difficult for me to get too excited about this fight for [...]

By Jim Dower: While I was watching a couple old fights this week of Lennox Lewis (41-2-1, 32 KOs), I couldn’t help but notice the similarity of his style and that of the current IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (50-3, 44 KOs), both of whom have the same trainer Emanuel Steward. Like Lewis, Klitschko has [...]

By Manuel Perez: According to a recent interview on boxingtalk.com, IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi has this to say about former champion Ricky Hatton: “He cannot take a punch. To the head to the body, I’ve been saying this for years he cannot take a punch and that’s why he fights the way he [...]

Photos: Courtesy Red Line Media Group – By Nate Anderson: In looking at the recent photos of super middleweight Edison Miranda (30-2, 26 KOs), photos of him looking far more leaner and cutup than usual, I can’t help but think that he’s either over-trained himself for his rematch with IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (26-0, [...]

By Eric Thomas: In the latest boxing news, former WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (39-1, 29 KOs) is reportedly on WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik’s short list of future opponents that he would like to fight. Apparently, Pavlik’s promoter Bob Arum recently said that Kessler is one of Pavlik’s potential opponents in the future, [...]

By William MacKay: It’s been an incredible 21 months, almost two years since the two last fought, and it’s seemed more than a lifetime for super middleweight knockout artist Edison Miranda (30-2, 26 KOs) who has been deeply bitter since that time when he lost a controversial 12-round unanimous decision to IBF middleweight champion Arthur [...]

By Jason Kim: In what will likely be an exciting card with two huge unbeaten heavyweight prospects Chazz Witherspoon (23-0, 15 KOs) and the powerful Chris Arreola (23-0, 21 KOs) going at each other on the undercard, and top welterweight contenders Andre Berto (21-0, 18 KOs) and little known Miguel Angel Rodriguez (29-2, 23 KOs) [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Last week, undefeated super middleweight/light heavyweight Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) came out and said that he won’t be fighting Kelly Pavlik next, that “he’s not ready for me,” whatever that means. Calzaghe also said that he’s looking at possibly fighting former boxing great Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 38 KOs), for his [...]

By Eric Thomas: As much as boxing fans and writers alike would like to see light welterweight Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) face pound-for-pound boxing great Manny Pacquiao (46-3-2, 35 KOs) in November, that idea was quashed yesterday when Hatton came out and said that he won’t be fighting Pacquiao in November, and had never [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: This Saturday night, former WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (39-1, 29 KOs) makes his return to the ring in his first fight since losing his titles to Joe Calzaghe when he takes on the hard-punching Dimitri Sartison (22-0, 14 KOs) for the vacant WBA super middleweight title at the Brondby hallen, [...]

By Aaron Klein: Last time the two met two years ago, Edison Miranda (30-2, 26 KOs) appeared to be the better fighter offensively, stalking and pounding away on IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (26-0, 21 KOs), breaking his jaw in the 4th round. However, due to a string of point deductions made against Miranda by [...]

By Eric Thomas: In the latest boxing news, there is talk of former light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton facing Manny Pacquiao in November in Las Vegas. According to the Manilla Bulletin website, Top Rank’s promoter Bob Arum is talks with Bob Schaefer of Golden Boy about the possibility of a November fight between Hatton and [...]

By Nate Anderson: In an extremely exciting and action packed bout, once-beaten middleweight prospect Sam Webb (11-1, 3 KOs) defeated 37 year-old Paul Dyer (18-9, 1 KOs) by a six-round decision on Saturday night at the Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth, in Hampshire. Webb, 27, dropped Dyer in two times in the fight -once each in the [...]

By Nate Anderson: Undefeated welterweight Kell Brook (17-0, 10 KOs) was far too good for last minute replacement Barrie Jones (15-2, 7 KOs) on Saturday night, stopping him in the 7th round to win the vacant BBBofC British welterweight title York Hall, Bethnal Green, in London. Brook, 22, battered Jones from start to finish, hitting [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Undefeated middleweight Maksim Bursak (15-0, 5 KOs) was too much for his Italian opponent Giovanni De Carolis (6-1, 2 KOs), stopping him in the 8th round of a scheduled 10-round bout to win the IBF Youth middleweight title on Saturday night at the Sports Palace, in Kiev, Ukraine. The bout, held by [...]

By Jim Dower: In a fight card marred with controversial decisions, lightweight Chevelle Hallback (27-5-2, 11 KOs) defeated Jeannine Garside (7-1-1, 3 KOs) by a 10-round split decision to win the vacant IFBA International Female Boxing Association lightweight title on Friday night at the Isleta Casino & Resort, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The final judges’ [...]