Archive for November, 2008

By Erik Schmidt: World Boxing Association light heavyweight champion Hugo Hernan Garay (32-3, 17 KOs) easily defeated German challenger Juergen Braehmer (31-2, 25 KOs) by a 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Stadthalle, Rostock, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The final judges’ scores were 118-110, 117-112 and 116-115.

By Erik Schmidt: WIBF Women’s International Boxing Federation and WBC featherweight champion Ina Menzer (22-0, 9 KOs) defeated Brazilian Adriana Salles (11-4-1, 5 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Stadthalle, Rostock, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

By Jim Dower: In another huge setback for his once promising career, top rated super bantamweight contender Rey Bautista (26-2, 19 KOs) was defeated by an eight-round unanimous decision by journeyman Heriberto Ruiz (40-7-2, 23 KOs) on Saturday night on the undercard of Ricky Hatton vs. Paulie Malignaggi at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, [...]

By Nate Anderson: Fringe welterweight contender Matthew Hatton (35-4-1, 13 KOs) defeated former light welterweight contender Ben Tackie (29-11-1, 17 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The final judges’ scores were 98-92, 98-92 and 97-93. Tackie, now 35, came into the fight having lost [...]

By Manuel Perez: Undefeated light middleweight contender James Kirkland (24-0, 21 KOs) proved to be too powerful for former ESPN2 star of ”The Contender” Brian Vera (16-2, 10 KOs), stopping him in the 8th round of a scheduled 10-round bout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday night. Vera, 26, was dropped [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Undefeated light heavyweight contender Aleksy Kuziemski (16-0, 3 KOs) stopped Mantas Tarvydas (15-5, 10 KOs) in the 7th round on Saturday night to successfully defend his WBO Inter-Continental light heavyweight title and win the vacant EBA (European Boxing Association) light heavyweight title at the Stadthalle, Rostock, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The end came [...]

Los Angeles, CA (November 24, 2008) – On Saturday, November 29, undefeated Cristobal “The Nightmare” Arreola will be taking what he hopes is another step toward a World Heavyweight Championship, when he defends his WBC Continental Americas title against Travis “Freight Train” Walker on the first-ever professional boxing card to be held at the new [...]

Ricky Hatton: “I enjoyed it this time much more than last time. I just came to a new camp. I’m working on some new things, me and Floyd [Mayweather Sr.] have been together probably seven or eight weeks, so it doesn’t happen overnight. I think I’ve showed glimpses of the what I can do. I [...]

By Alan Thomson: It wasn’t an off night for Paulie Malignaggi. He got dominated by a better fighter. A much better fighter. Ricky Hatton erased any doubts that had been based on his recent performances by thoroughly thrashing Malignaggi, winning nine of the first ten rounds before Malignaggi’s corner had seen enough and threw in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: First off, I don’t consider either of these guys as best in the light welterweight division, so effectively what we’re seeing is a glorified popularity contest between former champions. Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) has looked faded and over the hill for the past three years and hasn’t looked good since beating [...]

By Manuel Perez: Former World Boxing Organization bantamweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez (40-6, 34 KOs), now fighting as a super bantamweight, totally destroyed Colombian Reynaldo Lopez (30-6-2, 21 KOs) on Friday night, taking him out in the 4th round of a scheduled 10-round bout at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, in Cabazon, California.

By Manuel Perez: In a super bantamweight unification bout, World Boxing Association champion Celestino Caballero (31-2, 22 KOs) completely outclassed IBF title holder Steve Molitor (28-1, 11 KOs), stopping him in the 4th round on Saturday night at the Casino Rama, Rama, in Ontario, Canada. Molitor, 28, was never in the fight, dominated from start [...]

By Eric Thomas: Having had back to back poor performances, it’s hard to tell what version of Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) will enter the ring on Saturday night against Paulie Malignaggi (25-1, 5 KOs) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. If this fight were to have occurred several years ago when Hatton [...]

By Aaron Klein: Shortly after watching David Haye stop Monte Barrett last Saturday night in the 5th round, former two-time heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (36-2, 35 KOs), according to the Southwork News, said “I will knock him [Haye] out – I am so sorry.”

By Chris Williams: Last Saturday night, David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) survived a scare in the 5th round when he was nailed by a huge left hook thrown by journeyman Monte Barrett, which knocked Haye down and seemingly had him hurt enough to stay down for a considerable amount of time before getting up.

By Jim Dower: With his precious boxing legacy on the line, undefeated Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KOs) took an easy fight against a terribly faded Roy Jones Jr. two weeks ago on November 8th, defeating the hapless Jones by a dull, one-sided bout that had few interesting highlights other than Calzaghe’s first round knockdown.

By Erik Schmidt: Only 22, undefeated Denis Boytsov (23-0, 20 KOs) is already one of the best heavyweights in the division and possibly good enough already to be ranked in the top five. A former amateur star from Oryol, Russia, Boytsov is well on his way to becoming perhaps one of the heavyweight champions in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Perhaps even if he tried, Ricky Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) couldn’t have picked a worse opponent than former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (25-1, 5 KOs) to fight tomorrow night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Boxing fans have shown very little interest in this fight, other [...]

Boxing’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter and five-division world champion MANNY PACQUIAO will give away free Norbest Tom Turkeys to the first 500 families who show up This Sunday!

James Moore, 16-1 (10 KOS), a native of County Wicklow, Ireland, who fights out of Queens, New York, has been training hard at Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles for his December 13 challenge of NABF junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman, 26-0 (8 KOS), at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.

By Iwan Evans: York Hall in Bethnal Green is having a busy period in November and that busy period continues on Saturday night as Prizefigher rolls in to town. This time it’s the middleweights in action and here I am going to preview all eight fighters who start the night in the competition.

By Matthew Thomas Potter: It has now been over seven years since ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamed’s (37-0-1) supposedly career defining loss to Marco Antonio Barrera. Detractors of the Prince often use this loss to highlight the inadequacies of Hamed’s style, and his lack of the skills that were needed to compete at the highest level, against [...]

By Alan Thomson: Who’s the man? The Magic Man or the Hit Man? The slickster from Brooklyn or the brawler from Manchester? Although from what we’re hearing from the Hatton camp, it may be the slickster vs. the new and improved boxer. Hatton maintains that we’ll see a new Ricky in the ring on Saturday, [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Fringe heavyweight prospect Konstantin Airich (11-1-1, 9 KOs) defeated former cruiserweight Alexander Jakob (25-5-1, 15 KOs) by an unimpressive eight-round unanimous decision on Tuesday night at the Kugelbake-Halle, Cuxhaven, in Niedersachsen, Germany. Airich, 30, dropped the 40 year-old Jakob with a weak left-right combination in the 2nd round.

David Haye’s manager Adam Booth has accused the Klitschkos of backtracking following the British boxers outstanding performance against Monte Barrett. Haye was due to fight IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in London next summer. It now looks increasingly likely that Haye will instead face WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. Speaking to Setanta [...]

By Jim Dower: It looks as if heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) is now changed his sights from a fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and is now looking at a fight with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko instead, based on an interview he made at Setanta Sports.

By Erik Schmidt: Former two-time World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion Herbie Hide (46-4, 42 KOs) struggled to win a six-round unanimous decision over Lukasz Rusiewicz (7-6) on Tuesday night in a cruiserweight match at Kugelbake-Halle, Cuxhaven, in Niedersachsen, Germany. Hide, now 37, once a fighter with blazing fast hands and tremendous punching power, looked as [...]

By Simon Hirst: Last weekend, David Haye defeated Monte Barrett after knocking him down five times before the referee stopped it. Haye came in the ring looking calm and confident and throughout the fight, never looked in huge trouble. Barrett was largely ineffective with his wild throws and Haye used his speed to avoid the [...]

PROVIDENCE (November 19, 2008) – NABF cruiserweight champion Matt “Too Smooth” Godfrey (17-1, 10 KOs), rated No. 3 by the WBC, fights Saturday night for the first Sovereign Nations Boxing Council (SNBC) title against Eddie “The Iron Man” Gutierrez at 4 Bears Casino in New Town, North Dakota.

By Alan Thomson: He dominated his sport like few others before him. For a decade he reigned as the best pound for pound fighter in boxing. And for the first fifteen years of his career, he rarely lost a round. But since turning 35 years old in 2004, life just hasn’t been the same for [...]