Archive for February, 2009

By Manuel Perez: Miguel Cotto (33-1, 27 KOs) stopped a badly overmatched Michael Jennings (34-2, 16 KOs) late in the 5th on Saturday night to capture the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title at the Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York. Cotto, 28, knocked Jennings down three times in the fight, twice [...]

By Jim Dower: Undefeated Russian middleweight prospect Matt Korobov (4-0, 4 KOs) kept his perfect record and knockout string alive on Saturday night with a last second knockout in the 4th round against his crafty opponent Cory Jones (4-5, 1 KOs) at Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York. Korobov, 26, with seconds to [...]

By Manuel Perez: Undefeated light middleweight John Duddy (26-0, 17 KOs) defeated journeyman Matt Vanda (39-9, 22 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous decision tonight at Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York. The final judges’ scores were 99-91, 99-91 and 97-93. Duddy, 29, looked good for the most part, dominating the limited Vanda and [...]

Photo credit: Sumio Yamada – By Sam Gregory: In the first round Pavlik lands a couple significant blows that get Rubio’s attention. Pavlik throws a flurry of punches as he backs Rubio into the ropes. Two big right hands stun Rubio as the round ends, clearly a big round for Pavlik. In round two Pavlik [...]

By Sam Gregory: Both fighters started out relatively slow in the first round but picked up the pace in the second; Cotto landed the cleaner more aggressive punches and won the early rounds. In the third round Cotto had Jennings on the ropes and snapped his head back with a straight right hand. By the [...]

By Manuel Perez: Erik Morales (48-6, 34 KOs) is looking to get back in the ring in July, possibly against Marco Antonio Barrera (65-6, 43 KOs) or Juan Manuel Marquez. Only 33, Morales hasn’t seen action since losing a close 12-round unanimous decision in August 2007 to David Diaz for the WBC lightweight title. Many [...]

By Sam Gregory: Friday night February 27th, Brick City boxing presents as its main event from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey Tomasz Adamek 36-1 who will be putting his undisputed cruiserweight title on the line in his first title defense against the undefeated 20-0 (KO 14) Johnathon Banks in a 12 round cruiserweight [...]

By Nate Anderson: According to Steve Bunce from his Boxing Hour show, Miguel Cotto is looking weight drained for his fight tomorrow night with Michael Jennings. The fact that Cotto is weight drained seems to suggest that he’s had to struggle a little more than usual in making the 147 pound welterweight weight limit. That’s [...]

Yuriorkis Gamboa did it again. ARENA’s fast rising featherweight superstar scored his next impressive k.o. win stopping veteran Walter Estrada in only 35 seconds. “El Ciclon” lived up to his name simply blowing away his opponent with one of his overwhelming combinations. Gamboa went to the body with his left and followed up with a [...]

By William Mackay: After watching lightweight Prescott (21-0, 18 KO’s) struggle tonight against journeyman Humberto Toledo, I now wonder whether most people have way overrated Prescott’s power. He looked like an average puncher tonight, nothing like the so-called knockout artist that was seen knocking Amir Khan out in the first round in September 2008.

By Jason Kim: Welterweight Michael Jennings (34-1-16 KOs) is facing what seems like insurmountable odds tomorrow night against former welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs) at Madison Square Garden. With next to no chance being given to the 31-year-old Jennings, he’s being advised to try and stay away from Cotto as much as possible [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed more and more that there are a number of fighters that are dragging boxing down with them in selfish money grab fights, and their tendency’s to avoid taking risky fights. In many of the more popular divisions, we have fighters like Ricky Hatton, Joe [...]

By Dave Lahr: Just how does a fighter react after getting the living day lights beaten out of them? It’s always a mystery and different with every fighter. Middleweight Kelly Pavlik will be under a microscope tomorrow night in his WBC/WBO middleweight title match against Marco Antonio Rubio. Pavlik was beaten badly by Bernard Hopkins [...]

By Sam Gregory: In tonight’s scheduled 10 round lightweight main event, 25 year old undefeated Columbian Breidis Prescott won the fight on a disqualification when his opponent Humberto Toledo bit him on the neck stopping the bout at 1:58 of the tenth round.

By Sam Gregory: ESPN’s Friday Night Fights at Nova University Don Taft Center Arena, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This is the home of the Miami Dolphins training camp. In the Jr lightweight co-main event, 34 year old Walter Estrada who went into this fight at 35-8 took on the man Teddy Atlas says, has “The [...]

By Eric Thomas: In a night of early knockouts due to poor matchmaking, featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa (14-0, 12 KOs) destroyed destroyed Walter Estrada (35-9, 24 KOs) seconds into the fight, hitting him with a flurry of power shots ending with a big right hand to send him down for the count. It was no surprise, [...]

By Chris Williams: Oscar De La Hoya is reportedly upset with Antonio Margarito, according to the

By Chris Williams: Two months after being beaten nearly senseless by Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya is reportedly kicking around the idea of retiring from boxing. De La Hoya, 36, is still not sure what to do, seemingly confused about whether he should retire or continue on. Watching the success of his fellow Golden [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Well, what else is new? In an interview with the TimesOnline, Joe Calzaghe said that he felt that Chad Dawson was “on his way up,” explaining why reasoning for not fighting him. I wonder what his reasoning was for fighting a washed up 40-year-old Roy Jones Jr. If Dawson, who is the [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Undefeated middleweight contender John Duddy (25-0, 17 KOs) takes a big step in his career tomorrow night when he faces Matt Vanda (39-8, 22 KOs) at Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York. The bottom line is if Duddy doesn’t impress or if he loses the fight, he can just about [...]

World Boxing Council/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik weighed in today at 159 for tomorrow night’s middleweight title fight. His opponent Marco Antonio Rubio came in at 160 for their fight in Pavlik’s home town of Youngstown, Ohio, at the Chevrolet Centre. Pavlik, 26, is hoping to rebound from a loss to Bernard Hopkins in his [...]

At today’s weigh-in from New York, former welterweight champion Miguel Cotto came in at 146, one pound under for his clash for the vacant WBO welterweight title on Saturday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden. His opponent, Britain’s Michael Jennings, came in at 146.5.

By Matt Stein: Juan Manuel Marquez (49-4-1, 36 KOs) and Juan Diaz (34-1, 17 KOs) will fight for the vacant WBA & WBO lightweight titles in a scheduled 12-round bout on February 28th at the Toyota Center, Houston, Texas. The title opened up in the past week after former WBA/WBO lightweight champion Nate Campbell came [...]

Martin Rogan is aiming to become Ireland’s second heavyweight world champion – more than 100 years after the last man to hold the greatest prize in boxing. And he says victory over Matt Skelton later this month will put him on course to achieve his dream. The 37-year-old from Belfast will face Skelton at the [...]

By William Mackay: The March 14th lightweight showdown between Amir Khan (19-1, 15 KOs) and Marco Antonio Barrera (65-6, 43 KOs) at the M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, Lancashire, won’t have the vacant WBO lightweight title on the line. Instead, the WBC has sanctioned the February 28th match between former champions Juan Diaz and Juan Manuel Marquez [...]

By Nate Anderson: In a bit of good news, Setanta has reportedly reached a deal with Sports Network to allow them the rights to show Saturday night’s WBO welterweight title match between Miguel Cotto and Michael Jennings. The fight will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York, and there had been talk of [...]

By Jim Dower: Undefeated Cuban featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa (13-0, 11 KOs) sees action tonight against Colombian journeyman Walter Estrada (35-8, 24 KOs) in an eight-round bout at the University Center Arena, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gamboa, 27, a former 2004 Olympic Gold medalist for Cuba, is one of the most exciting fighters in the featherweight division [...]

By Sam Gregory: Ring magazine reported, the No. 2 light heavyweight contender Chad Dawson will have to withdraw from his scheduled March 14th rematch with former champ Antonio Tarver after Dawson injured a ligament in his left hand during training; this according to Dawson’s manager Mike Criscio.

2008 Olympians James DeGale, Frankie Gavin and Billy Joe Saunders are mint – and it’s official! The terrific trio will all be presented with a special limited edition medal at the prestigious Birmingham Mint next Wednesday ahead of their professional debuts in the city on Saturday night.

A solid round of support bouts has been added to the hotly anticipated European super bantamweight title rematch between reigning champion Rendall Munroe and Kiko Martinez set for the Metrodome in Barnsley, England on Friday, February 27.