Archive for February, 2009

By Dave Lahr: On February 21st, WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (34-1, 30 KOs) will be facing a mirror image of himself in the form of Mexican challenger Marco Antonio Rubio (43-4-1, 37 KOs) at the Chevrolet Centre, in Youngstown, Ohio. Rubio, 28, is every bit as powerful as Pavlik, and holds the potential to [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former middleweight and light heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. (52-5, 38 KOs) has a March 21st match against Omar Sheika in Jones’s home town of Pensacola, Florida. The fight figures to be a showcase for Jones to display some of his old boxing skills in front of his loyal home town crowd, [...]

By Chris Williams: It was learned yesterday that IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and challenger David Haye will take place at the O2 Arena in London on June 20th, in a large 20 foot ring. That’s not good news for Haye if this turns out to be the case. Haye, 28, isn’t exactly one of [...]

By Eric Thomas: With the California State Athletic Commission stripping away the licenses of both Antonio Margarito (37-6, 27 KOs) and his excellent trainer Javier Capetillo on Tuesday, revoking the licenses for a minimum of one year, his promoter Bob Arum is looking to keep him active by having him fight in June or July [...]

By William Mackay: The ambitious but deeply flawed welterweight prospect Matthew Hatton (35-4-1, 13 KOs) will return to action on March 28th against the weak-punching Ted Bami (26-4, 13 KOs)at the Altrincham Leisure Centre. Hatton, 27, the younger brother of light welterweight Ricky Hatton, has had an uneven career up to this point, losing a [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Since Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KOs) chose to quit rather than fight the talented unbeaten light heavyweight Chad Dawson (27-0, 17 KOs), I felt it was up to me to use my in depth knowledge of both fighters to give a breakdown of what would likely have happened if the two had [...]

What happens when two of boxing’s most feared superstars can’t find anyone willing to step up and face them? They fight each other. On Saturday, April 11th, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, former Junior Middleweight World Champion Winky Wright will look to stop the meteoric rise of two-division World Champion [...]

The First Lady of the Sauerland-Team, Cecilia Braekhus, will take her first tilt at the World Title on March 14 in Kiel. The Berlin-based fighter challenges Denmark’s Vinni Skovgaard for the WBA and WBC belts. “This is a huge opportunity and I am really looking forward to it,” enthused Braekhus, who is unbeaten in ten [...]

By Jim Dower: Now that middleweight contender Anthony Mundine (35-3, 23 KOs) has beaten fellow Australian Shannan Taylor, Mundine is next in line for a shot at World Boxing Association middleweight champion Felix Sturm (31-2-1, 13 KOs), who has until the end of October to fight Mundine or end up having his title taken away [...]

By Adam Laiolo: What a fight this is going to be, for every boxing fan whether you’re a purist, casual or one eyed. Whilst every source of boxing news and forums is claiming the Hitman is in for the biggest beating of his life and Pacquiao is going to cruise to victory. Were these the [...]

Liverpool lightweight John Watson will move one step closer to a British title shot on March 28 at the Echo Arena when he battles Martin Gethin over 10 rounds at HAYEMAKER 6: ‘The Mersey Beatdown’. An intriguing mix of pressure fighters, Watson and Gethin will meet in a British lightweight title eliminator. The moment can’t [...]

By Chris Williams: In looking over lightweight Amir Khan’s March 14th fight against veteran former champion Marco Antonio Barrera, I see the decked pretty much stacked against the 35-year-old Barrera, putting him in an almost no win situations. Certainly, Barrera has the advantage in experience over the young 22-year-old Khan, and a better chin than [...]

By Matt Stein: He’s 36-years-old, enormously wealthy, the head of the successful promotional company Golden Boy Promotions, married to a beautiful woman, and coming off of a humiliating 8th round quit job against Manny Pacquiao on December 6th, so why on Earth would Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) want to continue fighting?

By Chris Williams: I hate boxers that foul. And that’s why I’m hoping that Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) keeps it clean on May 2nd against Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) in their 12-round bout for Hatton obscure IBO light welterweight title. Freddie Roach, the trainer for Pacquiao, is preparing Manny for the potential case [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I still can’t figure out how or why David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) is getting a fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (52-3, 46 KOs). As far as I can tell, Haye doesn’t belong in the same ring as Wladimir on June 20th. I could understand it if Haye had earned [...]

By Jim Dower: I think Miguel Cotto is asking for big trouble in taking on a fighter as tough as Michael Jennings (34-1, 16 KOs) this early after Miguel’s 11th round beat down against Antonio Margarito last July. While that may seem like a long time for some people, it’s not long at all when [...]

By Chris Williams: For those who remember the great Muhammad Ali’s shocking 8th round stoppage of the then unbeaten George Foreman on October 30th in 1974, they saw a great fight from Ali in which he used a now famous rope a dope, along with a lot of pawing and clinching to tire out and [...]

By Jim Dower: Former welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (30-2, 27 KOs) take a big step up against interim WBC light middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (44-1-1, 24 KOs) at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida. In typical fashion, Cintron, 29, doesn’t believe in taking things slowly against lesser competition to build up to a top fighter [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Right now, former WBA/WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito has a lot of angry boxing fans who would like nothing better than to see him prevented from practicing his sport again. This is due to the now infamous hand wrap incident that took place prior to his fight with Shane Mosley on January [...]

Roy Jones Jr., Eight-Time World Champion, returns to Pensacola to fight for the first time since January, 1999 when he battles Omar Sheika at the Pensacola Civic Center on Saturday, March 21, 2009. The fight card will also feature a bevy of Mixed Martial Arts stars headlined by Seth Petruzelli, who most recently knocked out [...]

By Sam Gregory: I had the chance to speak to undefeated heavyweight prospect Travis Kauffman today, just home from his fight in Anaheim last Saturday night where Travis fought on the undercard of the Darchinyan-Arce fight scoring a first round TKO win and improving his record to 16 wins with no loses; 13 of the [...]

By William Mackay: Now that Joe Calzaghe has bowed out of boxing, it leaves IBF light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (27-0, 17 KOs) alone at the top of the light heavyweight division. Although he’s currently sharing the top spot with fellow champions Adrian Diaconu, Zsolt Erdei and Hugo Garay, it’s safe to say that Dawson [...]

By Nate Anderson: Former World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (35-3, 23 KOs) easily defeated Shannan Taylor (48-7-3, 34 KOs) earlier tonight to win the vacant WBA International middleweight title at the WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, in New South Wales, Australia. The final judges’ scores were 120-107, 120-107 and 120-108.

Many of the leading Irish and Irish-American boxers in the world will gather St. Patrick’s Day Eve (Monday, March 16), including 2004 Olympian Andy Lee and former WBC bantamweight champion Wayne “Pocket Rocket” McCulough, to fight on the “Erin Go Brawl II” card, presented by Irish Ropes Promotions at WaMu Theater in the famed Madison [...]

World Middleweight Champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK (34-1, 30 KOs), from Youngstown, Ohio, is in his last 10 days of training for his rumble with No. 1 contender and mandatory challenger Marco Antonio Rubio (43-4-1, 38 KOs), of Torreón, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico. The Pavlik-Rubio world championship fight will headline an exciting card at soldout [...]

Heartbreaker Michael Jennings is abandoning his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day – so he can concentrate on breaking Miguel Cotto’s heart in New York. But Jennings has vowed to return from the States with a bunch of two-dozen red roses – and the WBO World Welterweight title.

By Scott Gilfoid: For the many boxing fans that are looking forward to the lightweight showdown between former super bantamweight, featherweight and super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera (65-6, 43 KOs) and Amir Khan (19-1, 15 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round lightweight bout on March 14th, they may have to settle for seeing a fight [...]

Just one month shy of making his boxing professional debut one year ago, featherweight Abraham Lopez (5-0, 4KO’s) has signed with southern California-based Thompson Boxing Promotions.

By William Mackay: So much for Antonio Margarito’s year-long boxing license revocation that was brought down on his head today by the California State Athletic Commission. Margarito’s promoter, Bob Arum, is already looking to set up a fight for him in Mexico while he appeals the ruling and attempt to fight it in California courts. [...]

The Reno Events Center will be the place to be this Saturday night, February 14th, with stars from across the sporting world scheduled to be ringside for the long awaited showdown between super middleweights Jesse Brinkley and Joey Gilbert.