Archive for February, 2009

By Jason Kim: Former World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Samuel Peter (30-2, 23 KOs) hopes to get his career back on the winning track on March 27th against heavyweight contender Eddie Chambers (33-1, 18 KOs) at a still to be determined site. Peter, 28, from Nigeria, was recently defeated by the big Ukrainian Vitali [...]

By Manuel Perez: Antonio Margarito and his trainer may have had their boxing licenses revoked by the California State Athletic Commission for alleged illegal wraps, but that won’t keep Margarito from going ahead and fighting anyway, either in Las Vegas, Nevada or Mexico. Either way, Margarito won’t be stopped by this and will continue on [...]

By Manuel Perez: In a decision that I find totally wrong today, Antonio Margarito – and his trainer Javier Capetillon – was worked over by the by the California State Athletic Commission, who took away their boxing licenses for a year. I don’t agree with any of this, not one bit. Here we have the [...]

By Dave Lahr: Two-time International Boxing Federation featherweight champion Robert Guerrero (23-1-1, 16 KOs) will face unbeaten Indonesian Daud Cino Yordan (23-0, 17 KOs) in a 10-round bout at The Tank, in San Jose, California. Guerrero, 25, is coming off an impressive 1st round TKO over Edel Ruiz On January 24th on the undercard of [...]

By Chris Williams: Earlier today, Antonio Margarito and his trainer Javier Capetillon had their boxing licenses revoked by the California State Athletic Commission at a hearing in Van Nuys, California, over an issue involving Margarito’s hand wraps before his fight with Shane Mosley on January 24th. Originally, Mosley’s trainer Nazim Richardson felt something was suspicious [...]

By Jim Dower: Unbeaten light middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (14-0, 11 KOs) will be facing his third opponent this Saturday, February 14th, when he takes on welterweight journeyman Cosme Rivera (31-11-2, 22 KOs) at the BankAtlantic Center, in Sunrise, Florida. Angulo, 26, a former 2004 Olympian for the Mexican team, was initially set to meet [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to the LA Times, former welterweight champion Antonio Margarito has had his boxing license taken away for a year by the California State Athletic Commission at today’s hearing in Van Nuys, California. Just prior to that, Margarito’s trainer Javier Capetillo also had his license taken away in a year revocation due [...]

Cruiserweight contender Ola “Kryptonite” Afolabi (13-1-3, 5 KOs) is hosting a party on March 14, the day he faces former champion Enzo Maccarinelli for the Interim WBO Cruiserweight Championship at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester.

By Scott Gilfoid: For some people when they see Joe Calzaghe’s unbeaten 46-0 record they think of a fighter they consider to be an all time great, someone along the lines of a Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson or Muhammad Ali. After all, there are few fighters that could amass an accumulated record of wins [...]

By Matt Stein: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (34-1, 30 KOs) would like people to think that he’ll be the same fighter he was before his recent one-sided 12-round unanimous decision loss to Bernard Hopkins in October 2008. Besides the obvious fact of the probable mental after effects of being soundly beaten in a shocking [...]

Heavyweight sensation Tyson Fury has called Frank Maloney’s bluff after the promoter challenged him to fight his prospect Larry Olubamiwo. The 6 foot 9 inch Fury has won his two professional contests to date with impressive stoppages against European opposition and faces Russian Daniel Peret next time out in Norwich on February 28th live on [...]

By Sam Gregory: Saturday night, January 24th, the boxing world was treated to a superb display of pugilistic excellence when Sugar Shane Mosley upset welterweight contender Antonio Margarito with a 9th round stoppage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

By Dave Lahr: IBF/WBA/WBC super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (32-1-1, 26 KOs) is planning on moving up a weight class to the bantamweight division in the near future in hopes of earning a title in a third weight class. Darchinyan, 33, already has previously won titles in both the flyweight and super flyweight divisions and [...]

By Manuel Perez: in a stay busy fight, Cuban featherweight contender Yuriorkis Gamboa (13-0, 11 KOs) will take on journeyman Walter Estrada (35-8, 24 KOs) on February 20th in a scheduled 10-round bout at the University Center Arena, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Five of Mexico’s biggest names in boxing converge for the first time, headlining the same boxing card! Top Rank presents “Latin Fury 8 — Tijuana Thunder,” broadcast Live on Pay-Per-View from Tijuana, Mexico on March 28. The five-bout pay-per-view extravaganza will feature undefeated super welterweight sensation JULIO CESAR CHAVEZ, Jr., WBC super featherweight champion HUMBERTO [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news, undefeated Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KOs) might stage a comeback at a later point if the money is right. According to The Telegraph, both Sugar Ray Leonard and Frank Warren think Calzaghe might be tempted if he receives a big enough offer. How long this might [...]

By Jim Dower: Unless Jorge Arce (51-5-1, 39 KOs) can fight better in the future against top level opposition in the super flyweight division, I think he needs to get out of the sport as soon as possible to save himself from getting seriously hurt. He looked completely shot in losing by an 11th round [...]

Bad news for Herbie Hide: The WBC Final Eliminator in the cruiserweight division between the “Dancing Destroyer” and Matt Godfrey that was originally scheduled to take place on March 6th in Cuxhaven, Germany, has to be postponed for at least eight weeks because Godfrey suffered a hand injury while preparing for the fight. Nonetheless Hide [...]

Hot talent Nathan Cleverly is aiming to send out a KO message to British champion Dean Francis on Friday night. The pair will both appear on the same bill in Swindon – with a mouth-watering clash between the two scheduled for later this year. The light-heavyweight duo have been on a collision course for months, [...]

Former cruiserweight king, Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham, is close to securing his first opponent, Guyana’s Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite, in his quest to regain the IBF cruiserweight crown he lost, by a close split decision, to Tomasz ‘Goral’ Adamek last December.

By William Mackay: Through a career that spanned 16 years with three titles won in the super middleweight division, Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32) incredibly only has a small handful of opponents that I would consider to be good fighters. The vast majority of them fought in a nine year period when he held the WBO [...]

By Chris Williams: I had a sinking feeling that this was going to be a mismatch, but I hoped it would be wrong. I wasn’t. IBF/WBA/WBC super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (32-1-1, 26 KOs) toyed with Jorge Arce (51-5-1, KOs) for 11 rounds, winning by an easy 11th round TKO on Saturday night at The [...]

Photo: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME – By Jim Dower: Unbeaten super middleweight contender Andre Ward (18-0, 12 KOs) soundly defeated Henry Buchanan (17-2, 12 KOs) by a lopsided 12-round unanimous decision on Friday night at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino, in Lemoore, California. The final judges’ scores were 120-108, and 120-108. Ward, 24, a 2004 Olympic [...]

By Jim Dower: Undefeated lightweight prospect John Molina (15-0, 11 KOs) destroyed Kpakpo Allotey (16-7, 14 KOs) in the 3rd round on Friday night at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino, in Lemoore, California. Molina, 26, dropped Allotey with a hard left to the body in the 3rd, at which point Allotey rolled around on [...]

By Chris Williams: Lightweight fringe contender Antonio DeMarco (20-1-1, 14 KOs) stopped Almazbek “Kid Diamond” Raiymkulov (27-2-1, 15 KOs) in the 9th round on Saturday night at the The Pond, Anaheim, in California. DeMarco, 23, got the win after Raiymkulov sustained a broken nose in the 9th round. The fight was then stopped after the [...]

By Erik Schmidt: World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik (31-2-1, 13 KOs) won a close 12-round split decision over Argentinean knockout artist Marcos Rene Maidana (25-1, 24 KOs) on Saturday night at the Stadthalle, Rostock, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The final judges’ scores were 115-114, 113-115 and 115-113.

By Jason Kim: Light heavyweight Yusaf Mack (27-2-2, 16 KOs) pulled off a huge upset on Friday night, defeating top rated Chris Henry (23-2, 18 KOs) by a 12-round split decision at the Wicomico Civic Center, in Salisbury, Maryland. The final judges’ scores were 116-112, 115-112 and 113-115. Mack, 29, making only his 4th fight [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Denis Boytsov (24-0, 19 KOs) destroyed journeyman Israel Carlos Garcia (19-3, 11 KOs) on Saturday night, stopping him in the 2nd round of a scheduled 12-round bout to win the vacant WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight title at the Stadthalle, Rostock, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Boytsov, 22, dropped the 38-year-old Garcia with [...]

By Nate Anderson: BBofC British cruiserweight champion Rob Norton (31-4-1, 19 KOs) successfully defended his title on Friday night defeating former “Prize Fighter” heavyweight finalist David Dolan (11-2, 4 KOs) by a 12-round unanimous decision at the Aston Events Centre, in Birmingham, West Midlands. The bout saw both fighters down, with Norton being knocked down [...]

Photo: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME – By Sam Gregory: Going into tonight’s main event the last thing any hard-core fight fan that knew anything at all about Vic Darchinyan and Jorge Arce wanted to see was a boxing match…if either of these pint-sized dynamo’s meant anything they said over the past two weeks with the mudslinging, name-calling [...]