Archive for March, 2009

By Manuel Perez: Middleweight contender Miguel Angel Espino (20-2-1, 9 KOs) stopped Alejandro Garcia (26-5-1, 24 KOs)in the 6th round of a scheduled 10-round bout on Saturday night at the Playboy Mansion, in Beverly Hills, California. Espino, 29, dropped Garcia in both the 4th and 5th rounds with hard left hooks to the head. In [...]

By Nate Anderson: EBU (European) bantamweight champion Ian Napa (18-7, 1 KOs) lost his title on Saturday night in a disappointing 12-round unanimous decision loss to French challenger Malik Bouziane (11-1, 1 KOs) at the Leisure Center, in Newham, London. The final judges’ scores were 115-113, 118-110 and 117-110, all for Bouziane. Using a lot [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Super bantamweight challenger Bernard Dunne (28-1, 15 KOs) defeated Panamanian WBA super bantamweight champion Ricardo Cordoba (34-2-2, 21 KOs) in the 11th round in an exciting fight on Saturday night at The O2, in Dublin, Ireland. Dunne, 29, knocked Cordoba down four times in the fight, once in the 3rd and three [...]

By Nate Anderson: Big heavyweight prospect Larry “The War Machine” Olubamiwo (4-0, 4 KOs) destroyed his Polish opponent Michal Skierniewski (3-4, 1 KOs) in the 1st round on Friday night at the Leisure Center, in Newham, London. Olubamiwo, 30, walked right through Skierniewsk’s shots early in the round and quickly dropped him with two big [...]

By Jason Kim: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (37-2, 36 KOs) wants a shot at WBA heavyweight title holder Nikolay Valuev now. Klitschko, 37, stopped challenger Juan Carlos Gomez (44-2, 35 KOs) in the 9th round on Saturday night in Stuttgart, Germany. Vitali looked sluggish, missing shots, gasping for breath and struggling with the awkward [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Middleweight prospect Andy Lee (17-1, 13 KOs) defeated Alex Sipos (19-6-2, 9 KOs) by a 10-round decision on Saturday night at the O2 Arena, in Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday night. The final judges’ scores were 99-91. Lee, 24, had troubles with the German Sipos, 34, in the first half of the fight, [...]

By Jim Dower: Six-time world champion Roy Jones Jr. (53-5, 39 KOs) won an impressive 5th round stoppage over former super middleweight contender Omar Sheika (27-9, 18 KOs) on Saturday night to win the vacant WBA NABA light heavyweight title at the Civic Center, in Pensacola, Florida. Jones Jr., 40, looked the best he’s been [...]

By Manuel Perez: Unbeaten BJ Flores (23-0-1, 14 KOs) defeated Colombian knockout artist Jose Luis Herrera (16-6, 16 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous decision on the undercard of Roy Jones Jr. vs. Omar Sheika bout at the Civic Center, in Pensacola, Florida. The final judges’ scores were 98-92, 99-91 and 99-91. Due to Flores fighting [...]

By Zubair Ali: Undisputed super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (32-1-1, 26 KOs) will attempt to become a three weight world champion this summer when he locks horns with bantamweight king Joseph Agbeko (26-1, 22, KOs). Darchinyan is the WBC, WBA and IBF super flyweight champion with Agbeko holding the IBF bantamweight crown. Agbeko, known as [...]

By Zubair Ali: Former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (28-2-1, 17 KOs) challenges the unbeaten Carl Froch (24-0, 19 KOs) for his WBC super middleweight title on April 25 at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket. Froch, who won the vacant title in an all action, toe to toe slugfest against Canadian Jean Pascal, is [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: If WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko’s (37-2, 36 KOs) goal was to try and impress American audiences tonight with his 9th round stoppage over Juan Carlos Gomez (44-2, 35 KOs) in Stuttgart, Germany. I have to say he failed splendidly at achieving his goal. I don’t frankly care whether he got the [...]

By Sam Gregory: For the first time on ESPN a heavyweight title fight with Vitali Klitschko defending his WBC heavyweight title against Cuban southpaw Juan Carlos Gomez who currently makes his home in Germany where tonight’s fight will be coming from via satellite feed. 37 year old Vitali Klitschko who’s record going into this fight [...]

By William Mackay: An exhausted WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (37-2, 36 KOs) took out his number #1 challenger Juan Carlos Gomez (44-2, 35 KOs) in the 9th round of a sloppy fight in Stuttgart, Germany. Klitschko, 37, looked exhausted by the 2nd round, clinching often and gasping for breath much of the time. However, [...]

By Erik Schmidt: 10 months after being humiliated in a 9th round stoppage loss to Shaun George in May 2008, former IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Chris Byrd (40-5-1, 21 KOs) defeated German Matthias Sandow (4-3, 3 KOs) by a 4th round stoppage in a scheduled eight-round bout tonight at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer Halle, in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg.

By Manuel Perez: With the WBC showdown between champion Vitali Klitschko (36-2, 35 KOs) and challenger Juan Carlos Gomez (44-1, 35 KOs) about to take place in just a few moments in Stuttgart, Germany, I thought I’d give my pick of who the winner will be winner in this fight heavyweight fight. Vitali, 37, comes [...]

By Chris Williams: If I were Jermain Taylor or Carl Froch right now, I’d be plenty worried about what lies ahead of me, because Colombian knockout artist Edison Miranda (32-3, 28 KOs) has made it known that he wants to fight the winner of those two fighters. Miranda looked outstanding last night in stopping Ugandan [...]

By Eric Thomas: Super middleweight contender Edison Miranda (32-3, 28 KOs) stopped a badly over-matched Joey Vegas (11-5-1, 4 KOs) in the 5th round of a scheduled 10-round bout on Friday night at the York Hall, in Bethnal Green, London. Miranda, 28, came into the fight at a career high of 178 and fought only [...]

By Zubair Ali: Mexico is a most proud nation with boxers seemingly born to fight. Marco Antonio Barrera is just one of many legendary fighters to have emerged from the country such as Salvador Sanchez, Ruben Olivares, Ricardo Lopez and of course the amazing Julio Cesar Chavez. As an amateur, Barrera amassed an impressive record [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Unbeaten middleweight contender Sebastian Zbik (26-0, 10 KOs) stopped Spaniard Ruben Varon (31-5, 15 KOs) in the 4th round on Friday night to defend his WBO Inter-Continental middleweight title at the Sporthalle, Alsterdorf, in Hamburg, Germany. Zbik, 27, landed a powerful left-right combination to the head followed immediately by a blistering left [...]

By Calvin Betton: Although both Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko seem like extremely decent men when in public, it is becoming increasingly clear that when negotiating fights, their negotiating tactics are far from decent in my view. In the wake of rumors that Juan Carlos Gomez was on the verge of pulling out of his fight [...]

By Gary Burns: As Bernard Dunne prepares to challenge Panamanian Ricardo Cordoba for the WBA super-bantamweight) world title (Celestino Caballero was made super champion by the WBA hence vacating the regular WBA title) tonight in the O2 in Dublin, it is a good opportunity to reflect on the state of Irish Boxing.

By Sam Gregory: Tonight on ESPN 2 Friday Night Fights from Laredo, Texas Bernard Hopkins stood in for Teddy Atlas calling the shots alongside Joe Tessitore. Meanwhile Teddy was in the studio in Bristol because he’ll be calling tomorrows fight between Vitali Klitschko and Juan Carlos Gomez. The Saturday afternoon Klitschko-Gomez fight will take place [...]

By Jim Dower: At today’s weigh-in Stuttgart, Germany, World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (35-2, 35 KOs) weighed in at a solid 249.1. His challenger, Juan Carlos Gomez (44-1, 35 KOs) weighed in at a bulky 230.4. For Gomez, it was 10 pounds more than he usually weighs in for his fights.

By Sean McDaniel: A couple of months ago, few would imagine that Carl Froch (24-0, 19 KOs) would be sitting alone as the one British champion, but with Joe Calzaghe bowing out prematurely on his career rather than stick around and face tough challengers like Chad Dawson and Bernard Hopkins, it’s left Froch to hold [...]

By William Mackay: I was one of many writers who were surprised and downright shocked when the virtual unknown cruiserweight Ola Afolabi (14-1, 6 KOs) came out of nowhere to stop Enzo Maccarinelli (29-3, 22 KOs) in the 9th round last Saturday night. Except for a close call in the 3rd round when Afolabi slightly [...]

By Matt Stein: You ever wondered why WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (36-2, 35 KOs) wasn’t so thrilled at fighting Juan Carlos Gomez? It has to do with the Cuban’s style. Being a crafty southpaw with a lot of speed and excellent defensive ability, Gomez is a nightmare for a big lumbering heavyweight like Vitali, [...]

By Jim Dower: Former WBC heavyweight champion Samuel Peter (30-2, 23 KOs) takes a big risk by facing Eddie chambers (33-1, 18 KOs) in a 12-round bout on March 27th at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California. Peter, 28, bucking the normal trend for fighters coming off a defeat, is instead seeking out the [...]

By Jim Dower: WBC light welterweight champion Kendall Holt (25-2, 13 KOs) will face off against World Boxing Organization light welterweight title holder unbeaten Timothy Bradley (23-0, 11 KOs) in a 12-round unification bout at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada on April 4th. This fight matches two fighters with extraordinary hand speed, easily the [...]

By Chris Williams: There’s no time better than the present to start planning for Ricky Hatton’s next fight after his almost guaranteed loss to Manny Pacquiao on May 2nd. Depending on how badly he’s beaten by Pacquiao, he’ll possibly have to dip really low to find someone serviceable to beat that won’t put him in [...]

By Jason Kim: According to the German Bild news paper, IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has tired of his negotiation attempts with British heavyweight David Haye, and that he will now looking into finding a new opponent for his next fight in June. Wladimir’s manager Bernd Boente that they’ve near to coming to an agreement [...]