Archive for January, 2010

By Kirk Jackson: Many boxing insiders and fans of the sport have three division champion, and future hall of famer Sugar Shane Mosley, defeating the young World Boxing Council Welterweight Champion and budding star Andre Berto, in their upcoming unification bout that takes place January 30th of this year. It’s common knowledge Shane Mosley may [...]

Boxing results from the Polideportivo Municipal, Pinamar, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Lucas Rafael Baez KO 5 Ramon Sebastian Munoz Guillermo de Jesus Paz UD 8 Leonardo Esteban Gonzalez

By Eric Thomas: According to the Daily Star, World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) will be vacating his WBA crown, and fighting former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s) on May 1st at Madison Square Garden, in New York. Khan was supposed to be facing WBA light [...]

By William Mackay: In the past couple of days there has been news of former World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) getting a title shot against WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KO’s) in June of this year. How in the heck does Cotto deserve a title shot given [...]

Boxing results from the Korakuen Hall, in Tokyo, Japan: Ryuji Migaki TKO 10 Kengo Nagashima Hiroshi Nakamori UD 8 Daisuke Sakamoto

By Jason Kim: We might be finally seeing a softening of the stance from Top Rank’s promoter Bob Arum pertaining to a possible fight between World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and unbeaten Floyd Mayweather. In an article at the Nydaily News, Arum says “The fight get made in two seconds if Mayweather comes [...]

Boxing results from the Polideportivo Municipal, Cafayate, Salta, Argentina: Walter Sergio Gomez TKO 4 Mario Ariel Herrera

By Jim Dower: According to Cleveland.com, WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik’s co-manager Cameron Dunkin is saying that Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) could be facing one of four possible opponents next, against either WBC light middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, Anthony Mundine, WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm and a 4th fighter that is still yet to be [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: If WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) doesn’t decide on vacating his World Boxing Association title rather than taking on WBA interim light welterweight title next, I see Khan getting knocked out cold by the hard hitting Maidana. That’s my prediction. Maidana hits so hard that he might be [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former International Boxing Federation/WBA/WBC welterweight champion Lloyd Honeyghan (43-5, 30 KO’s) thinks that Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) is at risk if he moves forward with his planned comeback bout. Honeyghan, once one of the best welterweights in the world in the 1980s, says in an article at The Mirror, “A half [...]

BOSTON (Jan. 16, 2010) – Two-time WBA heavyweight champion John “The Quietman” Ruiz has returned to his roots in Boston for what will most likely be the last visit before his 12th world title fight, against new WBA title-holder David “Hayemaker” Haye, sometime in April or May.

By Sam Gregory: Boxing once again will be diminished even further when what used to be the cornerstone of boxing, the heavyweight division, will be hacked apart to add the new “Super heavyweight” division. In recent years the heavyweight division in boxing has been reduced to a fragment of what it used to be in [...]

By Peter Wells: In boxing it’s become a sport where fighters seem to run out of opponents or they think they have. Most of the time they don’t want to fight other top fighters, and decide to fight opponents who don’t stand a chance. This is why people say boxing is going downhill, but you [...]

By Peter Wells: International Boxing Federation light flyweight champion Brian Viloria and World Boxing Organization light flyweight champion Ivan Calderon are set to fight each other twice this year in there own little tournament. This is a fight that had to happen, the two top little guys fighting it out. But there has been a [...]

By Peter Wells: Roger Mayweather, uncle and trainer of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and father of two children, will arrive on January 25th in front of the jury on the charge of allegedly assaulting of female boxer Melissa St Vil. Mayweather was caught with his arms around the boxer, but has said that she had attacked [...]

Cestus Management’s welterweight destroyer Rodolfo “LA COBRITA” Gomez impressed the charged fans in attendance at the LEC Arena in Laredo, Texas, with an impressive display of power and speed as he disposed of Oscar Roville by brutally knocking him out with a vicious assault of punches in the 3rd round. The first two rounds saw [...]

Victor Vasquez and Coy Evans thrilled a near capacity crowd at The Arena in Philadelphia as they scored thrilling knockouts that highlighted a five bout card that was promoted by Greg Robinson’s Productions in association with Unleashed Beverage Company. Vasquez and Gustavo Dailey waged a six round Lightweight war in what was the main event [...]

We have all been made aware of the devastating earthquake that has recently shattered the social fabric of Haiti. Reports coming out of the country confirm that tens of thousands of people are either reported deceased or severely injured. Thousands are unaccounted for. Hospitals are without electricity. Schools and orphanages lay in ruins. Portions of [...]

Boxing results from the Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Victor Vasquez TKO 5 Gustavo Dailey Anthony Ferrante SD 6 Andre Hemphill

Boxing results from the Casino El Kpataz, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico: Jesus Ruiz KO 2 Rafael Ayon Rosendo Maldonado KO 5 Luis Verdin Silvestre Marquez UD 6 Jairo Gaeta Becerra Fernando Vazquez KO 4 Antonio Rodriguez

By Williams Mackay: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch is out to show former World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler who the top dog is for their April 17th bout in Kessler’s home country of Denmark. In an article at thisisnottingham, Froch, 32, says “It’s my job to go over to his [Kessler] [...]

Boxing results from the Leisure Centre, Altrincham, Cheshire, United Kingdom: Rob Norton draw 12 David Dolan Martin Gethin decision 10 Graeme Higginson Mark Thompson decision 10 Kevin McIntyre

Going into Friday’s matchup against Bernardo Guereca on ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights”, Demetrius Andrade promised to put on a spectacular performance, and that’s exactly what he did. Andrade, who improved his record to 9-0, 7KO landed a picture perfect counter right hook midway through the very first round that sent Guereca to the canvas hard. [...]

By Sam Gregory: In tonight’s main event on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fight’s from Laredo, Texas undefeated Juan Carlos Burgos of Tijuana, Mexico fought to defend his WBC Caribbean Boxing Federation featherweight title against Juan Carlos Martinez of San Luis Potosi, Mexico in a scheduled 12 round bout in the featherweight division. In round 1 Burgos [...]

Boxing results from the Korakuen Hall, in Tokyo, Japan: Takehiro Shimada UD 10 Alexis Salinas Yujiro Sugita KO 2 Wanpadejseuk Sithsaithong

By Sam Gregory:Tonight’s edition of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fight’s is presented by Arthur Pelullo’s Banner Promotions along with Kenneth Thompson’s Thompson Boxing Promo tions tonight, January 15, 2010 at the Laredo Entertainment Center in Laredo, Texas. In tonight’s co-main event the 2008 U.S. Olympian southpaw Demetrius Andrade of Providence, Rhode Island fought Bernardo Guereca of [...]

By Dave Lahr: World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will be facing a tough test on March 13th against former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey. There are those people who think this is going to be an easy fight, but I’m not one of them. Pacquiao is going to get hit more times in [...]

NEW YORK (Jan. 15, 2010) – Popular host and play-by-play boxing announcer Nick Charles will make his return to ringside following a five-month battle with bladder cancer. Charles recently announced that he is 80 percent in remission and doctors have given him the go-ahead to return to work.

By Dave Lahr: I’d like nothing more for Floyd Mayweather Jr. to fight knockout artist Kermit Cintron (32-2-1, 28 KO’s) on March 13th, but I can’t see it happening. This would go against everything that I’ve seen from Mayweather in recent years. It’s not that Mayweather hasn’t faced huge punchers before during his career, because [...]

By William Mackay: 17 years after the two of them last faced each other, Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) and Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) will finally meet up again for a light heavyweight bout on April 17th at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. It appears that the two [...]