Archive for January, 2010

King’s Promotions returns to the Allentown area on Saturday February 27 with exciting professional and amateur boxing. The ten-bout event takes place at the Rodeway Inn & Conference Center at Routes 22 & 39 in Allentown, PA. Bragging rights will be at stake in the amateur portion of the night when fighters from the Allentown [...]

NEW YORK (Jan. 27, 2010) – Dangerous Maurice “Sugar Moe” Harris, returns to the ring Friday night in Albuquerque against veteran Billy “The Kid” Zumbrun. The 33-year-old Harris (20-14-2, 10 KOs), winner of the 2002 ‘Thunderbox Heavyweight Tournament,” has been inactive for more than two years due to promotional problems. His fight against battled-tested Zumbrun [...]

Atlantic City, NJ—Junior middleweights Saul Roman, of Tijuana, Mexico, and Gabriel Rosado, of Philadelphia, PA, collide in a scheduled 10-round match Saturday evening, Feb. 27, at Bally’s Atlantic City. The Roman-Rosado fight will be the semifinal to the 10-round main event which features Mike Jones, of Philadelphia, PA, making the fourth defense of his North [...]

(January 27, 2010) – World Boxing Association (WBA) interim super flyweight champion and Top-10 Pound For Pound fighter NONITO “The Filipino Flash” DONAIRE, will host a Media Workout at Undisputed Gym (883 East San Carlos Avenue, San Carlos, Calif., 94070), This Saturday! January 30, beginning at 1 p.m. PT. Donaire’s workout will be open to [...]

Yusaf Mack v Glen Johnson has finally been confirmed as the main event on ESPN on the 5th February in Glen Johnson’s home town of Florida at the NSU Center Arena in Miami. The Super Bowl weekend fight is almost guaranteed to be a cracker, both fighters know this is there big chance to get [...]

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – (January 26, 2010) Joseph Judah Promotions is pleased to announce that ESPN The Magazine has selected Joseph Judah to attend it’s highly anticipated NEXT event held during super bowl weekend in Miami, Florida. ESPN The Magazine’s NEXT event, in its sixth year, celebrates The Magazine’s NEXT issue which features who and [...]

LONDON (Jan 27th, 2010) British Champion Lenny Daws is looking to retain his Light Welterweight title against Former European Lightweight Champion Jason Cook at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Friday 12th February 2010 on a Matchroom Sports in association with Hennessy Sports show. Daws v Cook will be headlining the event which will be shown [...]

By Eric Thomas: Oscar De La Hoya still very much is hopeful that a fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao can be made in the future. Despite the bitter negotiations falling apart last time, De La Hoya is still looking forward to a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao in the future. In an [...]

By Eric Thomas: Oscar De La Hoya, promoter for Golden Boy Promotions, is reporting that negotiations between World Boxing Association welterweight champion Shane Mosley and Floyd Mayweather for their May bout are “not too far away” to being wrapped up, according to Lance Pugmire of The Los Angeles Times. This is good news because there [...]

By Esteban Garduno: As soon as I found out that Manny Pacquiao and his team chose to fight Joshua Clottey rather than stay and negotiate a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr., I saw it as a fatal mistake by Pacquiao’s team. Mayweather has no power to speak of and only sparingly throws punches nowadays for [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Say what you want about Oscar De La Hoya, but he sure knows how to pump up his fighters and make them look like the best thing since sliced bread. Speaking about World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye, De La Hoya says “With his explosive fighting style, heart, youth and charisma, [...]

By Dave Lahr: I knew trainer Freddie Roach would eventually work himself around to the point where he would predict a knockout win for his fighter WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao over Joshua Clottey on March 13th. In an article at GMA News, Roach had this to say about the Pacquiao-Clottey fight: “I’m not saying [...]

IBF Middleweight Champion Sebastian Sylvester and challenger Billy Lyell today participated in a public work-out in Neubrandenburg. A sell-out crowd of 4,500 fans will support local hero Sylvester on Saturday night in what will be the Hurricane´s first title defence. “I am looking forward to Saturday,” Sylvester said. “Lyell is a tough opponent, but he [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (42-2, 32 KO’s) is ready and looking forward to his stage 2 Super Six tournament fight against WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) on April 17th, in Denmark. Kessler, 30, lost his last fight in the Super Six tourney to [...]

By Chris Williams: According to the latest boxing news, over 24,000 tickets have already been sold after only three days for the March 13th mega fight between World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and challenger Joshua Clottey at the Dallas Cowboy stadium, in Arlington, Texas. At this rate, the stadium could wind up being [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (23-1, 21 KO’s) is looking for a knockout in his next fight against former two-time WBA heavyweight champion John Ruiz (44-8-1, 30 KO’s) on April 3rd, at the M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, Lancashire. This will be the first title defense for the 29-year-old Haye after he [...]

After a year of her greatest joys and sorrows Mary McGee definitely had an unforgettable 2009. Starting last year with two big victories her first in devastating fashion over the game Jessica Mohs in February. McGee then set her sights on Kristy “Rose” Follmar for the WBC International Championship, which was held at the Hammond [...]

On Saturday February 6th, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing will present its “Super Saturday” boxing show, on the eve of the Big Game Sunday, from the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, NJ. Headlining the card is Atlantic City’s, Shamone “The Truth” Alvarez (20-2, 11KO) taking on hard hitting, Lou Duva trained, Alexis Camacho (17-2, [...]

Last Friday, at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, Essex, rising Super Middleweight star Erick ‘The Eagle’ Ochieng decisively stopped Plymouth’s Jon Harrison in the second round. The resounding way that Ochieng dealt with his vastly more experienced opponent was testament to the faith that promoter Frank Maloney and trainer Brian Lawrence have in this exceptionally [...]

As he prepares for his February 6 showdown in Newark against former world light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek, 2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six” Estrada’s nose is out of place and it doesn’t have anything to do with sparring sessions gone wrong. Estrada (15-2, 3 KOs) feels disrespected by Team Adamek but not, [...]

European Middleweight Champion Matthew Macklin will link up with new trainer Freddie Roach in Los Angeles next week as he begins preparations for the first defence of his title. Macklin defends his belt against the highly touted Dmitry Pirog in April and he will prepare for the unbeaten Russian at Roach’s legendary Wildcard Gym.

LIVERPOOL flyweight Paul Edwards is insisting that promoter Frank Maloney gives him tougher tests. The 2006 ABA champion has stormed to five impressive wins since turning professional 18 months ago. Maloney wanted to bring the 23-year-old on slowly, but Edwards refused to face a journeyman in his next fight.

By Jim Dower: Former WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) is making a huge mistake in moving up in weight to take on World Boxing Association junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KO’s) in June. Foreman, 29, has a style of fighting that is all wrong for Cotto. Not only will Foreman [...]

By Sean McDaniel: If things don’t work out with negotiating a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. the second go around after Manny Pacquiao dispatches with Joshua Clottey, there’s an excellent chance that we may be seeing Pacquiao take on former World Boxing Association welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-6, 27 KO’s) in the Summer. Top Rank [...]

By Dave Lahr: Freddie Roach, the trainer of Manny Pacquiao, says that he thinks that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is afraid of Pacquiao. In an article at The Telegraph, Roach says “I’m convinced the more I at this that they [Mayweather and his team] are scared to fight us.” Roach may be seeing things through his [...]

By Jason Kim: Former featherweight champion Erik Morales (48-6, 34 KO’s) will be making a comeback in March to take on lightweight contender Jose Alfaro in Monterrey, Mexico. Morales, 33, has been out of boxing for three years since being beaten by David Diaz in 12 round split decision 2007. During his time off from [...]

By Chris Williams: After Roy Jones Jr. was wiped out by Danny Green in a 1st round slaughter on December 2nd, any reason to watch a bout between Jones and 45-year-old Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) effectively went down the drain with that defeat. However, instead of moving on and taking a fight with a [...]

By Dave Lahr: It was officially announced today that IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (53-3, 47 KO’s) will be defending his titles against American challenger Eddie Chambers (35-1, 18 KO’s) on March 20th at the ESPRIT arena, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Boxing fans have known for months that Wladimir, 33, will be facing Chambers next. The [...]

Boxing results from the Korakuen Hall, in Tokyo, Japan: Kinshiro Usui TKO 2 Davide Kitamura Toru Tanaka UD 8 Masaki Yoshida

By Jim Dower: If Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is thinking about matching World Boxing Association featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (17-0, 15 KO’s) and WBO featherweight champ Juan Manuel Lopez (28-0, 25 KO’s), Arum might be better off waiting a long time before he does this because the younger 26-year-old Lopez doesn’t appear ready for [...]