Archive for February, 2010

By Jim Dower: Featherweight Bernabe Concepcion (28-3-1, 15 KOs) defeated Mario Santiago (21-2-1, 14 KOs) by a 10 round unanimous decision on the Pinoy Power 3/Latin Fury 13 at the Las Vegas Hilton, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Concepcion, 22, knocked Santiago down in the 6th round. The final judges’ scores were 98-91, 96-93, 97-92. The [...]

Boxing results from Pinoy Power 3/Latin Fury 13 show at the the Las Vegas Hilton, in Las Vegas, Nevada: Matt Korobov TKO 1 Lamar Harris Jose Benavidez TKO 1 John Vega

By By Brinsley Bailey: British and Commonwealth Champion, Nathan Cleverly (19-0, 9 KOs), looked absolutely fantastic in his victory over Antonio Brancalion (32-8) for the European Light-Heavyweight title. This fight made Cleverly look like a seasoned ring veteran rather than a young 23 year-old and he clearly demonstrated that he was suited to this level [...]

Boxing results from the National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland: Andy Murray TKO 5 Oisin Fagan Coleman Barrett dec 10 Colin Kenna

By Nate Anderson: Recently, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan moved from promoter Frank Warren to Golden Boy Promotions. Instead of facing World Boxing Association light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana, Khan is being positioned to fight former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi. In other words, Khan is being put in with a fighter [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: A lot of boxing fans make a big production about former International Boxing Federation middleweight champion Arthur Abraham’s clamshell defense and feel that he’ll be able to shut down whatever offense that Dirrell brings to the ring in their stage 2 Super Six tournament bout on March 6th. I think they’re wrong [...]

By William Mackay: Light heavyweight Nathan Cleverly (19-0, 9 KO’s) defeated Antonio Brancalion (32-8-2, 8 KO’s) in the 5th round tonight to capture the European light heavyweight title at the Wembley Arena, in London. Cleverly, 22, hurt Brancalion with a series of right hands in the 5th, causing the referee to step in and halt [...]

By Sean McDaniel: 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist James DeGale (6-0, 4 KO’s) put on an impressive punching display tonight in stopping a badly over-matched Matthew Barr (14-6, 6 KO’s) in the 2nd round of a scheduled six round bout at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London. DeGale, 24, was putting everything he had in his shots [...]

By Chris Williams: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, there are a number of possible fights that Golden Boy Promotions and Square Ring are looking to put together for the undercard of the April 3rd fight between Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins. As of now, the following fights could wind up on the undercard: [...]

By Erik Schmidt: The proposed fight between World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko and two-time WBA heavyweight champ Nikolay Valuev has reached an impasse in the negotiations over the money for the fight. Klitschko and his team have offered Valuev an initial $1 million for the fight and then come up to $2 million [...]

By Jason Kim: As the time passes since Floyd Mayweather’s potential mega fight against World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao fell apart over the random blood tests that Mayweather had insisted on for the fight, more and more fighters are coming out of the woodwork saying that they would be more than happy to [...]

By William Mackay: In an interview at Fightfan, Freddie Roach, the trainer for Manny Pacquiao, has some harsh words about former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi. Roach says “We have to fight challengers out there. Mayweather didn’t happen and we couldn’t pick Paulie Malignaggi. You know he’s a little stiff.” Roach probably [...]

By By Benjamin Dover: I have been thinking hard about the two bouts coming up and i’m going to start with the main one. On May 1st you have Mayweather-Mosley, a fight boxing fans have been waiting and waiting for and now it’s finally happening. You have Floyd Mayweather 40-0 (25 KO’s) and Shane Mosley [...]

Boxing from the Tribal Punishment Gym, Epping, Victoria, Australia: Tim Bell dec 10 Togasilimai Letoa Will Tomlinson dec 8 Flash Villacura

By William Mackay: Former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO”s) went into a long rant about WBA light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (27-1, 26 KO’s) on the Leave-it-in-the-ring radio show, saying “People think Khan is ducking Maidana to fight me. When you look at it from this perspective, I’m [...]

Boxing results from the Pechanga Resort & Casino, Temecula, California: Ruslan Provodnikov TKO 8 Javier Jauregui Ji Hoon Kim TKO 5 Tyrone Harris Maxim Vlasov KO 1 Julius Fogle

By Jason Kim: World Boxing Council lightweight champion Edwin Valero (27-0, 27 KO’s) is already looking ahead after taking apart WBC lightweight interim champion Antonio DeMarco in a stoppage after the 9th round on February 6th in Monterey, Mexico. Valero, 28, wants to fight former lightweight champion Juan Diaz, according to Fight News. Valero also [...]

Boxing action from the Municipality of Thaima, Nonthaburi, Thailand: Prawet Singwancha KO 5 Eusebio Baluarte Terdsak Jandaeng KO 4 Stevie Ongen Ferdinandus

By Chris Williams: World Boxing Association super flyweight interim champion Nonito Donaire is ready to go for Saturdays’ fight against Manuel Vargas in the headliner of the Pinoy Power III card at the Las Vegas Hilton, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Donaire was supposed to be fighting Gerson Guerrero. However, Guerrero failed a pre-fight medical eye [...]

Boxing results from the York Hall, Bethnal Green, London: Lenny Daws 12 rd draw Jason Cook Grzegorz Proksa TKO 5 Tyan Booth

Don King Productions and Sauerland Event have countered K2 Promotions latest offer to former two-time World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolai “Giant Russian” Valuev (50-2, 34 KOs) to face World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KOs) with a deal calling for a 60-40 percentage split.

During Super Bowl Week, Jamie Foxx hosted his SIRIUS XM Radio show, “The Foxxhole,” live from Radio Row in South Florida. One of his guests on the program was Floyd Mayweather Jr. Jamie Foxx asks boxer Floyd Mayweather about Manny Pacquiao and drug testing and while Miss America watches in this clip from SIRIUS XM [...]

He won his NABO Lightweight Championship by upsetting undefeated hot prospect John Molina, Jr. in the Grand Ballroom of the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California back in November. On March 5th, Martin “El Brochas” Honorio (27-4-1, 14 KOs) will make his first defense of that title against another undefeated hot fighter in Wilton [...]

By Chris Williams: Although the contracts still haven’t been signed for the proposed fight between World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) and Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s), it’s looking like this fight will be taking place on May 15th at Madison Square Garden, New York, New York. This will be [...]

MANCHESTER, Conn. (Feb. 12, 2010) – WBC rated No. 10 featherweight contender, unbeaten NABF champion Matt “Sharp Shooter” Remillard, is getting closer and closer to a major fight. In his last bout (Jan. 29), Remillard destroyed Rafael “The Dominican Man” Lora (11-2, 5 KOs) for the second time in a row, defending for the first [...]

By William Mackay: In typical Carl Froch fashion, he was predicting circumstances for his next Super Six opponent former WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler, saying in an article at the Sportinglife “I am looking to be the first fighter to take Mikkel Kessler out before the final bell.” Froch and Kessler will be facing [...]

By Alan Dawson: Saturday evening provides British boxing fans with their biggest domestic night of the year. After one of the headline acts provided more ducking than a Whack-a-mole machine that donned the defensive-nous of shoulder-roll happy Floyd Mayweather, promoter Frank Warren worked steadily to bring in adequate replacements. The omission of British Welterweight champion [...]

By Jason Kim: In a recent interview, former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 KO’s) candidly admitted why he’s had problems knocking out opponents as of late. Clottey, 32, says “This is the problem. I’ve been a welterweight for 16 good years. If you look at me from my head to my [...]

By Sean Pollock: The world of boxing has many champions…too many in most peoples opinion. There are numerous organizations promoting their own belt, and with many belts in just one division it can get confusing. The Super-Middle weight ‘Super Sixes’ tournament that we have seen in action recently really has had me thinking every division [...]

NEW YORK (Feb. 12, 2010) — The critically acclaimed reality series from SHOWTIME Sports®—FIGHT CAMP 360°: Inside The Super Six World Boxing Classic—returns to SHOWTIME with Episode 3, premiering Monday, Feb. 15, at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.