Archive for February, 2010

HERNING (Feb. 12, 2010) —Team Sauerland and Hennessy Sports are proud to announce that the Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament group stage 2 fight between WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch and the Viking Warrior Mikkel Kessler will take place at the MCH Messecentre, Herning in Denmark on the 24th April 2010

By Jim Dower: Boxing great Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) had some amusing comments to make about light heavyweight Bernard Hopkins. In an interview with Boxing Fanhouse, the 41-year-old Jones has this to say about Hopkins: “17 years is a long time to be scared. You [Hopkins] think I’m done, but you’re wrong. The [...]

By Erik Schmidt: World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) and his management team have made their final offer to former two-time WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO’s) of $2 million, according to the latest news. Apparently, the 36-year-old Valuev and his co-promoter Don King have a week to accept [...]

At just 22 years of age, female bantamweight sensation K “Wild Wild” West will be fighting for her first world title; making it a dream come true for the young fighter out of Moreno Valley, California. West (11-1-1, 2 KO’s) will be making the long trip to Denmark to challenge four-time former world champion Anita [...]

Team Pitbull, Team Oquendo and The Consequences Charity announce today that Top 10 ranked heavyweight boxer Fres Oquendo known as “Fast Fres” will take on UFC former UFC heavyweight champ and Top 10 ranked MMA legend Andrei “The Pitbull” Arlovski in a four round boxing exhibition at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Hotel and Resort on [...]

World ranked flyweight Rayonta “STINGRAY” Whitfield is training at the Savannah Boxing Club in Houston, Texas, under the guidance of world renowned trainer Ronnie Shields, in preparation for his NABO Title battle against Sergio “THE SAN DIEGO SENSATION” Espinoza.

Tampa, FL: One Punch Productions returns to the Tampa Westshore Doubletree Hotel on Friday March 5th for the latest installment of the popular Ballroom Brawl series. Headlining the 9 bout card will be rising cruiserweight contender Nick “The Showstopper” Iannuzzi (14-1). Iannuzzi, coming off back-to-back knockout victories over former Contender star Michael Alexander and cross-state [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Next month, the second stage of the Super Six competition gets underway with the talented American Andre Dirrell facing Arthur Abraham in California for what could end being the most exciting match up of the tourney. Other fights in the stage two part of the tournament will have new World Boxing Association [...]

By Dave Lahr: Out of all the welterweights in the top 15, why on earth did Manny Pacquiao and his team select Joshua Clottey to fight on March 13th? I can’t understand that pick in a million years. Why didn’t Pacquiao fight Shane Mosley or Andre Berto instead? Come on, those guys would much more [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In looking at the upcoming title fight between World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (23-1, 21 KO’s) and challenger two-time heavyweight champion John Ruiz (44-8-1, 30 KO’s), I think Ruiz may have to knock Haye out if he has any hopes of winning. Frankly, I don’t give Ruiz a chance in [...]

By Jim Slattengren: You got to like Bernard Hopkins. He really knows how to come up with some good sound bites to sell a fight, even one that a lot of boxing cans could really care less about at this point. The 45-year-old Hopkins will be facing 41-year-old Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) on [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) feels that his planned next opponent Pauli Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s) isn’t as good as him in terms of skills. Khan says “He’s [Malignaggi] not at my level. He has a few good wins in America, but it’s another fight for me and [...]

ARLINGTON, TX (February 11, 2010) – World Boxing Council (WBC) super featherweight champion HUMBERTO “Zorrita” SOTO and former WBC lightweight champion DAVID DIAZ will go mano-a-mano for the vacant WBC lightweight title, headlining the pay-per-view undercard of THE EVENT: PACQUIAO vs. CLOTTEY, World Welterweight Championship. The Pacquiao vs. Clottey pay-per-view telecast will also feature 10-round [...]

By Sam Gregory: This Saturday, February 13th, five time World Champion Johnny Tapia of Albuquerque, New Mexico will turn 43 years old. On March 6, Tapia is scheduled to make his return to the ring to fight Jorge Alberto Reyes 21-27-3; Tapia hasn’t been in the ring since he defeated 32 year old flyweight Evaristo [...]

By Jason Kim: The Super Six tournament stage 2 bouts between World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch vs. Mikkel Kessler, WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward vs. Allan Green could be moved from April 17th to a new date, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. Apparently, there’s some kind of logistical issue involving [...]

HOBOKEN, N.J. (Feb. 11, 2010) – Integrated Sports Media, North America’s undisputed leader pay-per-view distribution of major boxing events, is teaming-up with KO Entertainment to bring American fans the ring return of Mexican great Erik “El Terrible” Morales, who headlines the March 27th “The Champion Returns” pay-per-view event live from Monterrey, Mexico.

By Jim Dower: Trainer Freddie Roach feels it won’t be much of a problem for Manny Pacquiao to take apart Joshua Clottey in their March 13th fight at the Dallas Cowboy stadium, in Arlington, Texas. Roach says in an interview at Fightfan, If he [Clottey] lays on the ropes, we’re [Pacquiao] going to kill him.” [...]

Marco “Captain” Huck (27-1, 20 KOs) will return to the ring on March 13. The WBO Cruiserweight Champion will defend his title against American challenger Adam Richards (23-2, 15 KOs) in Berlin´s Max-Schmeling-Halle. It will be Huck´s second defence of the belt he won in August 2009 with a points victory over Victor Emilio Ramirez. [...]

By William Mackay: World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) was filled with excuses as to why he’s not facing the knockout artist WBA light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (27-1, 26 KO”s) next on May 15th, saying in an article at the Sportinglife “Marcos Maidana was the mandatory, but the WBA [...]

LOS ANGELES (February 11, 2010) – Seven-division world champion, Congressional candidate and boxing’s No. 1 pound for pound fighter and box office attraction MANNY “PacMan” PACQUIAO will be hosting a Valentine’s Fans Day This Sunday! February 14, beginning at 1 p.m., at the Embassy Suites Hotel Los Angeles-Glendale (800 North Central Avenue, Glendale, Calif. 91203.)

By Liam Santiago: Legendry boxing trainer Jimmy Montoya has told Hatton TV that hw would relish the opportunity of training Ricky ‘The Hitman’ Hatton. Mikkel Kessler has recently linked up with the Berlin based trainer and Montoya believes Hatton’s style is made for his training methods. Montoya said, ”He’s the kind of guy I like. [...]

Bernard Hopkins – “This is 2010. That was 1993. That’s 17 years I’ve been waiting for this fight. It’s personal to me and it’s important to me that I get this man in the ring and that I send him on his way to the Hall of Fame. I want to make sure that the [...]

BROOKLYN (Feb. 11, 2010) – The beat rolls on for 2008 U.S. Olympian Sadam “World Kid” Ali, who kept his perfect pro record intact last Saturday night in Newark, winning a unanimous 4-round decision against fellow Brooklyn welterweight Jason Thompson (5-5-1, 4 KOs).

Undefeated Cavan star Andy Murray knows that more than the Irish Lightweight title will be at stake when he clashes with Dublin’s Oisin “Gael Force” Fagan in the main event of the Yanjing Fight Night at the National Stadium in Dublin on Saturday. The 27-year-old Murray aims to serve up a career best performance and [...]

By Eric Thomas: World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan is looking at fighting former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s) on May 15th. Khan had been linked with a fight against 36-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez. However, Marquez’s trainer Nacho Beristain gave an interview yesterday, saying that he didn’t want Marquez [...]

By William Mackay: Before Ricky Hatton calls it a day on his great career, he has to step up to the plate and fight Amir Khan before he goes. It doesn’t matter if Khan is still likely be unproven by the time that Hatton is getting ready to hang up the gloves, he should still [...]

By William Mackay: In the past six years, Roy Jones Jr. has slowed down as a fighter, losing enough of his hand and foot speed to the point where he’s been knocked out three times in the past six years. Jones was nearly unbeatable for the first 14 years of his career, racking up an [...]

The St Andrew’s Sporting Club today launched their 300th show in Championship style with former World Champions JIM WATT and KEN BUCHANAN both in attendance. Club owner Tommy Gilmour announced that the main event will feature Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist KENNY ANDERSON who will challenge English Champion PAUL DAVID in their postponed British Super-middleweight Title [...]

By Franciso Chentango: I don’t know if people realize this or not but Manny Pacquiao is almost in a no win situation regardless of whether he beats challenger Joshua Clottey or not on March 13th. There’s a significant amount of people who will look at Pacquiao’s win – or loss – over Clottey and see [...]

By Jim Dower: Going into next month’s fight on March 20th between American heavyweight challenger Eddie Chambers (35-1, 18 KO’s) and IBF/WBC heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (53-3, 47 KO’s) things look somewhat bleak for the 27-year-old Chambers. The fight will be taking place in Klitschko’s adopted country at the ESPRIT arena, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. There [...]