Archive for February, 2010

By Stephen Tannock: So Edwin Valero kept his perfect record together on Saturday against Antonio Demarco. Is Valero boxing’s messiah? By that I mean is he the only man who can beat the top ten at the minute. On one hand, his record is awesome – 27 wins, 27 Ko’s. Is he in the top [...]

By Jim Dower: World Boxing Association light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (27-1, 26 KO’s) was hoping to fight WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan in March for the full title. Instead, Maidana, 26, will have to be satisfied with facing unbeaten light welterweight contender Victor Cayo (24-0, 16 KO’s) on March 27th. And provided [...]

By Kwame Cinquez: Amir Khan’s decision to switch to the United States in order to further his career was lamented in the Guardian newspaper by their chief boxing writer Kevin Mitchell. He was in no doubt as to the reason for Khan’s departure, “the racists here who cat-call him from the cheap seats and spill [...]

By William Mackay: Lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (30-0, 22 KO’s) will be facing 2nd tier lightweight Ignacio Mendoza (27-5, 18 KO’s) this Saturday in a stay busy fight at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London. Mitchell, 25, is hoping to get a win so that he can possibly line up a fight against World Boxing Organization [...]

By Jason Kim: According to the latest boxing news gossip, lightweight knockout artist Edwin Valero (27-0, 27 KO’s) could be facing WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley on June 5th on Showtime. This is a fight, if it happens at all, which will be taking place at light welterweight rather than lightweight. Valero, 28, wants [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) had a good year in 2009, beating Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell. The win against Dirrell, a highly questionable one, gave Froch his first win in Showtime’s Super Six tournament. Froch, 32, wasn’t about to complain about getting the decision over [...]

Reading, PA – Jason Cintron may have a familiar last name but boxing fans are still getting to know the Reading, PA junior welterweight. The 28-year-old Cintron aims to take another step towards asserting himself as a world class prospect when he faces Maurice Chalmer on February 27 at the Rodeway Inn & Conference Center [...]

Now fans can start winning cash even earlier than normal, as the Opening Night for the 26th Season of the Battle In The Ballroom at the Irvine Marriott will feature five heavyweight amateur bouts beginning at 6pm, with the six bout pro show getting underway at 7:30pm. But if you come early to see great [...]

By Ryan Dunn: There has been more finger-pointing, slandering, name-calling, insulting, whining, crying, and in-fighting surroudning the Mayweather/Pacquiao negotiations than a kindergarten playground. I have engaged in several (hopefully spirited) debates myself, offering my point of view on the matter. Let me summarize what I personally believe to be the situation, and the readers can [...]

Undefeated welterweight prospect Joseph Judah (5-0, 1 KOs) returns to the boxing ring against the always dangerous TBA, on a fight card promoted by Steve Quinonez Jr. of Champion Promotions, on Friday, March 26th at the Palm Desert Athletic Center in Palm Desert, CA. Joseph Judah said “I am ready to bring excitement back to [...]

“Comanche Boy” George Tahdooahnippah literally weathered the ice storm of January 2010 and came out victorious in his bout with Ohio native Chris Overby. Tahdooahnippah (22-0-1) displayed his superior boxing skills with a unanimous decision over the game Overby. “There were a lot of distractions outside the boxing event with the weather and the state [...]

The International Championship Boxing, ICB Knockout Series, will premier at Norfolk Scope Arena on April 3, 2010 as part of its “Boxing From Around the World” brand. This will be the first in a series of confirmed matches at Norfolk Scope Arena.

Unbeaten Philadelphia phenom Danny “Swift” Garcia will begin 2010 with his toughest fight to date on Friday, February 26 when he squares off against British veteran Ashley Theopane in the 10-round junior welterweight co-main event of ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights” at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas. Also on the February 26 card [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Super featherweight Robert Guerrero (25-1-1, 17 KO’s) has pulled out of his March 27th fight with World Boxing Organization lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (26-2, 21 KO’s), according to news from ESPN. Guerrero’s wife is ill and he wants to be with her. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer will now look [...]

Boxing results from the Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan: Tomonobu Shimizu TKO 7 Takayasu Kobayashi Junichiro Sugita UD 8 Yuki Fukumoto

By Jim Dower: After learning that undefeated lightweight Edwin Valero (27-0, 27 KO’s) was interested in fighting him, World Boxing Organization light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley answered in the affirmative, saying “Let’s get it on! Let’s make the fight happen.” Bradley (25-0, 11 KO’s) is considered to be the best fighter in the light welterweight [...]

By Erik Schmidt: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (53-3, 47 KO’s) faces tough task in taking on American Eddie Chambers (35-1, 18 KO’s on March 20th at the large ESPRIT arena, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Chambers, 27, is perceived by many to be American’s number #1 heavyweight. The unofficial title previously was held by Chris Arreola. [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum wants World Boxing Council lightweight champion Edwin Valero (27-0, 27 KO’s) to get some fights under his belt at light welterweight (140 pounds) before he can even consider matching him up with his cash cow, WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao according to the latest boxing news. Arum [...]

by Liam Fitzgerald: The 40-0-0 perfect record of Floyd Mayweather Jr is certainly formidable and would suggest that he is perhaps an unbeatable force. He has won world titles at 5 different weights and has never really looked in big trouble in a fight. But the question is, can anybody beat him and if so, [...]

By Harlan Davies: On March 6th the second round of the Super-Six tournament will commence with Andre “The Matrix” Ward locking horns with “King” Arthur. From an initial glance, this bout seems to be an inevitable clash of styles that will produce solely two definitive outcomes. Andre Dirrell (18 wins 1oss 15 kos) is a [...]

February 13, 2010, the Las Vegas Hilton will be the site of a great night of boxing as Top Rank, Inc.promotes a great Pay Per View fight card featuring “The Filipino Flash” Nonito Donaire defending his Super-Flyweight title against Mexican banger, Gerson Guerrero. The under card bouts feature many proven veterans and up-and-coming prospects.

By Jim Dower: Count me in as one of the few people who thought that former IBF cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek (40-1, 27 KO’s) looked pretty damn good in beating former 2004 U.S. Olympian Jason Estrada last Saturday night at the Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey. Adamek, 33, defeated Estrada by a 12 round [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Feb. 8, 2010) – Jimmy Burchfield, president of Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES), announced today that CES will promote three professional boxing cards at Foxwoods Resort Casino in 2010. The first show is scheduled for March 12 with the rematch between heavyweights Tony “TNT” Grano (16-1-1, 13 KOs) and Mark “Oak Tree” [...]

By Chris Williams: Dan Rafael of ESPN is reporting that World Boxing Council welterweight champion Andre Berto (25-0, 19 KO’s) could be facing former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s) on April 10th, possibly at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Berto, 26, was supposed to have fought WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley [...]

By William Mackay: In an interview at Sportsradiointerviews, undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. commented on why he thinks his March 13th mega fight with Manny Pacquiao went down the drains. Mayweather says “Manny Pacquiao didn’t want to take a 25 million dollar drug test. I had a clause that I wanted and he [Pacquiao] had a [...]

By Chris Williams: With little more than a month to go for the March 13th clash between World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and challenger Joshua Clottey, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is saying “we’ve sold well over 30,000” tickets to the fight, according to Boxing Talk. That’s a phenomenal number for a bout [...]

On The Ropes Boxing Radio recaps this past weekends big fights. OTR Boxing Radio will also feature 3 exclusive interviews with Jason Estrada, Kermit Cintron & Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin LIVE at 6 PM ET. Click Play to listen to the show.

By Eric Thomas: World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao’s fitness trainer Alex Ariza is impressed with Pacquiao’s power, saying in an article at the Manilastandardtoday that Pacquiao’s power is “unreal” after watching Pacquiao beat up on sparring partners Mike Dallas Jr. and Raymond Beltran last Saturday. Pacquiao reportedly stunned Dallas in the 2nd round [...]

HOLLYWOOD, FL, February 8 – It’s one of modern boxing’s most coveted milestones, and on Friday, February 5th, former world light heavyweight champion Glen Johnson his 50 wins in spectacular fashion, stopping fellow contender Yusaf Mack in six rounds at the NSU Arena in Fort Lauderdale to improve to 50-13-2 with 34 knockouts as a [...]

By Kwame Cinquez: Manny Pacquiao is a great fighter, of that there is simply no disputing. His exciting style, willingness to to take a shot, speed, alongside his accuracy and brutal power have set him aside as one of the marquee names in our beautiful sport. However, i fail to accept i can be the [...]