Archive for February, 2010

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – 2009 National Champion and World Championships light welterweight silver medalist Frankie Gomez (E. Los Angeles, Calif.) has informed USA Boxing that he is turning professional. Gomez’s decision to leave the amateur ranks at only 18-years-old and just over two years before the 2012 Olympic Games, clearly demonstrates that USA Boxing’s toughest [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: The March 27th Super Six tournament bout between contestants Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) and Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s) will take place in Detroit, Michigan, instead of California, according to news from the Grand Rapids Press. The bout was supposed to be taking place at the Agua Caliente Casino, in Rancho [...]

By Chris Williams: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (40-0, 25 KO’s) is feeling no stress as he prepares for his May 1st battle against 38-year-old World Boxing Association welterweight champion Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO’s) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather, who turned 33 on February 24th, says in an article by David [...]

By Eric Thomas: The Dallas Cowboy stadium will likely be filled with at least 45,000 fans for the March 13th fight between World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey. According to ESPN, the fight is nearing a sellout of 45,000. If it reaches that total, the stadium, which can hold 100,000 fans, [...]

By Sean McDaniel: For British boxing fans that want to see WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s fight against Mikkel Kessler on April 24th, they will have to watch it on Primetime television network. Since Froch’s bouts aren’t being shown on terrestrial television, the only option for fans is to see Froch on pay-per-view in [...]

By Dave Lahr: Former World Boxing Organization super flyweight champion Marvin Sonsona (14-0-1, 12 KO’s) will face Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (17-0-1, 14 KO’s) this Saturday night for the vacant WBO super bantamweight title at the Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Both of these fighters are terribly flawed at this point in their young careers, [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: 2008 Olympic middleweight Gold Medalist for Britain James DeGale says he doesn’t believe that World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (23-1, 21 KO’s) will be able to beat either of the Klitschko brothers. In an article at the Sun, DeGale, 24, said “I can’t see him [Haye] beating the Klitschkos. They’ll [...]

WBO, IBF, IBO and The Ring Magazine Heavyweight World Champion Wladimir “Dr. Steelhammer” Klitschko will defend his belts on March 20th against Nr.1 ranked and mandatory challenger “Fast” Eddie Chambers. The battle will be witnessed by an audience of 50,000 fans in sold out Football Arena of Duesseldorf, Germany. The bout will be accessible exclusively [...]

Newly crowned WBA Super Middleweight Champion Andre “S.O.G.” Ward (21-0, 13 KOs) – the last American to win an Olympic boxing gold medal — will be the special in-studio guest in Bristol, CT for this week’s ESPN2 telecast of “ESPN Friday Night Fights.”

PRINCE Arron survived a scare at the weigh-in ahead of Friday’s Prizefighter Light-Middleweights tournament. Arron, 22, originally scaled 1lb 7oz more than the championship weight of 11st 2lb before a quick exercise session saw him make the weight at the second attempt an hour later.

PHILADELPHIA (FEBRUARY 25TH, 2010)—This Saturday night at The Roadway Inn in Allentown, PA, undefeated Featherweight Coy “Pretty Boy” Evans of Philadelphia returns to the ring when he takes on his most experienced foe in tough veteran Robert DaLuz. The bout will be part of a big night of action promoted by Marshall Kauffman’s Kings Promotions.

Boxing’s No. 1 pound for pound box office attraction, Fighter of the Decade and Congressional candidate, MANNY “PacMan” PACQUIAO, will make an encore appearance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, This Wednesday! March 3 (12:05 a.m. ET/PT.) Pacquiao made his U.S. network television debut, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, last November, on the eve of his challenge [...]

LONDON (Feb 25th, 2010) WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl “the Cobra” Froch will be swapping his boxing boots for dancing shoes this coming Saturday, ahead of defending his prestigious world title on April 24th against Mikkel Kessler in the Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament, when he makes his dancing debut for Sport Relief in [...]

TONY JEFFRIES swaps the ring for the dance floor on Saturday night when he appears on Let’s Dance for Sports Relief (7.15pm BBC1). Sunderland’s Olympic bronze medallist joins WBC super-middleweight champion Carl Froch and former world title holders Duke McKenzie and Johnny Nelson in the boxing team. Jeffries, 24, has spent this week in London [...]

By Erik Schmidt: According to German news site Bild, World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) won’t be facing former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-2, 34 KO’s). The two fighters were in negotiations for a fight, but Valuev’s management wanted $4 million for the seven-foot Valuev to fight Klitschko. The manager [...]

MONTERREY, N.L. MEXICO (Feb. 24, 2010) – Tecate, cerveza con carácter, demonstrates its commitment to boxing through a regional marketing campaign designed to create buzz and bring adult boxing aficionados closer to the March 13encounter between Filipino WBO Welterweight Champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao (50-3, 38 KO’s) and the hard-punching former title holder from Ghana, Joshua [...]

CHICAGO, IL (February 24, 2010) Chicagoland fan favorite, heavyweight Mike Mollo headlines “WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT 9”, an outstanding evening of professional boxing, on Friday, March 26th at the UIC Pavilion, it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions, HOME OF THE BEST IN CHICAGO BOXING. Advance tickets for “WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT [...]

George “Comanche Boy” Tahdooahnippah (middleweight, 22-0-1) is gearing up to return to fight action on Friday, March 19 at the Choctaw Casino, Durant, OK. He will be featured in a 6 round bout on ESPN2′s Friday Night Fights. “I’m ready to fight at my fellow Choctaw Casino and show ESPN2 what this Comanche Boy is [...]

Former undisputed and two-time heavyweight champion Hasim “The Rock” Rahman has this to say in reaction to news that former heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev will be facing Kali Meehan in an important showdown with world-title implications: WHAT?!? “I destroyed Kali Meehan in four rounds at Madison Square Garden,” growled Rahman. “Yes, it was in 2004, [...]

LOS ANGELES (February 24) – As the 2010 boxing season kicks into full swing, big name sponsors are excited to be a part of the critically acclaimed and popular “Fight Night Club” presented by Golden Boy Promotions and AEG. The first season produced unprecedented enthusiasm for the sport of boxing in Los Angeles and the [...]

Allentown, PA (Wednesday, February 24, 2010) – The first taste of adversity for a professional boxer reveals a great deal about the character of the fighter. Heavyweight prospect Travis Kauffman of Reading, PA intends to show that what hasn’t killed him will only make him stronger when he returns to the ring this Saturday, February [...]

Vazquez-Sonsona Press Conference Quotes Wilfredo Vazquez Jr.: “I am ready physically and mentally for this fight. We taken training seriously and I’m in the best condition that I can be. We are focused on our opponent and when we get in the ring, Sonsona will see that wanting to fight me was wrong.”

By Alexander Fugate: Testing athletes for illegal PEDs, especially HGH, is again making headlines. This time because of reports that British Rugby player Terry Newton has tested positive for HGH, through a random blood test. He did not dispute the tests result and has received a two-year suspension. Now, Major League Baseball (MLB) has expressed [...]

By Kirk Jackson: The fight between Pacquiao and Clottey on the 13th of march is a waste of time. The fight shouldn’t even be happening. To start off, no one really cares about this fight. The only real fight everyone wants to see is Pacquiao vs. Mayweather, which arguably would be one of the biggest [...]

By Chris Williams: If you want to see the March 20th bout between IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (53-3, 47 KO’s) and American challenger Eddie Chambers (35-1, 18 KO’s), you’ll have no other choice but to watch the fight on the internet at Klitschko.com, the site owned by the Klitschko brothers. ESPN writer Dan Rafael [...]

NEW YORK (Feb. 24, 2010)—The latest installment of the critically acclaimed reality series from SHOWTIME Sports® — FIGHT CAMP 360°: Inside The Super Six World Boxing Classic — returns to SHOWTIME® with Episode 4, premiering Saturday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT.

By Chris McKenna: Bernard Dunne brought an end to his boxing career in a brief appearance on Irish broadcaster RTE’s Friday night chat show The Late, Late Show. It was cringe-worthy to sit and watch Dunne be hailed by the presenter of the show, Ryan Tubridy, as some sort of national hero who lifted the [...]

By Eric Torres: As an avid fan of boxing it pains me to see the the lack of respect a fighter can lose when he has gone through a tough time. The case is no different with Miguel Cotto, whose career and resume reads far more superior in MY OPINION to any of the welterweights [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) isn’t pleased with how he had his perfect record marred by a questionable 12 round split decision against Carl Froch in their stage 1 Super Six bout on October 17th last year. Dirrell wants to make up for that loss in his next fight against unbeaten Arthur [...]

By Esteban Garduno: Too many boxing fans are giving WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao way too much credit for his recent wins over Miguel Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton, and seem to be using those wins as reasons for why Pacquiao will beat challenger Joshua Clottey on March 13th when they meet [...]