Archive for February, 2010

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch fired back at former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe in an interview at Livefight.com, saying “I think Joe’s a bit of a strange guy if I’m honest. And I don’t mean that nastily, but I really think he is a grump. Like a Welsh [...]

They make them big in Texas, even their mortgage professionals. Just ask once-beaten heavyweight prospect Herman “Skip” Scott. And if you’re wondering how a 6′ 8″ 255-pound destroyer with a heavy right hand can find the mild temperament to spend his days filling out home buyers’ paperwork and the aggressive temperament to spend his nights [...]

By Kirk Jackson: About 17 years ago the world was witness to a middleweight championship bout between future hall of famers and boxing legends Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. Although Roy Jones would emerge the victor, both fighters would enjoy successful careers inside the ring following their fight. After beating Hopkins, Jones would take [...]

George Hillyard is trying to win the Prizefighter Light-Middleweights (Friday, 26 February) so he can continuing paying for treatment for his partially blind son. The Canning Town boxer admits his ring career has suffered due to family matters but sees winning the Prizefighter at the York Hall in Bethnal Green as the perfect way to [...]

FAIRFAX, VA (February 24, 2010) — Some of the area’s best-built and chiseled professional boxers will strut their stuff down the red carpet (and remove all but their underwear before being weighed) as part of the Official Weigh-In Event to be held at Tysons Corner Center (1961 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA 22102 www.shoptysons.com) on [...]

Former Scottish amateur champion and Commonwealth Games representative Mitch Prince will aim to push himself closer to British title contention at the St Andrew’s Sporting Club on March 15. South-African born Prince – who changed his name by deed poll last year to Prince of Passion – will square up Glenrothes’ Stuart Green for the [...]

Danny Butler is being inspired to win the Prizefighter Light-Middleweights this Friday by the fighting spirit of his brothers, who are serving with the Army in Afghanistan. Butler, who backs the Help for Heroes charity, has two brothers – Adam and Martin – serving in the Army and says he will give the charity a [...]

Boxing fans have been eagerly awaiting the return of Golden Boy Promotions and AEG’s “Fight Night Club” series and on Thursday, February 25, the wait is over as the 2010 season kicks off at L.A. LIVE’s Club Nokia with not only junior welterweight contender Victor Ortiz, but also three of “Fight Night Clubs” first season’s [...]

PAUL EDWARDS is targeting a crack at his name sake, Commonwealth flyweight champion Chris Edwards this summer. The Liverpool scrapper (6-0) moves up in class again when he tackles Abmerk Shindjuu (7-3-2) at Leigh Indoor Sports Centre on Friday March 19. The Namibian narrowly lost on points to Chris in a vacant Commonwealth title fight [...]

FRANK MALONEY believes he is making Rendall Munroe’s WBC world super-bantamweight title final eliminator against Victor Terrazas a great deal for fans. Munroe hopes to celebrate St George’s Day on Friday April 23rd by defeating the Mexican warrior at Coventry Skydome and guaranteeing a shot at world champion Toshiaki Nishioka later this year. Prokoter Maloney [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s looking like number #1 World Boxing Organization lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) will be having to go to Australia to face World Boxing Organization lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (26-2, 21 KO’s), according to the Mirror. This is bad news for the 25-year-old Mitchell, because he was hoping to [...]

By William Mackay: I hate to say it but I think WBA light middleweight champion Yuri Foreman is going to put former World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto out of his misery on June 12th, at the Yankee Stadium, in New York. The only good thing that I can think of that outcome is [...]

By Ryan Dunn: Okay, I’ve been waiting to put this article out for a while now but decided I would do my research first, gather the facts, compare my analysis, and verify my findings. Think of this as a dossier intended to illuminate some truths about anti-doping testing, and a way to address the thousand [...]

By Chris Williams: For boxing fans of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko if they want to see his March 20th fight against challenger “Fast” Eddie Chambers, they’ll have to purchase this on pay-per-view. In this day and age, this isn’t really that much of a shock, as it seems like any halfway decent fighter is [...]

By William Mackay: After the first stage of Showtime’s Super Six tournament some boxing fans of the opinion that former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor is the first fighter that is technically shot in the tournament. Taylor was knocked out by the hard hitting Arthur Abraham in a 12th round stoppage loss in October. The knockout [...]

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) signed a short term contract recently with Golden Boy Promotions in hopes that the American promotional company could make him a big star in the United States. Khan signed up American trainer Freddie Roach, famous for training huge mega star Manny [...]

By Chris Williams: World Boxing Association welterweight champion Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO’s) gave his thoughts about his May 1st opponent Floyd Mayweather Jr. in an article at ABS-CBN News, saying “I don’t know if he’s a coward or not but what I know for this fight, he was forced to fight me. Aside from [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: After losing a controversial 12 round unanimous decision to WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch on October 17th, Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) finds himself in a must win situation when he enters the ring for his second fight of the Super Six tournament against Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s) on March [...]

By Dave Lahr: There are reports that Manny Pacquiao suffered some leg pains in training for his March 13th fight against Joshua Clottey. Could it be that at 31, Pacquiao is starting to show the ugly ravages of age? It would be the first fighter that got old all of a sudden. Small fighters like [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former WBA/WBC/WBO unbeaten super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) had a lot of bad words to say about unbeaten World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) in a recent interview at the City A.M. Calzaghe says “He [Froch] won a title that I gave up and [...]

HOBOKEN, N.J. (Feb. 23, 2010) – Styles make fights and Saturday night’s WBC light flyweight title bout between Filipino power puncher Rodel “Batang Mandaue” Mayol and stylish Mexican boxer Omar “Giant Killer” Nino shapes-up as a potential classic from Guadalajara, Mexico on “The Double Assault” pay-per-view extravaganza.

By Scott Gilfoid: Once beaten Andre Dirrel (18-1, 13 KO’s)l is currently rehabilitating his injured back that he hurt while training recently for his March 27th Super Six bout against unbeaten Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s). In an interview at East Side Boxing’s On the Ropes show, the talented Dirrell had this to say: “I [...]

By Daniel Ciminera: With their Super Six bout just around the corner, all I have read anywhere so far is about how the inexperienced Andre Ward (21/0) is going to tear Allan Green (29/1) to bits in even more “flamboyant fashion than he did Kessler” when they meet on the 24th of April in Oakland, [...]

VIP AND RINGSIDE SEATS SOLDOUT FOR “FIGHT NIGHT 2010″ February 23 (Merrillville, In) – The most anticipated fight night in Northwest Indiana has gained the interest of region fans as ALL of the VIP and RINGSIDE seats for the event are completely SOLD OUT! Leaving only General Admission seating for the remaining fans for this [...]

By Daniel Ciminera: I’ve read other articles about this prospective June 19th fight and spoken to a lot of people about it, and the general consensus is that it is an easy win for Dawson. Probably by knockout. However, whilst I was tempted to agree and say Bad Chad steamrolls Pascal as the only thing [...]

by Daniel Ciminera: Audley Harrison (26/4/0), who is set for a London showdown on the 9th of April with Essex-based Pole, Albert Sosnowski, says once he takes Sosnowski’s European title, he wants to move on to bigger things. The Klitschko brothers. Like every other heavyweight who knows they wont get a spoonful of the Klitschko [...]

WBC Champion Carl “the Cobra” Froch of Nottingham England, will defend his title against the “Viking Warrior” Mikkel Kessler of Denmark in the Super Six World Boxing Classic in one-half of a tournament doubleheader on Saturday, April 24 at the MCH Messecenter in Herning, Denmark. ”The ticket sales for Mikkel Kessler’s fight against Carl Froch [...]

PHILADELPHIA (February 23, 2010)—“Hammerin” Hank Lundy is undefeated and wants to prove to the world that he is one of the top Lightweight prospect’s anywhere and he is willing to face anyone to prove that. Lundy of Philadelphia took his record to 17-0-1 with ten knockouts with a ten round split decision against former Cuban [...]

By Sean McDaniel: For Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley fans, they’ll be able to see an HBO Mayweather-Mosley 24/7 series for the May 1st mega fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 24/7 series, which are usually very popular and powerful tools in hyping fights to the casual boxing fans of [...]

Former Jr. welterweight champion Vivian Harris released the following statement regarding the result of Saturday night’s bout with Lucas Matthysse in Mexico City. “I just wanted to let everyone know that what happened in Mexico City was by far the worst injustice that I have ever experienced. The fight between me and Lucas Matthysse was [...]