Archive for February, 2010

Boxing results from Fenton Manor Sports Complex, Stoke, Staffordshire: Leva Kirakosyan TKO 3 Scott Lawton Chris Edwards UD 12 Abmerk Shindjuu

LAS VEGAS (February 19, 2010)—Super middleweight contender Andre Dirrell injured his back earlier this week while sparring in Las Vegas, preventing him from training for his upcoming Super Six World Boxing Classic super middleweight showdown with Arthur Abraham. Dirrell’s injury has forced the fight to be rescheduled for Saturday, March 27, to be televised live [...]

Los Angeles, CA (February 19, 2010) – Can the renowned Polish warrior withstand the devastating knockout power of “The Nightmare”? We will all find out on Saturday night, April 24 when Goossen Tutor Promotions and Main Events in association with Ziggy Promotions — and sponsored by Corona and San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino — [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) thinks that he’ll be finishing Mikkel Kessler (42-2, 32 KO”s) off as a fighter and sending him possibly into retirement if he beats the Danish fighter on April 24th in their Super Six tournament fight at the MCH Messecenter Herning, in Herning, Denmark. [...]

By William Mackay: According to the latest news, the Yankees have cleared a date for the Yankee Stadium to be available for Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) and World Boxing Association junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KO’s) to use the stadium for their June fight. The fight between Cotto and Foreman, which still [...]

By Eric Thomas: World Boxing Council/WBA super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (33-2-1, 27 KO’s) will be fighting contender Rodrigo Guerrero (13-1-1, 9 KO’s) on March 6th, at the Agua Caliente Casino, in Rancho Mirage, California. This is the same card that Super Six tournament fighters Andre Dirrell and Arthur Abraham were supposed to be facing [...]

By Chris Williams: In reading some of the comments of Manny Pacquiao’s fans, it seems many of them could careless whether he fights a good opponent or a crappy one. Many of them openly say they don’t care. That is so hard me to understand as a boxing writer. How can you not care? Is [...]

By Jim Dower: Boxing great Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) seems to be in denial about his 1st round TKO loss to Danny Green on December 2nd. In that fight, Green, the IBO cruiserweight champion, rushed across the ring and opened up with a barrage of heavy shots while Jones covered up in his [...]

Bernard Dunne: After a lot of thought and reflection the time has finally come to bring my career as a professional boxer to an end. For the past 25 years boxing has been my life but now it is time for a fresh start. The easiest thing in the world would have been to climb [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: The American Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) vs. Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s) bout has been moved from the original March 6th date to March 27th due to the recent back injury that Dirrell sustained while training. The Abraham-Dirrell fight will now have to compete with HBO’s boxing card on the same [...]

By Armando Paz: After the Soap Opera better known as the Pacquaio-Mayweather negotiations ended the question aroused who should be the next opponent for both fighters? For Pacquaio, names such as Paulie Malignaggi, Yuri Foreman, and Timothy Bradley all came up. Foreman the World Boxing Association junior middleweight champion a fellow Top Rank fighter was [...]

On March 27th Ahmet Öner’s ARENA Sports-Promotion will team up with major TV station SAT.1 for the first time for a big show in Hamburg (Germany) featuring the heavyweight rematch between German prospect Steffen Kretschmann and Russian veteran Denis Bakhtov and the return of featherweight phenomenon Yuriorkis Gamboa to Hamburg where his pro career started [...]

YONKERS, N.Y. (Feb. 19, 2010) – New York State heavyweight champion Darrel “King David” Madison returns March 12 in the main event on the “St. Patty’s Day Brawl” pro boxing card, presented by O’Shea Brothers Boxing Promotions, at the PAL Gym in Yonkers, New York.

Fight One – Super Six Super Middleweight Showdown When: 6th March 2010 From 2:00am – (7th March 2010) What: Arthur Abraham (IBF) V Andre Dirrell Fight Two – Heavyweight Championship When: 20th March 2010 From 10pm What: Wladimir Klitschko (IBF, WBO) V Eddie Chambers

Friday, Feb. 19 – HBO Sports® will present “Road to Dallas: Pacquiao vs. Clottey,” a thirty-minute special analyzing the upcoming welterweight title showdown between pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and challenger Joshua Clottey that will mark the first-ever pro boxing event at the landmark $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Tex. The intriguing fight will take [...]

Brett Flournoy is aiming to go one better than fellow Merseyside boxer Carl Dilks and win the Prizefighter Light-Middleweights at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday, February 26. The Birkenhead boxer is stepping up from welterweight for his chance to claim the £32,000 prize for winning three, three round fights in one night [...]

Martin Concepcion is confident he has The X Factor needed to win the Prizefighter Light-Middleweights at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday, February 26. Concepcion earned his place in the ninth Prizefighter series by out-pointing Kevin Hammond for the Midlands Area Title earlier this month.

By Alexander Fugate: It has been reported that Andre Berto will defend his World Boxing Council welterweight title against the talented Carlos Quintana on April 10. Quintana is an excellent boxer and poses a real test for the young Berto. Since winning the WBC belt, Berto has defended it against Steve Forbes, Luis Collazo, and [...]

By Sean McDaniel: The whole it seems in WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan being put in with former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi for Amir’s debut fight in the United States is for the British fighter to look good in winning, so as to pick up a bunch of new fans. But will [...]

It’s been a difficult past two years for Vivian Harris. Boxing politics coupled with long stretches of inactivity have plagued the former junior welterweight champion, but the proud Guyana native remains undeterred. “I still consider myself one of the best fighters in the division,” said Harris. “I have faced some adversity these last two years [...]

By Dave Lahr: Manny Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning trainer Alex Ariza chimed in with his own thoughts about the May 1st bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley, saying in an article at The Telegraph, “I don’t think he’ll [Mayweather] get past Mosley. I think it’s even possible that Mayweather could come up with [...]

By Dave Lahr: Former WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto has been struggling since taking a terrible beating at the hands of the Mexican tornado Antonio Margarito in July 2008. Since that night in which Cotto was stopped in the 11th round and left a bloody mess, Cotto barely got by Joshua Clottey, winning a questionable [...]

By Eric Thomas: World Boxing Council lightweight champion Edwin Valero (27-0, 27 KO’s) will be moving up in weight and facing light welterweight contender Lamont Peterson (27-1, 13 KO”s) in either June or July, according to Boxing Fanhouse. Both Valero and Bradley fight for Top Rank, so putting this fight together shouldn’t be too much [...]

By Edgardo Javier: I can’t help thinking that Manny Pacquiao’s promotional team royally screwed up by picking Joshua Clottey as an opponent for Pacquiao to fight next. Because in doing so, it puts Floyd Mayweather in an excellent position to outsell the Pacquiao-Clottey fight by a significant margin. This is in turn will cause Mayweather [...]

By William Mackay: Former World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (42-2, 32 KO”s) feels good about his chances against WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) for their April 24th, Super Six tournament fight in Herning, Denmark. Kessler, 30, sees a slow fighter with a traditional European stand up fighting stance [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to Boxing Talk, American Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) has suffered an injury while training for his March 6th Super Six tournament bout against Arthur Abraham. The injury will make it necessary to postpone the fight until a later date. Fight news is reporting that Dirrell injured his back while training. [...]

By Chris Williams: Besides the Mach 13th main even between World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey looking more and more like a gross mismatch of epic proportions, the undercard frankly stinks to the high heavens in my view. I’ve already seen four mismatches in a row involving Pacquiao being put in [...]

ORANGE, CA (February 18) With two world titles on his resume and the respect of the boxing world a given, Julio Diaz has already secured his place in the history books. But at 30 years old, “The Kidd” has plenty of fight left in him, and with a third world championship in his sights, he [...]

By Chris Williams: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) faces easily his best opponent since winning his middleweight titles three years ago when he steps in the ring against junior middleweight Sergio Martinez (44-2-2, 24 KO’s) on April 17th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This fight has a lot [...]

Brown-Grano headlines March 12 show at Foxwoods PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Feb. 18, 2010) – Living legend, Hall of Fame trainer Angelo Dundee will be a special guest at the “Brace For Impact” pro boxing card, presented March 12 by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc. (CES), in Fox Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, [...]