Archive for March, 2010

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DETROIT – (March 24, 2010) — Super Six World Boxing Classic standings leader “King” Arthur Abraham and Andre “The Matrix” Dirrell both took part in a media workout at Detroit’s famed Kronk Gym on Wednesday, just three days before they kick off Group Stage 2 of the Tournament on Saturday, March 27 at the Joe [...]

By Esteban Garduno: Former World Boxing Association welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-6, 27 KO’s) will be returning to action after a year out of the ring on May 8th against Roberto Garcia (28-2, 21 KO’s) in a scheduled 12 round bout at the Aguascalientes, in Aguascalientes, Mexico. If things go good for the 32-year-old Margarito [...]

Morales: “Losing so much weight in recent months isn’t going to affect me. For two and one-half months we worked a lot on the technical issues but we also made the best effort trying to achieve peak physical condition. I also mean that I was six months into the plan to establish a steady weight [...]

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Association light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (27-1, 26 KO’s) will be fighting this Saturday night against undefeated Victor Cayo (24-0, 16 KO’s) at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The card will have a rematch between lightweights Ali Funeka and Joan Guzman, who will be [...]

By Steve Lewis: Three months after failed negotiations, the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao blood testing issue is still a hot topic. Arguments from both sides have been repeated ad naseum. Many points have been beaten like a dead horse. Yet, the blood testing issue is still a point of contention. Recently, RingTalk.com’s Jarrad Woods wrote a [...]

BERLIN (March 24, 2010) – Mikkel Kessler is back in Berlin to continue his preparation for his April 24 Super Six World Boxing Classic clash with World Boxing Council Super-Middleweight Champion Carl Froch. “I enjoy working out at the Max-Schmeling-Gym,” he said. “I have been in Berlin several times now and I really like the [...]

Only three days to go until ARENA’s first big show with major TV partner SAT.1. The first TV featured bout of the night will be the World Boxing Association featherweight championship between Cuban superstar Yuriorkis Gamboa and his unbeaten challenger Jonathan Victor Barros from Argentina.

Three-time world welterweight champion ANTONIO MARGARITO will make his 2010 debut during Cinco de Mayo weekend, in a 10-round super welterweight rumble, against Texas toughman ROBERTO “La Amenaza” GARCIA, headlining Latin Fury 14. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Zanfer Promotions and Tecate, the four-bout Latin Fury 14 will be broadcast Live on Pay-Per-View, [...]

by Ronnie Jordan: Saturday night sees the return of the super six tournaments. The first match-up sees “The Matrix” Andre Dirrell face Arthur Abraham at the Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit, Michigan. A month later on April 24th, we have the exciting war between Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler. After that, it’s the talented Andre [...]

LOS ANGELES (March 24, 2010) – Three exciting televised fights will warm fans up for the long-awaited rematch between future Hall of Famers Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. “The Rivals: Hopkins vs. Jones II” is scheduled for Saturday, April 3 from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada and live on pay-per-view.

By William Mackay: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) probably doesn’t stand much of a chance of beating former WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (42-2, 32 KO’s) when the two fighters meet up in their stage 2 Super Six tournament bout on April 24th, in Herning, Denmark. Froch, a good puncher [...]

By Jim Dower: Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) was in top form talking to the media, saying this about his April 3rd opponent Bernard Hopkins: “He is a bottom feeder, riding around waiting for somebody to die and think he will get a feed…He’s waiting around for someone to die and then he’ll bite [...]

By Esteban Garduno: Manny Pacquiao ended up throwing more than 1200 total punches in defeating former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Joshua Clottey by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision on March 13th at the Cowboys Stadium. What was lost in the win was the accuracy, the power and the way that Clottey was able [...]

By Chris Williams: If Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has his way, WBC/World Boxing Organization middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik’s next fight will be at the Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. Arum thinks that he can get at 40,000 fans that will want to come see Pavlik fight. According to Joe Scalzo of Vindy.com, Arum wants [...]

Atlantic City, NJ—Unbeaten Mike Jones, of Philadelphia, PA, and Hector Munoz, of Albuquerque, NM, will be fighting for two championship belts when they collide in a scheduled 10-round welterweight contest on Saturday evening, April 17, at in the 10,000-seat Boardwalk Hall.

HBO’s hit late-night boxing series features a doubleheader of hungry young fighters when HBO BOXING AFTER DARK: MARCOS RENE MAIDANA VS. VICTOR CAYO AND JOAN GUZMAN VS. ALI FUNEKA is seen SATURDAY, MARCH 27 at 10:30 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT), from The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, exclusively on [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: This Saturday’s bout between super middleweights Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) and former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s) couldn’t have any more different fighters going up against other than them. Abraham is a slow, methodical fighter, who is more inclined to win his fights by throwing massive power shots [...]

LAS VEGAS (Mar. 18, 2010) – Four-time world heavyweight champion Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield plans to make a strong statement April 10 when challenges World Boxing Federation heavyweight title-holder Frans “The White Buffalo” Botha in the 12-round main event, headlining “The Legend Returns” pay-per-view event at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

FRANK MALONEY has reacted to criticism of David Price’s opponents, blasting: “I’ll do it my way.” The Beijing Olympic bronze medallist took his unbeaten professional record to five last Friday when he defeated Martyn Grainer inside a round.

By Ronnie Jordan: David Haye is the former undisputed cruiserweight champion and now World Boxing Association heavyweight champion, with his good looks, gift of the gab, and with his mean punching speed and power he has lit up the boxing scene like no one else. He’s made no secret of his ambitions to fight both [...]

On Friday April 2nd, at the Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino in Uncasville, CT, two of Star Boxing’s brightest young stars, 2007 Amateur World Champion and 2008 U.S. Olympian, Demetrius Andrade (9-0, 7KO) and 2004 U.S. Olympian, Roberto Benitez (6-0, 3KO) will be showcased in separate featured undercard bouts. The show, broadcast live on ESPN’s [...]

Show Call In Number: (646)716-5404 – Episode 65 of On the Ropes Boxing Radio features an exclusive interview with former four-time champion Erik “El Terrible” Morales, who is slated to face former lightweight title holder Jose Alfaro on March 27. Emanuel Steward will also be joining us for this edition. The show starts at 6:00 [...]

By Chris Williams: If Manny Pacquiao wanted to get an even split of a future revenue split in a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., he didn’t help himself with his numbers for his March 13th bout against Joshua Clottey. ESPN reported today that the Pacquiao-Clottey fight netted just 700,000 pay-per-view buys. That might be a [...]

By William Mackay: If you haven’t noticed already, WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (23-1, 21 KO’s) has been talking a lot in the media about wanting to fight the Klitschko brothers. The Klitschkos in turn have been trying to decide which brother will be the one that gets to fight Haye and get the big [...]

By Jim Dower: With about two weeks to go before the April 3rd bout between aging stars Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s and Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s), there is surprisingly very little buzz about this fight among boxing internet sites. It’s almost as if the fight isn’t taking place at all, because very [...]

By Armando Paz: The Country of Mexico and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico have had numerous boxing champions, yet no Mexican or Puerto Rican born fighter has won a major belt in four different weight classes. For clarity, I exclude Oscar De La Hoya as he was born in the United States and his Gold [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Top WBO heavyweight contender Eddie Chambers (35-2, 18 KO’s) experienced a really bad knockout defeat last Saturday night when he was stopped in the 12th round by IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (54-3, 48 KO’s) at the ESPRIT arena, in Düsseldorf, Germany. Chambers, 27, was badly knocked out after getting nailed by [...]

By Esteban Garduno: The March 13th so-called mega fight between World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KO’s) and Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 KO’s) has failed to live up to expectations set out by Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, bringing in only 700,000 pay-per-view buys, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. Oh, this [...]

By chris Williams: Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) says that he may retire if he can knock out Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) when the two 40ish former champions got at it on April 3rd at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. In an article at Boxing Fanhouse, [...]