Archive for April, 2010

“Shane has talent, I have a gift. A God-given gift.” – Six-Time World Champion in Five Weight Divisions Floyd “Money” Mayweather said on April 14, 2010 at his open media workout at the Mayweather Boxing Gym in Las Vegas, NV. “I think Shane is acting out of character. Why would someone wait until they were [...]

BRONX, NY (April 15, 2010) – Tickets to the “Stadium Slugfest,” Yankee Stadium’s inaugural brawl featuring the world championship rumble between three-time world titleist MIGUEL COTTO and undefeated World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight champion YURI FOREMAN go on sale Tomorrow! Friday, April 16, at Noon ET.

Kelly Pavlik won the Cleveland Golden Gloves back in 1999 in an unforgettable match against an established nationally ranked senior division fighter, Henry White. Kelly had just come up from the juniors and had just reached the minimum age of 17. Henry, 22 years old, was a constant local champion and a national stand out. [...]

Former Linear and WBO Heavyweight Champion Shannon “The Cannon” Briggs (49-5-1, 43 KOs) returned to action on Tuesday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Resort in Hollywood, Florida, and destroyed normally durable 6′ 7″ veteran Rafael “The Cuban Giant” Pedro (20-9-1, 14 KOs) in 28 awe-inspiring seconds.

Episode # 2 Debut: SATURDAY, APRIL 17 (9:30-10:00 p.m. ET/ 6:30-7:00 p.m. PT) Other HBO playdates: April 17 (12:15 a.m. ET/9:15 p.m. PT), 18 (10:15 a.m.), 19 (9:30 a.m., 7:30 p.m., 1:00 a.m.), 20 (1:30 p.m.), 22 (9:30 a.m., 9:30 p.m., midnight), 23 (2:05 a.m.), 24 (10:30 a.m., 8:00 p.m.), 28 (1:30 a.m.) and 30 [...]

PROVIDENCE (April 15, 2010) – Many of New England’s top prospects will be in action May 7 on the “Spring Fever” card, presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES), at Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, R.I.

Herning (15.04.2010) – Rudy Markussen (33-2, 20 KOs) will make his long-awaited return to the ring on May 15 when MCH Herning will host the historic first-ever TV 2 Fight Night. The former European Super Middleweight Champion will be in action for the first time since October 2006. He has passed all medicals and received [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (April 15, 2010) — “Lou DiBella may need a CPA today but after KELLY PAVLIK gets through with his fighter, SERGIO MARTINEZ, Diabolical L.O.U. is going to need CPR,” boasted JACK LOEW, Pavlik’s trainer, after Pavlik’s morning run on Atlantic City’s famous Boardwalk. “I’d like to wish Diabolical L.O.U. a happy Income [...]

“It’s hard to change the style you used during your whole career in nine short months. When you’re in an intense situation you quickly turn back to your old habits,” states Lucian Bute (25-0-0, 20 K.-O.) about his opponent Edison Miranda (33-4-0, 29 K.-O.), who switched trainers and is now with the renowned Joe Goosen.

A war of words that has erupted over the internet will finally be resolved in the boxing ring in Limerick next month when rivals Michael “The Storm” Sweeney and Ian Tims clash for the Irish Cruiserweight title on the Yanjing Fight Night at the University Sports Arena.

By Chris Williams: I expect for Floyd Mayweather Jr. to start out strong against Shane Mosley on May 1st. I think Mayweather intends on trying to make this fight one of his more exciting fights, but I think Mayweather is going to change his plans abruptly as soon as he tastes some of Mosley’s power [...]

By William Mackay: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko thinks that WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is plain scared of him and thinks that Haye will back out of a fight with him. In an interview with AP, Wladimir says “I understand he’s scared, but just get yourself together, and maybe you’ll get a lucky punch [...]

By Jorge Lugo: “We just want to get on. I mean the fans wanna see a great fight, me and “Money” Mayweather. Let’s get this on!” says Shane Mosley one sat night in Sept of 2009. Since then something has been creeping more and more into my mind. Is it me or is Shane Mosley [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan may have a ton of speed going for him in his match-up with former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi for their May 15th fight, but Khan’s chin is a major liability for him coming into this fight. Malignaggi may or may not have [...]

By Chris Williams: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik seems to still be unable to come to terms with his lopsided 12 round unanimous decision against 44-year-old Bernard Hopkins in October 2008. In an interview with Greg Leon of Boxing Talk, Pavlik, 28, says “That wasn’t me in there that night. I think people know me [...]

“Our sport of boxing is going through a historic moment where most of the elements that participate in the sport are joining together to bring back boxing to the great times when there was tremendous activity all over the world.

By William Mackay: Tom Loeffler, the manager for K2 promotions, doesn’t think that it’s realistic that a fight can be put together between World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye and IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko with Haye asking for a 50-50 cut of the revenue. In an interview with Boxing Fanhouse, Loeffler says “We’ve [...]

Boxing is not a sport that readily lends itself to statistics, but one set of numbers is as elemental as a left-right combination: a fighter’s wins, losses and draws. We often overvalue a good record and misinterpret a mediocre one; there are dozens of 10-loss veterans who are better than young fighters with only one [...]

By William Mackay: Top number #1 World Boxing Organization lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) and WBO lightweight interim champion (26-2, 21 KO’s) will be facing each other on May 15th, at Upton Park, in London, England. The fight will be shown on Sky Sports HD, giving both fighters some badly needed visibility for [...]

LOS ANGELES, April 14 – Before Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Sugar Shane Mosley heat up the Las Vegas night in their Saturday, May 1 mega-fight, some of the top contenders in boxing today will enter the ring at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev. and warm up fans in attendance and those [...]

By Jim Dower: International Boxing Organization cruiserweight champion Danny Green (29-3, 26 KO’s) destroyed his badly over-matched opponent Manny Siaca (22-7, 19 KO’s) in the 3rd round on Wednesday night at the Challenge Stadium, in Perth, Australia. Green, 37, knocked Siaca down once in the 2nd round and a final time in the 3rd. After [...]

By Sean McDaniel: European Boxing Union heavyweight champion Audley Harrison (27-4, 20 KO’s) has reportedly ruptured his pectoral muscle on his right side of his chest in his last fight against Michael Sprott on April 9th, and will need surgery to repair the problem. This is the same injury that the 38-year-old Harrison suffered before [...]

By William Mackay: Former light welterweight and welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) says he still doesn’t feel the hunger to restart his stalled boxing career. It’s been 11 months since the 31-year-old Hatton was brutally knocked out in the 2nd round by Manny Pacquiao in May 2009, and instead of rebounding from the [...]

Up-and-coming tennis ace Caroline Wozniacki, the world number two and 2009 U.S. Open finalist, will be ringside on April 24 to support fellow Danish superstar Mikkel Kessler in his must-win Super Six World Boxing Classic clash with WBC Super-Middleweight Champion Carl Froch.

Los Angeles, CA (April 13)… World Boxing Association welterweight champion Sugar Shane Mosley unleashed a less sweet side of his mild-mannered personality on TBS’ “Lopez Tonight” last night as he declared that he will knock out Floyd Mayweather when they meet in the ring May 1 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas live on HBO [...]

HBO Sports presents two action-packed live title bouts from two different locations on the same night when WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: KELLY PAVLIK VS. SERGIO MARTINEZ AND LUCIAN BUTE VS. EDISON MIRANDA is seen SATURDAY, APRIL 17 (10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT) from Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall and the Bell Center in Montreal, exclusively on HBO. [...]

IBF Middleweight Champion Sebastian Sylvester (33-3, 16 KOs) will face mandatory challenger Roman Karmazin (40-3, 26 KOs) in Neubrandenburg on June 5. It will be the Hurricane´s fifth fight in the East German city, having won all four previous bouts at the Jahnsportforum. “I am thrilled to be back,” Sylvester said. “The support of my [...]

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch really let it hang out in an interview in which he talks about his rough childhood, and how he hung around rough people, got into fights and had his bicycle stolen on a couple of occasions. You can see the pain in Froch’s face [...]

IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has issued another statement to rival David Haye, suggesting that Haye is “full of garbage”. On Monday, Klitschko posted a video message on his website, saying “the time has come” for “coward” Haye.

By William Mackay: Many people in the boxing world are excited about the prospect of a heavyweight clash between WBA heavyweight champion David Haye and IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. As of now, the two fighter’s management will meet on Thursday to try and arrange a fight for later on this year. However, don’t bet [...]