Archive for April, 2010

By Jason Kim: There’s little doubt that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is going to be trying to avoid any heated battles with WBA welterweight Shane Mosley as much as possible this Saturday night in their round bout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather, 33, takes pride in not taking punishment in fights. Some [...]

By Jim Dower: Manny Pacquiao thinks that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is jealous of his achievements in boxing, saying to Greg Leon of Boxing Talk, “I just think he [Mayweather] and his team are scared of me and are very jealous of my achievements because I have surpassed him.” I think Pacquiao may have a good [...]

By Gary Todd: When Shane Mosley stepped through the ropes to ruin Floyd Mayweather’s post fight celebrations, on the night of his comeback fight against Juan Manual Marquez, did he think he would say enough to entice Mayweather into a showdown, sometime down the track? I would say no. No doubt, Mayweather was pissed, but [...]

Tom Kaczmarek of Brick, New Jersey, will receive the American Association for the Improvement of Boxing’s Rocky Marciano/AAIB Distinguished Officials Award in Boxing. The A.A.I.B. is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1969 by Rocky Marciano and Stephen B. Acunto. Tom will be presented with the award at the at the annual Boxerama Luncheon [...]

LOS ANGELES (April 26) – The polls on the internet asking “Who R U Picking?” for Mayweather vs. Mosley are producing very interesting results. With less than a week to go, the buzz has spread across all media platforms breaking the general boxing barriers and into mainstream sports, entertainment, political and many other sites. See [...]

By William Mackay: On May 15th, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) will be making his U.S. debut fight against Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s) at Madison Square Garden, in New York. Khan, 23, has a lot of pressure on him in this fight as he’s looking to become a big mega [...]

Be sure to join OTR Boxing Radio for three exclusive interviews today at 6 PM ET – click play to listen: Roger Mayweather: · Is currently training nephew Floyd Junior for his May 1 clash against Shane Mosley · Winner of major titles in two different weight classes · Had a career record of 59-13 [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao gave his own prediction for this Saturday night’s fight between undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. and WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley, picking Mosley to win and thinks that Mayweather will run from him. In an interview by Greg Leon at Boxing Talk, Pacquiao said “I think Mosley has [...]

By Jim Dower: Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) doesn’t want any part of having to travel to Germany to fight Arthur Abraham in the stage 3 part of the Super Six tournament. Froch has recently said that he will pull out of the Super Six tournament if he’s forced to fight Abraham in Germany rather [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Wilfried Sauerland of the promotional company Sauerland Events, had some bad news for former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 21 KO’s) and his promoter Mick Hennessy today in a press release. Sauerland said there had been no verbal or written agreements as to the venue for the upcoming stage 3 [...]

NEW YORK (April 26, 2010) – They’ve been waiting and watching. Now six young and hungry super middleweights with a combined record of 109-3 will get their chance to showcase their talent Friday, April 30 on ShoBox: The New Generation at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast) live on SHOWTIME®.

By Armando Paz: The whole tragedy surrounding the Edwin Valero now creates an interesting situation for Bob Arum and Top Rank. It was the plan for Bob Arum to put on another Top Rank Fighter vs. Top Rank Fighter production. They did it when Joshua Clottey fought Miguel Cotto; Miguel Cotto fought Manny Pacquiao, and [...]

By Jim Dower: Two time heavyweight champion John Ruiz (44-9-1, 30 KOs) has decided to hang up his boxing gloves and retire after an 18-year pro career in the sport, which saw the 38-year-old Ruiz capture the WBA heavyweight title twice and rack up wins over the likes of Kirk Johnson, Evander Holyfield, Hasim Rahman, [...]

By Ryan Dunn: “Shane is good at what he does; I’m great at everything I do.” So says the incomparable Floyd Mayweather Jr., who looks to improve his record to 41-0-0 on May 1. In the same way Shane Mosley was the underdog facing Antonio Margarito, so will he be the underdog in this fight. [...]

RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. (April 26, 2010) – Undefeated World Boxing Organization junior welterweight champion TIMOTHY “Desert Storm” BRADLEY and World Boxing Association interim super lightweight champion MARCOS “El Chino” MAIDANA will host a news conference, open to the public, Next Tuesday! May 4, in The Show at Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa (32-250 Bob Hope [...]

St. Paul, MN (April 25, 2010) – Minnesotans “Golden” Caleb Truax and Phil “The Drill” Williams battled to a spirited ten round draw in front of a standing room only crowd Friday night at the St. Paul Armory. The story line was one that those in attendance clearly bought into, as Truax looked to avenge [...]

The Universum Champions Night last Saturday in the gymnasium of Hamburg was a great success rates for Universum Box-Promotion and its television partner ZDF. According to the analysis service “Quotenmeter.de” helped the two German world champion Susi Kentikian and Jürgen Brähmer at the Second Day’s victory: “Late in the evening increased coverage thanks to the [...]

BERLIN (April 26, 2010) – Wilfried Sauerland has rebuffed Mick Hennessys claims about a potential verbal agreement on the venue for the decisive Super Six World Boxing Classic showdown between King Arthur Abraham and Carl Froch. After losing his WBC Super-Middleweight Title to Mikkel Kessler in a epic clash on Saturday, the Cobra is due [...]

WORCESTER, Mass. (Apr. 26, 2010) – Hot, unbeaten super middleweight prospect Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez, coming off of his nationally televised destruction of veteran George “The Rooster” Armenta with a lethal left hook to the body at 47 seconds of the opening round, takes another progressive step April 30, when he takes on rugged Kevin [...]

On Saturday night, whilst most British fight fans were waiting to watch Nottingham’s Carl Froch face, and lose to, Mikel Kessler in the latest Super Six offering on Sky TV, London’s York Hall, in Bethnal Green, played host to the equally exciting Steve Goodwin promoted “A Night Of The Rising Stars” fight show.

LAS VEGAS (Apr. 26, 2010) – After a professional career spanning 18 years, highlighted by becoming the first and only Heavyweight World Champion of Latino heritage, two-time world champion John “The Quietman” Ruiz today announced his retirement from the ring.

By Jim Dower: Shane Mosley takes great pleasure in shutting up critics that don’t believe he has a chance to beats certain opponents. This Saturday night the 38-year-old Mosley hopes to shut up even more critics who don’t believe he can beat undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 1st. Mosley says “Shutting down naysayers, I [...]

By William Mackay: Former World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch is threatening to withdraw from the Super Six tournament unless his next fight against Arthur Abraham takes place in Froch’s home city of Nottingham, England. Froch was led to believe that his stage 3 Super Six tourney fight with Abraham would be in [...]

By Sean McDaniel: You can’t exactly say that former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) is shy about voicing his feelings about his recent 12 round unanimous decision loss to the new World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) last Saturday night in Herning, Denmark. Fighting in front [...]

By Jim Dower: Former light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek (41-1, 27 KO’s) defeated a slow and overweight looking Chris Arreola (28-2, 25 KO’s) by a 12 round majority decision last night at the Citizens Business Bank Arena, in Ontario, California. However, despite winning the fight and getting staggered countless times by Arreola, I [...]

Photo: Tom Casino/Showtime – By Scott Gilfoid: For a fighter that says he has no problems fighting in his opponent’s backyard, Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) sure sounds like he has major issues with it. Froch, who lost his fight and his World Boxing Council super middleweight strap last night to Mikkel Kessler in Herning, [...]

By William Mackay: A bitter sounding Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) sounded off last Saturday night after losing a 12 round unanimous decision to Denmark’s Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s), saying “When you look at some of the scorecards, I was never going to win that fight. It’s a bit of a sham and it’s [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In an amusing article at the News of the World, the 23-year-old World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) talks about his future goals and points out that he plans on getting out of the sport within the next five years after having fought both Manny Pacquiao and [...]

Last week Nirmal Lorick, manager and trainer of World Boxing Council #2 rated welterweight Luis Collazo has publicly pulled out of the scheduled June 5th WBC Silver Championship against hard-hitting Selcuk Aydin. Lorick said that his fighter was not able to make the weight after a long lay-off and in addition to that had no [...]

Photo: Tom Casino/Showtime – By Kyle Simpson: I just watched the Froch–Kessler fight and was somewhat frustrated and confused to why Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) doesn’t listen to his very good trainer Robert McCracken. When he did listen to McCracken like in round 5 he had great success, he was told to go out [...]