Archive for May, 2010

By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. needs to set his sights on fighting WBC/WBO middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (45-2-2, 24 KO’s) next instead of wasting his time and patience on trying to put together a fight with Manny Pacquiao. Martinez, 35, is reportedly willing to take the random blood tests that Mayweather wants. This [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBO lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (26-2, 21 KO’s) feels that he’ll wear unbeaten British challenger Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) down in the later rounds of their fight this Saturday night in Upton Park. “I believe when it comes to the eighth, ninth and tenth rounds and he’s [Mitchell] going back [...]

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan wants bigger and better things in the future after he hopefully beats Paulie Malignaggi this Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. The 23-year-old Khan is in a hurry to make a mark in the United States, hopefully against better competition than he’s been facing. Malignaggi is [...]

THE BIG APPLE (May 12, 2010) – “Stadium Slugfest,” the chin musical hit which will be performed live by MIGUEL COTTO and YURI FOREMAN, for one night only, Saturday, June 5 at Yankee Stadium, is already the No. 1 billboard hit of Times Square!

Former national and international amateur champion Patricia “Boom Boom” Alcivar 1-0(1KO) will be making her return to the ring for her second professional fight Friday May 14th. Alcivar will be facing tough Mexican fighter Laura “La Maravilla” Gomez, 3-1 as a co-feature of the Hector Camacho Sr. vs. Saul Duran main event at the Civic [...]

By Chris Williams: World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will fight for a final time in November against either Floyd Mayweather Jr., the winner of the Yuri Foreman vs. Miguel Cotto fight or against Antonio Margarito. The 31-year-old Pacquiao has received permission from his mother to fight one more time and then retire and [...]

Unbeaten Cuban heavyweight Mike Perez is promising double trouble on the Yanjing Fight Night in Limerick on Saturday as he bids to enter the record books by fighting twice on the same night in officially recorded professional bouts.

On Friday May 14th undefeated super middleweight Shqiprim “White Tiger” Muriqi (3- 0, 2KO) makes his Bronx debut, when he squares off against Rondu Campbell (2-4) at the historical Paradise Theater, on the Golden Boy Promotions and Star Boxing, TeleFutura “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” promoted card. The show is being billed as “Punchin at the Paradise [...]

Three-time World Champion ISRAEL “MAGNIFICO” VAZQUEZ, two-division World Champion RAFAEL MARQUEZ, undefeated IBF Bantamweight World Champion YONNHY PEREZ and unbeaten top-rated contender ABNER MARES participated in a media conference call to discuss their upcoming fights on Saturday, May 22 at STAPLES Center on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING LIVE at 9 P.M. ET/PT (delayed on the West [...]

By Dave Lahr: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) will be making his fourth defense of his World Boxing Council heavyweight title later on this month on May 29th against Albert Sosnowski (45-2-1, 27 KO’s) at the Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, in Germany. Sosnowski’s record is impressive, except that almost all the wins [...]

By Ryan Dunn: Now that Manny Pacquiao has won the congressional seat he spent over $6.5M to secure, and now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has $40M to fill up his pool and go swimming in, cooler heads should return to the negotiating table to make the fight of the millennium happen. But there are a [...]

HOBOKEN, N.J. (May 11, 2010) – Boricua star Wilfredo “WV2” Vazquez, Jr. makes his first WBO Junior Featherweight title defense May 29 against unbeaten, No. 1 contender Zsolt “Mr. Lefthook” Bedak, headlining the “Undefeated Champions” pay per view event in the 12-round main event, airing live in the United States from Bayamon, Puerto Rico.

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s landslide victory yesterday in the congressional elections in the Philippines has his trainer Freddie Roach excited about the future. In an article at the The Telegraph,, Roach says “We are now going to have congressman Pacquiao knock out Floyd Mayweather.” That all sounds very well, but there’s a couple of [...]

By Jason Kim: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KO’s) is interested in facing Chad Dawson at light heavyweight, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. The 28-year-old Pavlik decided on Monday not to use his rematch clause with Sergio Martinez, who defeated Pavlik by a 12 round unanimous decision on April 17th to [...]

By Jason Kim: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (45-2-2, 24 KO’s) is now free to pursue a big money fight now that former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik has decided not to use his rematch clause in his contract and ask for a rematch with Martinez. This is more than good news for the 35-year-old [...]

May 11, 2010 – NEW YORK — HBO Sports® reported today that 1.4 million pay-per-view buys were generated from the May 1st welterweight fight between Floyd Mayweather and Sugar Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The fight was promoted by Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions.

Bronx, NY (May 11, 2010) – Maureen “The Real Million Dollar Baby” Shea will make her return to the ring this Friday, May 14 against Norma Faris at the Paradise Theater in The Bronx. The six-round scheduled bout will be Shea’s first since last August.

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) wants to show the United States how good he is by beating former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s) this Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. The problem is whether Khan wins impressively or not, he may not get the [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: 5’8” lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) says he wants to become a three weight champion, according to Boxrec news. I suppose Mitchell, 25, is counting his British and Commonwealth super featherweight titles as part of that, because it’s hard to imagine that Mitchell, with his slight build, will win a [...]

And the winner is… Nightline’s plan for tonight currently includes a profile of boxing sensation Manny Pacquiao — shot with him in his native Philippines in the run-up to a victorious congressional election.

OAKLAND (May 11, 2010) – Undefeated World Boxing Association (WBA) 168-pound champion and America’s last Olympic Gold Medalist Andre Ward (20-0, 13 KOs) takes on World-ranked contender Allan “Sweetness” Green (29-1, 20 KOs), of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the Super Six World Boxing Classic on Saturday, June 19, on SHOWTIME, promoter Dan Goossen formally announced today.

By Jim Dower: According to Alexey Potapov of Fight News, the mega clash between heavyweight champions WBA title holder David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) and IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (54-3, 48 KO’s) could take place in September of this year. Klitschko’s promotional company K2 let Fight News know that the negotiations might be complete [...]

By Trevor Cromwell: So Floyd Mayweather remains undefeated at 41-0. Congrats to him on a dominating win, but the sport of boxing still continues. With a little more than one week after his victory, many wonder what next steps he will be taking. There’s no need to name the obvious one (a fight with Manny [...]

On Friday May 14th, Golden Boy Promotions and Star Boxing, present Punchin at the Paradise 10 at the historical Paradise Theater in the Bronx. Headlining the TeleFutura “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” card is undefeated lightweight prospect, Adrien “The Problem” Broner (14-0, 11KO’s) as he squares off against “The Dominican Man” Rafael Lora (11-2, 5KO’s) over ten [...]

DAVID PRICE has returned from helping Albert Sosnowski prepare for his WBC heavyweight title showdown against Vitali Klitschko. The 6ft 8in Olympic bronze medallist (5-0) is the same size as Klitschko and become a Price-less asset in the Pole’s preparations.

He was chosen by the American Bible Box “The Ring” 2009 “Hope of the Year” in the heavyweight and is the latest since this message on everyone’s lips: Universum heavyweight Denis Boytsov (27-0-0 (22)). The unbeaten Russian, 24 years old now creates a long enforced break because he had to undergo a special operation.

LONDON(11th May) Newly crowned European Lightweight champion John Murray has set his sights on an all British mega fight against WBO interim title challenger Kevin Mitchell later this year. After landing successive killer body shots with his hooks and uppercuts Murray proved far too strong for brave warrior Welshman Gary Buckland when the referee Marcus [...]

Three heavyweight battle for the city: WBA Heavyweight Eliminator Ruslan Chagaev vs. Kali Meehan Don King is with his ex-World Champion

By William Mackay: Undefeated lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) is hoping to get by his opponent WBO lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (26-2, 21 KO’s) this Saturday night so that he can challenge the full World Boxing Organization lightweight champion 36-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (50-5-1, 37 KO’s) in the near future. There had [...]

By Jim Dower: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KO’s) made his decision on Monday to leave the middleweight division and move up in weight after meeting with his trainer Jack Loew, his father Mike Pavlik Sr., and his co-manager Cameron Dunkin, according to Vindy.com. Pavlik, 28, had problems making weight for his [...]