Archive for May, 2010

By William Mackay: Trainer Freddie Roach is impressed with his pupil, number #1 ranked WBC junior middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s), who will be fighting middleweight contender John Duddy (29-1, 18 KO’s) on June 26th in the Latin Fury 15 PPV card at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas. Dan Rafael [...]

Tomasz Adamek, the IBF International Heavyweight and NABO Heavyweight Champion, returns to Newark’s Prudential Center on Saturday, August 21st when he takes on Michael Grant as part of the acclaimed “Brick City Boxing Series.” Both titles are on the line. A native of Gilowice, Poland, now fighting out of Jersey City, Adamek has drawn record [...]

By Chris Williams: Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) is moving up in weight to take on the little known WBA light middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KO’s) on June 5th, at the Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, New York. Cotto, 29, is doing this to try and capture the WBA title and make himself [...]

OFFICIAL WEIGHTS WBO JUNIOR FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP (12) – MAIN EVENT – PPV Wilfredo Vazquez, Jr. (18-0-1, 15 KOs), WBO Jr. Featherweight Champion, Bayamon, Puerto Rico 122 LBS. vs. Zsolt Bedak (14-0-1, 12 KOs), WBO #1 Contender, Hamburg, Germany by way of Hungary 121 LBS.

By Jason Kim: Former International Boxing Federation (IBF) light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (27-4, 5 KO’s) is contemplating a move up to the welterweight division where he’s thinking about fighting in Italy against the EBU welterweight champion, a position currently held by Matthew Hatton (39-4-2, 15 KO’s), the brother of Ricky Hatton. In an article [...]

OFFICIAL WEIGHTS WBC HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP (12) – MAIN EVENT – PPV Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KOs), WBC Champion, Los Angeles, California, USA by way of Ukraine 247 LBS. vs. Albert Sosnowski (45-2-1, 27 KOs), Challenger, Brentwood, Essex, United Kingdom way of Poland 224 LBS.

By Sean McDaniel: Brendan Smith, the trainer for World Boxing Organization interim champion Michael Katsidis (27-2, 22 KO’s), says he doesn’t think that WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) will take the fight against the 29-year-old Katsidis. In an article at BBC Sport, Smith says “I really don’t see it happening. This [...]

Former NABF and NABA lightweight champion Edner “Cherry Bomb” Cherry, 27-6-2 (15), is looking to continue his winning streak to four, as he steps back into the ring on June 4th, at the Ala Carte Pavilion in Tampa, Fl. Cherry will be taking on upset specialist and former NABA featherweight title holder Johnnie Edwards, 15-5 [...]

Photo credit: Pavel Terekhov – By Jim Dower: It’s scary sometimes when a totally over-matched opponent is acting and talking overly confident before a fight where they have almost zero chance of winning. This description would fit Polish heavyweight Alberto Sosnowski (45-2-1, 27 KO’s) perfectly as he prepares for Saturday’s fight against World Boxing Council [...]

BOB ARUM: It is unquestionable that Miguel Cotto is the most popular fighter in New York. He has demonstrated that year after year with tremendous crowds at Madison Square Garden and now he has the honor and privilege of fighting at the Home of Champions. Everybody in New York is talking about his fight with [...]

By Babatis Banda: Enough with the accusations, the name calling and rivalry that clearly developed over the past few months as a result of the failed negotiations between the Philippine star, Manny Pacquiao and one American boxer, Floyd Mayweather Junior. While there has been a heated debate about the failed negotiations for months, there are [...]

Carl Moretti, Vice President/Top Rank: * “This is a marathon, not a sprint” * “What none of us in this room saw was the work Mike put into his pro debut” * “It begins Saturday night. One fight, one round, one opponent.”

Former Commonwealth, European and British title holder Esham Pickering says he is positive that he will lift the Prizefighter Super Bantamweight trophy at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Saturday night. The 33 year-old fighter is the most experienced boxer in the latest of Barry Hearn’s eight-man, one night events and he is itching to get [...]

WBC World Heavyweight Champion and his opponent Albert Sosnowski stepped on the scales at Karstadt sports in Essen, Germany, today. Here are the weighs: Vitali Klitschko 247 lbs/ 112.0 kilograms Albert Sosnowski 224 lbs / 101.8 kilograms

This Saturday night, European heavyweight champion, Albert “The Dragon” Sosnowski (45-2-1, 27KO) will be looking to become the first ever Polish Heavyweight Champion, when he takes on WBC heavyweight king, Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37KO) at Veltins Arena, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The 31-year-old Polish native Sosnowski is promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing (USA), Keyspan Media [...]

HEAVYWEIGHT champion Vitali Klitschko is just 1-25 on Betfair to successfully defend his WBC title when he squares up to Albert Sosnowski on Saturday night in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The hard-hitting Ukrainian is 2-13 to knock-out his opponent and 11-1 to do so inside the first round. Entering the ring with odds of 18-1, Sosnowski is [...]

Prizefighter Super Bantamweights is just one day away at York Hall, Bethnal Green – and Jamie Arthur believes that the winner could be one step away from a British title shot. The former Commonwealth gold medallist steps into the ring in Barry Hearn’s latest eight-man, one night tournament for the first time since losing a [...]

PHILADELPHIA (May 28, 2010)—On Friday night, June 4th boxing returns to The Legendary Blue Horizon with a great night of professional boxing as well as a celebration of Vernoca L. Michael’s sixty-fifth birthday. The card is promoted by Blue Horizon Boxing Promotions LLC and SAM Promotions.

Steve “USS” Cunningham (22-2, 11 KOs) has moved his training camp to Berlin´s famed Max-Schmeling-Gym where the former champion continues his preparation for the showdown with Troy Ross (23-1, 16 KOs). The duo will clash for the vacant IBF Cruiserweight Title in Neubrandenburg, Germany on June 5 when Cunningham makes his first fight under the [...]

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) could be matched against a couple of lightweights in his next two fights if his promoter Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions has his way. Khan, 23, instead of being pitted against dangerous light welterweights in his division, would possibly be facing lightweights [...]

By Dave Lahr: Trainer Freddie Roach prides himself in his ability to dissect his fighter’s opponents and come up with a plan to beat them. Roach is usually blessed with talented fighters in matches that they are almost guaranteed to win even before the first punch is thrown. However, I think Roach is going to [...]

By Eric Thomas: The June 5th bout between former WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) and the current World Boxing Association junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KO’s) is reportedly doing well in terms of ticket sales for the bout which will be taking place at Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, New [...]

LOS ANGELES, May 27 – HBO Plus’ “Next Boxing Generation” returns for its 17th episode this Friday, May 28, as welterweight contender Sebastian “Iron” Lujan defends his home turf of Argentina against Colombia’s Jailer “Reggeton” Berrio in the 10 round main event for the WBC Latino welterweight title at the Estadio Universidad Technologica in Santa [...]

By Jim Dower: Heavyweight contender David Tua (51-3-1, 43 KO’s) will be stepping up the quality of his opposition ever so slightly on July 17th when he faces former heavyweight contender Monte Barrett (34-9, 20 KO’s) at the Tropicana Hotel & Casino, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It’s been ages since the 37-year-old Tua has [...]

QUEBEC CITY, CANADA (May 27, 2010) Top welterweight prospect Mikael Zewski will face veteran John Hoffman in a scheduled four round bout in his Canadian debut Friday night, May 28th, at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City.

Friday, June 25 at the Santa Ana Star Casino in Bernalillo, NM “Comanche Boy” George Tahdooahnippah (23-0-1) will face undefeated Fernando Guerrero, (18-0) of Salisbury, Maryland. Their 10 round middleweight bout will be aired LIVE on “ShoBox, The New Generation” as the Main Event of the evening. The card is promoted by Lou DiBella.

CHICAGO, IL (May 27, 2010) Former Notre Boxing Captain and 2009 Chicago Golden Gloves Champion Mike Lee held an open workout for the local media and fans at JABB Boxing Gym in Chicago on Wednesday afternoon.

By Chris Williams: In looking at the undercard of the June 5th bout between WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman vs. challenger Miguel Cotto, I can’t see much there that’s appealing besides the main event. The one notable fight on the undercard is unbeaten light middleweight contenders Vanes Martirosyan (27-0, 17 KO’s) vs. Joe Greene [...]

Photo credit: Pavel Terekhov – By Dan Ambrose: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) has the perfect opponent for him to beat up on this Saturday night in facing Alberto Sosnowski (45-2-1, 27 KO’s) at the Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Sosnowski, 31, is totally unproven at the world level, with many of [...]

“FISTS OF STEEL” PPV FACT SHEET WBC HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MAIN EVENT – 12 ROUNDS Vitali “Dr. Ironfist” KLITSCHKO ALBERT “The Dragon” SOSNOWSKI