Archive for May, 2010

WBA Eliminator Heavyweight (12 Rounds) Ruslan Chagaev (UZB) vs. Kali Meehan (AUS) W PTS; 118:110, 117:111, 117:112

Photo credit – Carlos Baeza – By Jason Kim: Former IBF bantamweight champion Rafael Marquez (39-5, 25 KO’s) was too much for Israel Vazquez (44-5, 32 KO’s) tonight, taking him out in the 3rd round of a scheduled 12 round non-title bout at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. With Vazquez cut over both [...]

LOS ANGELES (May 22, 2010) – One of the greatest rivalries in the history of boxing ended at two victories apiece after Rafael Marquez (39-5, 35 KOs) of Mexico City decisively stopped a bloodied Israel “El Magnifico” Vazquez (44-5, 33 KOs) of Huntington Park, Calif., by way of Mexico City, at 1:33 in the third [...]

Results: Sovereign Center, Reading, Pennsylvania: Travis Kauffman TKO 2 Chris Koval

Boxing action at the Fitzgerald’s Casino & Hotel, Tunica, Mississippi: Shawn Porter TKO 5 Robert Kliewer

Photo credit – Carlos Baeza – By Sam Gregory: In the main event on tonight’s Showtime Championship Boxing from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Ca WBC super bantamweight title holder Israel Vazquez 44-4 with 32 KO’s defends his title for the fourth time against Rafael Marquez 38-5 with 34 KO’s in a scheduled 12 [...]

By Jim Dower: As expected, Rafael Marquez had too much left in the tank compared to the badly depleted Israel Vazquez, taking him out in the 3rd round on Saturday night at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Marquez cut the slow moving Vazquez in the opening round over both eyes with slashing punches, [...]

Boxing action from the Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, Connecticut: Matt Remillard TKO 4 Carlos Rivera

Boxing results: Staples Center, Los Angeles, California: Carlos Molina UD 8 Humberto Tapia

By Sean McDaniel: According to the latest news reports, World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) is looking to fight EBU heavyweight champion Audley Harrison (27-4, 20 KO’s) next. Haye, 29, and his manager/trainer Adam Booth were trying to put together a unification bout with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, but the [...]

By Giancarlo Malinconico: Floyd Mayweather first agreed, during the negotiations for a March 2010 bout, that Manny Pacquiao must undergo random blood testing up to 14 days before the fight. Now that Pacquiao has agreed to that — surprise — 14 days is not good enough, and now he is demanding that the tests be [...]

By Chris Williams: Making his first appearance in over a year, former World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev (26-1-1, 17 KO’s) easily out-pointed Australian heavyweight Kali Meehan (35-4, 29 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision in their WBA heavyweight title eliminator bout at the Stadthalle in Rostock, Germany. The final judges’ scores [...]

By Chris Williams: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) has selected wisely in picking the little known, unproven, short 6’2” Polish heavyweight Albert Sosnowski (45-2-1, 27 KO’s) to slaughter in front of what will probably be a huge captive audience next week on May 29th at the Veltins Arena, in Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

By Eric Thomas: According to Fight News, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) has ordered a title bout between unbeaten WBO light middleweight champion Sergey Dzinziruk (37-0, 23 KO’s) and WBO light middleweight interim champion Alfredo Angulo (18-1, 15 KO’s). The promoters for both Angulo and Dzinziruk have two weeks come up with an agreement for [...]

By Craig Macguinness: Amir Khan has undoubted talent. Blinding hand speed, great foot movement, and outstanding athleticism are all but a few of his strengths within the squared circle. Many have been asking for Khan to silence some of the doubters about his chin and punch resistance of which he still hasn’t answered. This has [...]

By Jim Dower: Tonight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Israel Vazquez (44-4, 32 KO’s) and Rafael Marquez (38-5, 34 KO’s) will be for the 4th time in the past three years in a fight that will likely leave both fighters bloodied and battered by the end of it. Rarely nowadays do you have [...]

By Giancarlo Malinconico: Leonard Ellerbe has stated that Floyd “Money” Mayweather does not use Xylocaine, a drug that works to numb pain. So what? Freddie Roach and others have stated that Manny Pacquiao does not take Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs). Moreover, Pacquiao has never tested positive for PEDs. But Floyd is insisting that Manny be [...]

Boxing results: Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany: Vitali Tajbert TD 9 Hector Velazquez

By Dave Lahr: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has set aside November 6th and November 13th for a mega fight between WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. for a fight that will be held in either Las Vegas or at the Cowboy Stadium, in Texas. Arum is hoping to be able to [...]

RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. (May 22, 2010) – Undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior welterweight Champion TIMOTHY “Desert Storm” BRADLEY and undefeated top-rated welterweight contender LUIS CARLOS “El Potro” Abregu will go mano-a-mano in a sizzling summer 12-round welterweight rumble Saturday, July 17, in The Show at Agua Caliente Casino • Resort • Spa (32-250 Bob [...]

By William Mackay: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) has recently said that he’d pull out of the Super Six tournament if he’s forced to fight the hard hitting Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) in the Armenian’s adopted country of Germany rather than in some other location. Yesterday, in an article [...]

By William Mackay: In his column at the Mirror.co.uk, former boxing great Barry Mcguigan thinks WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) did a fantastic job of stopping Paulie Malignaggi in the 11th round last week. Mcguigan thinks that Khan has the hand speed, size and strength to possibly move up to the [...]

By Ashley King: Hello Boxing fans, this is my first Article so please go easy on the criticism! I’ve wanted to write an article for a while now, and now I feel this is a good opportunity to express myself. Last night Ryan Rhodes defeated Luca Messi in the 6th round defended his European Light [...]

by Pavel Yakovlev: Former WB) world heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs stopped Dominique Alexander tonight at 20 seconds of the first round. Alexander was counted out after taking two devastating left hooks to the body. In total, Briggs needed only three punches to win the fight: one left hook to the head, followed by the fight-ending [...]

By William Mackay: Miguel Cotto is practically guaranteeing a win over WBA light middleweight champion Yuri Foreman in their June 5th fight at Yankee Stadium. If this was two or three years ago, I would completely agree with Cotto and believe that he would have way too much offensive firepower for the light hitting Foreman. [...]

Reading, PA (May 21, 2010) – Travis Kauffman and Chris Koval were in peak condition at the weigh-in for their fight Saturday night at the Sovereign Center in Reading, PA. Kauffman, 19-1 (15 KO), of Reading, PA weighed in at 224 while Koval, 24-6 (18 KO), of Youngstown, OH weighed in at 258. The Kauffman-Koval [...]

Boxing results – Chisholm Trail Mural Parking Lot, Fort Worth, Texas: Sharif Bogere RTD 5 Ilido Julio

Boxing action – Laredo Energy Arena, Laredo, Texas: Ji Hoon Kim TKO 1 Ameth Diaz

Results – Capitale, New York, New York: Shannon Briggs TKO 1 Dominique Alexander Michael Faragon RTD 4 Francisco Palacios Sadam Ali UD 4 Martinus Clay

By Jason Kim: In the latest boxing news, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum recently said that it would be Floyd Mayweather’s fault if the mega fight between Floyd and Manny Pacquiao doesn’t get made, because Pacquiao recently agreed to the Olympic style blood tests up until 14 days before a potential fight with Mayweather. This [...]