Archive for May, 2010

By Jim Dower: The IBF’s deadline passed for IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko to put together a unification bout with World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye a few days ago. Wladimir and his management team will now start looking to put together a fight against the IBF mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin. Wladimir was hoping [...]

MAIN EVENT – FEATHERWEIGHTS – 12 ROUNDS Israel VAZQUEZ vs. Rafael MARQUEZ Mexico City, MEX Mexico City, MEX 44-4 (33 KO’s) 38-5 (34 KO’s) Weight: 125.5 lbs. Weight: 125.5 lbs.

Boxing results from the Ponds Forge Arena, Sheffield, Yorkshire: Ryan Rhodes TKO 6 Luca Messi

By Jose Sulaiman: The World Unfair to Boxing Idols. How sad, but also how exemplary the life of Joaquin Capilla, the greatest Mexican Olympic medalist, with four medals in three games, while being the absolute best diver during close to 10 years. He studied architecture at the UNAM, but abandoned his studies to dedicate totally [...]

By Eric Thomas: In an article at Boxingtalk.com, trainer Nacho Beristain says that his fighter Juan Manuel Marquez received an offer from Manny Pacquiao’s promotional team Top Rank, but says it was a “miserable deal,” one that he didn’t want to take. He pointed out that it wasn’t an official offer, but he wasn’t willing [...]

CANASTOTA, NY –MAY 21, 2010 – The International Boxing Hall of Fame announced today veteran broadcaster Al Bernstein will attend festivities planned for the 21st Annual Hall of Fame Induction Weekend set for June 10-13th.

Art Pelullo/Banner Promotions, Thompson Boxing Promotions, and Hector Garcia/HG Boxing will present a sensational fight card on Saturday, May 29, 2010, at the Tecate Boxing Tour Arena in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Featured fights will be televised on Televisa.

By Dave Lahr: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum thinks that 14 days of no random blood testing is reasonable, according to Yahoo Sports. Arum says “Fourteen days should give them [the United States Anti-Doping Agency] plenty of time to do what they need to do, especially in light of what they did with Mayweather and [...]

By Dave Lahr: If WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KO’s) wants a fight with unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0, 25 KO’s), then he better be prepared to undergo Olympic style blood testing all the way up until the fight, and not just until 14 days before the fight. In an article by Michael [...]

LOS ANGELES, CA (May 21, 2010) Advance tickets are now on sale as TKO Boxing Promotions presents FIGHT NIGHT AT THE COMMERCE 3, “FULLY STACKED” on Thursday, June 3rd at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles.

By Chris Williams: Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek (41-1, 27 KO’s) is looking to fight 37-year-old former heavyweight title challenger Michael Grant (46-3, 34 KO’s) next, according to news from Thenews.pl. There is a “98 percent” chance that the fight will happen between Grant and Adamek for possibly August or September 2010. Grant has reportedly accepted [...]

By William Mackay: It’s been a year since Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) was blasted apart by Manny Pacquiao in a humiliating 2nd round knockout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Instead of getting back on the horse, getting some tune-up fights and beating some quality fighters, Hatton has stayed away from the [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) says he will consider retirement if he loses his stage 3 Super Six tournament fight to power puncher Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s), whom he fights in September at a still to be determined location. Froch was defeated by Denmark’s [...]

Until earlier this year, Kevin Cestone was a trader working downtown in his native Chicago. That’s when life caught hit him with a shot in the solar plexus. The 39-year-old says the sagging economy and his responsibilities as a single father of three small children forced him to leave his job, move back in with [...]

Jamie Arthur says that defeat at Prizefighter Super Bantamweights at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Saturday May 29 will spell the end of his career. The 2002 Commonwealth Games winner fought Martin Lindsay for the British featherweight title in March and although Lindsay won on points, he praised the Welshman for his character after the [...]

MARTIN LINDSAY is just one win away from a shot at IBF featherweight champion Orlando Salido. The British champion has been matched in an IBF eliminator against Australian Billy Dib with the winner guaranteed to become mandatory contender for the Mexican’s title.

By Jim Dower: Naazim Richardson, the trainer for Shane Mosley, thinks that World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan is a bigger puncher than Floyd Mayweather Jr. That’s kind of amusing because Khan doesn’t look like that big of a puncher and recently needed 11 rounds to take out Paulie Malignaggi last weekend at [...]

By Dave Lahr: According to news from Philboxing.com, the random blood tests used by the U.S Anti Doping Agency for the May 1st Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley bout were last done 18 to 19 days before their fight. Frankly, I don’t believe that at all. Until I hear from another source, I’m going [...]

By Dave Lahr: Okay, Manny Pacquiao has finally agreed to take the Olympic style random blood tests up to 14 days before the fight, but that’s the old negotiations with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Things have changed a lot in the last few months and Mayweather has pretty much established that he’s the cash cow of [...]

(Orange, CA – May 20) Undefeated WBC #2 ranked Juan Carlos Burgos has set up training camp in the Jalisco capital of Guadalajara, Mexico, as he prepares for his duel with experienced Ricardo Castillo on May 29th on “Road to the Title” an event promoted by HG Boxing in association with Thompson Boxing Promotions and [...]

By Sean McDaniel: With the May 17th deadline passed that the IBF set for IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBA heavyweight champion David Haye to agree to a fight it’s now looking like there won’t be a fight between them. Haye, 29, has reportedly said for Wladimir to go ahead and fight his mandatory [...]

UNCASVILLE, CT (May 20, 2010) Undefeated Canadian junior lightweight prospect Logan McGuinness will make his debut in the United States this Saturday, May 22nd against Columbian veteran Walter Estrada as part of the TKO Boxing Promotions’ “HOMETOWN HEROES TO WORLD CHAMPIONS” event at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT.

Uncasville, CT, (May 20, 2010) Angel “Toro” Hernandez is shown arriving at the Mohegan Sun two days ahead of his Saturday showdown against Peter “The Pride of Providence’ Manfredo for the vacant IBO Middleweight Title.

By Jason Kim: Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) has shown some nifty boxing skills in some of his fights, but mostly he’s a guy that has gotten over with his fast hands and big punching power. He’s a good boxer and moves well, but he’s not quite in the class of other Super Six tournament [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Amir Khan could have easily raked lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (31-1, 23 KO’s) over the coals for his 3rd round knockout loss to Michael Katsidis last weekend at Upton Park. Instead, Khan consoled Mitchell, saying “I have heard his preparation and training wasn’t fight and he had a lot of problems beforehand,” [...]

By Jim Dower: As I was looking over the rankings, I noticed that light middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) is ranked at number #1 by the WBC for the light middleweight division. I know that having an unbeaten record helps in ranking, but I don’t quite understand how the 24-year-old Chavez [...]

By Jim Dower: Justin Fortune, a former trainer for Manny Pacquiao, thinks Manny should go ahead and take the Olympic style random blood tests that Floyd Mayweather Jr. wants. In an interview by Ellie Seckbach of Boxing.fanhouse.com, Fortune says “I have no problems with Mayweather asking for drug tests for any fight. Every other sport [...]

By Chris Williams: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) isn’t sure whether WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) is willing to fight him or his brother IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. Vitali says “Fights against David Haye and Nikolay Valuev are interesting fights, but I am not sure if they dare [...]

By William Mackay: I was somewhat surprised to learn that Golden Boy Promotions are considering matching WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) up with Michael Katsidis. The reason why is because Khan only last week had this to say about Katsidis: “Katsidis is finished, washed up fighter.” Why would Khan be interested [...]

By Chris Williams: World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KO’s) is reportedly willing to take the Olympic style random blood tests that Floyd Mayweather Jr. wants before he’ll fight Pacquiao, according to the Manila Bulletin. This is a major breakthrough in helping to put together a fight between Pacquiao and Mayweather, [...]