Archive for June, 2010

By Sean McDaniel: Promoter Frank Warren canceled his card matching Michael Jennings vs. John O’Donnell, which was supposed to take place on July 3rd. O’Donnell injured his back and can’t make the fight. This card has had bad luck recently, as Kell Brook was supposed to be Jennings’ original opponent, but he too injured himself [...]

By Jason Kim: Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) is hoping to get a rematch with Manny Pacquiao if his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t take place. Cotto, 29, defeated Yuri Foreman on June 5th to capture the world Boxing Association junior middleweight title. This was certainly a good comeback fight for Cotto, because he [...]

All the opponents have bee chosen for this Saturday, June 19′s professional boxing event at the Niagara Fall Conference Center in Niagara Falls, New York. Hosted by X-Cel Worldwide in association with The Empire Sports and Entertainment, “The Rock Returns” will feature seven action-packed bouts showcasing many of the area’s best with some of the [...]

PROVIDENCE (June 15, 2010) – Red-hot lightweight prospect “Hammerin’” Hank Lundy, rated No. 13 by the World Boxing Association, makes his first title defense against challenger John John “The Hammer” Molina (20-1, 16 KOs) in the 12-round main event July 9 on “Let Freedom Ring,” presented live on ESPN Friday Night Fights by Jimmy Burchfield’s [...]

BRONER vs CLAUDIO Saturday June 19, 2010 at the Taft Theater located at 317 E 5th Street, in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio R&R Promotions is proud to present FIREWORKS Fathers Day Weekend Explosion. This great night of boxing features Cincinnati’s own Adrien “The Problem” Broner (15-0 12 KO’s) as the Main Event. Broner will be fighting [...]

Cork’s Cuban sensation’s Alexei Acosta, Luis Garcia and Mike Perez will be looking for a hat trick of wins on Saturday, June 26th when they look to extend their unbeaten records on the Yanjing Beer Fight Night at The Neptune Stadium in their adopted city.

FRANK MALONEY believes John McDermott must have done wrong in a previous life. Few heavyweight have has such bad luck as McDermott who goes for revenge against English heavyweight champion Tyson Fury at the Brentwood Centre on Friday 25th June. There was widespread condemnation of the verdict when Manchester’s Fury was gifted a points decision [...]

Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, June 15, 2010 — The Milan World Series of Boxing (WSB) franchise is proud to announce the recruitment of some of Italy’s best boxers for the national contingent of its team. The Milan team will boast the winner of AIBA’s 2009 Best Boxer Award, Domenico Valentino. The 26 year-old from Marcianise scooped up [...]

WBO Cruiserweight Champion Marco “Captain” Huck (29-1, 22 KOs) will take on Matt Godfrey (20-1, 10 KOs) in Erfurt on August 21. It will already be his fourth title defence. “Godfrey is a tough fighter, but he will not get my title,” Huck said. “I want to keep impressing the fans all over the world [...]

By Sam Owens: Floyd Mayweather Jr (41-0, 25 KO’s), Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KO’s). The most highly anticipated match up so far this century. The mouth watering boxing skills possessed by Mayweather, built together of his electrifying hand speed, pin point precision and a water tight defence, against the ferociously fast Pacquiao, armed with relentless [...]

15th June 2010: With stars such as David Haye and Amir Khan, Britain continues to boast some of the world’s best boxing talent, and ESPN Classic has announced the launch of a new series which celebrates Britain’s rich boxing heritage.

By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news, former bantamweight and super bantamweight champion Rafael Marquez (35-5, 34 KO’s) will be fighting World Boxing Organization featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (28-0, 25 KO’s) on September 18th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Jim Dower: Emanuel Steward, the new trainer for WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s), thinks a rematch between Cotto and WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao would be very different compared to their previous fight in November 2009. In that bout, Cotto was hopelessly out of his class, as Pacquiao totally dominated [...]

By Kirk Jackson: After his decisive defeat to Sergio Martinez in his most recent fight at middleweight, Kelly Pavlik has decided to move up in weight from 160 pounds, to 168 or 175 pounds. Some are wondering, Why the move up in weight? There has been talk Pavlik has been having a lot of trouble [...]

LOS ANGELES, CA-Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles is pleased to announce that top junior welterweight prospect, “Vicious” Victor Ortiz, has agreed to join forces with the agency to fight for the future of our local youth, by serving as a spokesperson for the agency and encouraging more responsible adults to become Big [...]

Female boxing star Keisher “Fire” Mcleod-Wells steps back into the ring on July 28th at New York’s BB Kings Blues Club & Grill in Times Square. Mcleod-Wells returns to the location of her last bout where she dominated the undefeated Mexican fighter Laura Gomez on the 31st of March.

By Jason Kim: Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) starts off the Super Six tournament already behind because he’s replacing Jermain Taylor, who had zero points at the time he left the tournament. Green, 30, will be facing the younger Andre Ward (21-0, 13 KO’s) on June 19th at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland. Green realizes [...]

ORANGE, June 14 –The last time Reynoso and Ambriz entered the ring the two fighters walked out having proven their stick-to-itiveness but were not able to reach a resolution as to who was the superior pugilist when their 8-round fight went to the score cards and ended in a draw.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (June 14, 2010) – After sparring with world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko for three weeks in Austria, Hartford heavyweight prospect Tony “TNT” Grano returned home for a week before shuffling off to Buffalo for training camp to prepare for his Saturday night, June 26 headlining fight on the “Pride & Power” boxing card, [...]

Newmarket, Suffolk’s boxing fireman Matt Jack is back in action this Saturday, against Luton’s Marco Stephenson, at the Steve Goodwin promoted “Summer Fight Night Explosion” at the famous York Hall In Bethnal Green London.

After recently losing a 12 round competitive decision to top ranked contender Karo Murat (22-0) in Germany, WBA#14 light heavy Tommy Karpency (19-2-1) returns to the ring on Friday at the Wheeling Island Casino & Racetrack in the main event. Promoted by Jerry Thomas’ West Virginia Sports Promotions, the undercard will begin at 7:30PM and [...]

TONY ‘Sugar’ Salam has made history by becoming the first boxer to be voted into a Prizefighter event. Londoner Salam, 26, was victorious in the public vote and will now be competing in Prizefighter Super-Middleweights at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, on Wednesday, June 30.

Wilfried Sauerland received the biggest honour in boxing on Sunday night when he was officially inducted into the Hall of Fame. The 70-year-old promoter is the first German since all-time great Max Schmeling to have his lifetime achievements recognized in Canastota, New York. “I will never forget this day,” Sauerland said. “To be up there [...]

Sergio “The Latin Snake” Mora (22-1-1, KOs) is set to return to the ring on July 23rd at Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, CA. The bout will be the main event televised by Telefutura. The “Latin Snake” will be taking on tough veteran Juan Carlos Candelo (30-10-4, 20KOs) of Columbia. The Columbian has been [...]

It was formally announced this past weekend at the Boxing Hall of Fame inductions The World Famous 5th Street Gym, which was first opened in 1950 by Chris Dundee and his brother Angelo, is once again going to reopen in its original home. Although the original building was torn down on the corner of 5th [...]

(Tacoma, WA) Brian Halquist Productions and the Emerald Queen Casino bring world class pro-boxing back to the Northwest, Saturday June 19, 2010 with Battle at the Boat 77! The event will feature the return of former ESPN Contender star Walter “2 guns” Wright (13-3, 7 KO’s) which will lead up to an explosive main event, [...]

By Babatis Banda: As good as they may be or as hyped as they may be, these are two popular but hesitant boxers of the modern times. Whichever way you may want to look at it, or whoever you are siding with, there are questions on both sides that may never have satisfying answers. These [...]

PHILADELPHIA (June 13, 2010)—On Sunday it was a special afternoon of boxing as Aaron Pryor highlighted a four bout card with a sixth round stoppage over gritty Willis Lockett at the Hyatt Regency on the Philadelphia Waterfront. The show was promoted by Joey Eye Boxing in association with Gulfstream Sports and Entertainment.

Photo Courtesy: Pisit (Sin) Juachan (KKG’s staff) – by Boxing-Boy: The current WBA #15 ranked and interim PABA light flyweight title holder Paipharob Kokietgym (6-0, 5 KO’s) showed his talent and power to destroy the RP fighter, Ryan Maliteg (15-10-1, 6 KO”s), in round 2 and captured the vacant Interim WBO Asia-Pacific junior flyweight belt [...]

By Chris Williams: It’s still difficult to really grade whether there was any significant improvement in Miguel Cotto’s game from his last fight against Yuri Foreman on June 5th. On the one hand, Cotto’s new trainer Emanuel Steward had him using his jab and throwing to the body compared to how Cotto had been fighting [...]