Archive for June, 2010

Newly-crowned IBF Cruiserweight Champion Steve “USS” Cunningham will travel to Canastota, NY this weekend to attend the Hall of Fame Induction Festivities. The 33-year-old regained his old title last Saturday when he stopped Troy Ross in his first fight under the promotional banner of Team Sauerland. German promoter Wilfried Sauerland is among the “Class of [...]

By William Mackay: Former World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) has ruled out another two countries where he doesn’t want to fight his next Super Six tournament opponent Arthur Abraham. Froch now doesn’t want to fight Abraham in Monaco or Poland. Froch has already said he didn’t want to fight [...]

By William Mackay: Former two-time champion Ricky Hatton has been out of action for over a year now since being stopped in a brutal 2nd round knockout a year ago against Manny Pacquiao in May 2009. Once in shape, muscular and lean, Hatton is now fleshy, rotund and carrying around 50 to 60 extra pounds [...]

By Eric Thomas: IBF mandatory contender undefeated Alexander Povetkin (19-0, 14 KO’s) would like to fight IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (54-3, 48 KO’s) in Moscow, Russia. However, Klitschko, 34, will likely prefer the fight to take place in Germany where he fights most of his fights. Currently, the September 11th fight is tentatively scheduled [...]

by boxingboy: WBC# 12 ranked Terdsak “pit bull” Kokietgym (aka Terdsak Jandaeng), who is currently WBO oriental junior lightweight and interim WBC Asia super featherweight champions of Thailand, eyes to speed up his WBC world raking after receiving the new planning to challenge the World Boxing Council International super featherweight title in the near future.

After more than 30 years in boxing, Wilfried Sauerland will officially be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York this weekend. Boxing-Online.com has caught up with the German promoter to speak about the biggest honour in boxing, the celebrations and the future of Team Sauerland. Q: Congratulations, Wilfried Sauerland. What [...]

Moments after hearing that his dreams of a world title had been confirmed, Jason Booth spoke exclusively to Frank Maloney’s press officer Andy Scott. Jason Booth meets Steve Molitor for the IBF super bantamweight championship next month after a deal was reached to bring the title fight to England on July 23rd.

JASON BOOTH will fulfil a boxing dream when he challenges Canadian Steve Molitor for the IBF world super-bantamweight title next month. The Nottingham star (35-5) will meet southpaw Molitor (32-1) on Friday July 23 at a venue in England that promoter Frank Maloney will confirm later this week.

Slough’s Ian Bailey is set to face the heavily touted prospect Carl Frampton on the undercard of, the Matchroom Sports promoted, Paul McCloskey’s European Light Welterweight title defense against veteran Italian Giuseppe Lauri at the King’s Hall In Belfast on Friday 11th June.

Ricky Hatton backed Prizefighter as a great way for young boxers to get a foot in the door of the big-time – as D-Day for the public vote for the final fighter to take their spot at Prizefighter Super-Middleweights on June 30 approaches.

Former Park District Superintendent Ed Kelly gave the Muhammad Ali Athlete Award belt to Frank Spula, President of the Chicago-based Polish National Alliance. Spula will be presenting the belt and the Muhammad Ali Athlete Award to legendary Polish boxer Tomasz Adamek at the 36th Annual Giants Awards dinner June 28th at the White Eagle Banquet [...]

European Champion Paul McCloskey and Giuseppe Lauri come face to face for the first time outside The King’s Hall earlier today ahead of their title fight on Friday’s Yanjing Beer Fight Night. Photo: Hugh Russell / Irish News.

By William Mackay: Adam Booth, the manager/trainer for WBA heavyweight champion David Haye seems to understand the predicament Haye’s in right now in trying to decide which fighter to take next. Boxing fans want Haye to fight the Klitschko brothers, but Haye and Booth are seeing how popular a fight against Audley Harrison would be [...]

By Jason Kim: Trainer Emanuel Steward is less than thrilled at IBF/WBO Wladimir Klitschko’s next opponent Alexander Povetkin, who Klitschko will be defending his titles against in September of this year. Steward, naturally, would much prefer to see Wladimir fight WBA heavyweight champion David Haye, but Steward doesn’t think that fight will ever happen because [...]

By Jim Dower: Last Saturday’s bout between Miguel Cotto and WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman brought in HBO its highest ratings of the year, bringing in a rating of 3.9 for the bout which took place at Yankee Stadium, in New York. This is somewhat of a surprise because Foreman, 29, isn’t a well [...]

By William Mackay: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) has been a hard one to please recently after losing his last fight to Mikkel Kessler by a 12 round decision on April 24th. Froch thought he should have been given the decision in the Kessler fight. Few people agree with Froch [...]

By William Mackay: Incredibly, number #1 ranked WBC junior middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. could find himself fighting Miguel Cotto if Julio can beat John Duddy on June 26th in their fight at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has a number of fight scenarios for Cotto for his [...]

By Jim Dower: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, former World Boxing Association junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-1, 8 KO’s) is going to be having surgery performed on him to remove torn cartilage from his right knee, which was injured in the 7th round of his 9th round TKO loss against Miguel Cotto (35-2, [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to Fightnews.com, the management of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is saying that there’s no interest on his part in fighting Audley Harrison next. Apparently, Harrison had been quoted saying that Klitschko’s people had contacted him about a fight. This was quickly cleared up by Klitschko manager Bernd Bonte, who denied [...]

By Chris Williams: At Tuesdays’ media conference call between Allan Green and Andre Ward, both fighters got to chime in on their thoughts about their upcoming June 19th stage 2 Super Six bout at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, California. Green, 30, seems really comfortable stepping in to replace the departing Jermain Taylor, saying “I [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto’s trainer Emanuel Steward says he would prefer not to reward Antonio Margarito with a rematch after Margarito was found to have a plaster-like substance on his hand wraps before his fight with Shane Mosley last year in January. Steward, who recently started training Cotto, says he would prefer that Cotto [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye could end up facing Audley Harrison in October if Haye isn’t able to negotiate a fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. If Haye can’t put together a mega fight between him and Wladimir, then Haye will move ahead and fight former 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist Harrison [...]

By Matt Stein: Light heavyweight Chad Dawson (29-0, 17 KO’s) will have been out of the ring for nine months by the time he fights WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (25-1, 16 KO’s) on August 14th at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. Dawson, 27, last fought in November, 2009, defeating Glen Johnson by [...]

TAMPA, FL: One Punch Productions is pleased to announce that the next installment of the popular Ballroom Brawl series will take place on Friday, July 16, in the Grand Ballroom at the Tampa Westshore Doubletree Hotel.

ANDRE WARD: “My right knee is fine. We’ve had no issues with the knee throughout our entire training camp. Coming off of surgery there are certain things you need to do in rehabilitation just to keep the muscles and the hamstring and all the different muscles that wrap around the knee; just keeping them strong. [...]

BAY ST. LOUIS, MS – Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis announced that the winning team at “Brawlin in N’awlins” lead by boxing promoter Leslie Bonano will host another exciting boxing event at the casino on Saturday, July, 10th at 8p.m. “This card will showcase exciting and outstanding pro boxing and introduce ‘new blood’ as well [...]

By Jason Kim: Last Saturday night, Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) resurrected his floundering career with a 9th round stoppage win over WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman at Yankee Stadium. Cotto showed much better defensive skills, movement and the use of his jab than he had in any one fight in his nine-year pro [...]

By Eric Thomas: World heavyweight champions Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko have their faces on a stamp in their native Ukraine, according to Fight News. Apparently 170,000 of the stamps are going to be created with a value of $1.50. The Klitschko brother having their faces on the head of a stamp isn’t that surprising, though, [...]

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Over 200 of the top 15 and 16-year-old boxers from across the nation are currently making their final preparations before traveling to Camp Lejeune, N.C., for the 2010 USA Boxing Junior National Championships, June 14-18, at the Goettge Memorial Field House.

By Sean McDaniel: Gareth Williams, the CEO of Hatton Promotions, thinks that Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) needs to make a comeback to bring back discipline to his life. In an article by Gareth Davies of the Telegraph.co.uk, Williams says “The more time I spend with Ricky, the more I think he will fight again. [...]