Archive for June, 2010

By Ryan Dunn: I thought it would be an interesting challenge to figure out who is more popular between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Was there someone with a magic formula to answer the question once and for all? I wasn’t concerned with who was the better boxer, since that cannot be definitively proven. [...]

By William Mackay: According to Boxing Talk, unbeaten Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO’s) will be facing Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) and Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) will be fighting Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) on September 25th in a Super Six tournament doubleheader with both fights occurring in different venues.

By Dave Lahr: The latest news going around is that Manny Pacquiao won’t agree to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. unless he gets a 50-50 split of the revenue for the fight. In an article at Philstar.com, Pacquiao says “If it’s going to be a 50-50 split, the fight will definitely push through. Right now, it’s [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Super Six contestant Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) was impressed with WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward’s win over Super Six replacement opponent Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) last Saturday night in Oakland, saying “I knew it was going to be a clinic. If Green didn’t bring damage to Ward early then [...]

By Jim Dower: Unbeaten Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) will be making his first appearance with new trainer Freddie Roach this Saturday night against middleweight fringe contender John Duddy (29-1, 18 KO’s) at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas. Chavez and Duddy will be fighting for the vacant WBC Silver belt, one of [...]

On Saturday July 17th, Star Boxing returns to the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, NJ with a sizzling heavyweight showdown, when David Tua (51- 3-1, 43 KO’s) squares off against and Monte “Two Gunz” Barrett (34-9, 20 KO’s) in what is expected to be an all-out war of heavy-hitting, former world title challengers.

By William Mackay: Former IBF/WBA/WBC light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver (27-6, 19 KO’s) announced last Saturday night that he plans on moving up from the light heavyweight division and skipping the cruiserweight division entirely in going after WBA heavyweight champion David Haye, WBC champion Vitali Klitschko and IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in the heavyweight [...]

LAS VEGAS, NV (June 21, 2010) Sensational amateur prospect Alantez “TEZ” Fox has signed with TKO Boxing Promotions, it was announced today by its CEO Chris Middendorf. “Alantez is one of the best, young amateur prospects in the world and we’re very excited to welcome him to the TKO Boxing team” said Middendorf. “He’s a [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: After predicting a win for Allan Green in his fight against World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight champion Andre Ward this past weekend in their Super Six tournament bout, Carl Froch was less than complimentary about Ward’s performance in the fight. Speaking to Livefight.com, the former WBC super middleweight champion Froch said [...]

By Ryan Dunn: Emmanuel B. Villaruel, reporter for the Filipino newspaper The Freeman, recently spoke with Manny Pacquiao at his suite at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino. Pacquiao was in Cebu City with his family for Father’s Day, his first visit to the city since he was elected congressman. From what we can [...]

By Marc Gliddon: For years I have thought Kelly Pavlik (36,2 32KOs), and Carl Froch (26,1 20KOs) have many things in common. Both men have won world titles at a time of weak competition and against questionable opposition, both men favour conventional straight power shots over boxing skills and both men come from traditional white [...]

By Babatis Banda: There are a number of fighters, who hold a clean record in boxing today, and there are a number of fighters who retired with a clean record and yet, none of them are like, or near Floyd Mayweather Junior. He has created an image for himself that either you will find repulsive [...]

by Boxing-Boy: “Soy Nae” Usanakorn Kokeitgym who is a current WBC female bantamweight champion of Thailand has a scheduled to make her fist defence against the Chinese challenger that was reported to be Mei Gui Wen at City Hall temporary boxing stadium in Nakorn Ratchasima, Thailand on July 29, 2010.

Promoter Steve Goodwin came up trumps again on Saturday night with his ‘Summer Fight Night Explosion’ show at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London. The only downer being the cancellation of the main event,Yassine El Maachi versus Dee Mitchell, due to El Maachi, who recently recovered from a virus that kept him out of [...]

Former British Super Bantamweight champion Matthew Marsh is to fight for the vacant Commonwealth (British Empire) belt against unbeaten prospect Kris Hughes. The Marsh-Hughes title clash is scheduled to be on the undercard of the Frank Maloney promoted IBF Super Bantamweight World Title fight between Steve Molitor and Jason Booth at the Rainton Meadows Arena, [...]

From WBC President José Sulaimán: I regret to inform of a day of mourning for the boxing family for the passing away in Karachi of Anwar Chowdri of Pakistan, the former President of AIBA. His wife and family were at his side when he passed away. Mr. Chowdri was a fine friend of the WBC, [...]

Barry McGuigan has called for the Prizefighter Super Middleweights to match the heart and strength of Willie “Big Bang” Casey when the aim to lift the trophy on Wednesday June 30, live on Sky Sports.

American’s Jason Barnett and Demetrius Davis cross the Atlantic this week intent on ending the unbeaten runs of Cork based Cuban’s Mike Perez and Luis Garcia. The duo along with compatriot Alexei Acosta feature on the Yanjing Beer Fight Night at the Neptune Stadium in Cork on Saturday as they feature on “The Undefeated’s”.

It hardly gets any closer than this. At today’s purse bid for the European heavyweight championship between Alexander Dimitrenko and Denis Bakhtov in Rome, ARENA outbid Universum by only 200,- Euros. ARENA’s offer of 157,000.- Euro were slightly enough to make sure that Universum (156,800.- Euro) cannot stage the fight as planned on their last [...]

ARENA, Universum and German Titov expected to place their offers Tomorrow (Monday, June 21) at noon the European Boxing Union EBU will hold a purse bid ceremony for the vacant European heavyweight championship between Alexander Dimitrenko and Denis Bakhtov at the EBU office in Rome.

By Jason Kim: Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) brought up his weight as a partial excuse for his one-sided 12 round unanimous decision loss to WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KOs) on Saturday night in their Super Six tournament fight in Oakland, California. Green was never in the fight, and was roughed [...]

By Jason Kim: Former World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman (47-7-2, 38 KO’s) continued with his two fight comeback with a 4th round TKO win over Shannon Miller (16-5, 9 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Niagara Falls Conference Centre, in Niagara Falls, New York. Rahman, 37, dropped the 36-year-old Miller four times [...]

By Jim Dower: Omar Nino (29-3-2, 11 KO’s) defeated World Boxing Council light flyweight champion Rodel Mayol (26-5-2, 20 Ko’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision to capture the WBC title on Saturday night at the Plaza De Toros Del Recento Expositor in San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico. The final judges’ scores were 115-112, [...]

OAKLAND (June 19, 2010) – Andre Ward retained his World Boxing Association (WBA) 168-pound championship and undefeated record by way of unanimous decision over Allan Green in his second straight commanding performance in the Super Six World Boxing Classic. In front of his hometown crowd of 8,797 at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Ward (22-0, [...]

by S.Warren: Travelling to Germany and getting a win is not the easiest thing to do for a British fighter but Ashley ‘Treasure’ Theophane has achieved that feat four times over the last few years. On Saturday 19th June, Theophane captured the IBO International Welterweight Title pounding out a victory against Afghan Harasch Hotaki. The [...]

Photo Credit: Goosen Tutor – By Sam Gregory: In the final fight of group stage 2 of the Super Six World Boxing Classic super middleweight tournament from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California undefeated Andre Ward 21-0 with 13 KO’s in his first defense of his world title defends his WBA Super World super middleweight [...]

Photo credit: Goosen/Tudor – By Eric Thomas: As expected, World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight champion Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KOs) totally spanked a terribly over-matched Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) on Saturday night, winning all 12 rounds of the fight in easily the most one-sided fight of the entire Super Six tournament at the [...]

By Sean Mcdaniel: Undefeated Tyson Fury (10-0, 8 KO’s) has a lot on the line in his June 25th rematch against Big John McDermott (25-6, 16 KO’s) at the Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, Essex. Not only will the 22-year-old Fury be fighting for the vacant British heavyweight title, but he’ll also have his boxing career on [...]

By Jim Dower: Former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KO’s) wants no part of a third fight against Antonio Margarito, who Cintron has already been stopped by in the five years. It was thought that with WBC junior middleweight champion Sergio Martinez vacating his title, Margarito, ranked #2 and Cintron, ranked [...]

Boxing action from the Oracle Arena, Oakland, California: Mark Tucker UD 8 Billy Bailey Alexander Podrezov MD 4 John Dunham