Archive for July, 2010

Matthew Macklin and Darren Barker promised a thrilling fight to live up to the big stage they have been given by promoter Frank Warren The pair meet in a European middleweight title clash on September 18 at the LG Arena, Birmingham It’s all part of the Magnificent Seven event – which actually features nine championship [...]

By Chris Williams: it seems like a big waste of time for WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao to take on either Miguel Cotto or Antonio Margarito in either of his next two fights. With Margarito unable to get his boxing license back in the United States right now because of the plaster like substance that [...]

Sam Sexton says he will win the British heavyweight title for his mum. The Norwich puncher meets champion Derek Chisora on September 18 at the LG Arena, Birmingham on Frank Warren’s huge Magnificent Seven show, live on Sky Box Office. It’s all part of Frank Warren’s Magnificent Seven card with a stunning nine title fights.

By Eric Thomas: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (54-3, 48 KO’s) will be defending his titles on September 11th against his number #1 IBF challenger former 2004 Olympic heavyweight Gold Medalist unbeaten Alexander Povetkin (19-0, 14 KO’s) at the Commerzbank-Arena, in Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany. It’s been known already that the 34-year-old Klitschko was going to [...]

ROCKVILLE CENTER, NEW YORK (July 15, 2010)—This Saturday at Cannons Blackthorn Irish Restaurant and Bar in Rockville Center, New York, former two-time Heavyweight champion of the world, Riddick “Big Daddy” Bowe will be on hand for a very special evening with his fans.

Main Event Paul Delgado vs Tim Hall 6rds (welterweight) Co-Main Event Xavier Tolliver vs Jose Felix 6rds (Jr. Middleweight)

RANCH MIRAGE, CALIF. (July 15, 2010) — Undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior welterweight champion and Top-10 pound for pound fighter TIMOTHY “Desert Storm” BRADLEY, undefeated Top-Five welterweight contender CARLOS ABREGU, No. 1 junior middleweight contender ALFREDO “Perro” ANGULO and former World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight champion JOACHIM “Ti-Joa” ALCINE will host their Final [...]

K. Swanson: Thank you, everybody, for calling in. We have another exciting conference call today featuring one of our main event fighters, Juan Diaz, former Three-Time Lightweight World Champion. Also joining him is Ronnie Shields, who is his trainer, and Richard Schaefer, Chief Executive Officer of Golden Boy Promotions. Before I turn it over to [...]

NEW YORK (July 15, 2010) – Power-punching David “Tuamanator” Tua isn’t looking past his opponent Saturday night, former world title challenger Monte “Two Gunz” Barrett, despite being mentioned as a future opponent for world champions David Haye and the Klitschko brothers, Wladimir and Vitali.

By Ryan Dunn: Since his negotiations with Floyd Mayweather Jr. (aka “the three ring circus with no ringleader and only two clowns”) began late in 2009, Pacquiao has been put under suspicion for alleged abuse of performance enhancing drugs. This suspicion was (quite suspiciously) created by none other than the man he was negotiating to [...]

PHILADELPHIA (JULY 14, 2010)—Wednesday night saw an international fight card staged at The Arena in Philadelphia as Ran Nakash, Felix Diaz and Vyacheslav Glazkov scored impressive victories to highlight a seven bout card promoted by No Limit Promotions in association with Joey Eye Boxing.

By Dave Lahr: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, IBF/World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is angry with HBO because he says he had been given a promise by them to have his title defense against unbeaten Alexander Povetkin (19-0, 14 KO’s) shown on HBO on September 11th. Apparently, HBO was going to pay [...]

By William Mackay: With so few stars to fight in the lightweight division, the winner of the July 31st bout between WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (50-5-1, 37 KO’s) and Juan Diaz (35-3, 17 KO’s) will get the good luck of facing WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s), who is waiting [...]

By Jim Dower: Former light welterweight and welterweight champion Zab Judah (38-6, 26 KO’s) will be making one of his rare appearances this Friday night against lightweight Jose Armando Santa Cruz (28-4, 17 KO’s) in a 10 round scheduled bout on ESPN2 at the Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey.

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – The semifinal competitors were set at the 2010 USA Boxing National Championships at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., following quarterfinal competition in both the male and female divisions.

By Sean McDaniel: Promoter Frank Maloney thinks that World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) needs to be more visible now that he’s won the heavyweight title and defended it once. In an article at Sportinglife.com, Maloney says “If I was still representing David, being a young fighter, I would have [...]

NJ “Housewives,” Jets and Adamek line up to support Zab Judah Friday Night in Newark The Jets’ Pro Bowl Left Tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson, linebacker Bart Scott and Cleveland Browns’ defensive back Mike Adams will line up alongside IBF International Heavyweight Champion Tomasz Adamek and two of New Jersey’s “Real Housewives” in support of Former Undisputed [...]

By Raphael de Jesus: Floyd Mayweather is not in a hurry to sign the contract or reply to Bob Arum and Manny Pacquiao because he has the upper in the negotiations. Floyd gets bigger gate dollars and grosses higher PPV sales. Many fans of Manny say that people pay to see Floyd lose. I say [...]

By Jim Dower: Sometimes losing a fight isn’t that bad for a fighter’s career. In the case of featherweight Bernabe Concepcion (28-4-1, 15 KO’s) it might not be that bad of a thing that he was trounced in a 2nd round knockout by WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (29-0, 26 KO’s) last Saturday night [...]

By Sean McDaniel: I think the whole negotiations between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao’s two management teams were never truly agreed on like Bob Arum said. Supposedly, both Maweather’s promotional team and Pacquiao’s had agreed to the contract proposal for the fight and it was up to Mayweather to look it over and made [...]

By Matt Stein: Heavyweight contender David Tua (51-3-1, 43 KO’s) continues with his incredibly slow climb to a heavyweight title shot by fighting 39-year-old Monte Barrett on Saturday night at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The 37-year-old Tua’s obscure WBO Asia Pacific and WBO Oriental heavyweight titles will be on [...]

By Jason Kim: If Bob Arum was hoping that his mid-July deadline that he gave Floyd Mayweather Jr. would put the fear of god in him and make him want accept the deal to fight Manny Pacquiao then Arum needs to re-think his strategy. It’s been an utter failure, as Mayweather has completely ignored Arum’s [...]

By Jim Dower: The proposed December 4th fight between former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KO’s) and unbeaten junior middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavz Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) will be taking place at the Cowboy Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. That’s where Bob Arum of Top Rank would like the fight to take place, [...]

By Chris Williams: It’s now looking like Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is leaning towards matching his fighter World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 28 KO’s) up against former two-time welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (38-6, 27 KO’s) in a fight that would be taking place in Monterrey, Mexico, rather than the United States.

By Babatis Banda: I have followed the debates with keen interest, right from the first failed bout. I followed Floyd Mayweathers’ career, from the days he was really a small boy and in the lower divisions. I also came to know of the presence of Manny Pacquiao in the fighting world, much later in his [...]

SOUTHAVEN, MISS. (July 14, 2010)–- ShoBox: The New Generation headliners Fernando Guerrero and Ishe Smith were joined by co-main event fighters and fellow prospects Shawn Porter and Ray Robinson on Wednesday for a final press conference at The Boiling Point in Southaven, Miss., just two days before the ShoBox tripleheader on Friday, July 16, live [...]

By Chris Williams: In an article by Michael Rosenthal at Ringtv.com, WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (25-0, 11 KO’s) calls WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) “the most-protected fighter out there at 140.” Ouch! That’s got to hurt. Bradley, 26, faces unbeaten Luis Carlos Abregu (29-0, 23 KO’s) this Saturday night [...]

By Simon Sheppard: The generosity of Manny Pacquiao can not manifests itself better than in this light. He could have turned away and rejected Floyd Mayweather’s demands on the testing using the NSAC as his point of argument. But no, he conceded to the demand.

HBO’s hit late-night boxing series features a welterweight showdown of undefeated fighters plus a junior middleweight thriller when HBO BOXING AFTER DARK: TIMOTHY BRADLEY VS. LUIS CARLOS ABREGU AND ALFREDO ANGULO VS. JOACHIM ALCINE is seen SATURDAY, JULY 17 at 9:45 p.m. (ET/PT) from the Agua Caliente Resort in Rancho Mirage, Cal., exclusively on HBO. [...]

Ran Nakash 204 ½ – Victor Barragan 198 Felix Diaz 146 1/2 – Broderick Antoine 145 ½ Vyacheslav Glazkov 219 – Mark Brown 223 ½ Rustam Nabeev 113 ½ – Alejandro Solorio 112 Maks Liminov 165 ½ – Julius Fogle 169 Imani Bell 282 – Lee Thomas 283 ½ Oz Goldenberg 129 ½ – Marcos [...]