Archive for July, 2010

(July 29, 2010 – New York, NY) Argenis Mendez brought his act to the bright lights of New York City, and shined through and through with a first round knockdown en route to an 8-round unanimous decision victory over local hero Shamir Reyes on Wednesday night. Mendez-Reyes headlined the latest edition of DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway [...]

by Boxing-Boy: Mr. Suchart Pisitwutthinan who is the big boss of Nakornluang and Q Boxing Promotion held the press conference of his boxing programme at Sofitel Central Plaza Hotel in Bangkok on July 28, 2010. The main event is WBC flyweight world title defence of Pongsaklek Kaiyanghadaogym, aka P. Wonjongkam and WBC asia flyweight king, [...]

by Boxing-Boy: Samson Tor Buamas, also known as Samson Sor Siriporn retained her WIBA world mini flyweight title by unanimous and wide margin decision won over the Chinese challenger, Liu Da Lin, on July 28, 2010 at a temporary boxing stadium of Mashare shoes warehouse in Khon Kaen province, Thailand.

By Scott Gilfoid: If there was ever a fight where it was next to impossible to pick the winner because of the immense talent between the two fighters, it’s the Super Six tournament fight between once beaten Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) and World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO’s), who [...]

By Chris Williams: I don’t believe for a second that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is afraid of Manny Pacquiao, but let’s pretend that Mayweather is afraid of Pacquiao for the sake of argument. So what if Mayweather is afraid of him? Fear is a natural thing, and it goes away quickly once the fight starts. It [...]

By Jim Dower: According to Michael Marley of Examiner.com, Manny Pacquiao likes the idea of fighting Antonio Margarito in Mexico on November 13th rather than Las Vegas, Nevada because of the money that Pacquiao will save by fighting in Mexico. Pacquiao’s personal adviser Michael Koncz says “Manny loves the people at the MGM Grand and [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten American Daniel Jacobs (20-0, 17 KO’s) will be facing what could be the hardest test of his still young career this Saturday night against unbeaten Russian Dmitry Pirog (16-0, 13 KO’s) for the vacant World Boxing Organization middleweight title on the undercard of the Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Juan Diaz bout [...]

By Jason Kim: WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (50-5-1, 37 KO’s) will be facing a struggling former IBF/WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Diaz (35-3, 17 KO’s) this Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. Diaz, 26, may not like to admit it to himself, but he’s in a situation where [...]

By Jim Dower: Former welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (38-6, 27 KO’s) opted to reapply for his lost boxing license on Wednesday with the California Athletic Commission rather than taking a second attempt with the Nevada Athletic Commission, who already rejected Margarito’ licensing try earlier this month by a 4-1 vote. Margarito is attempting to get [...]

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) will be out in public on July 31st to work the corner of talented unbeaten super middleweight prospect George Groves (9-0, 7 KO’s) in his scheduled eight round bout against Mexican Alfredo Contreras (11-7-1, 5 KO’s) on the undercard of the [...]

JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ “Thank you for being here. I want to thank Golden Boy Promotions and HBO Sports for supporting me. Everyone knows Juan Diaz is a great fighter and I have prepared myself very hard for this fight. When people say ‘Why Juan Diaz again?’ I always want make the biggest fights and here [...]

By Dave Lahr: A lot of the fans for Manny Pacquiao are saying that Antonio Margarito doesn’t have to agree to fight Pacquiao at the 150 pound catch weight for the vacant World Boxing Council junior middleweight title in their fight on November 13th, saying that Margarito can always say no. Yeah, Margarito can say [...]

LOS ANGELES, July 28 – On Friday, July 30 at Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort in Cancun, Mexico, top prospects Danny Garcia and Jorge Romero meet in a clash of highly-regarded prospects that will see who takes the next step up the 140-pound ladder and who will be forced to regroup and rebuild. It’s [...]

By Dan Ambrose: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (54-3, 48 KO’s) and former World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Samuel Peter (34-3, 27 KO’s) have agreed to a September 11th fight, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. The contract hasn’t yet been signed but it’s looking good. The fight will be held at the Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt, [...]

By Joseph Hirsch: The junior-welterweight division is probably the deepest in talent right now, of all the lighter weight-classes. After Amir Khan made his American debut against Paulie “Magic Man,” Malignaggi, HBO commentator Max Kellerman made it very clear that a four-man tournament was developing to see who would reign supreme in the division. Those [...]

CHICAGO, IL (July 28, 2010) Chicago based heavyweight contender Mike Mollo returns to action next Friday night, August 6th at the Windy City’s UIC Pavilion against veteran Franklin Lawrence in a special attraction eight round heavyweight battle.

Riverside, CA – July 28 – Yesterday was another “consecutive day” in camp for heavyweight world contender Chris Arreola, a training camp which he and his trainer Henry Ramirez are taking a “one day at a time” approach. This training streak reminds Ramirez of the hard work Arreola put in during the early stages of [...]

NEW YORK (July 28, 2010) – WBO No. 2 rated heavyweight David “Tuamanator” Tua complained about a sore left shoulder during several training sessions leading up to his July 17th 12-round draw against former world title challenger Monte “Two Gunz” Barrett in Atlantic City. However, when asked about it by his trainer, Roger Bloodworth, David [...]

PROVIDENCE (July 28, 2010) – Jimmy Burchfield, President of Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc., categorically denied reports issued today that lightweight prospect “Hammerin’” Hank Lundy (18-1-1, 10 KOs) is a promotional free agent.

(July 28, 2010 – New York, NY) New York City’s longest running and most successful boxing series, Broadway Boxing, returns tonight, July 28, to the most intimate venue for boxing in the country, the BB King Blues Club in Times Square. In the main event, Argenis Mendez, who in his last fight won the USBA [...]

PHILADELPHIA (July 28, 2010)—World ranked (WBO #7); and once beaten Lightweight, “Hammerin” Hank Lundy is now a promotional Free Agent after leaving Jimmy Burchfield CES Boxing. Lundy, 18-1-1 with ten knockouts has become a fan favorite because of his action style and many television appearances on ESPN 2 Friday Night Fights, will be looking to [...]

By Joseph Hirsch: Six fights have taken place thus far in Showtime’s “Super Six World Boxing Classic.” Of the six matches, the home fighter has won in each and every instance. Before his bout with Mikkel Kessler in Herning, Denmark, Carl Froch was asked if he thought that hometown refereeing had anything to do with [...]

by Boxing-Boy: According to many reports in my country, 2 of the topest Thai world rated under wing of Galaxy Boxing Promotion will fly to fight for the world titles on October 2, 2010.

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (July 27, 2010) – With G&P Fitness and Boxing Center officially opened, President and CEO Mike Brestle is continuing his quest to make a difference in the community of Atlantic City as well as the boxing and fitness industries. With a brand new state of the art boxing and training facility, located [...]

The World Boxing Council is bringing its Night of Champions celebration to the United Kingdom – the birthplace of boxing – and a long list of great stars will soon be arriving to attend this memorable three-day event on July 29, 30, and 31 in Cardiff, Wales.

Danny Jacobs, Robert Guerrero and Rocky Juarez are always motivated to succeed when they step into the ring, but this Saturday night, there is more than just winning on their minds. The three pugilists are all fighting for loved ones who have given them strength and encouragement in their careers and in their lives.

By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro: The Johnny Eames and Derek Grainger, from the Ultrachem TKO Gym in Canning Town, organised Boxer & Celebrity Football Tournament proved to be a massive success. The stars turned out in force, as did the paying public to watch the ten teams battle it out for the Ultrachem TKO Indee [...]

LOS ANGELES (July 27, 2010) – Undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight champion JUAN MANUEL LOPEZ and two-division world champion RAFAEL MARQUEZ, the pride of Puerto Rico and México, respectively, hosted a News Conference Luncheon announcing their highly anticipated world featherweight title fight on Tuesday in the Gold Ballroom at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los [...]

By Tom Graves: On July 26 of 2008, The unbeaten Puerto Rican WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto faced Tijuana’s Tornado, Antonio Margarito in a much anticipated bout.The outcome was a an eleventh round technical knockout victory for Margarito, which took Cotto’s WBA crown from him and placed the Mexican as The Ring magazine’s #1 ranked [...]

ST. LOUIS, MO (July 27, 2010) Junior middleweight contender Deandre “The Bull” Latimore went back to work this past Saturday night in his hometown of St. Louis, tearing into veteran Darien Ford, dropping him three times in the second round before referee Steve Smoger stopped the bout at the 2:46 mark of the third round [...]