Archive for July, 2010

By Christian Ramos: Bob Arum began the JuanMa/Marquez presser by assuring that the NEGOTIATIONS, for that fight at least, were going on and have been completed. Luckily for us, the fight is on September 18, and with the 3rd Round of the Super 6 fights happening the following 25th and 2nd of October, Showtime is [...]

CHICAGO, IL (July 27, 2010) 8 Count Productions in association with Vega Boxing have announced that ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights will return to Chicago on Friday, August 6th at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion.

TKO Boxing Promotions was founded two years ago. Between then and now we have signed some wonderful fighters, done forty six shows and crisscrossed the United States trying to build the fighters and the company. Unfortunately, we ran into some financial problems that have set us back considerably, hurt our relationships with many fighters and [...]

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao has pretty much everything going for him in his upcoming November 13th fight against Antonio Margarito – hand speed, power, movement, and better boxing skills. With all that going for him, why does Pacquiao need a 150 pound catch weight to fight Margarito? That’s four pounds under the 154 pound [...]

By Jim Dower: World Boxing Association middleweight champion Felix Sturm (33-2-1, 14 KO’s) will now be facing middleweight contender Giovanni Lorenzo (29-2, 21 KO’s) instead of Ricardo Mayorga on September 4th at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. In some ways, this is a better opponent than Mayorga, because at least the 29-year-old Lorenzo is ranked [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) is looking to take on arguably the biggest name in his career by getting the winner of this Saturday’s lightweight title fight between WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Juan Diaz at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. [...]

By Joseph Hirsch: The first two rounds of the Showtime Super Six World Boxing Classic are already in the books. There have been knockouts, controversial decisions, and upsets, but there is still no clear favorite. Going into the third and final round, it really is any man’s game. The next three fights to take place [...]

Exciting unbeaten Irish fighter Dean Byrne 12-0 (KO 5) reunites with his former Crumlin Boxing Club coach and mentor Phil Sutcliffe as he is added to DolPhil Promotions already loaded ‘The Homecoming’ bill which takes place at the CityWest Hotel, Dublin on Saturday, August 7.

By Christian Ramos: I take the risk in writing yet another Mayweather/Pacquiao article, yet I do not know if it’s fair or not the boxing public. You deserve to know the truth. Nobody seems to be giving it. Therefore, what you get are new episodes to the soap opera. Once again, the sport that is [...]

by Arfan Ali: The dismay at finding out Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao were not going to fight was excruciating and I needed to direct my angry in some direction so here goes Firstly with the privatization of many boxers if that is such the word needs to stop. In essence they are depriving [...]

NEW YORK (July 27, 2010) – The long, often arduous journey for unbeaten super middleweight Lennox “2 Sharpe” Allen, a native of Guyana, took him around the world before finally settling in Brooklyn.

Philadelphia, PA—United States Boxing Association (USBA) junior middleweight champion Derek ‘Pooh’ Ennis and challenger ‘King’ Gabriel Rosado both spoke with confidence Monday evening at the final press conference for their all-Philly showdown on Friday, July 30, at the Arena in South Philadelphia.

LAS VEGAS, NEV. (July 27, 2010) – Fireworks will fly during Mexican Independence Day weekend in Las Vegas, Nev., when two-division world champions JUAN MANUEL “JuanMa” LOPEZ and RAFAEL MARQUEZ collide for Lopez’s World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight title, Saturday, September 18, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The 12-round world title tilt will be [...]

This Friday night in the main event on ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights”, IBF #3 rated welterweight contender, Delvin Rodriguez (25-4-2, 14KO’s) takes on Ashley Theophane (26-4-1, 7KO’s) in a ten round welterweight contest. The co-feature bout of the evening features a sizzling ten round super middleweight showdown, between up and coming prospect, Donovan “Da Bomb” [...]

RENDALL MUNROE was last night given the date for his world title showdown against Japanese star Toshiaki Nishioka. Munroe (21-1) will challenge for Nishioka’s (36-4-3) WBC super-bantamweight title at Tokyo’s 10,000 capacity Sumo Hall on Sunday October 24.

PHILADELPHIA / NEW YORK (July 27, 2010)—This Friday night one of the most anticipated fights from the boxing hotbed of Philadelphia in nearly a decade will take place at the Arena as Derek “Pooh” Ennis will defend his USBA title and world ranking against “King” Gabriel Rosado in an important Jr. Middleweight bout that can [...]

by Ronnie Jordan: The welterweight division is currently regarded by many as the strongest and most talent packed in boxing. It’s hard to argue with this when the division posses not only the two best pound for pound fighters in the world but also a supporting cast of world class boxers like Miguel Cotto, Antonio [...]

Matt Macklin and Darren Barker will reveal previously unseen sides of their characters on September 18 in Birmingham. The two clash at the LG Arena for the European middleweight title currently held by Barker.

By Ryan Dunn: There has been plenty of mud slinging of late, following the second failed attempt to put “the fight” together between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, the #1 and #2 pound-for-pound fighters in the sport (you choose the order). Bob Arum and Top Rank Promotions set a deadline for Team Mayweather to [...]

Melissa Hernandez returns to New Mexico to face Victoria Cisneros August 14 for the WIBC lightweight title. Their battle is the main event at the Santa Ana Star Casino in Bernalillo on a card promoted by Stephanie Jaramillo and her Golden Girl Promotions. Given the events that occurred December 4 when Hernandez left the Isleta [...]

By Joseph Hirsch: Love him or hate him, it’s getting mighty hard to make a case against Floyd Mayweather Jr. being an all-time great. The main sticking point for people who believe he doesn’t belong near the top of the list is that unlike greats like “Sugar” Ray Robinson, he doesn’t have over one-hundred fights [...]

by Christian Ramos: I applaud the man who chooses to follow the sport I love. I don’t have a choice. The seed has been planted ever since I first stepped foot into a boxing gym in Newark, NJ. No matter how much passion I feel for boxing, it saddens me to accept its current state. [...]

By Jim Dower: IBF/WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (20-0, 13 KO’s) will be defending his titles against former World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik (31-3-1, 13 KO’s) on August 7th at the Scottrade Center, in Saint Louis, Missouri. Alexander, 23, had hopes of getting a high profile opponent like WBO light welterweight [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm (33-2-1, 14 KO’s) will be fighting for the first time in over a year when he takes on 37-year-old former WBA/WBC welterweight champion Ricardo Mayorga (28-7-1, 22 KO’s) on September 4th at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Sturm has been embroiled with management problems for the past [...]

By Chris Williams: Undefeated junior middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) will be used as one of Manny Pacquiao’s many sparring partners to help him prepare for his November 13th bout against the Mexican Antonio Margarito. Chavez Jr., who fights a lot like Margarito, is someone that Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach feels [...]

European cruiserweight title contender Alexander Frenkel wants to combine a KO win over Enzo Maccarinelli with some sightseeing! The unbeaten 25-year-old will tackle Big Mac on September 18 at the LG Arena, Birmingham.

By Jason Kim: You may not be too eager to see a rematch between Miguel Cotto and Manny Pacquiao, but that’s likely what you’ll be seeing next year. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, who promotes both Cotto and Pacquiao, said that he’ll look to put them together depending on how Cotto does in his next [...]

By Matt Stein: It seems like boxing fans will never forgive Antonio Margarito (38-6, 27 KO’s) for the hand wrap incident before his fight against Shane Mosley last year in January. At that time, a plaster-like substance was found on Margarito’s hand wraps immediately before his fight against Mosley. After the hand wraps were removed [...]

By William Mackay: World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) is going to try every trick he can to become a better fighter, including taking up yoga. According to the Daily Express, where an unnamed source said “Amir is going to take up yoga as part of a new training regime. [...]

by Joseph Hirsch: Whatever your feelings about Carl “the Cobra” Froch, he holds the most impressive single win in the “Super Six” tournament, and that is his victory over Jean Pascal. Pascal will be facing the best light-heavyweight alive this Fall, Chad Dawson. If Pascal somehow overcomes the odds and beats Dawson, that will only [...]