Archive for August, 2010

Ontario, CA (August 11) – Riverside’s own Josesito Lopez (26-3, 15 KOs) is focused on climbing to the next level on Friday against Colorado amateur legend Marvin “Much Too Much” Cordova, Jr. (21-1-1, 11 KO’s) in an 8-round welterweight bout. Lopez’s challenge is in form of the 25 year-old seasoned Cordova, Jr., who began boxing [...]

By Dave Lahr: Bob Arum continues to try and hype the November 13th fight between his two Top Rank fighters Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito, despite little fan interest outside of the Philippines. Arum can always count on Pacquiao’s loyal fan base in the Philippines to be interested in whoever he puts in there with [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: If former two-time light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (29-0, 17 KO’s) wants to increase his chances of beating WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (25-1, 16 KO’s) this Saturday night, he’ll aim some of his powerful straight left hands at Pascal’s recently surgically repaired right shoulder, the one that Pascal injured in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I can’t say I like Carl Froch’s chances going into his next Super Six tournament fight against Arthur Abraham on October 2nd at the Chapiteau de Fontvieille, Principauté de Monaco, Monaco. Out of all the opponents that I’ve seen fight Abraham in the past, Froch seems to be the most perfectly suited [...]

By Dave Lahr: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (54-3, 48 KO’s) basically clinched his way to victory five years ago against Samuel Peter (34-3, 27 KO’s). With Wladimir basically draping himself all over Peter like a huge Siberian Tiger rug, Peter had to deal with almost nonstop clinching. It was impossible for Peter to get [...]

By Jason Kim: World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk (37-0, 23 KO’s) will reportedly be facing former WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo (30-4, 15 KO’s) on October 2nd, according to Fightnews.com. Dzinziruk, 34, is looking to get the big fights in the division, and wants to fight Paul Williams. Since that’s not [...]

(August 11, 2010 – New York, NY) Junior middleweight Steven Martinez (5-0, 5 KOs), a former national amateur champion with a perfect record in the professional ranks, has signed a long-term promotional contact with DiBella Entertainment. Martinez is only 20 years old, but the young pug from the Bronx has impressed since turning pro, stopping [...]

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) was supposed to be the new breed of heavyweight when he came on the scene after beating 38-year-old journeyman Monte Barrett and then 36-year-old Nikolay Valuev to win the WBA heavyweight title last year. Instead, we’ve got Haye beating 38-year-old John Ruiz [...]

By Chris Williams: Oddly enough, trainer Freddie Roach says he’s against catchweight fights, despite his fighter World Boxing Organization Manny Pacquiao already having fought in one catchweight fight against Miguel Cotto for his WBO welterweight title last year in November and is about to fight for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title against Antonio Margarito [...]

Strength meets finesse in a light heavyweight title showdown when WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: JEAN PASCAL VS. CHAD DAWSON is presented live SATURDAY, AUG. 14 (10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT) from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada, exclusively on HBO. The WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING team of Jim Lampley, Larry Merchant and Emanuel Steward will be ringside [...]

‘The Canadian Kid’ is fully recovered from injury and raring to go ahead of September 11th. Steve Molitor hates resting. In fact he hates not being able to train full stop. So when the IBF super bantamweight champion was told that he would have to rest for at least 4 weeks following a stress fracture [...]

A victory is all that matters for Robert Helenius (12-0, 7 KOs) when he takes on Gregory Tony (12-0, 10 KOs) for the vacant EU Heavyweight Title in Erfurt on August 21. The “Nordic Nightmare” sent shockwaves through the international boxing world when he stopped former WBO Heavyweight Champion Lamon Brewster in what was just [...]

TWELVE members of the GB Boxing squad have been selected to compete in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi (3-14 October 2010). Ten of the squad will represent England and two will compete for Wales. The selection includes all three of GB Boxing’s silver medallists from the recent European Amateur Boxing Championship in Moscow, Khalid [...]

By Richard Doyle: Can anyone argue about the best fighter of the last 20 years, Roy Jones jr had the skill, power, speed, style and charisma of a truly great boxing champ who dominated boxing in the 90s winning world championships at middleweight ,super middleweight and light heavyweight before winning the heavyweight title in 2003. [...]

Following Group Stages 1 and 2, only WBA world super middleweight champion Andre Ward has locked up one of the four coveted Semi-Final berths while no other fighter has been eliminated from contention. With the five other competitors still alive—separated by three points or less—Group Stage 3 promises to deliver the most dramatic and compelling [...]

THE British Amateur Boxing Association (BABA) has announced a new competition to identify the best male and female amateur boxers in Great Britain and create an opportunity for those that are not in the GB Boxing squad to force their way into contention for the London 2012 Games. The GB Amateur Boxing Championship will be [...]

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Just over a year after the IOC decision to add women’s boxing to the 2012 Olympic Games, the world’s top female boxers will convene in Bridgetown, Barbados for the 2010 AIBA Women’s World Championships. The 2010 event, which will be contested September 9-18, will be the sixth edition of the competition [...]

The excitement is growing in Monroe, Louisiana. It’s just one week to go before the Wednesday, August 18, “Battle on the Bayou” event – a night of world-class professional boxing at the Monroe Civic Center and televised live on ESPN2′s Wednesday Night Fights – and local boxing and political officials say the area is buzzing [...]

London’s Marianne ‘Golden Girl’ Marston clearly isn’t prepared to leave anything to chance as she prepares for her showdown with the highly experienced Welsh battler Lana Cooper at the Steve Goodwin promoted ‘It’s Personal’ event at York Hall, Bethnal Green, London on Saturday the 11th September 2010. Marianne, who is trained by Derek Grainger at [...]

By Jim Dower: The bout between Chad Dawson and WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal this Saturday night could be a fight that is ripe for another controversial decision. The bout will be taking place at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada, where Pascal will he the home fighter. As we’ve seen on a rare [...]

By John Martinez, Fightchronicles.com (10Aug2010) After handing Juan Diaz a second loss in their two head to head match ups, WBA lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez called out a familiar name. “The Mexicans, the Filipinos, everyone wants to see it (a third fight with welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao). I’ll be ready for November, and hopefully [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) is in a tough predicament going into his stage 3 Super Six tournament fight against WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (21-0, 13 KO’s) on September 25th at a still to be determined location. Dirrell, 26, absolutely must win in order to make it to the semifinals. [...]

By Giancarlo Malinconico: As Floyd “Money” Mayweather sat ringside with Don King in St. Louis for the Devon Alexander-Andriy Kotelnik bout, when the cameras focused-in, you could hear the fans were not chanting “Money” or Floyd, but rather they were haunting Floyd with chants for Manny “Pac Man” Pacquiao

By Jim Dower: World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) could end up making a fatal mistake and overlook his next Super Six tournament opponent American Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) and figure him for an easy mark in their upcoming September 25th Super Six tournament fight at the MCH Multiarena, [...]

It’s a rugged and exciting fight card this Friday night, August 13, 2010 at the COX Center, 2nd Floor, in the heart of downtown Oklahoma City. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Main Event: Eric Fields v. Harvey Jolly. Fields (15-1, 12 KOs) is fighting one of the toughest boxers in the 200 pound divison. Jolly, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is eager to match unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) against World Boxing Association junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) next on December 4th. In an article at the LA Times, Arum, speaking about the potential fight between the 29-year-old Cotto [...]

Friday, Aug. 13, at Citizens Business Bank Arena, Ontario, Calif. LOS ANGELES (August 10, 2010) – Before Southern California heavyweight contenders Cristobal “The Nightmare” Arreola and Manuel “El Toro” Quezada square off in a crucial battle to keep their hopes alive of becoming the first Mexican Heavyweight World Champion, fight fans at the Citizens Business [...]

By Tom Graves: Before his retirement in February 2009 as Britain’s only undefeated boxing world champion, Joe Calzaghe was the longest-reigning boxing world champion of the modern era, owning a fight record of 46-0, 32 of which by KO/TKO. Many people may only know of “The Pride of Wales” later in his career or may [...]

By Jason Kim: Heavyweight contender Chris Arreola (28-2, 25 KO’s) will be looking to revive his sagging boxing career this Friday night against Manuel Quezada (29-5, 18 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout for the vacant World Boxing Council FECOMBOX heavyweight title at the Citizen’s bank Arena, in Ontario, California. Arreola, 29, has lost [...]

By Dave Lahr: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (54-3, 48 KO’s) has been able to go six long years between knockout losses, but I think his string is about to be ended on September 11th against the powerful former WBC heavyweight champion Sam Peter (34-3, 27 KO’s) in their title fight at the Commerzhank-Arena, in [...]