Archive for September, 2010

Boxers Phil Gill and Eder Kurti both maintained their unbeaten records on the 11th of September Goodwin Promotions bill at the York Hall. Gill who was able to keep up a relentless pace throughout the fight had his opponent, Damien Turner, on the ropes for long periods of the fight landing some hard body shots. [...]

With Rendall Munroe’s World Title fight in Japan fast approaching we caught up with promoter Frank Maloney to discuss his boxer’s chances against the highly rated Toshiaki Nishioka for the World Boxing Council (WBC) strap. “Rendall has a good chance over there, he believes in himself 100% which is why he has got this far [...]

ARENA DOORS OPEN @ 16:30 HRS Fight # 1 – 17:15 hrs 4 X 3 Minute Rounds Light-Middleweight Contest JOE SELKIRK vs. TBA Fight # 2 4 X 3 Minute Rounds Welterweight Contest RONNIE HEFFRON vs. BILLY SMITH

PHILADELPHIA (September 15, 2010)—On Friday night October 8th, one of the hottest prospects in boxing, undefeated Danny “Swift” Garcia will take on his toughest challenger to date when he battles former world title challenger, “Mighty” Mike Arnaoutis in ten round Jr. Welterweight bout that will highlight a night of world class boxing at The Arena [...]

By William Mackay: I’ve seen a number of Amir Khan’s fights and pretty much in every case where he was hit with a good shot, he was either staggered, knocked down or knocked out. The thing of it is Khan has only been in with one big puncher in his career and that was Breidis [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) is going to need three to four weeks for his injured back to heal before he’ll be ready to take on Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tournament. Froch injured his back somehow in training. And the injury hasn’t helped Showtime’s tournament, [...]

By Dave Lahr: Former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs (51-5-1, 45 KO’s) has been selected out of all the possible top 15 opponents to face World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (40-2, 38 KO’s) next month on October 16th at the O2 World Arena, Altona, in Hamburg, Germany. As far as I can tell, [...]

By Jason Kim: Ricky Hatton’s been depressed since his 2nd round blowout loss to Manny Pacquiao last year in May 2009. This week Hatton caught snorting lines of what appears to be cocaine in a Manchester hotel room. Hatton is now in a drug treatment clinic to have his drug problem taken care of.

By Dave Lahr: Samuel Peter could have beaten IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko last Saturday night. All Peter had to do was get evil with Wladimir every time the big Ukrainian grabbed him in one of his many clinches that he did every round. Peter had like 10 chances per round to knock Wladimir out [...]

By Dan Ambrose: 39-year-old Shane Mosley (46-6, 30 KO’s) will be fighting Sergio Mora (22-1-1, 6 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Mosley lost his last fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 1st in a one-sided beating to the faster and younger Mayweather. Mosley, however, is blaming the [...]

By Chris Williams: I don’t know about you but I’m now looking at Manny Pacquiao’s win over Ricky Hatton as somehow tainted after seeing Hatton snorting line after line of what appeared to be cocaine in the New of the World sting this week. The way that Hatton expertly snorted up those lines and with [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (32-4, 25 KO’s) will be defending his EBU cruiserweight title on Saturday night against unbeaten German based contender Alexander Frenkel (22-0, 17 KO’s) in the Magnificent Seven card in Birmingham.

Baltimore, MD (September 14) – Legendary warrior Vinny Paz will be the special guest of honor this Friday, September 17 at the “Baltimore Bad Boys” fight card from the Du Burns Arena.

LOS ANGELES (September 13) – On September 15, 1972 Mexican lightweight Chango Carmona stopped Mando Ramos in the eighth round of a WBC title bout at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. Little did Carmona know that he was starting a now nearly four-decade-long tradition of Mexican and Mexican American fighters representing their people on [...]

PRO CAREER BLOSSOMS AFTER WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO BOUT Los Angeles, CA (Sept. 14, 2010) – “Lesson learned.” That’s what former number one world rated heavyweight contender Tony “The Tiger” Thompson said after his July 2008 11th round loss to World Boxing Council/WBO Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko — lessons he took into the ring to stop his [...]

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Just 48 hours after her dramatic upset victory over a defending World Champion, flyweight Marlen Esparza (Houston, Texas) suffered a heartbreaking two-point loss at the Women’s World Championships in Bridgetown, Barbados. Esparza took on Thailand’s Peamwilai Laopeam in the lone bout for the United States’ team in Tuesday’s action at the [...]

An opponent has been announced for Blake “Candyman” Prevost (14-1-1, 5 KOs) in his 10-round light heavyweight main-event battle on Friday, September 24. Fighting in the main event of the “BAD BOYS OF BOXING” Keeppunching Entertainment and Paragon Casino Resort professional boxing event at the Paragon Casino Resort, Prevost will face Cleveland, Ohio’s Romero Johnson [...]

Orange, Calif. (September 14, 2010) – This Friday night, September 17, Thompson Boxing Promotions will present a fight card emanating from the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, CA in which Riverside’s Jose “El Niño” Reynoso (12-3-1, 1 KO) and Hector “Teco” Serrano (13-0, 5 KOs) will battle for the Vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) Super Lightweight [...]

College Football History To Be Made In Boxing Ring Wednesday Miami Hurricane Football Star To Make Broadcast Boxing Debut ESPN Magazine Cover Boy Goes For 2nd KO Win On PPV….Against Another Division I Football Star Las Vegas, NV: Former Miami Hurricane star running back Quadrine Hill’s pro boxing career just went national, when fight promoter [...]

2010 is, in México, the bicentennial anniversary of its independence in September, and the World Boxing Council (WBC) fully participated in the program held by Mexican promoters at the traditional Plaza México, where most of the biggest boxing heroes have fought, like Raúl “Ratón” Macías, who holds the unbreakable record of more than 55,000 fans [...]

Superstar boxer Amir Khan will be hosting a line up of celebrities including Katie Price, Ricky Hatton, David Haye and many more for a speculator night of fundraising at De Vere Whites, Bolton on 17th September 2010. The invite only event will be aiming to raise £50,000 for children’s charity, the Variety Club of Great [...]

NEW YORK, NEW YORK (September 14, 2010) Still upset over his recent loss to WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm on September 4th in Cologne, Germany, Giovanni Lorenzo is making plans to return to the ring before the end of the year and is targeting the biggest names in the middleweight division. “I felt like the [...]

By Joseph “The Mad Boxing Genius” Torres: When Showtime’s Super-Six tournament was first announced, it was more than just a tournament. It meant different things to different people. For fighters like Andre Ward and Andre Dirrell, it was a chance to make a statement. They were no longer boys in a man’s game but men [...]

PHILADELPHIA (September 14, 2010)—On Wednesday night October, 13th brother Derek and Farah Ennis will headline an International boxing card that will originate from the National Guard Armory in Northeast Philadelphia. The show will be promoted by No Limits Promotions and Fingermann Promotions

by Mark Hepplestall: I have been noticing that the Klitschko’s and David Haye have been getting some stick about fighting old boxers, well if you look at the heavyweight rankings the champions do not have much choice as there are 7 heavyweights out of the top 15 who are over the age of 30 not [...]

On Saturday, September 18 at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT, Five-Time and Three-Division World Champion Sugar Shane Mosley and former World Champion Sergio “The Latin Snake” Mora will collide on the big screen for “200: Celebrate and Dominate Mosley vs. Mora LIVE in HD”. The event is presented by Golden Boy Promotions and [...]

RENDALL MUNROE is spending one week warm-weather and altitude training in Portugal preparing for his world title challenge. Munroe (21-1) will challenge for Toshiaki Nishioka’s (36-4-3) World Boxing Council (WBC) super-bantamweight title at Tokyo’s 10,000 capacity Sumo Hall on Sunday October 24. The Leicester binman is holed up in the Portuguese mountains with promoter Frank [...]

This Wednesday, highly touted undefeated jr. middleweight prospect, Demetrius Andrade (10-0, 7KO’s) will look to keep his unbeaten streak alive when he takes on veteran Dave Saunders as part of the annual “The Fight to Educate” card at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH. The fight, scheduled for eight rounds, is the main event [...]

CHICAGO, IL (September 14, 2010) Sensational junior welterweight Adrian “EL TIGRE” Granados returns to the ring this Friday night, September 17th at the UIC Pavilion as part of WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT 12, an action packed evening of world class professional boxing presented by 8 Count Productions, HOME OF THE BEST IN CHICAGO BOXING. Granados [...]

Kell Brook today promised to catapult himself into world title contention with a spectacular KO win over Michael Jennings on Saturday, live on Sky Box Office. But his British rival hit back ahead of a compelling War of The Roses showdown. The pair duke it out in an eliminator for the World Boxing Organization Welterweight [...]