Archive for September, 2010

DOVER, Del. — Heavyweight Amir “Hardcore” Mansour will appear at Bally’s Event Center in Atlantic City, N.J., on Saturday, Oct. 30. Mansour emerged victorious on Aug. 27 at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino when he felled Sam Brown in round two with a right hook, sending Brown crashing to the mat where he lay motionless [...]

TORONTO – (Tuesday, September 28, 2010) Hennessy Sports Canada congratulates brand new NABA Lightweight champion Logan Cotton McGuinness (12-0-1, 6 KO’s), and undefeated welterweight Samuel Vargas (6-0, 1 KO), both of whom stepped up big in the most important fights of their respective careers this past Saturday night in Mississauga, Ontario. McGuinness launched himself on [...]

LOS ANGELES, September 29 – Following a triumphant return to the East Coast this July, junior welterweight contender and former World Champion Zab “Super” Judah returns to Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday, November 6 to take on one of his toughest tests to date in Argentinean knockout artist Lucas Matthysse in a [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y.) – The 13-person squad of elite U.S. Olympic-style boxers will close their training camp for “Empires Collide” – a USA vs. China Dual with an open workout on Thursday, September 30th at Noon at the Lafayette location of Crunch in New York. The U.S. team, which is made of 10 men and [...]

Hunky Dorys Fight Night European Super Bantamweight Champion Kiko “La Sensacion” Martinez and Limerick’s Willie “Big Bang” Casey will come face to face again in Dublin at 11am tomorrow for a press conference at the Circle Club in the Grand Canal Theatre.

Name: “Last Man Standing” Pro Boxing Card Who: MAIN EVENT 10 ROUNDS – SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHTS JOEY “KO Kid” SPINA “Sucra” RAY OLIVEIRA

The World’s only Arab Heavyweight boxer, Hammersmith, London based Iraqi, Ali Adams came face to face with former WBU World Heavyweight Champion Matt Skelton ahead of their upcoming meeting at the massively successful Matchroom Sports promoted Prizefighter series, which makes it’s welcome return to York Hall on Saturday the 9th October with Heavyweights IV.

Audley Harrison ran to the top of a mountain to warn David Haye that he will “fight him every second of the way” in their world title fight at Manchester’s M.E.N Arena on November 13. Harrison posted two videos on YouTube from his United States training camp at Big Bear Lake in California – before [...]

World Boxing Association (WBA) world heavyweight champion David Haye has responded to a YouTube video posted by title challenger Audley Harrison, and claimed his fellow Londoner needs to “bring an axe” when the pair swap blows on November 13 in Manchester, live on Sky Sports HD.

By Dan Ambrose: In the latest boxing news, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum expects his November 13th fight card with Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito to sell between 60,000 and 70,000 tickets, according to Steve Kim at Doghouseboxing.com The tickets for the Pacquiao-Margarito bout are already on sale, and Arum says that they’re going fast. [...]

By Dave Lahr: Golden Boy Promotions has just signed former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (27-4, 5 KO’s) to a contract and don’t have a clue why. This kind of reminds me of how Top Rank decided to match Antonio Margarito, a fighter on the decline, with Manny Pacquiao. It would have been a [...]

Paul David says he will plunge Merseyside into more sporting misery on October 23 – by staging a rerun of Northampton’s League Cup giant killing. The 26-year-old tackles Paul Smith at the Echo Arena, Liverpool, in a challenge for the British super-middleweight title, live on Sky Sports HD1. And mouthy David says the champion is [...]

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach, Alex Ariza, thinks Pacquiao will be too fast and too strong for Antonio Margarito on November 13th. In an article by writer Ronnie Nathanielsz at www.inquirer.net, Ariza says “Once we are done preparing Manny… for fight night, I don’t see Margarito lasting more than eight rounds. [...]

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) will finally be faced with the uncomfortable task of having to defend his title against the hard-hitting knockout artist Marcos Maidana (29-1, 27 KO’s) on December 11th, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Khan has a reputation for [...]

By Chris Williams: I love all the drama that’s being played out for Kelly Pavlik’s next fight against journeyman Brian Vera (17-5, 11 KO’s) on November 13th at the Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington. This is supposed to be a do-or-die bout for Pavlik, and one that will show what that he can still be a [...]

By Jim Amato: He may very well be one of the most underrated champions of the glorious 70′s. He won an astounding 70 of 73 battles. He held the 140 pound title for nearly four years and relinquished it. He never lost his belt in the ring. He was a 5’5″ southpaw from Italy named [...]

By Dan Ambrose: On October 7th, boxing great Roy Jones Jr. (54-7, 40 KO’s) will resume his sinking career against little known fighter Danny Santiago (31-4-1, 19 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout at the Civic Center, in Pensacola, Florida. Santiago should be weak enough for the 41-year-old Jones to end his two-fight losing [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: On November 27th, arguably the most talented fighters in the super middleweight division will get it on when WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO’s) on once beaten Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) at a still to be determined location in the United States. This will be the 3rd stage [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) has said repeatedly to anyone that cares to listen that he plans on hanging up his boxing gloves next year at the ripe old age of 31, in October 2011. Haye, for some odd reason, is paranoid about sticking around too long in the [...]

Brooklyn, NY (September 28, 2010) – Golden Boy Promotions just added a little more magic to its already stellar lineup of fighters as the company announced today that an agreement has been reached to promote former World Champion Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi. Malignaggi, who will begin his assault on the welterweight division under the Golden [...]

Thought you would be interested in hearing that Boxing trainer Freddie Roach is featured in the October issue of Playboy magazine—available on newsstands now! The feature—titled The Unstompable Roach—talks about Roach’s growing up in Massachusetts in a family of fighters, including his mother who was New England’s first female boxing judge. Says Roach of his [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – (September 28, 2010) – 3-Time World Champion Paul Williams (39-1, 27 KO) and reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) Sergio Martinez (45-2-2, 24 KO) shared their thoughts on their scheduled fight that is to take place on Saturday, November 20, at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. As the main event of the evening, [...]

Andy Lee, Kronk Irish middleweight star headlines the ‘Fight Night at the Horseshoe’ boxing series promoted by Hitz Boxing this Saturday night (October 2nd) at the luxurious ‘Venue’, Horseshoe Casino, Hammond, Indiana. Lee laces up his gloves in his 25th outing as a professional, in a 10 round bout against veteran fighter, Troy Lowry from [...]

OXNARD, CALIF. (September 28, 2010) — Eight weeks away from hitting North Texas, the “Tijuana Tornado” ANTONIO MARGARITO is picking up steam as he heads to the coastal town of Oxnard, Calif. to continue his preparation for his rumble with the best pound for pound fighter in the world, The Honorable Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, Congressman [...]

By Dave Lahr: In the latest boxing news, Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko is taking credit for sending former IBF/WBC heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis (41-2-1, 32 KO’s) into retirement following their fight in June 2003 seven years ago. Klitschko’s face was nearly ripped apart in that fight and he was taking vicious shots in the 5th and [...]

By Eric Thomas: If IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KOs’s) still hasn’t found an opponent for his next fight in December, he might want to consider 37-year-old former World Boxing Council cruiserweight champion Juan Carlos Gomez (48-2, 36 KO’s), who sent out a press release today saying he’s available to fight the 34-year-old [...]

Hitz Boxing will be hosting a very special night of boxing on Saturday, October 2 at The Venue at the Horseshoe Casino, just 20 minutes from downtown Chicago. Crowd-pleasing Irish middleweight prospect Andy Lee will be the featured fighter of the evening. After a successful amateur career including an appearance at the 2004 Olympic Games [...]

By Mark Hepplestall: Tomasz Adamek is a former two weight world champion in the light heavyweight and cruiserweight division. Tomasz Adamek has a 43 fight record including 42 wins and 27 by TKO/KO with only a single defeat on points to “Bad” Chad Dawson. More recently Tomasz Adamek has moved up to heavyweight in search [...]

Matt Skelton and Michael Sprott could meet in the final of Prizefighter Heavyweights IV after line-up alterations ahead of the October 9 fight night at York Hall, Bethnal Green. The pair have fought twice previously with Skelton coming out on top on both occasions, and now the withdrawal of three fighters has led to a [...]

While Paul McCloskey will look to defend his European Light Welterweight title against Scotland’s Barry Morrison at The Aura, Letterkenny in the main event on Saturday’s Hunky Dorys Fight Night three aspiring new pro’s will be looking to further their professional apprenticeships on the undercard with Donegal man Michael McLaughlin, Mayo’s Finbarr Eade and Dublin’s [...]