Archive for September, 2010

CHICAGO, IL (September 27, 2010) Sensational junior welterweight prospect Ramiro Carrillo will make his long awaited return to the ring at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion on Friday, October 22nd at WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT 13, it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions. Sporting a record of 2-0-0 (1KO), the 19 year [...]

ARLINGTON, TX (September 27, 2010) — Former World Middleweight Champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK will be embarking on his professional comeback, headlining the televised undercard for the 12-round World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight championship between combined 10-time world champions CONGRESSMAN MANNY PACQUIAO and the “Tijuana Tornado” ANTONIO MARGARITO. Pavlik will be taking on Texan [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In his latest column at thisisnottingham.co.uk, former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) revealed that he’s come down with a bad chest cold, along his back problem he’s been having for the past couple of weeks. With all the ailments that Froch is suffering all of a sudden, you [...]

By William Mackay: It’s been two good years since Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) was last viciously knocked out by Breidis Prescott in September 2008. Khan has now won his last bouts since then, albeit against weak punchers all of them. On December 11th, Khan will be facing WBA light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news tip, super middleweight contender Sakio Bika (28-4-2, 19 KO’s) could be the replacement for WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler for a fight against American Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) on December 18th in the stage 3 part of the Super Six tournament. There will reportedly [...]

By Matt Stein: Unbeaten junior middleweight James Kirkland (25-0, 22 KO’s) will be making his first appearance in over a year when he steps in the ring on November 6th at the Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey. Kirkland, 26, still doesn’t have an opponent for that date, but that really doesn’t matter right now. [...]

By Chris Williams: Alex Ariza, the strength and conditioning coach for Manny Pacquiao, plans on having Pacquiao add swimming to his training regimen, according to Ronnie Nathanielsz at www.inquirer.net. Ariza says “I believe there is no better conditioning plan than to hit the pool.” Well, I hope they have a good lifeguard on the scene [...]

Crown Boxing Inc. FROM THE BOXING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD LAS VEGAS, NEVADA PRESENTS FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS OCTOBER 22, 2010 At The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada In The CROWN Theater and Night Club Doors open 5pm / First bout 7pm. Fight Ticket entitles you to Post Fight Party in The Crown [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: If you listen to or ready a lot of former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s interviews in the months following his 12 round decision loss to Mikkel Kessler in April, you’ll notice that Froch seems unable to shut his yap about the loss to Kessler. It seems like he hasn’t come [...]

PHILADELPHIA (September 27, 2010)—On Friday night October 8th, former U.S. Olympian and undefeated Jr. Welterweight Rock Allen will be making his long awaited return to the ring when he competes in a six round co-feature on a big night of boxing that will take place at The Arena (Formally The New Alhambra) in South Philadelphia. [...]

By Dave Lahr: I never thought I’d see the day when Freddie Roach would come clean about his fighter Manny Pacquiao not being ready to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. Well, here it is straight from the horse’s mouth in an article by Ronnie Nathanielsz at inquirer.net: Roach says “I would like to see him [speaking [...]

By Dave Lahr: What is up with trainer Freddie Roach? In an article by Ronnie Nathanielsz at inquirer.net, Roach says “We’re going to scare the sh** out of [Antonio] Margarito. That’s one thing Manny will do, he will scare people.” I like how Roach is trying to speak for Pacquiao. I don’t buy any of [...]

By Aaron Scully: With WBA champion David Haye’s November 13th bout coming up against Audley Harrison (27-4, 20 KO’s) a lot of questions will be answered about Haye’s suspect chin.

By Scott Gilfoid: I don’t know if you’ve ever had a chance to read any of Amir Khan’s twitter comments, but I check out all the time. The one thing that I’ve noticed with this dude is that he’s always talking about food. Seriously, Khan is either talking about just having eaten some food or [...]

By Jason Kim: Recently, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-, 28 KO’s) opted to sit out the remainder of 2010 rather than taking on either Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17 KO’s) or Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KO’s). Cotto says he wants to fight mainly popular fighters, but I really wonder if that’s the reason he [...]

By Chris Williams: I’ve noticed that many of Manny Pacquiao’s recent opponents during the past couple of years have either been coming off of a terrible loss or had recently been beaten at the time he fought them. Maybe it’s just coincidence that Pacquiao keeps getting matched up with guys that have been pounded on [...]

By William Mackay: It’s hard to believe that former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) won’t be making a comeback at least for one or two more fights. It’s been two years since Calzaghe, then 36, retired from boxing after beating a washed up 40-year-old Roy Jones Jr. by a lopsided 12 round [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Americans Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO’s) and Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) will be fighting for the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) super middleweight title that previously belonged to Mikkel Kessler on November 27th in their stage 3 Super Six tournament bout at a still to be determined venue. The WBC title [...]

By Dave Lahr: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (40-2, 38 KO’s) will be making his 5th and likely his last title defense of his World Boxing Council crown on October 16th against one-punch knockout artist Shannon Briggs (51-5-1, 45 KO’s) at the O2 World Arena, Altona, in Hamburg, Germany. Other than Lennox Lewis, Vitali, 39, [...]

By Eric Thomas: If trainer Freddie Roach has his way, Manny Pacquiao will fight a few more times and then wrap up his boxing career with a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. Pacquiao, 31, is taking on former welterweight champion Antonio Margarito on November 13th at the Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington, Texas, in a fight [...]

By Sean McDaniel: After successfully defending his EBU lightweight title with a 9th round stoppage victory over challenger Andriy Kudryavtsev (34-8, 15 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Robin Park Centre, in Wigan, Lancashire, champion John Murray (30-0, 18 KO’s) says he’s ready to challenge for a world title against champions Humberto Soto, Michael Katsidis [...]

Boxing results – Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada: Logan McGuinness RTD 2 Buzz Grant

Boxing results – Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, Nevada: Kassim Ouma TKO 6 Joey Gilbert

Boxing action – Bally’s Atlantic City, Atlantic City, New Jersey: Teon Kennedy TKO 10 Alex Becerra

Boxing results – Jose Cuervo Salon, Polanco, Distrito Federal, Mexico: Johnny Garcia DQ 8 Jesus Ruiz Dante Jardon DQ 2 Jose Palma Antonio Pitalua TKO 3 Antonio Fitch

Boxing results – MSU IIT Gym, Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Philippines: Denver Cuello TKO 9 Muhammad Rachman

The World Boxing Council (WBC) Youth World lightweight Champion Gabor Veto (21/Varpalota) will face the experienced African Rajabu Maoja (34/Tanzania) for the vacant East & Central African Professional Boxing Federation lightweight title on October 2nd , the fight dubbed as «Road to Glory » will take place in the legendary Charter Hall in Nairobi, Kenya. [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) came away from his London presc conference meeting with World Boxing Association light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (29-1, 27 KO’s) that the Argentinian was looking kind of overweight, saying “Maidana looks pudgy to me.” Johny Nelson, the analyst for Sky Sports, said [...]

By William Mackay: Lightweight contender John Murray (30-0, 18 KO’s) defeated Ukrainian Andriy Kudryavtsev (34-8, 15 KO’s) by a 9th round TKO on Saturday night at the Robin Park Centre, Wigan, Lancashire. However, Murray looked sloppy, slow of hand and foot, showed no head movement, and looked very basic in beating a fighter that was [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In his column at The Sun,, promoter Frank Warren speaks highly of his fighter undefeated light heavyweight contender Nathan Cleverly (20-0, 10 KO’s), who recently defeated Karo Murat by a 10th round TKO last Saturday night a week ago in the Magnificent Seven card. Warren says “At 23, he [Cleverly] has a [...]