Archive for September, 2010

By Scott Gilfoid: The Super Six semifinal match-ups between Andre Ward vs. Andre Dirrell, and Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham will be taking place on November 27th, according to boxing news from ESPN. It appears that Dirrell and Ward’s management teams have gotten beyond their impasse and found a neutral location for their Super Six [...]

By Joe Mitchell: According to sources Frank Warren is lining up a fight between former World Boxing Organization (WBO) super featherweight champion Alex Arthur and once beaten Kevin Mitchell. This fight would likely take place on December 11th on his 30th anniversary as a promoter. Frank Warren has said this card will be bigger and [...]

By Joe Mitchell: CEO of Golden Boy Richard Schaefer says Amir “King” Khan is only a couple of fights away from a mega fight with Floyd Mayweather Jnr. He believes he has a great chance if beats big punching Marcos Maidana and unifies the titles against the winner of Tim Bradley vs. Devon Alexander. He [...]

Matt Skelton has vowed to make his experience count when he enters the Prizefighter Heavyweights IV at York Hall on Saturday 9 October – with Kickboxing his secret weapon. At 43 years of age the Reading fighter is the oldest man on the bill in the 14th outing of Barry Hearn’s eight-man, one night tournament [...]

Promoter Frank Warren may be forced to move on and make a new match for James DeGale in December as the clock continued to wind down on a positive response from George Grove and his manager Adam Booth to accept or decline his offer. On Monday (20th September) Warren sent a formal offer to Adam [...]

By Matt Stein: With slightly less than two months to go before the November 13th clash between World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) and Audley Harrison (27-4, 20 KO’s), there are a reported 17,000 tickets that have already been sold for the fight, which will be taking place at the [...]

By Eric Thomas: Legendary promoter Don King thinks it’s still possible to put together the big money mega fight between unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in the near future. Speaking to Usatoday.com, the 79-year-old King says “Yes, it would be bigger than ever if I’m involved. It’s a bright star, but you don’t [...]

By Jim Dower: In a Rocky movie type of situation, unbeaten British heavyweight Derek Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) has been given a once in a lifetime shot against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) for a bout on December 11th. Klitschko’s adviser Shelly Finkel reportedly contacted Chisora’s promoter Frank Warren on Thursday about [...]

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) has sprouted some big ideas about his future in the light welterweight division, because he’s already talking about unifying the light welterweight titles, when he hasn’t even beaten his next opponent WBA light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (29-1, 27 KO’s) yet. Khan, [...]

By Jason Kim: WBA Super bantamweight champion Celestino Caballero (34-2, 23 KO’s) will be moving up in weight to super featherweight to take on super featherweight contender Jason Litzau (27-2, 21 KO’s) on the undercard of the clash between WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez vs. WBO lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis at the MGM [...]

By Jason Kim: Undefeated welterweight contender Mike Jones (22-0, 18 KO’s) has been added to the December 11th Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito undercard at the Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. Jones, 27, will be matched against fellow Top Rank fighter Jesus Soto Karass (24-4-3, 16 KO’s) in a 10 round bout to bring some [...]

Tickets for the Nov 6th fight between Zab “Super” Judah, Brooklyn, NY (39-6, 27 KO’s) and Argentinean knockout artist Lucas Matthysse (27-0, 25 KO’s) go on sale 11am this Friday, September 24th. Several local and Polish favorites will also be featured on the card. The fight will take place at Prudential Center, Newark, NJ. Doors [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten lightweight contender John Murray (29-0, 17 KO’s) is really looking past this Saturday’s fight against Ukrainian Andriy Kudryavtsev (34-7, 15 KO’s) at the Robin Park Centre, Wigan, Lancashire. Murray, 25, is hoping to fight the November 27th clash between WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez and WBO lightweight interim champion Michael [...]

By Chris Williams: Thus far, Manny Pacquiao has captured the World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title at a catch weight of 145 instead of the full weight for the division of 147. Pacquiao is now about to fight for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title at another catch weight, without ever having fought at that [...]

By Dave Lahr: Speaking to Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Floyd Mayweather Jr. had this to say about Manny Pacquiao, says Jackson on his Twitter page: “Floyd just called and woke my a** up. I’m still half asleep. That’s my boy anybody want to do something to him get me first. Floyd told me I ain’t [...]

By Dave Lahr: No one is giving former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs (51-5-1, 45 KO’s) a chance to beat World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (40-2, 38 KO’s) on October 16th, but me. I’m the only one, and I’m going to be sitting here gloating about it afterwards when Briggs destroys Klitschko in [...]

By William Mackay: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is really hurting for opponents to fight right now. Indeed, Wladimir is so much in need of an opponent to fight that it looks like he’s going to raid the UK to snatch up what could be their third best heavyweight in 26-year-old Derek Chisora (14-0, 9 [...]

By Chris Williams: Believe it or not, the bout between middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) and welterweight Alfonso Gomez (22-4-2, 11 KO’s) will be headlining the December 4th Latin Fury pay per view card. First of all, this is a card that you’ll to pay for and secondly it’s going to [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) isn’t pleased with having to wait longer for Super Six tourney bout against former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s). Abraham wonders about Froch’s recent back injury, saying in an article at Sport.ru, “Froch is injured, but it is impossible to be assured about [...]

By William Mackay: World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) was really hoping that his fight with WBA light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (29-1, 27 KO’s) would be taking place in England, where Khan has a large following. However, Khan is going to have to settle for fighting the [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Derek Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) has reportedly been approached for a fight against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s), according to boxing news from the Dailymail.co.uk. Klitschko, 34, had been attempting to land a fight against former cruiserweight champion Jean Marc Mormeck, but that fight [...]

By Sean McDaniel: It may not make much of a difference now, but former two division world champion Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) has been stripped of his boxing license by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC), according to news from the BBC. This comes after the video of Hatton seen snorting lines of [...]

PHOTO CREDIT: Mark Robinson/Golden Boy Promotions.WBA Super Lightweight World Champion Amir “King” Khan (left) and WBA Super Lightweight Interim World Champion Marcos “Chino” Maidana (right) pose on September 23, 2010 in London, England at the press conference to announce their December 11, 2010 world title fight at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, [...]

September 23, 2010 – New York, NY) On Thursday afternoon at The Palm restaurant in Times Square, World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez and former three time world champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams met to announce the rematch of their December 5, 2009 slugfest, set for November 20 from Boardwalk Hall in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: The talented Americans Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO’s) and Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) were supposed to be fighting this Saturday in their semifinal Super Six tournament fight to decide who would be facing the winner of the Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham semifinal match. However, Ward and Dirrell’s promoters have been [...]

NEW YORK (Sept. 23, 2010) – Two fighters coming off huge wins and riding impressive winning streaks will meet in an all-important stepping-stone match-up in a 12-round junior welterweight main event on ShoBox: The New Generation on Friday, Oct. 1, LIVE on SHOWTIME® (11:45 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast). Current USBA light welterweight [...]

HOBOKEN, N.J. (Sept. 22, 2010) – Integrated Sports Media announced today that it will distribute the October 16th “The Rising Son Returns” Pay-Per-View event, featuring Boricua star Wilfredo “WV2” Vazquez, Jr. in his second WBO Junior Featherweight title defense, live in the United States from Silver Sports Arena in Kissimmee, Florida.

The Aura Leisure Centre in Letterkenny will be the unlikely setting for a dual Cuba V Uruguay clash on the undercard of the Hunky Dorys Fight Night on Saturday, October 2nd. Reigning European Light Welterweight Champion Paul McCloskey tops the bill as he makes the second defence of his title against Scotland’s Barry Morrison in [...]

By Mark Hepplestall: On 8th of March 2008, David Haye did what the majority of the world thought would happen and beat Enzo Maccarinelli for the WBA Super World cruiserweight title, WBC cruiserweight title, WBO cruiserweight title and Ring Magazine Cruiserweight title. This was the last fight before he moves up to heavyweight, win or [...]

LONDON, September 23 – With fans from the United States to England to Argentina clamoring for it for well over a year, super lightweight supremacy will finally be decided on Saturday, December 11, when British superstar Amir “King” Khan returns to the United States for his second consecutive bout to defend his World Boxing Association [...]