Archive for October, 2010

Warriors Boxing Promotions presents: Friday Night Fights At Nevins Hall Nov. 19th, 2010 FACT SHEET DATE: Nov. 19, 2010 Doors open @ 6:30PM – 1st fight @ 7:00PM

OAKLAND, CA (Oct. 24, 2010) – Undefeated hometown hero and points leader in the innovative Super Six World Boxing Classic, Andre “SOG” Ward (22-0, 13 KOs) will return home to the Oracle Arena, when he defends his World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight championship a second time against tough world contender Sakio “The Scorpion” Bika [...]

After 11 months of inactivity Michael “Lil Warrior” Franco was back in the ring against the hard nosed veteran Adolfo “El Terror” Landeros at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in San Diego, Ca.

Atlantic City, NJ (October 25, 2010) — On Friday, October 22, reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez and three-time world champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams went to the scales for the Official WBC 30-day Weigh-In. Martinez weighing in at 176, from his camp in Oxnard, CA and from Wash., DC, Williams [...]

NEW YORK (Oct. 25, 2010) — Puerto Rican superstar and WBO featherweight world champ Juan Manuel Lopez and Mexican legend and future Hall of Famer Rafael Marquez participated in an international media conference call on Monday to discuss their upcoming rivalry fight on Saturday, Nov. 6, LIVE on SHOWTIME® from the MGM Grand Garden Arena [...]

The weigh-in for Donofrio Entertainment’s the “WAR OF 1812″ Lanardo Tyner vs. Andre Gorges NABA-US Welterweight Championship fight will be held at Bar Louie at the Great Lakes Crossing Mall on Friday, October 29 at 6:00 pm. Bar Louie is located at 4390 Baldwin Road in Auburn Hills, Michigan (for more information, call 248.409.0087). Food [...]

Ricky Burns says he will succeed where his Scottish ancestors failed – and repel a Viking invasion force on December 4. Burns defends his WBO World Super-Featherweight title at the Braehead Arena, Glasgow, against Andreas Evensen, live on Sky Sports. Colombian born Evensen now boxes out of Norway and is a hero in his adopted [...]

Lausanne, 25 October 2010 – The inaugural World Series of Boxing (WSB) bouts will take place on 31 October at 7 pm at the Sport Palace Almaty, Kazakhstan as part of an exhibition match linked to the AIBA Congress. The Astana Arlans and the Istanbulls – two of the twelve franchises from across the globe [...]

Hunky Dorys Fight Night A rib injury has ruled Kiko Martinez out of his European title showdown with Willie “Big Bang” Casey on the Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the University Arena in Limerick on Saturday, November 6th. However Martinez’s loss is Paul Hyland’s gain with the Dubliner now stepping in to meet Casey for [...]

By Paul Jovanovic: First and foremost, let me say that I think Lennox Lewis is one of the best Heavyweights there’s been in a long time. Few have paralleled his achievements in recent history, with only the Klitschko brothers coming anywhere close. Having said that, I always believed that Vitali Klitschko should have had a [...]

By Paul McCreath: On November 13, WBA heavyweight champion David Haye will finally get back into the ring again when he makes a voluntary defense of his title against fellow Brit Audley Harrison. For a fight that nearly everyone outside of the UK says they are not interested in there seems to be a lot [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: 41-year-old former IBF light heavyweight champion Glen Johnson (50-14-2, 34 KO’s) plans on making the most of his great opportunity against Allan Green (29-2, 20 KO’s) in their Super Six tournament bout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Johnson is replacing Mikkel Kessler who dropped out of the tournament because [...]

By Jim Dower: World Boxing Organization featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (29-0, 26 KO’s) will be making the second defense of his WBO title on November 6th against former two division world champion Rafael Marquez (39-5, 35 KO’s) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lopez, 27, will have the height, youth, and power [...]

By Dave Lahr: It’s not looking good for Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KO’s) as he continues to get ready for his title bout against Antonio Margarito (38-6, 27 KO’s) on November 13th for the WBC junior middleweight vacant title. In his last day of sparring in the Philippines before leaving for the U.S., Pacquiao took [...]

By Chris Williams: Antonio Margarito (38-6, 27 KO’s) is like a man possessed going into his fight against the 5’6″ Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KO’s) for the vacant WBC junior middleweight tittle on November 13th. Margarito, 32, one of the best pressure fighters in boxing, intends on going after the smaller Pacquiao and bombarding him [...]

By Dave Lahr: Okay, so I’ve taken a look a number of Dereck Chisora’s fights and I’ve got to admit that he’s really got his work cut out for him against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko on December 11th. Unlike Samuel Peter and Shannon Briggs, the 26-year-old Chisora has a lot less physical tools to [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: British super bantamweight challenger Rendall Munroe (21-2, 9 KO’s) was totally dominated by World Boxing Council (WBC) super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka (37-4-3, 23 KO’s), losing a by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision on Sunday night at the Kokugikan, Tokyo, Japan. Nishioka, 34, using movement, straight left hands and vicious body [...]

By Sean McDaniel: In two fights in the Super Six tournament, former International Boxing Federation (IBF) middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO’s) has badly hurt both of his opponents to the point where they’ve had to pull out of the tournament entirely. Now, Abraham will be facing former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch [...]

By William Mackay: Despite having captured the WBA heavyweight title with a narrow and somewhat controversial 12 round decision over Nikolay Valuev a year ago, World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) remains largely unproven at heavyweight as he approaches his November 13th fight against the big punching Audley Harrison (27-4, 20 [...]

By Jason Kim: 48-year-old Evander Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 KO’s) is still fighting after an incredible 26-years as a professional fighter. He’s sticking around because he has a goal of capturing all four of the world heavyweight titles before he retires. This has been Holyfield’s impossible goal for some time now, and it doesn’t appear that [...]

Contender Australia winner, Garth “From The Hood” Wood, and team will be heading off to a secret location this week in preparation for his December 8 all-Australian grudge match with Anthony “The Man” Mundine, 40-3 (24).

By Dan Ambrose: Former three division world champion Erik Morales (50-6, 35 KO’s) will be defending his obscure WBC Silver light welterweight title against 34-year-old Jorge Rodrigo Barrios (50-4-1, 35 KO’s) on December 18th at the Caliente Racetrack, in Tijuana, Mexico. This is one of those fights which match two fighters that are on the [...]

By Dave Lahr: I can’t believe I sat through the entire 1st episode of HBO 24/7 Pacquiao/Margarito last night. Man, it was really boring. If I worked for HBO, I would have canned the director of the episode because it was nothing but wasted video. Most of the dull episode was spent on going over [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I frankly don’t care whether WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s chin has suddenly gotten a lot better since he was brutally knocked out in the 1st round by Breidis Prescott back in 2008, I still see Khan getting flattened on December 11th by WBA light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana when they [...]

By Dan Ambrose: In case you haven’t noticed, trainer Freddie Roach has been talking in the media recently about how poor his fighter Manny Pacquiao has been looking during training sessions. This has been an off and on thing with Roach, as he’s either predicting a knockout win for Pacquiao over Antonio Margarito or pointing [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO’s) is almost guaranteed to win the Super Six tournament at this point. They only thing that lies between Ward and the title and two crude sluggers Carl Froch and Arthur Abraham, and neither of them have the boxing skills nor the hand speed [...]

By Chris Williams: Maybe I’m the only one that is less than impressed with the catchweight fight between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title on November 13th, but I think Pacquiao’s catchweight fight makes the win less credible as far as I’m concerned. This is for the World Boxing [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya feels that the soon to be 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins (51-5-1, 32 KO’s) will give WBC light heavyweight Jean Pascal big problems when they meet up on December 18th at the Pepsi Coliseum, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. De La Hoya, who knows first hand how good Hopkins can be, [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I’ve noticed more than a few fans of Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) have been belly aching about Chisora having to fight an immediate rematch with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko should he beat him on December 11th. Apparently, it’s also part of the contract that Chisora would have to fight Wladimir’s [...]

By William Mackay: In the final bit of sparring in the Philippines before leaving to the United States to train at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles, CA, Manny Pacquiao reportedly gave WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan some problems in their sparring session. Khan had been talking about doing well with Pacquiao in [...]