Archive for November, 2010

By William Mackay: Perhaps in a sign that they don’t feel that they would have much of a chance against the hulking steel-chinned WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s), Adam Booth, the trainer/manager for World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s), says that Haye wants to fight Wladimir first [...]

SAO PAULO (Nov. 19, 2010) – Undefeated Michael “The Brazilian Rocky” Oliveira and his promoter, Rumble Star Promotions, take the first step towards popularizing boxing in Brazil tomorrow (Saturday) night with the presentation of “A Gala Night of Boxing” pro-am event. “A Gala Night of Boxing,” presented by Rumble Star Promotions, in association with Reunion [...]

Hollywood came to London earlier today. OK, not quite Hollywood but the film crew shooting the worldwide Christmas 2010 Promo for The Body Shop were in town, at the Ultrachem TKO Gym, to film Great Britain’s best known female boxers Marianne ‘Golden Girl’ Marston and Angel ‘The Artist’ McKenzie in action.

DATE: Saturday night, November 20, 2010 WHO: MAIN EVENT – SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHTS — 10 ROUNDS MICHAEL “The Brazilian Rocky” OLIVEIRA JUNIOR “Dangerous” RAMOS

By Gari Jones: It’s a fight all fans of Boxing have been waiting for; Amir Khan (W23 (KO17), L1 (1KO) and D0) will face off against Marcos Rene Maidana (W29 (KO27), L1 (0KO) D0) on the11th December 2010 for the WBA Welterweight World Title. Its always exciting to see two very different styles match-up together, [...]

By Mark Hepplestall: This article is a follow up article, to one posted by another writer on this site which I felt was one sided in highlighting only certain facts about Manny Pacquiao’s past career. The correct facts in this article conclude that in fact Manny Pacquiao has fought more African Americans then he has [...]

(OXNARD, CALIF.) – The United States and Poland led the participating nations in victories for the second straight day at the Women’s International Dual Series in Oxnard on Thursday. Team USA racked up four victories on day two of competition while Poland once again went undefeated in their dual contests.

This Saturday undefeated Bayan Jargal (15-0-3, 10KO’s) will face the toughest test of his young career, when he takes on Steve Upsher Chambers (22-1-1, 6KO’s) at the Boardwalk Hall Convention Center in Atlantic City, NJ. The bout, scheduled for six rounds in the jr. welterweight division, will be one of the undercard bouts to the [...]

King Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KOs) will travel to Helsinki, Finland on Sunday night to continue his preparation for the eagerly anticipated Super Six World Boxing Classic showdown with Carl “The Cobra” Froch (26-1, 20 KOs). The vacant WBC Super-Middleweight Title will be on the line when the two superstars collide at the famous Hartwall [...]

By Dallan o’ Donnell: Vitali Klitschko is ready to start negotiations with WBA heavyweight champion David Haye. Speaking from Hamburg on a special edition of Ringside on sky sports, Bernd Boente the manager of the Klitshkos said Vitali is ready to go now. This was quickly shot down by Adam booth-Hayes trainer and manager. Boente [...]

Gary Sykes will turning on the Christmas lights in his home town of Dewsbury next weekend – a week after he hopes to light up the York Hall by winning Prizefighter Super Featherweights. The unbeaten British champion faces a hectic few weeks in the spotlight – entering Prizefighter live on Sky Sports on Saturday as [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: If this was a shadow boxing fight, I’d give it to WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) 100 out of 100 times. Unfortunately for Khan, this isn’t a show boxing fight or slap fight. Khan is facing one of the hardest punchers in the light welterweight division in Marcos [...]

Boxing results – Club Nokia, Los Angeles, California: Carlos Molina dec 8 John Figueroa Ivan Redkach DQ 3 Carlos Hernandez Fidel Maldonado Jr UD 4 Luis Sanchez

By Dan Ambrose: WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez 45-2-2, 24 KO’s) will be defending his title against Paul Williams (39-1, 27 KO’s) in a big showdown on HBO that takes place at the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey. The fight will give Martinez a chance to gain revenge for a questionable 12 round majority [...]

WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT 13 Friday, November 19, 2010 8 Count Productions UIC Pavilion Doors 7pm, First Bell 8pm Tickets/Info 312-226-5800

By Jim Dower: Former WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev (26-1-1, 17 KO’s) will be taking on the hard hitting Travis Walker (34-5-1, 28 KO’s) on Friday night in a scheduled eight round bout at the Universum Gym, Wandsbek, in Hamburg, Germany. This fight should be nothing more than a formality for the #1 ranked WBA [...]

By John F McKenna (mcjack): How is a great fighter measured? What yardstick is used to differentiate a great fighter from a good fighter? Despite all the hype that we have been bombarded with over the past few years, there are not a lot of fighters that fall into the great category. It is terribly [...]

By By Ibrar Arshad: After a long time I have decided to write an article again. The reason for my absence is the amount of ignorance I was beginning to see in boxing fans on this website, as well as the poor articles that other authors were posting. Sometimes it’s disheartening to see fans of [...]

IBF International Heavyweight and NABO Heavyweight Champion, Golwice, Poland and Jersey City, N.J. 42-1, 27 KO’s IBF International Heavyweight Champion Tomasz Adamek held a media workout to promote his upcoming December 9th title defense at Prudential Center in Newark NJ, against Vinny Maddalone, Queens, NY, 33-6, 24 KO’s.

By Sean McDaniel: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch lays the blame for last weekends fiasco bout between Audley Harrison and WBA heavyweight champion David Haye squarely in the lap of Harrison instead of giving partial blame to Haye for having picked Harrison in the first place to fight instead of a better opponent. [...]

By Dave Lahr: Jeff Mayweather, the uncle of unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr., is skeptical and less than impressed with Manny Pacquiao’s recent wins as he’s moved up in weight against fighters like Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Joshua Clottey, Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito. In an article at fighthype.com, Jeff makes it clear that [...]

By Jason Kim: Unbeaten WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) is hoping he can get lucky and win the lottery to get a big mega money fight against Manny Pacquiao in the near future, according to boxing news from the Saint Louis Post Dispatch. Alexander, 23, first much beat WBO light welterweight [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Although World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) has defended his choice of picking 39-year-old fringe contender Audley Harrison (27-5, 20 KO’s) for his recent fight last weekend, it seems to have caused a lot of negative feelings for not only Harrison for the way that he looked timid [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Arguably the world’s greatest super middleweight Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO’s) has a stay busy fight against 31-year-old Sakio Bika (28-4-2, 19 KO’s) in less than two weeks at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, California. This is replacement opponent for the highly skilled Andre Dirrell who was supposed to be fighting Ward [...]

Farah Ennis 168 – Victor Lares 167 ½ (NABF Super Middleweight Championship) Chazz Witherspon 233 – Alexis Mejias 234

By William Mackay: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) is sick of going around and around trying to get WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) into the ring so that he can finally prove who the better fighter is. Haye recently defeated Audley Harrison in a 3rd round TKO that has [...]

NEW YORK (Nov. 18, 2010)-SHOWTIME Sports officially announced today that The Bantamweight Tournament: Winner Takes All-the two-stage, single-elimination tournament of 118-pounders-will begin with two Semifinal bouts on Saturday, Dec. 11 at Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Wash. SHOWTIME will televise the fights live at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast).

By Chris Williams: Bernard Hopkins mentioned that Manny Pacquiao hasn’t faced any African Americans earlier today in an interview. I’ve always wondered why Manny Pacquiao, out of all the opponents he’s had in his career, he for some reason hasn’t fought any African American fighters? Now why is that? With the opportunity to face Paul [...]

By Gerardo Granados: This two are most quoted prizefighters in the last couple of years, boxing fans all over the world fight each other on blogs or forums with such fierce that makes you wonder what would happened if this two great in deed faced each other. Both parties allege that his favorite is the [...]

Atlantic City, NJ (November 18, 2010) – This Saturday, November 20, at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez will defend his title against Paul “The Punisher” Williams in a rematch of their December 5, 2009 slugfest which had both fighters knocked down in round one and Williams [...]