Archive for November, 2010

By Chris Williams: Trainer Freddie Roach wants Manny Pacquiao to finally give Juan Manuel Marquez a rematch, but instead of the fight taking place at 135 to 140, which would make it a winnable fight for Marquez, Roach wants the fight to take place at 147. In other words, he wants Pacquiao to have a [...]

Enfield’s sensational Light Welterweight prospect Chris ‘The Flash’ Evangelou is set for his first fight outside London, when he travels to Scotstoun Sports Campus, Glasgow, Scotland to face Poland’s globe trotting Arek Malek, on Saturday 27th November.

By William Mackay: World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) wants no part of fighting Wladimir or Vitali Klitschko in Germany. Instead, Haye, 30, wants to fight one of the Klitschko brothers in London, England. This could be a big problem in making the fight happen, because Haye isn’t calling the [...]

By Dave Lahr: Alex Ariza, Manny Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach, believes that Pacquiao would have destroyed Floyd Mayweather Jr. if it had been him in the ring with him instead of Antonio Margarito. Using a catch-weight of 150 pounds, Pacquiao defeated Margarito by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision at the Cowboys Stadium to [...]

By Gari Jones: This idea may not sound as far fetched as you think. Three of Britain’s’ boxers have caught the headlines in recent Heavyweight World Title matches (David Haye v Audley Harrison and Derek Chisora v Wladimir Klitshcko) it might not be inconceivable to think Michael Sprott could soon earn one too.

By Gari Jones: After dismantling Audley Harrison in what was a joke of a fight, David Haye (W25 (KO 23) L1 (1 by KO) D0) has promised to take on better opposition by making a fight with one of the Klitshcko’s some time early next year. Wanting to unify the Heavyweight division before he retires [...]

By Ryan Dunn: At the post fight conference following Manny Pacquiao’s surgical destruction of Antonio Margarito, Bob Arum wasted no time getting back to business. We boxing fans are all intimately aware of the previous two negotiations to put Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. inside the squared circle together. We know them intimately, even [...]

By Ed Hoyle: When the Super Six was originally announced, boxing fans were literally salivating at the prospect of the best Super Middleweight’s going toe to toe. The original participants consisted of the hard hitting and undefeated Arthur Abraham, Carl ‘The Cobra’ Froch, a rejuvenated Jermain Taylor, Mikkel Kessler the Viking warrior and two other [...]

On Saturday 20th November Robert Stieglitz will defend his World Boxing Organization (WBO) Super middleweight belt against Enrique Ornelas live and exclusively on Primetime Channel 480. As the Super Six tournament continues in dramatic fashion, having already seen two title changes and a string of withdrawals, the rest of the Super Middleweight fighters are jockeying [...]

By Stuart Young: Hatton’s syndrome is officially cured! Legions of weary fans should now be returning to full health after the recent epidemic that hit our shores last weekend for the Haye Vs Harrison bout. Harrison’s shameful performance stank out the MEN Arena in Manchester worse than a Frenchman with a soap phobia.

By Juan dela Cruz: Floyd Mayweather Jr. is undoubtedly the best defensive fighter we have ever seen. He honed his skills through time in several wars above the ring, defeating fighters who come across his path, becoming the darling of the crowd and thus earning him the moniker “Money May” for selling huge PPVs. Yes, [...]

Karachi: Pakistan have good start with victory note in the boxing event in ongoing 16th Asian Games at Foshan Gymnasium Guangzhou, China. Pakistan have seven boxers in said event Amir Khan beat his opponent in 64kg men’s Boxing event in first round he will fight against Kawachi Masatsugu from Japan by 5-4 and now he [...]

Unbeaten Dutch Cruiserweight Mitchell Balker is set to face Blackpool’s Matty ‘Assassin’ Askin on the undercard of Matthew Hatton’s European Welterweight defense at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton on Friday the 26th November.

DANIEL KODJO SASSOU believes he will shatter Scott Quigg’s world title hopes next week. The Frenchman will challenge for unbeaten Quigg’s World Boxing Association (WBA) international super-bantamweight crown on Hatton Promotions triple title bonanza at Bolton’s Reebok Stadium on Friday November 26.

Anthony Fitzgerald, like many Irish boxing prospects in attendance for Willie Casey’s dramatic European Title victory must have been thinking one thing; ‘I wouldn’t mind a bit of this!’ For most boxers, ringside in Limerick was perhaps the closest they will ever get to experience a European Title shot but not Fitzgerald. Under the wing [...]

The undercard for the December 16, 2010 Championship bout featuring Dmitriy Salita (31-1-1,16 KO) vs. Mike Anchondo (30-3, 19 KO) is promised to be action packed featuring great talent. On the undercard, fight fans will be pleased to see the ring return of Polish light middleweight, Pawel Wolak from Mount Arlington, NJ, 27-1, 17 KO’s. [...]

Unbeaten Cavan star Andy Murray is hoping to gatecrash the world title scene this Saturday with a win over World number 14 Claudinei “Volcano” Lacerda when they meet in the main event of the Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the Breaffy House Resort in Mayo. The fight is live on RTÉ TWO as European number [...]

MARTIN LINDSAY will make the second defence of his British featherweight title against John Simpson at King’s Hall, Belfast on Wednesday 15th December. Lindsay’s (17-0) hometown fight against Scotland’s former British and Commonwealth champion promises to be an explosive fight at the world famous venue.

AUDLEY HARRISON has been offered a showdown against Britain’s top heavyweight prospect David Price Promoter Frank Maloney believes public enemy number one Harrison is an ideal opponent for undefeated Olympic bronze medallist David Price with his name. And he intends contacting the 2000 Olympic champion’s promoter Barry Hearn with a view to making the fight [...]

Sheffield star Kell Brook has fired a warning to Amir Khan – fight the best welterweight in Britain before talking about Floyd Mayweather. Brook takes on Michael Clark next month in a World Boxing Organization (WBO) Intercontinental Welterweight title defence and is then on course for a potential WBO World title shot next year against [...]

For undefeated up and coming Jr. Welterweight prospect Carlos Molina (13-0, 7KOs), it doesn’t matter who is standing against across the ring from him, as long as they are ready to give a good fight. First slated to face fellow top prospect David Rodela (15-3-3, 6KOs) this coming Thursday night in the main event of [...]

By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is projecting that the Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito bout from last Saturday night will bring in 1.4 million pay-per-view buys, according to the Dallas Morning News. Arum says the Pacquiao-Margarito bout will end up with twice the numbers of the Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey fight produced [...]

Chevelle Hallback returns to Albuquerque, NM as the co main event on Fresquez Promotions “Deuces Wild”, headlined by Holly Holm and Ann Marie Saccurato on Friday, December 3 at the Route 66 Casino. Hallback’s opponent is a familiar Albuquerque face, Victoria Cisneros, who is treating this match with Chevelle as a stepping stone to again [...]

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao defeats a hand-picked fighter in Antonio Margarito that everyone knew Pacquiao was going to beat ahead of time and now suddenly everyone is spouting about how great Pacquiao and he’s the best in the world? I don’t buy it. A win over Margarito doesn’t make Pacquiao the best in the [...]

Cops rolled over to Floyd Mayweather’s Las Vegas home tonight after a private security guard claimed the championship boxer poked him in the face during an incident in Floyd’s gated community … TMZ has learned.

By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-1, 20 KO’s) just can’t seem to accept the fact that he got spanked by Mikkel Kessler in his last fight in April. In today’s press conference, Froch spent a good deal of time talking about the Kessler fight instead of his upcoming November 27th [...]

By Tommy Graves: The offer was made to the mancunian during Haye v Harrison fight week in Manchester by an executive of Golden Boy promotions, Robert Diaz.

“I would like to congratulate Manny Pacquiao for his win on Saturday Night. It was a tough and difficult fight for me and I hope the fans enjoy our battle at Cowboys Stadium.

NEW YORK (Nov. 15, 2010) – Bitter rivals and European superstars Carl Froch and Arthur Abraham continued to throw verbal jabs at one another on Monday during an international media conference call less than two weeks before their Super Six World Boxing Classic clash for the vacant WBC Super Middleweight title on Saturday, Nov. 27, [...]

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