By Dan Ambrose: Fighting for the third time as a professional boxer, former web brawler and MMA fighter 37-year-old Kevin “Kimbo” Slice (3-0, 2 KO’s) defeated Charles Hackmann (0-1) by a four round unanimous decision on Friday night at the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Oklahoma. The final judges’ scores were 39-37, 39-37 and 39-37.
Year: 2011
Burns still looking for an opponent for March 10th defense in Scotland
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO interim lightweight champion Ricky Burns (33-2, 9 KO’s) is still looking for an opponent for his first fight defending his interim strap on March 10th at the Braehead Arena in Glascow, Scotland. Burns, 28, was supposed to be facing the unranked Anthony Crolla next instead of an actual top 15 contender but this little mismatch won’t be going through according to the latest boxing news.
Chavez-Rubio: Julio to taste defeat for the first time
By Dan Ambrose: WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) has been blessed with being the son of a boxing legend in father Julio Cesar Chavez. Instead of having to toil away in near obscurity and claw his way to the top like Sergio Martinez, Chavez Jr. has been helped along his path with huge crowds flocking to see him fight mostly B and C opposition and high ratings on HBO.
Will Chisora give Klitschko problems?
By John F. McKenna (McJack): Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) is taking his title shot against World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) very seriously. Chisora will be fighter Vitali on February 18, 2012 in Munich, Germany in a fight which most boxing fans give him little chance at emerging victorious. But sometimes when a fighter is going after the biggest prize in sports he fights above himself.
Khan: Peterson is afraid I’ll knock him out in a rematch
Marquez will be doing Arum a big favor by facing Timothy Bradley
By Chris Williams: If WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez can’t get a rematch with WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, Marquez says he plans on moving up to the light welterweight division where he might take on World Boxing Organization light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (28-0, 12 KO’s) for his title.
Roach says Arum gave him four names for Pacquiao’s next fight: Cotto, Bradley, Marquez and Peterson
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is reportedly saying that promoter Bob Arum has given him four names – Timothy Bradley, Miguel Cotto, Lamont Peterson and Juan Manuel Marquez – as the fighters that are in the running to be selected from for Pacquiao’s next fight in early 2012. Of the four, two of them – Cotto and Bradley – are from Arum’s Top Rank stable.
Jermain Taylor already looks good enough to beat Chavez Jr., Sturm, Pirog and Geale
By William Mackay: 33-year-old former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (29-4-1, 18 KO’s) returned to the ring last night and showed little signs of rust in stopping Jessie Nicklow (22-3-3, 8 KO’s) in the 8th round of a scheduled 10 round bout at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon, California.
Caballero retains WBA title, defeats Hosono by lopsided decision
By Eric Thomas: World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight champion Celestino Caballero (36-4, 23 KO’s) successfully defended his title on Saturday night defeating the much shorter challenger Satoshi Hosono (21-2, 15 KO’s) from Japan by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision in Yokohama, Japan.