Archive for January, 2011

By Dave Lahr: Nonito Donaire (25-1, 17 KO’s) is coming into his February 19th fight against WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (44-2-2, 34 KO’s) as the favorite to win when they battle at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Chris Williams: I can’t believe it. According to reports, there were 16,000 tickets sold for the May 7th Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Apparently, all these tickets got purchased on a three hour period today from 10 AM to 1 PM, and it’s one of [...]

By Chris Williams: WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) may have defeated Devon Alexander last Saturday night to capture Alexander’s WBC strap, but Bradley only proved that he’s better than the twenty-three year old Alexander and not better than WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan or the other top contenders in the [...]

By Edgar Solorzano: Last November, former two-time WBO welterweight champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams (39-2, 27 KO) faced Argentina’s Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KO) and was defeated by an explosive second round knockout—the type of knockout that could possibly put a bear to sleep. Before the Martinez-Williams II event, many people had Paul Williams ranked [...]

PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. (January 31, 2011) – Amir Khan, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Manny Pacquiao, Juan Manuel Marquez, the Klitschko brothers – line ‘em up — undefeated 140-Pound World Champion TIMOTHY “Desert Storm” BRADLEY (27-0, 11 KOs), of Palm Springs, Calif., is ready to knock them off their pedestals. For the second time in his professional [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten welterweight contender Mike Jones (23-0, 18 KO’s) was supposed to be someone that could eventually compete with the top welterweights in the division and soon become one of the welterweight champions. However, the 27-year-old Jones was badly exposed in a fight with fringe welterweight contender Jesus Soto-Karass last November, winning by [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Promoter Bob Arum says that former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KO’s) could be fighting on the undercard of the May 7th bout between Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pavlik, 28, hasn’t fought since losing his titles to Sergio Martinez last year [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: Not too long ago an over confident Ricky Hatton had the audacity to face a humble man from the Philippines who turns into a Tasmanian devil in the ring: Manny Pacquiao. Hatton had never really known the experience of getting savagely beat, he had been stopped by Floyd Mayweather but it was [...]

LAS VEGAS, NEV. (January 31, 2011) – Pacman Fever hit MGM Grand this morning with one of the biggest ticket runs in Las Vegas boxing history. Between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. PT, 16,000 tickets were sold to the Manny Pacquiao vs. Sugar Shane Mosley world welterweight championship. Barely 1,000 seats remain for Pacquiao’s return [...]

Sampson Boxing LLC announces Costa Rica‘s national pugilist, Hanna Gabriel to be part of the week long inauguration of the new Costa Rican National Stadium in San Jose, Costa Rica. This much honored and idolized female boxing symbol of Costa Rica, will be defending her World Boxing Organization (WBO) Jr. Middleweight title on March 31, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: It’s sad that Bob Arum has chosen to hand-pick 39-year-old totally shot Shane Mosley as Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent on May 7th, because pretty much no one is giving the 40ish Mosley any chance whatsoever and it seems almost laughable/pathetic that Mosley is now saying he plans on knocking Pacquiao out. You [...]

By Eric Thomas: Last Saturday night’s light welterweight unification bout between WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander and WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley drew only 6247 fans at the Pontiac Silverdome, in Michigan. They were expecting a crowd of 15,000 and ended up with only half of that number. You have to think it’s [...]

By William Mackay: It took awhile to come up with a good excuse for why he took a lot of punishment and was almost knocked out in his last fight against Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) last December, but WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) has finally opened up his lips and [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (28-4, 6 KO’s) is about to reveal who his next opponent will be today. Malignaggi, 30, had this to say on his twitter account today: “I want everyone to be on twitter when I drop the bomb. So I’ll be tweeting around 5ish, so stay [...]

By Sean McDaniel: EBU welterweight champion Matthew Hatton (41-4-1, 16 KO’s) is taking a big risk in traveling to the United States and facing unbeaten knockout puncher Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) on March 5th at the Honda Center, in Anaheim, California. Hatton, 29, is the younger, bigger brother of former two division world champion [...]

On Friday at the Double Tree Westshore Hotel in Tampa, Florida, Cuba’s future world champion Vilier Quinonez continued his steamroll up the super middleweight ranks by scoring his second consecutive first-round knockout.

By Michael Lieberman: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) has given his time-line for when he plans on fighting a unification bout against WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s), saying that he’ll be fighting Bradley in the Summer or later. Khan has a tune-up fight coming up on April [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s) is hoping to get a second crack at Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0, 25 KO’s) this year if Mosley can get by his next fight against Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KO’s) on May 7th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. For [...]

By William Mackay: Earlier today, WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) volunteered to fight WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) on April 16th in the UK for Khan’s next fight. Bradley, who just finished polishing off WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-1, 13 KO’s) last weekend in a [...]

By Chris Williams: WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) is really hoping that he can get a fight against unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. in his next fight in 2011. I’d say the chances of that happening are about as likely as me winning the lottery this week. Bradley needs to come down [...]

By Jason Kim: The once muscular and trim Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) has really let his physique go since turning pro, going from an in shape 200 pounds to a heavy 260 fat heavyweight. Packing on all the excess weight on his small 6’1″ frame hasn’t really hurt the 30-year-old Solis as of yet, [...]

By Allen Hmiel: Devon Alexander at 21-0 had the chance of a lifetime to cement his place in boxing lore as an undefeated boxing warrior last Saturday evening in the cavernous almost empty Pontiac Silverdome. With HBO broadcasting the fight to all corners of the world and facing another undefeated 140 pound champion in Timothy [...]

By Joe Met: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan gets a lot of criticism from some people, and as far as I can see, there really isn’t much to criticize in terms of boxing and his career. First it was his chin. He got caught cold against a powerful puncher in Briedis Prescott, so there [...]

By Michael Lieberman: Gary Shaw, the promoter for WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s), says that they are considering fights with Amir Khan, Marcos Maidana or Floyd Mayweather Jr. in terms of Bradley’s next fight. You can pretty exclude Khan and Mayweather from that list immediately, because Khan has a fight already [...]

When Jimmy Tibbs says that former International Boxing Organization (IBO) Light Welterweight World Champion Colin Lynes, whose next fight is on Saturday 12th February 2011 at Olympia in Liverpool, could campaign for a second world crown, this time at Welterweight, only a boxing philistine could possibly doubt the man’s words.

By Chris Williams: WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) thinks Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0, 25 KO’s) would easily defeat boxing’s cash cow Manny Pacquiao if and when they ever fight in the future. Bradley, who is a good judge of talent, believes Mayweather would “easily” beat the Filipino fighter.

By Chris Williams: WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) defeated WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-1, 13 KO’s) by a disappointing 10 round technical decision win last Saturday night at the Silverdome, in Pontiac, Michigan. Alexander, 23, who came into the fight with a lot of hype behind, looked unwilling to [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Light welterweight contender Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) was not impressed with what he saw of last weekends bout between WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander and WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley in Pontiac, Michigan. Maidana says he thinks Alexander looked scared at the end of the fight when he quit [...]

FAIRFAX, VA — After earning a majority draw last November in a crowd-pleasing, back-and-forth contest, former D.C. world champion William Joppy (39-6-2, 30 KOs) and dangerous veteran Cory “Black Ice” Cummings (17-4-1, 13 KOs) of Baltimore, MD will look to settle Beltway bragging rights when they return to the Patriot Center on March 12 as [...]

By Saqib Khan: Let’s go back to 14 august 2008 when Amir khan got blasted in 54 seconds by the KO artist briedis Prescott, everybody really knows the real problem for khan loss was Team khan hunger to get a “cheap” trainer. They sacked Oliver Harrison. Okay, no problem, but they hired Jorge Rubio. The [...]