Archive for January, 2011

By Dan Ambrose: If Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) is interested in getting a fight on the HBO network, Maidana will get a shot against the loser of Saturday’s bout between WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander vs. WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley. Maidana, 28, may not be pleased at having to fight the [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey (35-4, 20 KO’s) will finally be getting back in the ring on March 12th when he takes on 33-year-old Calvin Green (21-5-1, 13 KO’s) in a 10 round bout on the undercard of the WBA clash between junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga at [...]

By Matt Stein: Unbeaten #1 WBC ranked middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) is on the cusp of big things as he goes into Saturday’s tune-up fight against Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO’s) in a 12 round bout at the Estadio Banorte, in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Chavez Jr., the son of former [...]

By Jim Dower: Former International Boxing Federation (IBF) light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (28-4, 6 KO’s) could be seeing action on the undercard of the Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Erik Morales fight on April 9th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The card, which will be promoted by Golden Boy Promotions, may give [...]

By Dave Lahr: Former IBF flyweight champion Nonito Donaire (25-1, 17 KO’s) is seen as another Manny Pacquiao by some of his loving boxing fans, who are looking for a replacement for the aging Pacquiao. They think Donaire, 28, will be able to successfully move from division to division collecting titles in the same manner [...]

By Jim Dower: In early undercard action in the Chris Arreola vs. Joey Abell fight card in Temecula, California, undefeated light welterweight prospect Joseph Elegele (10-0, 8 KO’s) destroyed Manuel Aguilar with a 1st round knockout. Elegele finished off Aguilar with a powerful right hand that put him down on the canvas badly hurt. Referee [...]

By Jason Kim: It’s been three years since middleweight contender Andy Lee (24-1, 18 KO’s) briefly stepped up a level in competition and was brutally slapped back down by Bryan Vera in a 7th round TKO defeat in 2008. Lee, 26, has won his last nine fights since then, beating nothing but 2nd tier opposition [...]

By Dave Lahr: WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s) may not have much chance of getting a fight against Manny Pacquiao if Bradley destroys WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) on Saturday night in Pontiac, Michigan. But Bradley’s promoter, Gary Shaw, likes his chances of getting an euqually well [...]

By Scott Gifloid: My how things have changed rapidly since the Super Six tournament started. At one time, Arthur Abraham (31-2, 25 KO’s) was considered to be the guy that many boxing fans thought would be the eventual winner of the Super Six tourney after stopping Jermain Taylor in the 12th round in October 2009. [...]

By Dan Ambrose: For some boxing fans of WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s), they see his March 12th bout against 37-year-old former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) as an easy win for Cotto due to his superior youth, speed and power. It’s hard to deny that Cotto [...]

By Dave Lahr: Gary Shaw, the promoter for WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s), doesn’t see Bradley getting a big money fight against Manny Pacquiao if Bradley beats WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Pontiac Silverdome, in Michigan. Shaw notes that Bob Arum, Pacquiao’s [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) is happy that he was able to win back his World Boxing Council title with a win over Arthur Abraham after losing to Mikkel Kessler last year in April in the Super Six tournament. Froch, 33, now has a crucial battle against former [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Number #3 ranked WBA middleweight contender Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) has made a name for himself in the past couple of years running over 2nd and 3rd tier opposition in the UK and capturing both the British and the European Boxing Union middleweight titles. Macklin, 28, has proven that he’s a [...]

By Chris Williams: Since the news broke that Manny Pacquiao’s fights will be now be shown on CBS/Showtime rather than HBO, boxing fans of Pacquiao have been gloating about it, as if this is something to be happy about because Pacquiao may be able to make a little more money from some of the mismatches [...]

Franklin Lawrence 238 – Jason Estrada 240 (WBC Caribbean Heavyweight title) Isaac Rodrigues 161 – Jose Medina 159

By Dave Lahr: 39-year-old WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) will be turning a ripe old 40 in July, and he’s already talking about ending his career in a couple of fights under the best case scenario. But Klitschko is also hinting that he’ll wrap up his career should he lose his next [...]

By Scott Gilfoid:: The WBA has for some reason given EBU welterweight champion Matthew Hatton (41-4-2, 16 KO’s) a ranking of number #6 in the welterweight rankings. This gives the number #4 ranked Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) an excuse to fight Hatton and, of course, destroy him on March 5th at the Honda Center, [...]

By Jim Dower: Golden Boy Promotions has signed a deal with the German promotional company Universum to co-promote two of their risking prospects/contenders heavyweight Denis Boytsov (28-0, 23 KO’s) and 2008 Olympic heavyweight Gold Medalist Rakhim Chakhkiev (8-0, 6 KO’s), according to Dan Rafel of ESPN. The good news here is that with GBP signing [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Anything can happen in a heavyweight championship fight. We only have to look back into history to see how many times a champion was defeated by a contender who seemingly had no chance for victory. Jack Dempsey was thought to be in physical danger when he challenged Jess Willard for [...]

By Dan Ambrose: The hard hitting light welterweight Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) says that he’d be interested in facing Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in his next fight, according to fightnews.com. Maidana is coming off a 12 round decision loss to Amir Khan in his last fight in December. It was one of [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: It’s unbelievable how many deluded souls still believe that Shane has a chance against Manny Pacquiao; it’s like believing that snow balls have a chance in hell. Shane Mosley is just too deteriorated to fight anyone as fast as Pacquiao. Mosley and his fans are still living on Mosley’s last win against [...]

By Terry Arthur: Since winning a silver medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and turning pro in 2005 he has been another British hopeful. Over-hyped and much commented on (through no fault of his own ) but since his knockout loss to Breidis Prescott, many have written the fellow of on account of one [...]

(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) The Los Angeles Matadors will showcase their new home at the Avalon Hollywood Sunday night as they put their league-best record on the line against the Miami Gallos as the World Series of Boxing (WSB) continues on in its seventh week.

By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Freddie Roach is under the impression that his fighter Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) can beat WBC emeritus middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KO’s). Roach is interested in putting Chavez Jr. in with Martinez later in 2011, at least that’s what Roach is saying now. It’s hard to [...]

By Jim Dower: Photo: David Martin Warr – WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s) came in at 139.5 lbs. for his fight against WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Pontiac, Silverdome, in Michigan. Alexander, 23, came in right on the light welterweight limit at [...]

Saturday night’s Prizefighter Light Heavyweights II live on Sky Sports 1, HD1 and 3D from Olympia, London promises to be a volatile affair after tensions ran high at today’s weigh-in. The fighters gathered in the venue for the weigh-in on Friday afternoon, and as the Sky Sports cameras rolled, it was clear that the contenders [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (11-0, 9 KO’s) will be fighting on the February 12th card in Liverpool on the undercard of John Watson’s next bout at the Olympia. Groves, 22, won’t be fighting British super middleweight champion James DeGale (9-0, 7 KO’s), however. It seems that Groves will be [...]

By William Mackay: Photo by David Martin Warr – The two best light welterweights in the division go at on Saturday when WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s) faces unbeaten WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) in a 12 round bout at the Silverdome, in Pontiac, Michigan. Bradley, 27, [...]

By Gerardo Granados: If Pacquiao is called the “mexicutioner”, then Jeff Fenech must be called the same way because he defeated four of the best Mexican fighters while he was champion: Daniel Zaragoza, Carlos Zarate (both hall of fame members), Marcos Villasana and Mario Martinez.

By Chris Williams: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0, 25 KO’s) came out with an explanation why his mega fight between him and Manny Pacquiao didn’t get made last year. Speaking with fighthype.com, Mayweather said “The Mayweather-Pacquiao fight didn’t get made because Manny Pacquiao said he wanted two weeks of non-testing. The last two weeks leading [...]