Archive for January, 2011

By Sean McDaniel: Former WBA/WBO super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) has passed a medical exam for his injured left eye, and it now is considered healed. Kessler, 31, hasn’t fought since defeating WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch in April of last year in the Super Six tournament. Kessler then pulled out [...]

LOS ANGELES, January 28 – A hit in his first fight in Puerto Rico last December, unbeaten lightweight prospect Michael “The Artist” Pérez returns to the island on Friday, February 4, to square off against Colorado’s Marcos Herrera in the eight round main event of TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” at the Coliseo Félix Méndez Acevedo [...]

By William Mackay: #6 ranked WBA contender Paul McCloskey (22-0, 8 KO’s) has rejected an offer that is reported to have been in the low six figures to face World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) on April 16th in the UK. Team Khan sent out a press release today, [...]

Team Khan is extremely disappointed with the recent press release sent out by Paul McCloskey’s promoter, Barry Hearn, accusing Amir Khan of using the Irish fighter to get a cheap title defence. A substantial offer was put to McCloskey’s team that would have seen the Irishman receive up to three times the amount he has [...]

By Michael Lieberman: 38-year-old former WBA/WBC cruiserweight champion Jean-Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO’s) will be fighting 38-year-old former WBC heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman (49-7-2, 40 KO’s) on May 7th in a WBA heavyweight title eliminator. The winner of the Mormeck vs. Rahman fight will then be facing World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye next, [...]

This Saturday, January 29, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, popular multiple-time world champion James “Lights Out” Toney (72-6-3, 44 KOs) will present the trophy to the winners of Saturday’s Sunshine Millions Turf horse race on behalf of San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino.

Coy Evans 125 – Felipe Almanza 125 Tommie Spell 164 – Jameel Wilson 166 Tim Witherspoon Jr. 140 ½ – Kywame Hill 143

By Lewis Croft: Multi weight world champion, James ‘Lights Out’ Toney (72-6-3, 44 KO’s) defends his lightly regarded IBA Heavyweight title against ‘Dangerous’ Damon Reed (45-14, 32 KO’s) on February 24th at the San Manuel Indian Casino in California.

Since 1923 the Golden Gloves has been held for amateur boxers to showcase their skills. Golden Glove champions typically have gone on to fight in the Olympics or as professional boxers. But this year may be the first year the NJ Golden Gloves doesn’t take place, as a result of sponsors pulling out and the [...]

By Gari Jones: Since bursting on the heavyweight scene in April 2007 has David Haye been the revolution or the false dawn of Heavyweight Boxing. It’s fair to say that his one man demolition job of Tomasz Bonin (at the time ranked no.12 by the WBC), raised some eyebrows and expectations of man who went [...]

DETROIT—The final press conference for “The Super Fight” featuring undefeated 140-pound world champions Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley (26-0, 11 KOs), from North Palm Springs, Calif., and Devon Alexander “The Great” (21-0, 13 KOs), from St. Louis, was held today at the Motor City Casino in Detroit. This world championship unification match will take place on [...]

By Joe Met: Whenever Amir Khan’s name is mentioned lately all we seem to hear are people claiming that for Amir to stake a claim to being the man to beat at 140lbs, he has to prove it by rematching either Breidis Prescott, who knocked out Khan two and a half years ago, or Marcos [...]

DENTON VASSELL will make the first defence of his Commonwealth welterweight title in Wigan on Saturday March 26. Vassell, who works for a high street bank by day, will be in 12 round action at Robin Park Sports Centre against an opponent who will be named in the next ten days.

STEPHEN FOSTER JR is reaping the rewards after trainer Maurice Core persuaded him not to quit. Core’s words of wisdom worked and Foster Jr has been in dreamland since landing the European super-featherweight championship when he knocked out world ranked Levan Kirakosyan last year. Foster Jr, 30, was on the brink of walking away from [...]

By Dan Ambrose: In a tune-up fight before his big September fight against one of the Klitschko brothers, former two division world champion Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KO’s) will be facing either 6’6” Kevin McBride (35-8-1, 29 KO’s) or 6’6” Nicolai Firtha (19-8-1, 8 KO’s), according to Polish news sources.

By Dan Ambrose: Photo credit – Zanfer Boxing: Although unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) has only beaten one semi-decent fighter and zero really good fighters during his eight-year pro career, his fight against the light hitting junior middleweight Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO’s) this Saturday night in Culiacan, Mexico, is [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Legendary trainer Emanuel Steward has noticed some flaws that need major addressing for WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) if he’s to get to the next level and beat top fighters like Victor Ortiz, Devon Alexander, Lucas Matthysse, and Timothy Bradley. Speaking to the telegraph.co.uk, Steward said that Khan [...]

(SOUTHHAVEN, Miss.) With a 3-2 win Thursday night, it is safe to say that the Mexico City Guerreros might just have the Memphis Force’s number in inaugural season of the World Series of Boxing (WSB) as they once again went on the road and grabbed the victory.

Friday, January 28th WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT 15 8 Count Productions UIC Pavilion

By Jim Dower: Photo credit: Craig Bennett/Goossen Tutor Promotions: Former heavyweight challenger Chris Arroela (29-2, 25 KO’s) weighed in at a chunky looking 249 lbs for his scheduled 10 round fight on Friday night against Joey Abell (27-4, 26 KO’s) at the Pechanga Resort & Casino, in Temecula, California. For his part, Abell weighed in [...]

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) may say that he’s moved on and gotten better since losing to Breidis Prescott in a 1st round knockout defeat in 2008, but Khan still looks pretty much like the same fighter that was taken out in 54 seconds by Prescott. The only [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: Brandon Rios is taking the spot light in boxing by storm, not only because of his foul mouth, but also because he is a care free slugger, willing to take the necessary risks to kayo his opponents. He reminds me of Victor Ortiz before Victor was taken apart by the executioner Marcos [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Zab Judah (40-6, 27 Ko’s) was extremely lucky to get the nod over Lucas Matthysse in his last fight in November 2010, winning by a controversial 12 round split decision. Judah, an old 33, will now be facing a completely different type of fighter in Kaizer Mabuza [...]

Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker has joined Zab Judah’s training camp to help Zab prepare for his upcoming title fight against Kaizer Mabuza.

By Jim Dower: A disappointed Emanuel Steward sounded off on the big fights between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye not being made, saying it’s “Killing boxing,” in an article at the telegraph.co.uk. Steward, the trainer for IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir, is understandably upset with the inability of Wladimir [...]

By Sean McDaniel: There is talk of unbeaten 2008n Olympic Gold Medalist James DeGale (9-0, 7 KO’s) facing World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight champion Dimitri Sartison (27-1, 17 KO’s) for his WBA belt this year. This would be an excellent step up fight for the 24-year-old DeGale and one in which he would have [...]

By Dan Ambrose: The March 12th junior middleweight clash between WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) and Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) really boils down to the least shot fighter winning in this fight that takes place at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. While Cotto is technically the World Boxing [...]

By Jason Kim: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko’s recent confession that he only has a couple fights left in him before he retires from boxing was a startling shock for many boxing fans of the sport. The reason is because without Vitali controlling the World Boxing Council heavyweight title with an iron fist, boxing fans [...]

By Michael Lieberman: IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (27-0, 22 KO’s) faces another one of his over-matched opponents in his next fight on March 19th against Brian Magee (34-3-1, 24 KO’s) at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada.

By Jason Kim: WBO light middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk (37-0, 23 KO’s) will be trained by American trainer and ex-world champion Buddy McGirt for his fight against WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KO’s) on March 12th in Connecticut.