Archive for January, 2011

DETROIT—Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns was at Kronk Gym in Detroit yesterday and today (Tuesday and Wednesday) for fighter media workouts before Saturday’s world championship unification at the nearby Silverdome in Pontiac between 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 [...]

LAS VEGAS, NEV. (January 27, 2011) – Boxing’s No. 1 pound-for-pound box office attraction and the Fighter of the Decade, MANNY “Pacman” PACQUIAO (53-3-2, 38 KOs), the lone congressional representative from the Sarangani province in the Philippines, returns to the Fight Capital of the World for the first time since 2009 when he defends his [...]

On Thursday, February 24, at the San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino in San Bernardino, California, The Empire Sports and Entertainment will proudly present the next installment of their “Fight Night in America” series, this time featuring the return to boxing of all-time-great champion James “Lights Out” Toney (72-6-3, 44 KOs).

HATTON Promotions Box Office is selling tickets for Matthew Hatton’s showdown against Saul Alvarez at Anaheim’s Honda Center on Saturday March 5. It will be one of the biggest contests involving a British boxer anywhere in the world this year as the European welterweight champion attempts to defy the odds. Alvarez is undefeated in 36 [...]

Interim World Boxing Organization (WBO) World Light-Heavyweight Champion Nathan Cleverly has told rival and full title-holder Jurgen Braehmer not to do a “Sven Ottke” by avoiding to fight him. Cleverly is referring to when German Ottke was IBF/WBA World Super-Middleweight Champion and he relentlessly ducked a unification showdown against WBO Champion Joe Calzaghe and retired [...]

DAVID PRICE will have his first ten round contest when he tackles Osborne Machimana next week in a Commonwealth heavyweight title eliminator. The 2008 Olympic bronze medallist (8-0) will face the South African heavyweight champion at Brentwood Centre on Saturday February 5.

This Friday night’s January 28th card marks the 13th anniversary of 8 Count Productions presenting monthly professional boxing cards in the Chicago area. The first 8 Count Productions event was held on February 20, 1998 at the Park West Theatre on the Near North side of Chicago and was headlined by contenders Rocky Martinez and [...]

By Benny Fagan: For the last 18 months all boxing fans have talked about is the fights that are not being made. For their entire career’s the top fighters talk about their legacy’s that they will leave in boxing. It’s obvious for all to see, who actually want to see that the legacy left by [...]

By Joe Met: There is a lot of debate surrounding the fighters who have been involved in the Super Six Tournament this last year or so, and non more so than Carl Froch, and Andre Dirrell. If the tournament were scored on column inches alone , one of these two fighters would have won it [...]

By Dave Lahr: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) is facing his biggest test in year when he fights unbeaten Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) on April 30th in Mannheim, Germany.

VERONA, NY (January 26, 2011)—This Saturday night at the beautiful Turning Stone Casino and Resort in Verona, New York, undefeated female featherweight, Amanda Serrano will look to “avenge” her only career blemish when she takes on Ela Nunez in a six round bout.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) is going into his March 12th fight against the tough Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) with a one-fight winning steak after having beaten the WBA paper champion Yuri Foreman last year in June to capture the World Boxing Association title.

By Dave Lahr: Things aren’t looking good for challenger Nonito Donaire (25-1, 17 KO’s) as he tries to get ready for his fight against WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (44-2-2, 24 KO’s) on February 19th at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Donaire, 28, has reportedly been suffering from bad leg [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye may be fast in terms of hand speed, but he is certainly not thinking quickly because he’s sabotaged himself to the point where he’s now been overtaken in his pursuit of the Klitschko brothers by heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek, who will be facing one of the Klitschkos [...]

Chicago Illinois (January 26th 2011) People’s Champ Boxing (PCB) is very proud to have signed Sande Otieno of Nairobi, Kenya to an exclusive promotional contract. Mike Leanardi, CEO of PCB, announced the signing early Wednesday morning saying; “Whenever you can lock in someone as talented as Sande Otieno, you never hesitate a second to think [...]

Undefeated, NABC Super Middleweight Champion, “Comanche Boy” George Tahdooahnippah (26-0-1) will be the MAIN EVENT at “Xtreme Fight Night” at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tulsa, OK on Friday, February 25, 2011.

Las Vegas, NV- While Dmitry Pirog (17-0 14 ko’s) is slated to make his first middleweight title defense this March in Russia, Ishe Smith (22-5 20 ko’s) has made it clear he would be open and willing to traveling across seas to take on the WBO world champion.

(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) The World Series of Boxing (WSB) heads into its seventh week beginning Thursday night in Memphis and within the Americas league, the dominance of the Los Angeles Matadors has been evident. But with a half-season remaining, the rest of the league hopes to chase down the Matadors and climb back into the [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: It could be that in the proximate future Julio Cesar Chavez junior could be fighting David Lemieux. If Lemieux gets past Marco Antonio Rubio he will be in position to fight Chavez junior if Chavez gets a win against Billy Lyell and then titlist Sebastian Zbik of Germany.

By Gari Jones: What is happening in the world of heavyweight boxing, after the top three Heavyweights David Haye W25 (KO-23) WBA Champion, L1 (KO-1), D0, Wladimir Klitschko W55 (KO-49), L3 (KO3), D0 WBC Champion, and his elder brother Vitali Klitschko W41 (KO-38), L2 (KO2), D0 WBO/IBF Champion; had all fought with only Wladimir’s fight [...]

By Mark Hepplestall: On the 11th of December Marcos Maidana was soundly beaten and outboxed by WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan, this was a fight were the more intelligent fan could see that Khan was going to coast to a unanimous points decision by boxing and moving for all 12 rounds, and then there [...]

By Lewis Croft: After a thrilling contest at the Echo Arena in December, Liverpool’s Commonwealth light-heavyweight champion Tony ‘Bomber’ Bellew (15-0, 10 KO’s) stopped Prizefighter winner and former Commonwealth champion, Ovill ‘The Upsetter’ McKenzie (18-10, 7 KO’s) in the 8th round. In front of his home crowd, Bellew was looking to impress, particularly after his [...]

By Chris Williams: As long as Manny Pacquiao can get by 39-year-old Shane Mosley in his next fight on May 7th in Las Vegas, Bob Arum, the promoter for Pacquiao, wants to try and put together a fight between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2011. Arum recently said that’s the fight he wants to [...]

Memphis, Tennessee (Wednesday, January 26, 2011) – Prize Fight in association with Global Boxing and Tecate present a stacked six bout card that is loaded with talent from top to bottom at the Fitz Hotel & Casino in Tunica, MS as it returns January 29th with it’s latest installment of “Fights At The Fitz”. “Fights [...]

By Jason Kim: Unbeaten WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s) faces WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) this Saturday night in a unification bout at the Silverdome, in Pontiac, Michigan. The winner of this fight will pretty much be considered the best fighter in the light welterweight division.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Jan. 26, 2011) – The big game in Dallas between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers is still two weeks away, but some of the top professional boxers in the Northeast region plan on setting off their own celebration before the opening kickoff.

By William Mackay: The hard hitting Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) says he’d be willing to travel to England to fight WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) in a rematch. Speaking on his twitter page, Maidana said “I’d go to England right now to pick what I left in Las Vegas and [...]

By Dave Lahr: I never thought I’d see the day when Manny Pacquiao would decide to fight Shane Mosley. When Mosley was looking sensational and beating fighters left and right, Pacquiao and his trainer Freddie Roach wanted no part of Mosley. But now that Mosley is looking utterly shot like an old faded, toothless lion [...]

Los Angeles, CA (January 26, 2011) – Twenty-Six knockouts in his 27 wins would qualify calling Joey Abell (27-4, 26 KOs) a “Knockout Artist.” This Friday night, the “Knockout Artist” looks to make a big heavyweight statement when he takes on his toughest and most notable opponent of his career in world-rated contender Cristobal “The [...]

By Bert Randolph Sugar (with Steve Small) STRENGTHS OF BOTH FIGHTERS TIMOTHY “DESERT STORM” BRADLEY – 26-0, 1 no-contest, (11 KO’s)