Archive for January, 2011

By Dan Ambrose: World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) will be making his 6th title defense of his WBC belt on March 19th against 2004 Olympic heavyweight gold Medalist for Cuba Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Vitali, 39, usually likes to rake his opponents [...]

Maybe Odlanier Solis’ first “shots“ landed long before his World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship fight against Vitali Klitschko even started. In the last couple of weeks the Cuban mandatory challenger repeatedly criticized Klitschko’s lack of respect. At today’s first press conference for the March 19th showdown at Germany’s biggest indoor arena (Lanxess Arena) in [...]

ST. PETERSBURG, FL (January 26, 2011) Former professional boxing world champion Jeff Lacy has released a statement on the terrible tragedy that struck the St. Petersburg, Florida community this past Monday.

By Mark Hepplestall: One thing that the whole boxing world can agree on is that there is only one Heavyweight title fight that should be happening this year and it is Wladimir Klitschko Vs David Haye for a unification bout. Unfortunately for many reasons the two are not trying their hardest to make the fight [...]

By William Mackay: World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) and unbeaten EBU light welterweight champion Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) are reportedly close to agreeing to terms for a fight that will be taking place on April 16th, at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, England. McCloskey’s manager/father in law [...]

(DUBLIN, CALIF.) – Reigning World Boxing Association) (WBA Super Middleweight World Champion and 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Andre Ward (Dublin, Calif.) will take his talents to the broadcast table on Sunday to provide expert commentary on the World Series of Boxing (WSB) match-up between the Los Angeles Matadors and Miami Gallos. He will enjoy the [...]

By Sean McDaniel: With the British Boxing Board of Control refusing to sanction unbeaten heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury’s fight against the faded 42-year-old Francois Botha (47-5-3, 28 KO’s) for February 19th, Fury is now looking at facing either 44-year-old Matt Skelton (25-6, 20 Ko’s) or 37-year-old former Mike Tyson conqueror Kevin McBride (35-8-1, 29 KO’s) [...]

By Allen Hmiel: Call it off already. Please somebody pull the Klitschkos’ publicity juggernaut off the defenseless and inept WBA’s non-fighting David Haye. How much more can Haye take by the tactics that the Klitschko brothers are battering the bewildered Brit with daily? After calling out both of the brothers and current legitimate world heavyweight [...]

LAS VEGAS (Jan. 26, 2011) – 1984 Olympic Silver Medalist Kevin Barry is training a unique, talented quartet of boxers from Kazakhstan, featuring World Boxing Association – WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov, and Uzbekistan out of his gym, Team Barry Boxing, in Henderson, Nevada.

By Francisco Hernandez: Apparently Golden Boy Promotions finally decided to pay Juan Manuel Marquez, and the fight with legend Erik Morales appears to be a done deal for April 9, 2011 in Las Vegas for the 135 pound championship. Can Morales pull one last great fight out? The last time Morales fought like Morales was [...]

By Steven Shabo: The rigorous training for the past three months had delivered me to this moment. The countless rounds on the bags, hours of shadowboxing, thousands of sit-ups, and miles of roadwork were now being put to the test.

Steve Cunningham (23-2, 12 KOs) will make a first defence of his International Boxing Federation (IBF) Cruiserweight Title in Mulheim, Germany on February 12 when he takes on mandatory challenger Enad Licina (19-2, 10 KOs). The clash was originally scheduled for January 22 but had to be postponed after IBF Middleweight Champion Sebastian Sylvester caught [...]

From the office of World Boxing Council (WBC) President Dr. José Sulaimán: The following is one of the weekly “Hook to the Liver” columns by WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán that are published in El Universal every Sunday. From January 23, translated from Spanish: HOOK TO THE LIVER

By Daniel Echevarria: Hey Fight Fans, I still see on many comments to this day the issue of Shane Mosley totally throwing the fight. Many people believed the fight was fixed because of Mosley’s non-performance after the second round of the fight. During that time, it was clear and I mean totally clear, that Mayweather [...]

By William Mackay: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) is still hoping that World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) will come to his senses and take the original July 2nd date that the two fighters had initially agreed on. Wladimir has a fight coming up on April 30th [...]

Former heavyweight challenger Chris Arreola (29-2, 25 KOs, World Boxing Council (WBC) #5, IBF #7), who slugged it out with Vitali Klitschko for the world title 16 months ago, and undefeated lightweight prospect Mike Dallas Jr. (17-0-1, 7 KOs, WBC #21) are featured in scheduled 10-round, co-main events on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights at 10 [...]

Team Salita and Marks JCH of Bensonhurst are excited to present Dmitriy Salita Boxing Academy. The program was personally developed and designed by Dmitriy through his extensive experience and training with some of the best boxers and trainers in the world. It combines time proven methods to increase fitness, improve strength and teach self-defense through [...]

HBO Sports kicks off the 2011 boxing season with a highly anticipated junior welterweight title slugfest when WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: DEVON ALEXANDER VS. TIMOTHY BRADLEY is presented live SATURDAY, JAN. 29 (10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT) from the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich., exclusively on HBO. The WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING team of Jim Lampley, Larry [...]

DENVER, CO (January 26, 2011) Lightweight contender “Red Hot” Robert Frankel heads to Chicago, IL this Friday night, January 28th, to battle former World Boxing Council (WBC) Lightweight Champion David Diaz in the ten round main event at WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT 15 at the UIC Pavilion.

By Simon Hirst: The bell of the 12th round sounds as a swollen face of Amir Khan throws his last punch of a flurry to win his fight with the tough, robust powerhouse Marcos Maidana. His arms raise above his head aware that he had lasted, perhaps more accurately described as survived, twelve rounds with [...]

Streatham’s Leon ‘Solid’ Williams gets his first outing, under the Frank Maloney promotional banner, when he faces Blackpool based Slovakian Richard Turba at Brentwood Leisure Centre, Essex on Saturday 5th February 2011, on the undercard of Jamie Arthur vs Jason Booth Commonwealth Super Bantamweight title clash.

NEW YORK (Jan. 26, 2011)—Showtime Networks Inc. and CBS have joined forces with Top Rank, Inc. to promote, produce and distribute the biggest boxing event of the year—the May 7th showdown between global superstar and Philippine Congressman Manny Pacquiao and three-division world champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley, it was jointly announced by Ken Hershman, Executive Vice [...]

Essex fighter Billy Slate celebrated his 29th birthday yesterday (25 January) but said the champagne is ice until he lifts the Prizefighter Light Heavyweights II crown on Saturday in London live on Sky Sports 1 and HD1 and in 3D for the first time.

By Allen Hmiel:The Manny Pacquiao myth that he is invincible is a fraud. All it takes to beat the little tiny guy from the Philippines is a hard stiff jab to the face to stop the charging Manny. Thing is, the great match ups all favoring Pacquiao are against opponents who cannot or unable to [...]

Heavyweight destroyer Larry Olubamiwo is hoping for a blockbuster 2011 – and a clutch of titles. He’ll begin his quest on February 19 at Bethnal Green’s York Hall.

By Rasheed Catapang: He who hesitates is lost. In the heat of the moment, we sometimes call genius mad because the rest of us are incapable of understanding the reason behind. Denied of such a spark, we are often blinded by the light when its brilliance is shining upon us. But we always know special [...]

LONDON (January 26, 2011) – Islington’s newest boxing star John “Gorilla” Ryder is looking forward to fulfilling a boyhood dream on Saturday 19th February. The Arsenal fan who made the switch to the pro ranks in September last year is relishing at the thought of making his Wembley Arena debut on the undercard of the [...]

London (Wednesday 26, Jan 2011) Haddenham’s Tornado Tyler Goodjohn, is looking to put his next opponent in a spin at Wembley Arena on Saturday 19th February when he appears on the undercard of the Lenny Daws vs. Ashley Theophane and John O’Donnell vs. Craig Watson, British title double header.

By Reynaldo Sánchez: Gabriel Sarmiento is a guy with a character that could we call irritably. He’s a man with slightly conventional manners, perhaps even roughly, but I think that it’s something very particular and foreseeable in someone who works with fighters.

By Dan Ambrose: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is overwhelmed with happiness at the prospect of either him or his brother IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko facing Tomasz Adamek in September in one of the huge soccer stadiums in Poland. This may not be as big as a fight between one of the Klitschko brothers [...]