Archive for February, 2011

By Jason Kim: WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (23-0, 13 KO’s) could wind up with home advantage in his semifinal Super Six tournament fight against Arthur Abraham (32-2, 26 KO’s) in a fight that Dan Rafael is saying could take place at the Home Depot Center, in Carson, California on May 14th. Ward isn’t [...]

By Chris Williams: 39-year-old Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s) hasn’t lost his power, just his ability to fight hard more than three rounds. However, Mosley is going to be problems for Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KO’s) in the first three rounds of the fight on May 7th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. [...]

By Jim Dower: Undefeated lightweight contender Mercito Gesta (21-0-1, 11 KO’s) blew away Genaro Trazancos (22-14-1, 13 KO’s) on Friday night, stopping him in the 3rd round of a scheduled eight round bout at the Longshoreman Hall, in San Francisco, California. Gesta, 23, punished the 36-year-old Tranzancos with power shots and had him badly hurt [...]

By Chris Williams: On paper this fight appears to be an ugly mismatch with the unbeaten IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (27-0, 22 KO’s) facing the 35-year-old Brian Magee (34-3-1, 24 KO’s) on March 19th at the Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Magee has good basic skills but nothing really that stands out about [...]

By Jim Dower: Unbeaten middleweight contender Fernando Guerrero (21-0, 16 KO’s) easily defeated Derrick Findley (17-5, 11 KO’s) by a lopsided 10 round unanimous decision on Friday night to retain his NABF middleweight title at the Wicomico Civic Center, in Salisbury, Maryland.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) has been through a lot of wars in the past four years, and he’s taken too much punishment for his own good. His promoter Bob Arum has been doing his best to keep Cotto winning, but it’s getting harder because he doesn’t seem [...]

By William Mackay: Unbeaten heavyweight Tyson Fury (13-0, 9 KO’s) is the mandatory challenger for the British heavyweight title in the possession of Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s). Fury would like nothing better than to get in the ring with Chisora as soon as possible so that Fury can try to capture his British title. [...]

By Sean McDaniel: The Klitschko brothers’ dream is to be in possession of all the major heavyweight title belts before they retire from the sport. There’s never been a brother team that has been in possession of the titles at one time. Currently, Wladimir Klitschko holds the IBF and WBO belts, while his older brother [...]

By Jim Dower: Unbeaten fringe welterweight contender Shawn Porter (18-0, 13 KO’s) kept his unbeaten record perfect with a lopsided 10 round decision over Anges Adjaho (25-5, 14 KO’s) on Friday night at the Wicomico Civic Center, in Salisbury, Maryland. The final judges’ scores were 99-91, 99-91 and 97-93. Porter, 23, dominated the action with [...]

By Dave Lahr: Photo credit Naoki Fokuda Harold Lederman, the HBO unofficial ringside judge, believes that WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (44-2-2, 34 KO’s) is the biggest puncher in the lighter weight divisions and hits as hard as a welterweight. These are my thoughts as well. Montiel, 31, has a huge fight tomorrow night against [...]

By Dave Lahr: Photo credit Naoki Fakuda – At today’s weigh-in for Saturday’s clash between WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (44-2-2, 34 KO’s) and challenger Nonito Donaire (25-1, 17 KO’s), the 31-year-old Montiel weighed in at a cut 118 lbs. Montiel looked sharp as a razor with washboard abs. He beamed confidence, smiling frequently at [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KO’s) has been made the mandatory challenger for WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s). Before you get excited about this potential fight, you have to realize that Froch still has a fight coming up on May 21st in the Super Six [...]

NEWARK, NJ (February 18, 2011) – With nearly 500 pounds between them, the heavyweight match-up between unbeaten Polish star Mariusz Wach and Jonathan Haggler on Saturday night at Essex County College has fireworks written all over it.

By Jason Kim: If you live in the United States and you’re interested in seeing WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (34-2-1, 14 KO’s) fight the #12 ranked WBA contender Ronald Hearns (26-1, 20 KO’s) on Saturday night, you’re in luck because the fight will reportedly picked up by ESPN3 and shown in the [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) isn’t happy that IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) decided to take a tune-up bout with unbeaten British heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) on April 30th instead of waiting around to fight him on July 2nd like they had briefly [...]

By Jim Dower: IBF welterweight champion Jan Zaveck (31-1, 18 KO’s) easily beat #15 ranked IBF contender Paul Delgado (25-10-1, 4 KO’s) in the 5th round on Friday night at the Sportpark Arena, in Ljulijana, Slovenia. Zaveck, 34, dropped Delgado twice in the 2nd round and then took him out in the 5th with a [...]

A clash of heavyweight titans, matching 6-foot-9-inch Tye Fields and 6-foot-7-inch Michael Grant, plus a battle between two former world champions, Joel Casamayor and Michael Anchondo, highlight a nationally and internationally televised pay-per-view card Friday, March 11, at the Planet Hollywood Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nev.

By William Mackay: Unbeaten Tyson Fury (13-0, 9 KO’s) wants to be the heavyweight champion of the world someday, and his trainer, the legendary Emanuel Steward, thinks that Fury could be one a great one by the time he’s through. Fury, 22, has a fight this weekend against Marcelo Luiz Nascimento (13-0, 11 KO’s) on [...]

Joey ‘Twinkle Fingers” Hernandez (17-1, 10 KO’s) is young, flashy and very vocal, so it was no surprised when the Miami resident went on social media networks calling his scheduled opponent Chicago’s Angel “Toro” Hernandez “washed up” & “A human punching bag”. Joey “Twinkle Fingers” Hernandez and Angel “Toro” Hernandez (30-9 17KO’s) will face off [...]

By William Mackay: Unbeaten heavyweight hopeful Tyson Fury (13-0, 9 KO’s) is sounding worried about the power of his Brazilian opponent Marcelo Luiz Nascimento (13-0, 11 KO’s), who the 22-year-old Fury faces on Saturday night in a 10 round bout at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London. Fury hasn’t experienced defeat yet and hasn’t really been [...]

By Eric Thomas: In a fight that makes you really makes you shake your head, unbeaten heavyweight prospect Deontay Wilder (14-0, 14 KO’s) will be facing light heavyweight DeAndrey Abron (15-6, 10 KO’s) in as six round bout on Saturday night at the Shelton State Community College, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Abron, 38, has been fighting [...]

By Dave Lahr: Nonito Donaire (25-1, 17 KO’s) hasn’t been beaten in 10 years since losing a five round decision to Rosendo Sanchez in his second fight as a pro in 2001. Since then, the 28-year-old Donaire has won 24 consecutive fights going into his fight on Saturday night, February 19th against WBC/WBO bantamweight champion [...]

By Jason Kim: Few boxing fans are giving the dumpy-looking unbeaten heavyweight challenger Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) any chance at beating WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) in their fight on March 19th at the Lanxess-Arena, in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Solis, a fighter with little experience at heavyweight against quality fighters, has [...]

NEW YORK, NY (Feb 18, 2011) – On Saturday night in Stuttgart, Germany, one of the most famous names in middleweight history will go for gold when Ronald Hearns, the son of famed of former two-time middleweight champion Tommy “The Hitman” Hearns, battles Felix Sturm for the World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight Super Championship.

By Dan Ambrose: The last Jesus Soto-Karass (24-5-3, 16 KO’s) fought unbeaten welterweight contender Mike Jones (23-0, 18 KO’s), Soto-Karass lost a questionable 10 round majority decision last year in November. On tomorrow night, the 28-year-old Soto-Karass intends on taking the judges out of the fight by knocking Jones out at the Mandalay Bay Resort [...]

By William Mackay: It’s crystal clear that if WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) wants a fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s), Haye will have to put off his retirement in October and wait until next year to hang up his gloves. Haye won’t do this, however, and still [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Once again David Haye is making the claim that he wants to fight one of the Klitcshko’s before he retires by the end of the year. The “Hayemaker” will be making his mandatory challenge on May 21st against either Alexander Povetkin or Rusian Chagaev. Haye said that after his mandatory [...]

Retired WIBF/WIBA straw weight champion Terri Moss of Atlanta, GA has been named Woman’s Boxing Chairman for the Champions of Dignity Association (C.O.D.A.) by Retired Boxer’s Foundation founder and President Alex Ramos. “I’m honored to be included on a panel with such an outstanding group of my peers,” Moss said. “And I’m excited to expand [...]

By Eric Thomas: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is looking at 37-year-old WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (52-5-1, 38 KO’s) as his fighter Manny Pacquiao’s next likely opponent for November if Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t decide to take the fight. Mayweather is Arum’s first choice and the one that he’s been after since last [...]

By Darren Barcomb: Tommy “The Duke” Morrison’s latest comeback bid has been thwarted as he was unable to be licensed for SP Promotion’s February 25th, 2011 card at the Pierre Charbonneau Centre in Montreal. Morrison (48-3-1, 42 KO’s), who has been at odds with Quebec’s Boxing Commission (RACJ) over pre-fight blood testing had been scheduled [...]