Archive for February, 2011

Tickets are now on sale for Nathan Cleverly’s big showdown against German rival Juergen Braehmer on April 2nd at Wembley Arena. Welsh hot-shot Cleverly faces the biggest test of his career against reigning World Boxing Organization (WBO) Light-Heavyweight Champion Braehmer in what is sure to be an explosive encounter.

Exciting London based Dutch Cruiserweight prospect Mitchell Balker is to make his third UK outing, against Doncaster’s John Anthony, at the Steve Goodwin promoted ‘UNLEASH THE FURY’ event at York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, on Saturday 5th March 2011.

ORANGE, CA (February 16) – On Friday, February 25, at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, California, Thompson Boxing Promotions is back with a stellar group of the sport’s premier young talent that is ready to inject some “New Blood” back into the sweet science.

Promoters Art Pelullo/Banner Promotions and Kirill Pchelnikov and German Titov/GT & KP Promotion will present a sensational world championship fight card on Saturday, March 26, 2011, at Sports Palace DIVS in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

By Allen Hmiel: Photo credit Tom Casino/Showtime – Shane’s shame will be Manny’s pain. Shane Mosley took a whipping against Floyd Mayweather during their fight a good whipping against a much faster quicker supreme boxer. Mosley had no answer or game plan designed for the stunning quickness and defense of the world’s greatest fighter Floyd [...]

TULSA, Okla. – Dale Cook’s Xtreme Fight Night 2 returns to the The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Friday, February 25. The mixed fight card including boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts is sure to produce explosive action all night long.

By Mark Hepplestall: I recently seen an article that suggested putting a body fat limit on the heavyweight division due to the amount of boxers that are visibly overweight, and this is a follow on from that particular article. The idea of a body fat cut off is a great idea and has been starring [...]

By Mark Hepplestall: Over the past few years there have been huge amounts of public pressure on fighters to make super fights with their greatest rivals, unfortunately many of these fights never happen due to money, egos, styles etc. Many boxers allow the high amount of risk to dictate their fights, settling for fights that [...]

HBO’s hit late-night boxing franchise kicks off a new season with a double dose of action when HBO BOXING AFTER DARK: FERNANDO MONTIEL VS. NONITO DONAIRE AND MIKE JONES VS. JESUS SOTO KARASS is seen SATURDAY, FEB. 19 at 9:45 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT), from the Mandalay Bay Resort Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, [...]

By Shaun Campbell: Boxing is in a state where politics and governing bodies are controlling which fights are being made and more importantly, which fights aren’t. With all the associations and there belts, its left fans wondering who the one true champion in the division is. Recently, Amir Khan was promoted to “WBA Super World [...]

Come back kid, former International Boxing Organization (IBO) Light Welterweight World Champion, Colin Lynes and European Gold Medalist Luke Campbell join a host of stars on this coming Thursday’s edition of The Steve Bunce Boxing Hour – BBC Radio London 94.9 between 8-9pm on Thursday 17th February 2011.

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – USA Boxing President Harold Adonis and the Board of Directors, has selected long-time Olympic and sports administrator, Anthony Bartkowski (Colorado Springs, Colo.) to serve as the organization’s next Executive Director. He has served as Interim Executive Director since October 15, 2010, but will now lead the organization in a permanent capacity. [...]

London (Wednesday 16th February) Brazilian unbeaten big heavyweight puncher Marcelo Luiz Nascimento is all primed and ready to go for his explosive clash with Heavyweight Sensation Tyson Fury at Wembley Arena on Saturday Feb 19th.

Joseph Laryea has promised Ricky Burns a beating he’ll never forget when they clash for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Super-Featherweight title next month. Laryea has sparred up to 20 rounds at a time in the searing heat of Accra, Ghana, in a bid to get in shape for the fight at the Braehead Arena, [...]

By Jim Dower: One of the benefits of training under the tutelage of new trainer Nacho Beristain is that it may give Argentinian knockout artist Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) the opportunity to spar with the great Juan Manuel Marquez to learn some things from him in the sparring sessions to help improve Maidana’s game [...]

By Dave Lahr: Photo credit Tom Casino/Showtime – Well, well, well. Look what we have here. Supposedly President Barack Obama is going to be rooting for Manny Pacquiao to beat American Shane Mosley on May 7th, at least that’s what Pacquiao’s close trusted Canadian adviser Michael Koncz is saying in the latest gossip from Pacquiao’s [...]

By Jason Kim: Ivan Calderon (34-1-1, 6 KO’s) will be going back for more punishment in a rematch with WBO light flyweight champion Giovanni Segura (26-1-1, 22 KO’s) on April 2nd at the Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. Calderon, 36, was stopped in the 8th round last year by Segura in August, and took a lot of [...]

By Jim Dower: For American boxing fans hoping to see the March 19th bout between WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) and challenger Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) on cable, they’ll be happy to learn the news that the fight will be picked up by the American premium cable channel Epix on 3/19, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: There’s no question that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) took at least savage beatings in the past three years in his losses to Antonio Margarito and Manny Pacquiao. Cotto, 30, also took terrible punishment in his fights with Joshua Clottey and Shane Mosley. Those fights seem to have [...]

By Chris Williams: Photo credit Tom Casino/Showtime – Naazim Richardson, the trainer for Shane Mosley, thinks that Mosley is going to have to knock Manny Pacquiao down repeatedly to get the win. Richardson needs to tell Mosley to stay away from throwing punches to the head of Pacquiao if he wants Mosley to be knocking [...]

By Jim Dower: Former two time WBA super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (40-4, 24 KO’s) will be facing former Australian Contender Super middleweight series champion Garth Wood (10-1-1, 6 KO’s) on April 13th in what could be a fight that puts the 35-year-old Mundine’s career on the line when they meet at the Brisbane Entertainment [...]

Heavyweight veteran “Dangerous” Damon Reed admits it. “In a lot of my recent fights, I was saying to myself that I’m not going to get hurt.”

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) is ready to bust loose on the super middleweight division after a year away from boxing to recover from a late hit by Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tournament last March. Dirrell, 27, has since had a lot of time to recover from the neurological symptoms [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Heavyweight challenger Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) has his work cut out for him against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) on March 19th at the Lanxess-Arena, in Cologne, Germany. Solis, 6’1″, is six inches shorter than the 6’7″ Vitali and quite a bit fatter than him at 260 lbs [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (34-2-1, 14 KO’s) will continue with his practice of dipping down in the bottom of the WBA rankings to find his opponents when he takes on number #12 WBA ranked Ronald Hearns (26-1, 20 KO’s) this Saturday night at the Porsche Arena, in Stuffgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, [...]

Boxing, like any other industry, is led by proactive visionaries who can foresee the future. That is why top promoters Gary Shaw Productions, DiBella Entertainment, Warriors Boxing and Universal Promotions are putting together a team of the best young boxing talent on the island of Puerto Rico.

By William Mackay: Unbeaten British heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) is flying to Spain to train on the South Coast to help get ready for his big fight against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) on April 30th at the SAP-Arena, in Mannheim, Germany.

By Jim Dower: Manny Pacquiao is going to bring in a barrel full of loot for what promises to be an easy night’s work for his fight against 39-year-old Shane Mosley on May 7th on CBS/Showtime. Pacquiao will make a minimum of $15 million for the fight, which goes for $54.99 on pay-per-view in the [...]

By Gerardo Granados: Next Saturday 19th Nonito Donaire will battle against the most dangerous rival in his boxing career, he will fight against Mexican boxing great and three divisions champion Fernando Montiel. Nonito has never been against such a great boxer and this is by far the most difficult adversary in the bantamweight division, but [...]

By Chris Williams: Photo credit Chris Farina/Top Rank – Trainer Freddie Roach wants his fighter Manny Pacquiao to not show too much compassion in his fight against Shane Mosley (56-6-1, 39 KO’s) on May 7th, after Pacquiao let his last opponent Antonio Margarito survive the entire fight and lose by a mere 12 round decision [...]