Archive for February, 2011

Atlantic City, NJ—It took one year to nail down, but Omar Sheika, of Paterson, NJ, and Garrett Wilson, of Philadelphia, PA, meet for the second time when they collide in a scheduled 12-round contest Saturday evening, April 23, in the Palladium Ballroom at Caesars Atlantic City.

Philadelphia, PA–Overcoming the loss of his 10-year-old son 12 years ago, Vaughn Jackson, Mike Jones’ trainer, has turned tragedy into inspiration with the help of family, faith and boxing. Jackson is winding down his training with Jones, who meets Jesus Soto-Karass (a rematch of their Nov. 13 fight, which Jones won by majority decision) on [...]

EDMONTON Feb. 14, 2011 – Super Channel, Canada’s only national English pay television network, is pleased to announce it will air Manchester’s heavyweight sensation Tyson Fury as he takes on another undefeated knockout specialist – Brazilian Marcelo Luiz Nascimento in a 10 round “International Special attraction fight” at Wembley Arena Feb. 19 at 3 p.m. [...]

NEW YORK (Feb. 14, 2011)—Global superstar and Philippine Congressman Manny Pacquiao and three-division world champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley continued their U.S. media tour on Valentine’s Day in New York on Monday at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers – Pier 61 with another open to the public news conference.

By Jason Kim: WBC lightweight champion Humberto Soto (54-7-2, 32 KO’s)will be taking a dangerous rematch against Fidel Monterrosa Munoz (25-2, 19 KO’s)in a scheduled 10 round bout on March 5th in Tepic, Mayarit, Mexico, according to fightnews.

By William Mackay: Undefeated Tyson Fury (13-0, 9 KO’s) says doesn’t like heavyweight prospects fight lesser fighters while on their way up the chain, according to boxrec. On Saturday, the 22-year-old Fury faces the little known 30-yer-old Marcelo Luiz Nascimento (13-0, 11 KO’s) at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London, England.

By Sean McDaniel: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) will be fighting Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) on May 21st on Sky Sports, in a fight that still doesn’t have a venue ironed down. The fight will likely be taking place in the United States rather than the UK, and that’s something [...]

By Jim Dower: Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) has had exactly three fights since making his comeback in 2010 after a three-year retirement following four consecutive losses. Morales, 34, hasn’t looked good at in his three fights in 2010, and there’s an argument that you can make that Morales should have lost two out of [...]

By Michael Lieberman: IBF welterweight champion Jan Zaveck (30-1, 17 KO’s) has decided to play it safe by defending his title on Friday night against his #15 ranked IBF contender Paul Degado (25-9, 4 KO’s) at the Sportpark Arena, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Zaveck, 34, will be making his third title defense of his International Boxing Federation [...]

By Gerardo Granados: Marco Antonio Barrera aims to become the first Mexican fighter to conquer titles in four weight divisions, but does he really has a good chance to achieve it? Fellow countrymen Erik Morales, Juan Manuel Marquez and Fernando Montiel have the same goal, but it seems like that the only ones to have [...]

By Chris Williams: Shane Mosley says that he’s doing the hard work of Floyd Mayweather Jr. by facing Manny Pacquiao on May 7th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather is currently unavailable to fight due to a number of legal problems that have him occupied and make it – if he’s convicted [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former British welterweight champion Michael Jennings (36-3, 17 KO’s) faces the inexperienced light-hitting Gary McMillan (11-2-1, 2 KO’s) in a 12 round bout in a British welterweight title eliminator bout on March 12th at the Braerwood Arena, in Glasgow, Scotland. The 33-year-old Jennings is hoping to get back to his winning ways [...]

By Jason Kim: Junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17 KO’s) is interested in taking on newly crowned WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (22-0, 13 KO’s), who recently captured the World Boxing Association belt on February 5th with a 12 round decision over Rigoberto Alvarez, the older, weaker-punching brother of unbeaten WBC Silver junior [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated Tyson Fury (13-0, 9 KO’s) has finally found a beatable opponent for this Saturday’s date on February 19th at the Wembley Arena, in Wembley, London. It took Fury’s managment ages to find someone that fit his qualifications. Fury, 22, will be facing unbeaten Brazilian Marcelo Luiz Nascimento (13-0, 11 KO’s), who [...]

By Dave Lahr: Just as I and WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) suspected, if Haye wants a fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s), he’s going to have to be willing to wait until 2012 at the earliest to get the fight, if at all. Wladimir was set to [...]

By Allen Hmiel: Time to recognize the King of Promoters in Boxing and it is Bob Arum. 80 years old and still controlling the sport of boxing like no other person ever. Practicing his trade since the 60′s the greatest showman since PT Barnum has dominated the boxing landscape like no other.

By Jim Dower: Rather than fight an immediate rematch with his number #1 contender Denis Lebedev, who appeared to beat him by at least four rounds in the eyes of many boxing fans, WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (31-1, 23 KO’s) has decided to move on from his questionable 12 round split decision victory over [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Manny Paquiao, AKA Pacman (55-3-2, 38 KO’s) is one of the very few active fighters who can truly be called a great fighter. At just over 5’6”, Manny has worked his way up from Flyweight all the way to Light Middleweight, winning eight championship belts along the way. In addition [...]

By Rey Felipe: A lot of critics have time and time again expressed their disagreement and sentiment against the Ring’s No.1 Pound for Pound boxer Manny Pacquiao. At this point, the list of excuses (in bold letters) sounds like a litany that is kept on being repeated just like what a person do after praying.

By William Mackay: Out of all the opponents that WBA Super World champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) could have picked out for his next fight on April 16th at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, Khan had to select Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KOs), a fighter that Khan’s trainer Freddie Roach isn’t impressed with. Roach [...]

By Dave Lahr: It’s been ages since IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) fought someone with the right ingredients to knock him out and expose his weak chin. On April 30th, Wladimir’s time as a champion will likely come to an abrupt halt when he faces one of the best kept secrets in [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBO light heavyweight interim champion Nathan Cleverly (21-0, 10 KO’s) has finally gotten his big chance at a title after six years as pro and will be facing WBO light heavyweight champion Jurgen Braehmer (36-2, 29 KO’s) on April 2nd at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London.

By Francisco Hernandez: The decade of 2000 will probably be remembered in boxing history as the comeback of retired boxers. Fighters are no longer learning skills; they don’t know the art of boxing, there are plenty of fighters but few real boxers. Most fighters today are done in boxing before they learn how to throw [...]

By Eric Thomas: Promoter Bob Arum is already looking at Manny Pacquiao’s next fight beyond his upcoming bout against Shane Mosley on May 7th. Arum is looking to get Pacquiao back in the ring in November and is targeting Floyd Mayweather Jr. as the number #1 fighter on his list to match Pacquiao up against.

By Dave Lahr: I can just picture how bad the upcoming four episodes of Fight Camp 360 Pacquiao/Mosley will be when they’re finally rolled out to hype the upcoming Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley May 7th fight on CBS/Showtime. Three of the episodes are going to be shown on CBS, a non-premium channel and the [...]

By Eric Thomas: The new WBA interim cruiserweight champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez (24-1, 13 KOs) stopped Steve Herelius (21-2, 12 KOs) in the 7th round last Saturday night to capture the WBA interim title at the RWE Rhein-Ruhr Sporthalle, Muelheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

By Dave Lahr: If you look at Manny Pacquiao’s new hairstyle, you can’t help but notice the similarity to the 16-year-old Canadian singer Justin Bieber. Pacquiao was asked by a fan about his new hairstyle at Saturday’s Las Vegas press conference with Shane Mosley, and Pacquiao said “That’s a good question. I like it, but [...]

By Chris Williams: Marcos Antonio Barrera (67-7, 44 KO’s) looked good on Saturday night in moving up to light welterweight to stop 43-year-old Jose Arias (15-2, 9 KOs) at the Coliseo Olimpico at the Universidad de Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

By Sean McDaniel: There are rumors circulating around that the April 2nd lightweight match-up between unbeaten EBU lightweight champion John Murray (30-0, 18 KO’s) and Kevin Mitchell (31-1, 23 KO’s) has been called off. This hasn’t been confirmed as of yet by their promoter Frank Warren, but if it is true, this would be bad [...]

Yoan Pablo Hernandez (24-1, 13 KOs) is the new World Boxing Association (WBA) Interim Cruiserweight Champion after stopping Steve Herelius (21-2, 12 KOs) in the seventh round. The hard-hitting Cuban knocked the Frenchman down twice – first with a thunderous right and then with a series of punches before the fight was waved off. “This [...]