Archive for February, 2011

By Jim Dower: Photo credit Tom Casino/Showtime – Brandon Rios (27-0-1, 20 KO’s) came on strong after a poor start in the first four rounds on Saturday night and ended up stopping WBA World lightweight champion Miguel Acosta (28-4-2, 22 KO’s) in the 10th round to capture his WBA title at the Palms Casino Resort, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Lightweight contender Antonio Demarco defeated WBC Silver lightweight champion Reyes Sanchez (20-4-1, 11 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision at the Heartland Events Center, Grand Island, Nebraska. The final judges’ scores were 115-113, 116-112 and 117-111. Demarco, fighting for the second time since being stopped by Edwin Valero in February 2010, [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) doesn’t have a clue about why WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) thinks that he’s running from him. Bradley was recently interviewed and he said that he doesn’t want Khan to run from him.

By Eric Thomas: WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck )31-1, 23 KO’s) fights 41-year-old former WBC cruiserweight champ Giacobbe Fragomeni (27-3-1, 11 KO’s) at the Gerry Weber Stadium, Halle, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Huck, 26, will have a number of advantages on his side in this fight starting with his age. Fragomeni is over 40 now, and has [...]

By Jason Kim: The drama continues in the Manny Pacquiao camp, as strength trainer Alex Ariza could be on the chopping block, according to the latest boxing news. The Manila Bulletin is reporting that Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is talking about being able to get Pacquiao in shape himself, which leaves you to wonder what [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-0, 21 KO’s) will be making his sixth defense of his World Boxing Council welterweight title on April 16th against light welterweight contender Victor Ortiz (28-2-2, 22 KO’s) at a still unknown venue. Berto, 27, will be fighting his 3rd light welterweight in Ortiz and that’s something [...]

By Sean McDaniel: The fight between WBO light heavyweight champion Jurgen Braehmer (36-2, 29 KO’s) and challenger Nathan Cleverly (21-0, 10 KO’s) has been pushed back to May 21st from April. Cleverly, 24, is hoping to capture the WBO title and then make a name for himself in unification fights against the winner of the [...]

By Jim Dower: Former International Boxing Federation (IBF) super middleweight champion Alejandro Berrio (31-5, 28 KO’s) defeated 39-year-old journeyman Antwun Echols (32-15-4, 28 KO’s) in the 3rd round on Saturday night at the Heartland Events Center, Grand Island, Nebraska. Berrio ended matters with a powerful right hand to the head in the 3rd. The referee [...]

By Jim Dower: In the early action in the Brandon Rios vs. Miguel Acosta card at the Palms Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada, unbeaten heavyweight Andy Ruiz Jr. (9-0, 6 KO’s) defeated Alvaro Morales (5-9-5) by a lopsided six round unanimous decision by the judges’ scores of 60-54, 59-55 and 59-55.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA World lightweight champion Miguel Acosta (28-3-2, 22 KO’s) is moments away from defending his title against number #1 challenger Brandon Rios (26-0-1, 19 KO’s) at the Palms Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rios has earned a shot at the title by beating the likes of Anthony Peterson, Omri Lowther and Jorge [...]

By Mark Hepplestall: Stephan Foster Jr (28-3-1, 18 KO’s) tonight lost his European Super-Featherweight title tonight to Ernano Fegatilli (23-4-0, 5 KO’s) to a unanimous 12 round decision, yet the fight possibly should have been stopped anywhere from the 9th to the 12th. Previously in the weigh in people noticed a very dry and jaded [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: Speaking to Mexican media, Hector “Macho” Camacho expects to be fighting the winner of the Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga fight. This will be Camacho’s final fight before he finally retires. Camacho is 48 years old, but the way that Cotto has been performing and the lack of boxing skills on the [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: The first two major fights of this year were expected to be great wars; they turned out to be miserable flops. Timothy Bradley vs. Devon Alexander was a glorified pillow fight, Nonito Donaire vs. Fernando Montiel turned out to be an uncompetitive mismatch. Fans expectations are now on Brandon Rios vs. Miguel [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Q: What two famous fighters, who would eventually become Middleweight Champion’s, were in the same reform school together as youths? A: Rocky Graziano and Jake Lamotta were already buddies when they wound up in reform school together.

World Boxing Council (WBC) international super middleweight champion Nikola Sjekloca defended his title with a unanimous decision win over Spain’s Roberto „El Tigre“ Santos in front of 800 fans at the ballroom in „Hotel Park“, Novi Sad (Serbia). 32-year-old Sjekloca started strong dominating his opponent with his accurate jab and excellent ring generalship. However, the [...]

By Joe Met: Looking at the current Ring magazine P4P rankings, I have to wonder if WBC super-middleweight champion Carl Froch will find his way onto that list if he manages to batter his way through Glen Johnson and Andre Ward to come out on top at the end of the SuperSix tournament.

San Diego, CA (February 25, 2011) – Golden Boy Promotions returned to San Diego, Calif. to present tonight’s TeleFutura “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” event at a sold out Four Points Sheraton. If you missed the live action or televised broadcast, below is a summary of the results:

By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten WBA Super World super middleweight champion Andre Ward (23-0, 13 KO’s) is skeptical about how much his next Super Six tournament opponent Arthur Abraham (32-2, 26 KO’s) got with his 2nd round TKO over the badly over-matched Stjepan Bozic on February 12th. Ward doesn’t see much value in that fight, because [...]

Michael “Lil Warrior” Franco stops Martin “Toluco” Armenta at the FEX Stadium in Mexicali Mexico on the Castillo vs. Salido under card. The much bigger Franco kept Armenta on the outside for most of the fight with stiff jabs and lateral movement wile Armenta seemed a little hesitant to exchange. It wasn’t until the fourth [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (26-1-1, 16 KO’s) expects 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins (51-5-2, 32 KO’s) to be complaining long and hard after they meet up for their rematch on May 21st at a still to be determined location. Pascal and Hopkins fought last year in December with the fight being ruled [...]

By Jason Kim: Former three division world champion Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) isn’t very old in terms of years at only 34. However, Morales has had a lot of fights and boxed 387 rounds as a pro compared to only 114 for his next opponent Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s), whom he fights on [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-1, 8 KO’s) will finally be returning to the ring on March 12th to fight contender Pawel Wolak (28-1, 18 KO’s) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Foreman, 30, hasn’t fought since June last year when he was taken out in the 9th [...]

By Chris Williams: Right now boxing fans are going way over board with their praise of WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) after he defeated Fernando Montiel by a 2nd round knockout recently. But these same fans aren’t seeing that Donaire is a fighter that is totally dependant on his left hand to [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Zab Judah (40-6, 27 KO’s) has seen his best days and he’s now cruising into the twilight of his once promising career. Judah is now 33, and no longer dominating opponents like he once was earlier in his career. Judah will be fighting South African Kaizer Mabuza [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: If you want to see a really big mismatch tune in for the March 5th fight between undefeated Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) as he battles one of Britain’s finest in Matthew Hatton (41-4-2, 16 KO’s) for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title at the Honda Center, in Anaheim, California. This is [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: If I were to describe unbeaten EBU light welterweight champion Paul McCloskey’s power, I would rate him as a slow power-puff puncher, not a slugger or someone that could punch. This is why I’m a little baffled at WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s description of the 31-year-old McCloskey, saying [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) is facing another potential loss as he goes into his semifinal Super Six tournament bout against the talented Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 Ko’s) on May 21st at a still unknown venue. Froch is lucky to have not been beaten in two of his [...]

LINCOLN, R.I. (Feb. 25, 2011) – This time, Mike “The Beast” Campbell left no doubt as to who the most dominant fighter is in his rivalry with Mike Medrano. For the second time since 2009, Campbell knocked out Medrano, this time beating the Toms River, N.J., lightweight in the main event of Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic [...]

By Chris Williams: The May 7th Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KO’s) vs. Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s) fight is going to be marketed like mad on CBS/Showtime and sold for $54 on pay-per-view to boxing fans who are expecting to see a competitive fight. The thing of it is the 40ish Mosley doesn’t appear capable [...]

By Dave Lahr: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) is looking like a new man after spending the past month in the Sierra Nevada mountains training and taking off weight for his March 19th fight against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. I’m not a [...]