Archive for February, 2011

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (February 22, 2011) – “The Brick City Brawl”, headlined by unbeaten Polish star Mariusz Wach’s third round knockout of Jonathan Haggler at Essex County College in Newark, NJ this past Saturday, will be replayed nationwide by FoxSports South at 11PM EST/10PM CST on Saturday night. FoxSports South is available on The Dish [...]

Cestus Management fighter Ashley Theophane (29-4-1, 7 KOs) is fresh off his points win over Lenny Daws this past Saturday where he lifted the British title. Upon reading the recent comments by Unbeaten Frankie Gavin a brief statement was released on behalf of Theophane through his management (CESTUS). “

British and Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion Dereck Chisora has laughed off ridiculous claims from boxing motormouth Tyson Fury that he is ducking him in order to fight for the World title against the recognized number one, Wladimir Klitschko!.

MIAMI – The Miami Gallos announced today that their three remaining home matches for the inaugural season of the World Series of Boxing (WSB) will take place at the Solare Coliseum in the City of Doral.

TORONTO, ON – (Tuesday, February 22, 2011) It’s often difficult to measure “heart” when it comes to prospects in the world of boxing. Usually, those tabbed for bigger and better things are rarely tested in their early professional fights. Paired with opponents brought in to showcase their physical skills, upstart fighters rarely need to call [...]

LOS ANGELES, CA (February 22) – To become a legend, you must beat a legend and on Saturday, April 9, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., six “Action Heroes” will be featured in one night of all-out action fights where every bout pits two fighters looking to prove something against each [...]

By Eric Thomas: This Saturday night, number #1 ranked WBA lightweight challenger Brandon Rios (26-0-1, 19 KO’s) will be taking on World Boxing Association lightweight champion Miguel Acosta (28-3-2, 22 KO’s) at the Palms Casino Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is a fight that’s really difficult to pick a winner because Rios is fighting [...]

By Jim Dower: Former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey (35-4, 20 KO’s) will be fighting on the undercard of the Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga fight card on March 12th in a 10 round bout against junior middleweight Calvin Green (21-5-1, 13 KO’s) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Clottey, 33, lost his [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) is hoping to get a fight against Manny Pacquiao after Bradley faces and beats WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) on July 23, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bradley’s last fight with his current promoter Gary Shaw will end [...]

By William Mackay: While pretty much the entire boxing world sees the March 5th clash between Matthew Hatton (41-4-2, 16 KO’s) and Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) as a hopelessly one-sided fight, the 29-year-old Hatton doesn’t feel that way. He thinks he’s going to win this fight, which will be taking place at the Honda [...]

With sadness and tears in my eyes my friend and mentor who was and is a huge influence on my life passed away on Sunday night. The great and one of a kind Jimmy O’Pharrow, who was affectionately known as Jimmy O. Jimmy O was 85 years old and is survived by his wife of [...]

By Dave Lahr: Unbeaten British/Commonwealth heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) is tired of the constant whining and bellyaching from undefeated Tyson Fury (14-0, 10 KO’s) about wanting Chisora to be stripped of his British title because he’s not available to fight him immediately. Chisora, who has a big fight coming up against IBF/WBO [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Lightweight Kevin Mitchell (31-1, 23 KO’s) is still hoping to fight EBU lightweight champion John Murray (30-0, 18 KO’s) in April, as long as Mitchell can get the big enough offer from his promoter Frank Warren to take the fight. Mitchell doesn’t want to get small money for the fight. However, he’s [...]

By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro: 15th May 2010 is a date etched deep in the memory of the tens of thousands of Dagenham’s Kevin Mitchell’s supporters. On that fateful night over twenty four thousand of those partisan fans packed in to Upton Park to watch their all conquering hero, who was firm favourite to clinch [...]

By William Mackay: Former 2000 Olympic super heavyweight Gold Medalist Audley Harrison (27-5, 20 KO’s) was impressed with unbeaten British heavyweight Tyson Fury’s recent 5th round knockout victory over Brazilian Marcelo Luiz Nascimento last Saturday night, but the 39-year-old Harrison doesn’t think that the 22-year-old Fury is ready for him. Harrison spotted flaws in Fury’s [...]

By Dan Ciminera: David Haye is helping murder the sport of boxing. After spending so long doubting him, I had come around to his fighting style and become something of a fan. In spite of the loud mouth, I thought he was exactly what the heavyweight division needed. An athletic chap, obviously putting the gym [...]

CRAIG LYON is promising to grab the limelight when he makes the first defence of his English bantamweight title. The undefeated St Helens scrapper puts his crown on the line against Barnsley’s Josh Wale in the Premier Suite at Bolton’s Reebok Arena on Saturday night (26th Feb).

Steve Goodwin steps up big time to celebrate his one year anniversary, as a boxing promoter, by staging two huge shows in March.

Fast rising and exciting heavyweight prospect, Joe “The Future” Hanks (15-0, 10KO’s) has signed an exclusive long-term agreement with Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing. The New Jersey native Hanks, who made his pro-debut on a DeGuardia promoted card, now looks to continue his march towards a heavyweight world title under the Star banner.

Promoter Frank Warren has made an offer to Ashley Theophane to fight Frankie Gavin. US based Londoner Theophane captured the British Light-Welterweight title last Saturday night at Wembley Arena, beating Lenny Daws on points.

By Chris Williams: WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) has been elevated to the number #3 sport in the Ring pound-for-pound ratings. This comes after Donaire knocked out Fernando Montiel in the 2nd round last weekend to capture his WBC and WBO bantamweight titles.

By Scott Gilfoid: We don’t know what WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan has left in the tank after his beating by Marcos Maidana last December. With the amount of huge shots that Khan was hit with by Maidana, we could be talking about a fighter whose punch resistance has gone dramatically downhill [...]

By Dan Ambrose: In less than three weeks, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto will be facing his moment of truth in his tough match-up with former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Dan Ambrose: HBO is interested in buying the June 4th proposed fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s), according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.

By Jim Amato: There was a time in the mid 60′s that revolved around who would be Muhammad Ali’s next opponent. The former Cassius Clay was chewing up and spitting out challengers with alarming ease. His hold on the heavyweight title was reaching the point of fan boredom. Few could see any serious contenders on [...]

When Middleweight boxer Tarvis Simms first stepped into the ring as a professional back in 1997, he had one goal in mind—winning the world championship. Since he has put together an impressive record of 26-1-1, and on March 5 when he goes to battle with John Mackey at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, he [...]

NEW YORK, NY (Feb. 21, 2011) – World Boxing Council (“WBC”) Emeritus and The Ring Magazine middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez celebrates his 36th birthday today.

By Simon Hirst: Boxing is a sport that is seemingly on the decline. American fans have lost interest with other sports capitalising on this because the heavyweight division is crying out for a saviour. In England, BBC and ITV don’t seem interested in paying to have boxing. The last fight I remember being on ITV [...]

By Frank Livingstone: For a long time, HBO was the dominant Pay Per View outlet for the big fights but this may about to change come March 12. HBO will be showing on their Pay Per View the fight on that night between Sergio Martinez and Sergiy Dzinziruk.

Four of Puerto Rico’s most promising young fighters were victorious on Friday night in Ponce, Puerto Rico, as Jonathan “Mantequilla” Gonzalez, Thomas Dulorme, Jose Pedraza and Luis Orlando del Valle all kept their unbeaten records intact with intimidating displays of power.