Archive for February, 2011

By Chris Williams: Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) may have scored a spectacular victory in defeating WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (44-3-2, 34 KO’s) last Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, but it might not have been enough for Americans to get behind Donaire and start seeing him as [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten Tyson Fury (14-0, 10 KO’s) wants to face undefeated British heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) in the worst way imaginable after Fury defeated Brazilian Marcelo Luiz Nascimento (13-1, 11 KO’s) in a 5th round TKO last Saturday night at the Wembley Arena, om Wembley, London. Fury dropped Nascimento hard [...]

By Jim Dower: If former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KO’s) wants to keep his status as the best fighter in the middleweight division, he’s going to need to not only beat Sergiy Dzinziruk (37-0, 23 KO’s) on March 12th at the Foxwoods Resort Casino, in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The 35-year-old Martinez is facing [...]

By William Mackay: WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) gave a glimpse of his next fight when being interviewed by HBO last Saturday night at the Nonito Donaire vs. Fernando Montiel fight at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, saying that he’ll be fighting WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan [...]

By William Mackay: Rather than sitting and waiting until British heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) takes on IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) on April 30th before getting his shot at his British strap, the 22-year-old Tyson Fury (14-0, 10 KO’s) wants Chisora to be stripped of his title so that [...]

By Jason Kim: Unbeaten 2008 Olympic heavyweight Bronze medalist Deontay Wilder (15-0, 15 KO’s) chocked up his 15th pro win with a 2nd round TKO of an overweight light heavyweight DeAndrey Abron (15-7, 10 KO’s) last Saturday night at the Shelton State Community College, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Wilder, 25, unloaded with a flurry of combinations [...]

By Jason Kim: Unbeaten welterweight contender Mike Jones (24-0, 18 KO’s) got an important last Saturday night in defeating fringe welterweight contender Jesus Soto-Karass (24-6-3, 16 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Instead of trying to slug it with Soto-Karass like he did last time [...]

by Alex Hedges: This past weekend saw British heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury win his 14th straight fight with a crushing 5th round KO of unbeaten Brazillian Marcelo Luiz Nascimento. Fury landed a vicious overhand right, that crashed into the temple of Nascimento, sending him to the canvas where he remained prone for several minutes.

By Dan Ambrose: Newly crowned WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) will be sticking around the bantamweight division for at least one more fight to take on the winner of the Joseph Agebeko vs. Abner Mares bout. For Donaire, this would be a unification bout, as Agbeko currently holds down the IBF bantamweight [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten heavyweight challenger Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) is starting to look incredibly slim while training for his March 19th fight against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Solis, 30, has been weighing in the low 260s in his recent fights, which is probably [...]

By Sean McDaniel: We may be seeing a very one-sided fight on March 5th when unbeaten puncher Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) faced the light-hitting EBU welterweight champion Matthew Hatton (41-4-2, 16 KO’s) in a fight for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. You want to give the [...]

By Chris Williams: Photo credit Sumio Yamada – If you look at last night’s fight between Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) and WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (42-3-2, 34 KO’s), you’ll notice immediately how much bigger the 5’6″ Donaire was compared to the 5’4″ Montiel. It’s more than just height. Donaire looked huge in terms [...]

By Reynaldo Sanchez: Photo credit Sumio Yamada – To the Philippine star Manny Pacquiao, we will see perhaps, in 2 or 3 fights in the future. Since is natural, the boxing, the press and the boxing fans, they move his eyes looking for the successor of the Congressman. This frenetic search, it seems came to [...]

Amateur standout Aaron “Gavilan” Garcia (9-1-2, 2KOs) of San Marcos, CA, is ready to make his return back into the ring after a two year hiatus. Garcia, who lost fought back in ’09 scoring two hard fought draws against Jesus “Pollo” Hernandez, is scheduled to appear on the much anticipated Las Vegas fight card on [...]

By Mark Hepplestall: I have so say if I could be any Heavyweight in the world right now, it would be Derek Chisora, good fortune seems to follow this man in every aspect of his life. Derek Chisora (14, 0, 0 KO 9) is a good prospect in the heavyweight division and has found himself [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: Photo credit Zanfer boxing – Last night at the Mandalay Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, a pale looking Fernando Montiel looked too weak and stale, extremely slow and stiff to put up much of a fight against Nonito Donaire. Montiel had the effervescence of a stale Corona beer that has been left [...]

By Rod Bautista: Photo credit Zanfer boxing – Nonito Donaire’s destruction Saturday night of former bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel has caused quite the stir in the boxing world. Many fans and scribes who were waiting for Donaire’s response to his first serious test in the boxing ring definitely got their answer.

Middleweight Anthony Ogogo and Welterweight, Fred Evans, secured Gold as men and women from the GB Boxing squad put in a superb team performance to win seven medals at the Strandja Cup in Bulgaria.

CHICAGO, IL (February 20, 2011) Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions, HOME OF THE BEST IN CHICAGO BOXING, announced the signing today of three sensational young undefeated prospects to exclusive promotional contracts.

By William Mackay: Unbeaten British light welterweight prospect Frankie Gavin (9-0, 8 KO’s) stopped 32-year-old Michael Lomax (17-4-1, 2 KO’s) in the 7th round last Saturday night at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, London.

By Dan Ambrose: Bob Arum is frustrated after watching his unbeaten welterweight contender Mike Jones (24-0, 18 KO’s) defeat Jesus Soto-Karass (24-6-3, 18 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jones dominated Soto-Karass, cutting him up and winning by the scores of 115-113, [...]

By William Mackay: WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) could have arguably made more money and attracted more interest by facing knockout artist Breidis Prescott in a rematch on April 16th, but instead Khan and his management team opted to go with the weak-punching, slow-fisted Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) [...]

By Chris Williams: Photo credit Naoki Fakuda – Top Rank Promoter Bob Arum was all grins after his fighter Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) stopped WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel in a 2nd round last Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Arum, who also promotes Manny Pacquiao, sees great things in Donaire [...]

By Dave Lahr: Unbeaten British heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) may be doing the German people a huge favor by knocking out IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) on April 30th in Mannheim, Germany. Klitschko, 34, has made Germany his home since shortly after turning pro in 1996.

By Chris Williams: Photo credit Zanfer boxing – Boxing fans are getting excited right now about Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) after watching him stop 5’4” WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel last night in the 2nd round at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, in Las Vegas. This was certainly a good win, but let’s [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former WBC light welterweight champion Junior Witter (37-4-2, 22 KO’s) may be on the brink of retirement after losing a 10 round unanimous decision to Romanian Victor Lupo (19-1-2, 9 Ko’s) on Saturday night at the Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Baltic Heavyweight title that highlighted a seven bout card promoted by Prize Fight and Global Boxing. After a “feel out” first round, Wach landed a big right hand that hurt Haggler. The 6’7” Wach jumped on Haggler and after a big flurry of punches put Haggler on the canvas. Haggler was clearly hurt and could [...]

Michael Katsidis is about to return to the ring after month’s rattled with up’s and downs. Only 4 weeks after his brother’s tragic passing, Katsidis went on to fight Juan Manual Marquez for the unified Lightweight Title, a fight that he honourably lost in 9 rounds. Although the fight didn’t go the way Katsidis hoped, [...]

By Rod Bautista: Photo credit Zanfer boxing – If there were any questions if the hype and attention Nonito Donaire has been receiving is deserved, they were definitely answered Saturday night. Donaire’s destruction of Fernando Montiel in the 2nd round not only earned him the the WBC and WBO bantamweight title’s, but surely an early [...]

By Jason Kim: Photo credit Zanfer boxing – Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) blasted out WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (44-3-2, 34 KO’s) in a 2nd round TKO on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. While the 31-year-old Montiel was stopped on his feet by referee Russell Mora [...]