Archive for March, 2011

By Eric Thomas: Fightnews.com is reporting that the German promotional company Universum is threatening the World Boxing Association [WBA] with a potential lawsuit. Universum promotes former WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev (27-1-1, 17 KO’s), who defeated Kali Meehan by a 12 round unanimous decision last year in May 2010 to become the mandatory challenger for [...]

By Isobel Castillion: Literally, as his new adopted style of fighting could otherwise be known as running…backwards. Amir Khan 24(17KO)-1(1KO) seems to be reflecting a similar attitude to this new style of fighting outside of the ring. What is this match up with Paul McCloskey 22(12KO)-0 about then? McCloskey is the likeable European light Welterweight [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten British super middleweight champion and former 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist James DeGale (10-0, 8 KO’s) isn’t impressed in the least that undefeated Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (12-0, 10 KO’s) is sparring with super middleweight contender and former Super Six tournament participant Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) to help get [...]

By Jason Kim: Former two-division world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-8-1, 23 KO’s) is praying that he can get a shot at unbeaten Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) next if the 25-year-old Chavez Jr. wins his bout against WBC middleweight paper champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) on June 4th in Los Angeles, California.

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) isn’t over-looking his next opponent Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) and plans on treating him like he another Marcos Maidana, Khan said in an interview at the BBC News. Khan, 24, faces McCloskey on April 16th at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester.

NEW YORK (March 29, 2011)—The FIGHT CAMP 360°: Pacquiao vs. Mosley camera crews are embedded and filming in the Philippines with Manny Pacquiao and Big Bear, Calif. with “Sugar” Shane Mosley, capturing the most intimate training camp moments as both fighters prepare for their May 7 showdown on SHOWTIME PPV®.

Four days ahead of their title fight at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany, WBO Cruiserweight Champion Marco “Captain” Huck (31-1, 23 KOs) and challenger Ran Nakash (25-0, 18 KOs) participated in an open work-out today. “The belt will remain in Germany,” Huck said. “I am the world champion and I will still be [...]

by Sean Lewis: Is Shane Mosley going to take it easy on Manny Pacquiao. While this question may seem preposterous upon first examination, it is the opinion of this writer that this scenario should be taken seriously. Mosley’s obvious, physical gifts naturally leads one to assume that this will be an easy nights work, despite [...]

NEW YORK, March 29 – The first fight between World Boxing Council (WBC) and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion Jean Pascal and former Two-Division World Champion and Future Hall of Famer Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins last December was one of the most talked-about fights of that year, with fans across the continent hotly debating [...]

By Jim Dower: Former 2008 Olympic heavyweight Gold medalist from Russia Rakhim Chakhkiev (9-0, 7 KO’s) has been added to the Marcos Maidana vs. Erik Morales April 9th undercard at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Chakhkiev, now fighting as a cruiserweight, will be facing 6’4” American Harvey Jolly (11-16-1, 6 KO’s) in a [...]

LOS ANGELES, March 29 – Coachella native Randy Caballero has found a boxing home at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California and on Friday, April 1 he will seek his fourth win at the venue when he faces San Juan’s Felix Perez in the six round co-main event of TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate.”

By Tom David Drury: All legends need a powerful rival, (Muhammad Ali had Joe Frazier, Ray Leonard had Marvin Haggler) a competitor who will stimulate and inspire them to perform to the very best of their abilities. The featherweight division is playing host to its own rivalry, (while not on the level of Manny Pacquiao-Floyd [...]

‘Dazzling’ Darren Barker knows people may call him “bonkers” for saying it, but believes he could be the man to stop World Boxing Council (WBC) Emeritus and The Ring Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez.

Manchester fight ace John Murray says he will enjoy defending his European lightweight title on Kevin Mitchell’s turf this Saturday night. Murray was due to meet Mitchell on April 2 at Wembley Arena, but the fight fell through – even though Murray was desperate for it go ahead.

Former World Boxing Association (WBA) title challenger Dmitriy Salita of Brooklyn, New York looks to further rebound from an unsuccessful challenge of WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan with a ten round main event bout against Ronnie Warrior Jr. at Brooklyn’s Oceana Club on April 13th.

James DeGale is not worried by news that rival George Groves is sparring with Andre Dirrell in America. DeGale and Groves will battle it out at The 02 in London on May 21 for the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight crowns in the biggest domestic showdown seen in recent years, live and exclusive on Sky Box [...]

PHILADELPHIA (March 29, 2011) – The opponents for undefeated Polish boxers Patrick “The Machine” Majewski and Kamil Laszczyk have been named for their April 1 invasion of the Alhambra Arena in Philadelphia as part of KEA Boxing’s “Unfinished Business” card.

Sensational Middleweight prospect Joe ‘Belfast Banger’ Hillerby is set for his first home town fight this coming Saturday, on the Graham Earl promoted ‘Fists of Fury’ event, headlined by WBU Lightweight World Champion Willie Limond, at the King’s Hall in Belfast.

HOBOKEN, N.J. (March 21, 2011) – The pay-per-view undercard for Saturday night’s “La Revancha,” featuring the highly-anticipated rematch between WBO and The Ring light flyweight champion Giovani “El Guerrero Azteca” Segura and former 108-pound king, Ivan “Iron Boy” Calderon, has been officially announced.

On the undercard of last Friday night’s ESPN2 Friday Night Fights broadcast from The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, super featherweight dynamo Rances “Kid Blast” Barthelemy (11-0, 8 KOs), scored a dominating TKO victory over James Hope at 2:04 of the fourth round.

By Dave Lahr: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) is going to finish off both the Klitschko brothers, Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko in the next eight months and find himself staring at retirement having knocked out both of the Klitschko brothers. Haye will then find himself in the enviable position to listen to [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: After an in depth analysis of the career of challenger Karim El Ouazhari (11-1-2, 4 KO’s) I have to say that he’s going to shock the UK on Saturday night by knocking out and handing unbeaten EBU lightweight champion John Murray (30-0, 18 KO’s) his first loss of his career when they [...]

By Chris Williams: WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-0, 21 KO’s) has been matched up about as light as a champion can get and still be shown regularly on HBO. On April 16th, the 27-year-old Berto will be taking on arguably his first real tough opponent in Victor Ortiz (28-2-2, 22 KO’s) at the Foxwoods [...]

By William Mackay: It’s hard to believe that Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) will be facing Khoren Gevor (31-5, 16 KO’s) in a WBA middleweight title eliminator bout on April 16th at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, England. The Macklin-Gevor fight will be on the undercard of the clash between WBA light welterweight champion Amir [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Bob Arum appears to be reluctant to see his fighter IBF/WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO’s) fight his money making machine WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (30-0, 27 KO’s) and it’s pretty obvious to see why.

By Dan Ambrose: WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (18-0, 14 KO’s) looked worse than you can imagine in beating little known Argentinian contender Javier Franciso Maciel (18-2, 12 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision last Saturday night at the DIVS, in Ekateringburg, Russia.

By Sean McDaniel: The May 7th Prizefighter tourney for heavyweights will have two very good heavyweights in former Cuban amateur Mike Perez (13-0, 10 KO’s) and heavyweight contender Kevin Johnson (24-1-1, 10 KO’s) added to the tourney recently.

By Eric Thomas: It seems that the June 18th fight between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (36-0-1, 26 KO’s) and Britain’s Ryan Rhodes (45-4-1, 31 KO’s) is far from set because the 34-year-old Rhodes apparently wants more money than what’s being offered to him.

By Sean McDaniel: 34-year-old Erik Morales is hoping to challenge for a title on the light welterweight division if he can beat Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) in two weeks in their important bout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Morales has previously won three world titles and wants to capture a 4th [...]

By Jason Kim: 42-year-old boxing great Roy Jones Jr. 54-7, 40 KO’s) will climb into the ring once again despite a string of rotten luck in his last two fights when Jones takes on 31-yer-old cruiserweight contender Denis Lebedev (21-1, 16 KO’s) on May 22nd at the Sport Complex Krylaskoe, in Moscow, Russia.