Archive for March, 2011

By Jason Kim: With 41-year-old Giacobbe Fragomeni sustaining an injury in training, WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (31-1, 23 KO’s) will be fighting substitute opponent #10 ranked WBO contender Ran Nakash (25-0, 18 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany.

By Chris Williams: At a press conference on Monday to announce their May 21st bout in Montreal, WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal and 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins got into a shoving match after Pascal demanded that Hopkins “Take the test” for performance enhancing drugs [PEDS]. Hopkins reacted angrily, shoving Pascal hard when the Canadian based [...]

Morganville, NJ (March 28, 2011) – Highly touted junior middleweight Denis “Da Momma’s Boy” Douglin is currently en route to Manchester, United Kingdom where he’ll serve as a primary training partner for top flight middleweight Matthew Macklin in lieu of his April 16 bout with Khoren Gevor.

By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KO’s) will be making a comeback on May 7th in a super middleweight bout against Alfonso Lopez (21-0, 16 KO’s) in a fight that will be taking place on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley bout at the MGM Grand, in [...]

By Chris Young: Almost 23 years ago ended an era when the last 15 round bout was fought. Jorge Paez defeated Calvin Grove for the IBF featherweight title on August 4, 1988. Championship rounds use to be between 13-15 rounds. A lot of our historic battles went to the championship rounds, like Holmes/Norton, Holyfield/Qawi I, [...]

Iván “Iron Boy” Calderón made a hard training today in Mexicali, where this Saturday, April 2, he will face WBO Junior Flyweight Champion Giovani Segura in a rematch to be held at the Auditorio del Estado in Mexicali, Baja California, México, in a PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP) and Promociones Zanfer presentation to be televised [...]

ST. LOUIS, MO (March 28, 2011) World class professional boxing returns to St. Louis on Friday, April 16th as Rumble Time Promotions, Missouri’s Premier Boxing and MMA Promoters, presents BATTLE ON THE BANKS, a sensational evening of professional boxing and mixed martial arts at the Ameristar Casino Resort Spa in St. Charles.

NEW YORK, NY (Mar 28, 2011) New York City’s longest running and most successful boxing series, Broadway Boxing presented by Coors Light, returns March 29 to the most intimate venue for boxing in the country, the BB King Blues Club in Times Square. In the main event, José Pedraza, who turned pro in his last [...]

By Dallan o’ Donnell: Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KO’s) has risen from unknown to superstar within the space of two years and his meteoric rise to fame has led to him to becoming one of the hottest properties in the sport today. This has led fans to demand clashes with the bigger welterweights with Floyd [...]

By Jim Amato: “Out with the old, in with the new “. How many times have we heard that phrase in our lifetimes? Or ” the young eat the old ” ? The aging champion, however great he may have been must step aside for Father Time. There will always be a young lion poised [...]

By John F. McKenna: When promoter Bob Arum first raised the possibility of a matchup between Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KO’s) and Shane Mosley (46-6-1-1, 39 KO’s) he did what he does best. He not only had to sell the fight to fans and boxing writers, he also had to sell the fight to trainer [...]

By Tom David Drury: Sergio Gabriel Martinez is one of the hottest tickets in boxing right now, (born 21/2/1975) in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Martinez is the current ring world middleweight champion, ring magazine currently ranks Martinez third in the pound for pound rankings and named him there fighter of the year for 2010. Martinez [...]

By Jon Neale: The reason why we have sites such as Boxingnews24 is so that the Boxing fan has a forum to debate. Opinion, especially in Heavyweight boxing is largely irrelevant. Given the nature of the sport of Boxing, the size and power of the fighters in the ‘Marquee’ division and the huge amount of [...]

NEW YORK/ ATLANTIC CITY (March 28, 2011)—This Saturday night at Ballys in Atlantic City, Pound for Pound Promotions presents a action packed night of boxing that will feature the NABF Super Middleweight champion Farah Ennis taking on Alexander Johnson.

By Robert Elmore: While people around Floyd have been making much noise about Floyd Mayweather Jr wanting $100 million dollars to fight Manny Pacquiao (even though there are several websites with proof that it isn’t just for one fight, but a letter of intent from Don King for a three or fight deal) Floyd and [...]

By William Mackay: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) questions IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s ability to take punishment as well as handle heavy pressure.

Fairfax, VA (March 28, 2011) — After earning his 35th victory on March 12, Jimmy Lange (35-4-2, 24 KOs), former star of The Contender TV show, is headed back to Hollywood. The NABA U.S. Super Welterweight Champion will fight actor/host/author Mario Lopez (Extra, Saved by the Bell, Dancing with the Stars) in a three-round celebrity [...]

Waltham Abbey Light Welterweight Phil Gill is set for major television exposure, when he appears on the undercard of ‘Dazzling’ Darren Barker’s European Middleweight Title showdown with Italian Domenico Spada at the Matchroom Sports promoted event at Olympia in Kensington, London, on Saturday 30th April 2011.

Former amateur standout Guy Robb (3-0, 1 KO) of Sacramento, California battled debuting Manuel Morales (0-1) of Orosi, California to win a four-round majority decision in a slugfest that elicited a standing ovation at the Fairfield Sports Center in Fairfield, California on Friday night.

Ally Pally will host Prizefighter International Heavyweights on May 7 Matchroom Sport is delighted to announce that the Prizefighter International Heavyweights will take place at Alexandra Palace on May 7, live on Sky Sports.

Middleweight contender Benjamin Simon suffered a serious hand injury in the last week of sparring for his International Boxing Federation (IBF) elimination bout against Sam Soliman (scheduled for April 1st in Berlin). “The capsule of Simon’s left hand is bruised with odema in tender parts and an intra-articular hematoma“, said Dr. med. Robert Stelzer adding [...]

RICKY HATTON will be leading the tributes at a testimonial dinner for one of his closest friends, Jamie Moore this week. ‘The Hitman’ will be the guest speaker at the gala evening being held for the former British, Commonwealth and European light-middleweight champion at De Vere Whites Hotel at Bolton’s Reebok Stadium on April 2.

CHICAGO, IL (March 28, 2011) This past Friday night, in River Grove, Illinois, highly regarded prospect Adrian “EL Tigre” Granados put on an outstanding performance that will be talked about for years to come in an eight round welterweight battle against Detroit’s Lanardo Tyner.

CHICAGO, IL, (March 28, 2011) World ranked super middleweight Donovan “Da Bomb” George returns to action in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois this Friday night, April 1st, against Baltimore’s Maxell “The General” Taylor at the UIC Pavilion.

European Lightweight Champion John Murray says that his challenger Karim El Ouzaghari’s left hook will be the danger weapon this Saturday night. Manchester star Murray makes his big return to London for the first time in over four years to headline the York Hall, Bethnal Green, with the second defence of his title, live and [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former lightweight champion Juan Diaz (35-4, 17 KO’s) reportedly plans on giving it another shot at resurrecting his career and hopefully capturing another title before he hangs it up. Only 27, Diaz, has lost four out of his last six fights and looked pretty unremarkable in all of the fights. He wants [...]

By William Mackay: EBU lightweight champion John Murray (30-0, 18 KO’s) faces Spanish challenger Karim El Quarzghari (11-1-2, 4 KO’s) this Saturday night at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London. For Murray, this should be another easy win but not the kind of fight that he really needs if he wants to get the [...]

By Chris Williams: Thus far the interest among hardcore fans in the May 7th fight between 39-year-old Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s) and Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KO’s) has been lukewarm at best. If you look around the net, you’ll notice boxing fans aren’t even talking about this fight in boxing forums. Sure, pro-Pacquiao sites [...]

By Chris Williams: If Bob Arum wants to have another one of his in house fights, he needs to consider putting Manny Pacquiao in with a live fighter like Yuriorkis Gamboa instead of an old guy like Shane Mosley or fighters that have had the stuffing pounded out of them before they got to Pacquiao [...]

By Dan Ambrose: There is a very good chance that we may see a fourth fight between Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) and 37-year-old Marco Antonio Barrera (67-7, 44 KO’s) if Morales beats Maidana on April 9th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Maidana is a heavy favorite to win the fight, however, [...]