Archive for April, 2011

Coliseum Don King, Texcoco, México, Mexico Adrian Hernandez RTD 10 Gilberto Keb Baas WBC light flyweight title

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – The 2011 National Golden Gloves Championships closed with a bang on Saturday night as 10 new national champions were crowned at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Ind.

Foro Polanco, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico Raul Garcia TKO 3 Rommel Asenjo WBO minimumweight title Ramon Garcia Hirales TKO 4 Jesus Geles

Club Once Unidos, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina Ulises Solis SD 12 Luis Alberto Lazarte IBF light flyweight title Gonzalo Omar Basile SD 8 Manuel Alberto Pucheta

By Jim Amato: Pipino Cuevas has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame. I struggled with this for a while. Did he really deserve to get in ? There are so many deserving former boxers that you can make a strong case for.

By Cliff Bayres: Bob Arum was quoted from Bleacher report says “The reason Shane was selected for this fight is because we know that we are in the entertainment business.” That quote itself entails the whole persona of Bob Arum and the state of boxing.

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO- Dedicated to former Junior Lightweight Champion, Alfredo “Salsero” Escalera, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) presented today the 10th WBO Cupey Race and Track Invitational with hundreds of kids competing in different disciplines, as part of WBO’s program “Kids Drug Free”.

By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten super middleweight contender Peter Quillin (24-0, 18 KO’s) stopped contender Jesse Brinkley (35-7, 22 KO’s) in the 3rd round on Friday night in a scheduled 10 round bout at the Reno Events Center in Nevada. Brinkley, 27, one of the fighters trained by Freddie Roach at the Wild Card Gym in [...]

By William Mackay: Fighting for the first time in over a year, undefeated middleweight contender Darren Barker (23-0, 14 KO’s) defeated fringe contender Domenico Spada (32-4, 16 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision to capture the vacant European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title on Saturday night at the Olympia in London, England.

King Arthur Abraham will travel to the US on Sunday morning after the referee row has been resolved. The former Super Six World Boxing Classic Tournament point leader is set to take on WBA Super-Middleweight Champion Andre Ward in the semi-finals at the Home Depot Center in Carson on May 14. “We are pleased that [...]

By William Mackay: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch is reportedly in talks with Eddie Hearn, the promoter for Mathroom Sport, to have him take over as his new promoter. Froch recently split with his old promoter Mick Hennessy and is looking for a replacement. Froch said that he had a favorable meeting with Hearn [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten welterweight contender Kell Brook (23-0, 16 KO’s) is eagerly waiting for WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) to finally move up in weight to the welterweight division so that he can get a crack at fighting Khan. Brook, 24, realizes that the 5’10″ Khan will have to move [...]

By Jeff Miller: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) is hoping and praying that IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) will go to war with him on July 2nd when they meet up for their long awaited unification bout at the Imtech stadium in Hamburg, Germany.

By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated Darren Barker (22-0, 14 KO’s) looks to go over old ground by attempting to recapture his EBU middleweight title tonight against the hard hitting Domenico Spada (32-3, 16 KO’s) in a scheduled 12 round bout at the Olympia, Kensington, in London, England. Barker, who is ranked highly in the middleweight division, [...]

By Ben James: We are under a week away from one of the biggest fights of Shane Mosley’s career, his last chance to prove he can still bang at the top level of the sport. I am going to attempt to predict how this fight will go but before I do I would like to [...]

Ontario, CA (April 29) – Fight fans were on edge last night as the stellar “New Blood” fight card unveiled itself in a blow-by-blow action packed extravaganza from beginning to end. The scheduled four round junior welterweight bout showcasing Jhon Ortega and Hector Garza was the perfect opening performance when crowds witnessed the end of [...]

Reno, Nevada (April 29, 2011) – Golden Boy Promotions and Don Chargin Productions in association with Let’s Get It On Promotions presented an exciting event tonight from the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada. The TeleFutura “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” event was headlined by the USBO Super Middleweight Title fight between New York’s undefeated Peter “Kid [...]

CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY, APRIL 30 RED CORNER Weight BLUE CORNER First Name / Last Name 1. Oscar Mojica-Texas

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – A week full of elite amateur boxing action will culminate with final round action at the 2011 National Golden Gloves Championships on Saturday. Twenty boxers earned berths in the championship round with victories in Friday’s competition at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.

By William Mackay: WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) doesn’t see any point in fighting WBA champion Amir Khan with the money they’re offering him to take the fight. Promoter Frank Warren, in his column at thesun.co.uk, believes that if Khan wants the fight with Bradley then Khan is going to have [...]

LOS ANGELES, April 29 – The May 13th edition of the hit SHOWTIME series, ShoBox: The New Generation will feature some of boxing’s top unbeaten stars as they risk their “0′s” on a stacked card led by 19-0 Sharif “The Lion” Bogere, 21-0-1 Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell and 15-0 Gary Russell Jr. The action-packed “Night of [...]

Espace Roger Boisrame, Pontault Combault, Seine-et-Marne, France Carlos Takam RTD 6 Gbenga Oloukun

By Jim Dower: Junior middleweight Carlos Molina (18-4-2, 6 KO’s) stopped Allen Conyers (12-5, 9 KO’s) in the 7th round on Friday night at the Cosmopolitan Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Molina, who was coming off of an impressive 10 round draw with top contender Erislandy Lara in March, really took the fight to the [...]

Boxing Greats Aaron Pryor Sr. & Fernando Vargas Set To Attend Six-Fight Event At Fantasy Springs Resort Casino LOS ANGELES, April 29 – The boxing ring at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif. will be rocking on Friday, May 6, as some of the fight game’s hardest hitters, including Librado Andrade, Aaron Pryor Jr., [...]

With New Bedford on his back, red-hot Vazquez works to reach full potential PROVIDENCE, R.I. (April 29, 2011) – Scott Pemberton knows a thing or two about growing up as a highly-touted boxing prospect in the Whaling City of New Bedford, Mass.

By Dan Ambrose: 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins (51-5-2, 32 KO’s) looks to become the oldest fighter ever to capture a major title when he takes on WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (26-1-1, 16 KO’s) in a rematch next month on May 21st in an HBO televised bout at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. Hopkins [...]

The new World Boxing Organization (WBO) Featherweight Champion Orlando Salido, already have his belt, when in a ceremony held at the Hotel Casa Inn in Mexico City, the WBO President Francisco “Paco” Valcarcel gave it to the mexican gladiator.

By Dan Ambrose: How do you sell a fight where one of the fighters is pushing 40, hasn’t won a fight in over two years, and is an incredibly nice guy? This is the predicament we’re in with the upcoming pay-per-view bout between Manny Pacquiao and 39-year-old Shane Mosley. It’s just hard to get excited [...]

By William Mackay: In looking over some of WBA heavyweight champion David Haye’s fights at heavyweight, one can’t help notice that he’s relied at times on throwing rabbit punches. In fights with Monte Barrett, John Ruiz and Audley Harrison, Haye landed rabbit shots when he got in close to start throwing power punches. Given how [...]

BALTIMORE, MD (April 29, 2011) Chris Middendorf’s UNITED BOXERS returns on Saturday, May 21st at the Maryland Sportsplex with an action packed card for their second event.