Archive for April, 2011

By Chris Williams: If you were hoping that Top Rank would come up with an exciting replacement bout to substitute for the lightweight rematch between WBC lightweight champion Humberto Soto and Urbano Antillon, I’m afraid fans are going to be sadly disappointed. Instead of a comparable fight to replace Antillon-Soto, the replacement fight will reportedly [...]

San Francisco, CA (April 15, 2011) – TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” returned to the Bay Area tonight with a six-fight night of action-packed bouts presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Don Chargin Productions at Long Shoreman’s Hall in San Francisco,Calif. Tonight’s fights were televised on TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate,” but if you missed the broadcast [...]

By Jim Dower: Making his 2nd defense of his WBO super flyweight title, unbeaten Omar Narvaez (34-0, 19 KO’s) defeated previously unbeaten challenger Cesar Seda (20-1, 15 KO’s) by a 12 round decision on Saturday night at the Club Estudiantes de Bahia Blanca, Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

By Sean McDaniel: Freddie Roach, the trainer of WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s), reportedly has a good plan that he will have Khan employ against challenger Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) on Saturday night in their fight at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester, England.

By Jim Dower: Fringe light welterweight contender Ruslan Provodnikov (19-1, 12 KOs) had to battle hard to defeat Ivan Popopca (15-1-1, 10 KOs) by an 8th round TKO on Friday night in a fight that was shown on ESPN2 from the Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, California. Provodnikov dropped Popopca in the 8th, and the [...]

By Jason Kim: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) is going to make big cash in his September 17th rematch with Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s). The two fighters are slated to go it on pay-per-view at a still to be determined venue. Cotto will likely make the bigger money of the [...]

By Dan Ambrose: We’ve already seen Victor Ortiz (28-2-2, 22 Ko’s) fall completely apart and quit in the 6th round after getting knocked down by Marcos Maidana in his 6th round knockout loss to Maidana in 2009. Next, we saw Ortiz fall apart to a slightly lesser extent in his last fight against Lamont Peterson [...]

By Sean McDaniel:British and Commonwealth super bantamweight champion Jason Booth (36-7, 15 KO’s) tasted defeat on Friday night in a failed effort to try and capture the vacant EBU super bantamweight title against Spain’s Kiko Martinez (25-3, 18 KO’s) at the Plaza de Toros La Cubierta, Leganes, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.

By William Mackay: Unbeaten Irish light welterweight contender Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) thinks that WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) may have been damaged from all the punishment he suffered in his last fight against knockout artist Marcos Maidana (30-2, 27 KO’s) last year in December.

PR BEST BOXING/TOP RANK INC. “Ultimate Rivalry” Saturday, April 16th, 2011 RUBEN RODRIGUEZ COLISEUM, BAYAMON BLUE RED

The four fighters who will compete in an eagerly awaited SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING doubleheader tomorrow/Saturday, April 16, live on on SHOWTIME® (10:30 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast), made weight on Friday.

Super bantamweight prospect Bruno Escalante Jr. returns to the Bay Area for the third straight time in his professional career as he takes on crafty Shaun Solomon in a four-round swing bout on tonight’s Telefutura Solo Boxeo undercard, emanating from the Longshoremen’s Hall in San Francisco, California.

MASHANTUCKET, CT (April 15, 2011) – The official weigh-in for tomorrow (Saturday, Ap4r. 16) night’s “East-West Showdown” card was held today at Foxwoods Resort Casino. Undefeated World Boxing Council (WBC) Welterweight Champion Andre Berto will defend his title against WBC No. 5-rated Challenger “Vicious” Victor Ortiz live on HBO World Championship Boxing from MGM Grand [...]

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, (April 15, 2011) Middleweight world title challenger Giovanni Lorenzo has filed a protest with the World Boxing Association in regards to the unprofessional conduct taken by WBA Judge Stefano Corozza during Lorenzo’s Interim World Middleweight Championship against Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam held on April 2, 2011 in Le Cannet, France.

CANASTOTA, NY – APRIL 15, 2011 – The International Boxing Hall of Fame announced today legendary junior welterweight champion Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor will be among returning Hall of Famers attending the 22nd Annual Hall of Fame Induction Weekend set for June 9-12th in Canastota, NY.

By Eric Thomas: WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s) defends his World Boxing Association for the 10th time on July 2nd against middleweight contender Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Compared to some of the 32-year-old Sturm’s opponents that he’s picked out for his title defenses, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (30-0, 27 KO’s) will be fighting the recently beaten Orlando Salido (34-11-2, 22 KO’s) tomorrow night at the Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. If Lopez wins this fight, he will move on to a rematch with 36-year-old Rafael Marquez (39-6, 35 KO’s), who Lopez already [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (32-2, 26 KO’s) comes into the May 14th Super Six tournament semifinal bout against unbeaten WBA Super World super middleweight champion Andre Ward (23-0, 12 KO’s) licking his wounds and hurt feelings from his last two Super Six tournament fights against Andre Dirrell and Carl Froch. [...]

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) thinks that Sky Sports will be sorry that they didn’t keep his fight against Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) on Sky pay-per-view this Saturday rather than moving it to Sky 3, which is a non-PPV channel. Khan promises to beat McCloskey by convincingly [...]

By Jason Kim: In looking at some of the fights of Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) it’s easy to see why WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) picked him out to fight on Saturday at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester, England. McCloskey, 31, lacks power, hand speed or defensive ability. He’s there [...]

To truly understand the scope of the Pacquiao phenomenon, SHOWTIME Sports’ FIGHT CAMP 360° traveled to the Philippines to visit the champion in his native land. Watch a bonus video from the trip before this weekend’s SHOWTIME premiere of episode 1. FIGHT CAMP 360°: PACQUIAO VS. MOSLEY, Episode 1

By Dan Ambrose: Juan Manuel Marquez (52-5-1, 38 KO’s) may decide to capture an easy paper title by taking on IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah (41-6, 28 KO’s) on July 30th in what would be a pay-per-view bout. Dan Rafael of ESPN is reporting that Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is trying to [...]

By Dan Ambrose: The long awaited rematch between Antonio Margarito (38-7-1, 27 KO’s) and Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) will be taking place on September 17th rather than July 16th because the 33-year-old Margarito’s fractured orbital bone on his face still hasn’t healed properly enough for him to get back in training anytime soon. Margarito [...]

On April 22nd, one of the newest additions to Star Boxing’s growing stable of undefeated fighters, Joe “The Future” Hanks, will make his debut fighting under the Star banner when he takes on Terrell Nelson on the undercard of Star Boxing’s ESPN “Friday Night Fights” card at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT. Hanks-Nelson is scheduled [...]

By Jim Dower: Once beaten WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) weighed in at 139 lbs at Friday’s weigh-in for Saturday’s fight against unbeaten challenger Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester, England. For his part, the 31-year-old McCloskey also came in at one pound under the light [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) may not be fighting in England anytime soon after this Saturday’s fight against the little known Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, England. Khan isn’t happy that Sky Sports decided to move his fight off of PPV and [...]

By Ben James: In my last article about promoters conning the boxing public by feeding us predictable fights while trying to convince us we are about to see a close competitive match up, I wrote off Irish boxer Paul McCloskey in his fight against Amir Khan this weekend.

Leon Margules, promoter of the April 29 ESPN2 “Friday Night Fights” broadcast from the luxurious outdoor deck of The Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas says he is extremely happy that Lamont Peterson has stepped in to face Victor Cayo in the main event.

AMIR KHAN’s pay TV ambitions may have suffered a knockout blow this week but there seems to be little danger of that happening against Paul McCloskey on Saturday, according to the betting on Betfair. Light welter-weight champion Khan is the massive 2-15 favourite to make a successful fourth defence of his WBA title at Manchester’s [...]

CHICAGO, IL (April 15, 2011) For the third time in 2011, 8 Count Productions, HOME OF THE BEST IN CHICAGO BOXING, will present another chapter in the acclaimed WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT series on Friday, May 20th at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion.