Archive for April, 2011

Cuban featherweight sensation Yuriorkis Gamboa will be ringside when World Boxing Organization (WBO) champion Juan Manuel Lopez defends his title against Odlando Salido in Puerto Rico tomorrow (Saturday, April 16). On September 11th 2010, Gamboa won a lop-sided unanimous decision against Salido.

By Jason Kim: Trainer Robert Garcia is giving light welterweight knockout artist Victor Ortiz (28-2-2, 22 KO’s) a punchers’ chance of beating WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-0, 21 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Machintucket, Connecticut. Although Garcia is giving Ortiz a chance in this fight, he’s less than confident [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Three time world champion Erik Morales (51-7, 35 KO’s) will be out of the ring for at least two months or longer for his badly swollen right eye and laceration to heal from his 12 round decision loss to Marcos Maidana on April 9th. According to Philboxing.com, the 34-year-old Morales has been [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Trainer and HBO analyst Emanuel Steward thinks that former International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KO’s) has the talent to beat Manny Pacquiao if given the chance at fighting him. With the 31-year-old Cintron signing with Top Rank promotions earlier today, the chances of Cintron getting a future [...]

By Chris Williams: The last thing you would expect from 39-year-old Shane Mosley is for him to be saying that he’s superior to Manny Pacquiao physically. Mosley has been looking about as shot as a fighter can look and still get a big mega fight in his last two fights. In an interview at The [...]

By Eric Thomas: It really doesn’t matter now how badly WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-0, 21 KO’s) beats light welterweight challenger Victor Ortiz (28-2-2, 22 KO’s) on Saturday night, Berto will will be considered to be nowhere near as good as Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., the two fighters that Berto badly wants [...]

By Chris Williams: Roger Mayweather, the trainer and uncle of Floyd Mayweather Jr., thinks that Miguel Cotto would be a good tune-up for Floyd as he gets ready for a bout against Manny Pacquiao. Roger figures that Floyd needs at least a couple of tune-up bouts before his mega fight against Pacquiao. One of those [...]

By Chris Williams: Shane Mosley doesn’t want to fight middleweight Sergio Martinez in the future once Mosley’s May 7th fight with Manny Pacquiao is done with. Mosley feels that the 5’10″ Martinez is too big for him, even through Martinez is smaller than 5’11″ Antonio Margarito, who Mosley defeated by a 9th round stoppage in [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s fight with Paul McCloskey was moved from Sky pay-per-view to Sky 3 after two of the undercard’s better fights went up in smoke. Khan rather than seeing the benefit of fighting in front of 600,000 to 700,000 potential Sky Sports subscribers opted to move his fight [...]

Unbeaten WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel “Juanma” Lopez had a busy Thursday, spending time with his promoter, Bob Arum, and the Mayor of Bayamon, Ramon Luis Rivera, at the Mayor’s Office, and then working out at Jose “Cheo” Aponte Torres Gym in Caguas, Puerto Rico. His trainers are Alex Caraballa and Louis Gonzalez.

By Wayne Lloyd: Boxing is undoubtedly the greatest sport on the planet. Think about it…what other sport in the world can provide you with the excitement, the drama or the debate? In most sports such as football or soccer… dependent on where you are from…the greatest football teams of the time will play each other [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank has signed former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KO’s) to a promotional contract and Bob Arum of Top Rank is saying that the 31-year-old Cintron is a potential opponent for his number #1 fighter Manny Pacquiao. Cintron hasn’t fought since he dove out of the ring a year [...]

By William Mackay: Unbeaten British super middleweight champion James DeGale (10-0, 8 KO’s) and WBO super middleweight interim champion Nathan Cleverly (21-0, 10 KO’s) sparred recently to get ready for their separate fights next month on May 21st at the O2 Arena (Millenium Dome), Greenwich, London. DeGale, 25, faces unbeaten Commonwealth super middleweight champion George [...]

Mexican lightweight slugger Marvin Quintero (21-3, 17 KOs) will be hoping to continue rebuilding his once-soaring career when he appears on ESPN2 “Friday Night Fights” tomorrow night from the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California.

By Jim Dower: Newly crowned WBA light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (30-2, 27 KO’s) says he’s ready and willing to give a rematch with 34-year-old three-time world champion Erik Morales if he wants the fight. Maidana recently defeated Morales by a 12 round majority decision in a somewhat close fight. Morales, and many of [...]

MANCHESTER, APRIL 14 – The ‘King Khan Returns’ final press conference took place today at the Manchester Town Hall ahead of an explosive night of boxing at the M.E.N Arena this Saturday night which will be televised live on Primetime Pay-Per-View (Channel 480 on Sky) in the United Kingdom and on tape delay in the [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten EBU light welterweight champion Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) feels that he has the physical tools to pull off a huge upset on Saturday night against WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s). McCloskey was picked out personally by Khan, who after nearly being knocked out in his last [...]

LAS VEGAS (April 14, 2011) – WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov (11-1, 7 KOs) remains fully prepared to continue his history-making journey to unify the light heavyweight titles before the end of 2011 with one of the other 175-pound division world champions.

Showtime boxing analyst Al Bernstein will be at ringside calling the action with Gus Johnson for Showtime’s telecast of the Juan Manuel Lopez-Orlando Salido WBO Featherweight title match on Saturday, April 16th. This will be the fourth Lopez title match he has announced and he said “I look forward to doing his matches as much [...]

LOS ANGELES, April 14 – TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” closes out a month to remember on Friday, April 29, with an intriguing clash between unbeaten Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin and NBC’s “The Contender” alumnus Jesse Brinkley at the Reno Events Center in Nevada.

Undefeated San Diego junior welterweight Antonio Orozco (9-0, 6KOs) is hard at work training at the CYAC Gym in National City, CA. Under the watchful eye of his trainer Carlos Barragan, Orozco put together an intense work out that included mitt work, working on the heavy bag and shadow boxing. Orozco is in the gym [...]

READING, PA (April 14, 2011) – Rising prospect Travis Kauffman is ready to take his next step in the heavyweight title picture when he returns to the Sovereign Center’s Reading Eagle Theater in his hometown of Reading, PA on May 21.

World Champ turned promoter Graham Earl has really pulled all the stops out for his second London show of the year – ‘Redemption Day’ – at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Saturday 7th May – by having not just one, but two, Southern Area title bouts co-headlining along with a seriously quality undercard, [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Tyson Fury’s promoter Mick Hennessy has reportedly won the purse bids for the young 22-year-old Fury’s upcoming fight against unbeaten British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Derek Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s). There is still no date or venue for the fight, but the fight will no doubt be happening soon. Chisora, 27, missed [...]

By Chris Williams: Arguably the best fight of the May 7th fight card disappeared with the news that WBC lightweight champion Humberto Soto (55-7-2, 32 KO’s) has dropped off the Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley fight undercard at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Soto, 30, was supposed to be fighting a rematch with [...]

Frank Warren has signed a new three year deal with hot-prospect Frankie Gavin. Birmingham star Gavin, Britain’s only ever World Amateur Champion, will feature in a championship contest at The O2, London, on May 21.

BBC Radio 5 live will provide full coverage of the build-up, live commentary and behind-the-scenes insight to Amir Khan’s World Boxing Association (WBA) Light Welter-Weight title defence against Paul McCloskey on 16th April.

By William Mackay: Despite WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan 24-1, 17 KO’s) saying he wanted to become a big star in the United States, he’s fighting on Saturday in the UK against a lesser known fighter named Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s), who isn’t even a star in the UK. If Khan gets by [...]

By William Mackay: 32-year-old Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) has finally come out and admitted what pretty everyone already knows by saying he’s retired from boxing after having been out of the ring for the past two years since his 2nd round Humiliating 2nd round knockout loss to Manny Pacquiao in 2009. Hatton has ballooned [...]

On Friday, April 22nd, at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing will present that weeks ESPN “Friday Night Fights”. Headlining the card is “The Mongolian Mongoose” Bayan Jargal (15-1-3, 10KO’s) squaring off against the “Khanqueror” Breidis Prescott (23-2, 19KO’s) in a ten round jr. welterweight showdown. Also featured on the card [...]