Archive for April, 2011

By Saqib Khan: When a boxer retires we always look back at the memorable fights the boxer had. When i think of Joe Calzaghe I can’t think of many.

LAS VEGAS (April 25, 2011) On Friday, April 29, 2011, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas will present Molina vs. Conyers for the second occurrence of the series, “Fight Night at The Cosmopolitan,”to be televised live on ESPN2′s “Friday Night Fights.”

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten welterweight contender Kell Brook (23-0, 16 KO’s) wasn’t impressed with the performance from WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) in his recent 6th round technical decision victory over Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) on April 16th. Brook, who is currently ranked #2 by the WBO and one of [...]

By William Mackay: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) plans on making WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) his 50th knockout on July 2nd in their mega fight at the Imtech stadium in Hamburg, Germany.

April 25, 2011- The city of Gilroy, California, hometown to five-time world champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, is dedicating a special day to their accomplished hero. On Sunday May 15, 2011, family, friends and fans are encouraged to make their way to downtown Gilroy as the official Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero Day will be celebrated. [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Juan Manuel Lopez (30-1, 27 KO’s) was supposed to be facing Rafael Marquez (39-6, 35 KO’s) in a needless rematch next, but Orlando Salido wrecked those plans by stopping Lopez in the 8th round on April 16th. Lopez now has to waste valuable time in his career going over old ground to [...]

LOS ANGELES, April 25 – It’s a family affair on Friday, May 6, as brothers Librado Andrade and Enrique Ornelas headline an intriguing doubleheader at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. The theme of family continues further with the main event, as Andrade will square off against Aaron Pryor Jr., the son of the [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Three time former world champion Erik Morales (51-7, 35 KO’s) will return to the ring on July 30th against a still to be determined opponent. Marcos Maidana and Marco Antonio Barrera are the possible fighters that the 34-year-old Morales could be facing. Morales recently lost a 12 round majority decision fight to [...]

By Sen McDaniel: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) says he doesn’t plan on letting IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) get his offense started on July 2nd in their bout in Hamburg, Germany. Haye plans on getting to Wladimir early before the big 6’6″ Ukrainian gets his powerful jabs started [...]

On Saturday, Armenian southpaw Vic Darchinyan returned to top form taking on Yonnhy Perez for a thrilling night of SHOWTIME Championship Boxing. If you missed Darchinyan vs. Perez … or can’t wait to see it again, Catch the replay: Tuesday at 10:30PM ET/PT on SHOWTIME Extreme Click below to watch a recap of Vic “Raging [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum doesn’t see Juan Manuel Lopez’s recent 8th round stoppage loss to Orlando Salido getting in the way of a bout between Lopez and IBF/WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO’s), as long as Lopez can beat Salido in a rematch in 2011.

By Cor Lawson: There seems to be a running theme with many promoters and boxers that may just be starting to change, that is the overprotected and padding of boxer’s records. The recent emergence of Victor Ortiz as the new WBC 147 pound champ got me thinking along those lines last week.

Dollis Hill, London based American Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Oshunrinde feels that he has a point to prove when he returns to York Hall to face Sam Couzens, at the Graham Earl Promoted ‘Redemption Day’ double title headlined event, on Saturday 7th May 2011.

DAVID PRICE is out to show why he predicted he’ll be world heavyweight champion after 20 fights. The Olympic bronze medallist bids for his 10th straight professional win in his hometown at Liverpool Olympia on Wednesday night (27/4) when he faces good American Raphael Butler (35-9) Price, 27, caused a storm recently, claiming that he’ll [...]

April 25th, 2011, Reno — A shot at the championship of the world is why most fighters enter the business of boxing. Terry Malloy, the hero in the 1954 Academy Award winning film, On the Waterfront, explained in a few famous words how his life and boxing career suffered because he failed to reach that [...]

By Jason Kim: 42-year-old Roy Jones Jr. (54-7, 40 KO’s) may be facing the best fighter in the cruiserweight division next month in his May 21st fight against Russian Denis Lebedev (21-1, 16 KO’s) at the Sport Complex Krylatskoe, in Moscow, Russia.

By Eric Thomas: Arthur Abraham (32-2, 26 KO’s) comes into his May 14th Super Six tournament fight against WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (23-0, 13 KO’s) having lost two out of his last three fights in the past year and looking nothing like the guy that used to dominate his opponents while holding down [...]

By Jason Kim: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KO’s) be back in action next month against Alfonso Lopez (21-0, 16 KO’s) in a fight on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosey bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Dan Ambrose: WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz is eying Floyd Mayweather Jr. or a title defense against his mandatory challenger Selcuk Aydin for his first defense of Ortiz’s newly won World Boxing Council title. Ortiz, 24, defeated champion Andre Berto last week, beating him by a close 12 round unanimous decision win.

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten British super middleweight champion James DeGale (10-0, 8 KO’s) badly wants to get in the ring and prove himself against undefeated Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (12-0, 10 KO’s).

By William Mackay: The July 2nd unification fight between IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) and WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) is basically going to come down to whether the 30-year-old Haye can land one of his long looping pot shot power punches or not.

By Chris Williams: After watching the latest episode of Fight Camp 360, Pacquiao vs. Mosley this past weekend, I’m no longer giving 39-year-old Mosley any chance of beating Pacquiao on May 7th. Mosley looked slow, lethargic and didn’t seem to be working hard at all in training. Pacquiao’s camp have done another great job in [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) used a different way of telling Ireland’s Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) that he wasn’t going to ever give him a rematch by saying in their post-fight press conference that if the 31-year-old McCloskey can beat all the guys that Khan has beaten [...]

By William Mackay: The long awaited bout between unbeaten EBU lightweight champion John Murray (31-0, 18 KO’s) and Kevin Mitchell (31-1, 23 KO’s) is looking like it’s going to be taking place this summer in July, according to news from frankwarren.tv. This is going to be a real test for both of these fighters because [...]

By Eric Thomas: In the past week, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum mentioned that former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron, who he signed recently, is a possible future opponent for Manny Pacquiao because of Cintron’s ability to make 147.

By Realbox: While watching Fight Camp 360 Pacquiao vs. Mosley episode 2 this past Saturday night, I couldn’t help but notice the weak attempt of Showtime of making something even remotely close in quality to HBO’s 24/7. I listened to “Sugar” Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s) say “A guy this caliber can only put me [...]

ByReni M. Valenzuela: Shane Mosley has the stronger drive to win. He is up to turn a tsunami like waves against him. Having a monstrous pile of people “belittlement” on his abilities to contend with and millions to gain (and gain even more) with almost nothing to lose but his life, Mosley is expected to [...]

By Jim Amato: During the early 1980’s it was said that Youngstown’s Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini was a media manufactured prospect. He was a great story line. A young son trying to win a title that evaded his talented father Lenny “Boom Boom” Mancini. Was he the real deal or was he hype?

By William Mackay: Former Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard trainer Angelo Dundee is completely sold on WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) after watching him train at Dundee’s Miami Fifth Street Gym in Florida. Dundee, 89, not only is picking the 30-year-old Haye to pull off an upset and beat Klitschko on [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Vic Darchinyan (36-3-1, 27 KO’s) defeated Yonnhy Perez (20-2-1, 14 KO’s) by a 5th round technical decision last night in Showtime’s bantamweight tournament at the Nokia Theater, in Los Angeles, California. The 35-year-old Darchinyan showed his old punching power and aggression that previously made him one of [...]