Archive for May, 2011

By Reni M. Valenzuela: Boxing should have learned its lessons even before history repeated itself. Except for some greedy and carnivorous pockets, what is something good for the sport and fight fans that can come out of a ring brush between a living legend in his prime and a future Hall-of- Famer at the tail-end [...]

Los Angeles, CA (May 16, 2011) – Southern California heavyweight star Chris “The Nightmare” Arreola (31-2, 27 KOs) will make a quick return to the ring when he faces 28-year-old Kendrick “The Apostle” Releford (22-14-2, 10 KOs) of Fort Worth, Texas, in a 10-round main event on Friday, May 27, at the world-class 6,000-seat Reno [...]

ESPN’s Friday Night Fights presented by Corona Extra, will originate from Newark, N.J. May 20 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2 when former junior middleweight world title challenger Joel “El Predador” Julio (36-4, 31 KO’s, WBC#33) and undefeated 2008 U.S. Olympian Sadam “The World Kid” Ali (12-0, 7 KO’s) are featured in co-main events. Joe [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): As boxing fans well know, fights are very rarely as good as the pre fight hype. Once in a great while though the fight not only matches the hype but exceeds it. One of those fights took place on April 15, 1985 between “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler and Tommy “The Hitman” [...]

The promoters of Puerto Rican junior middleweight slugger Jonathan “Mantequilla” Gonzalez (13-0, 13 KOs), Gary Shaw, Javier Bustillo and Leon Margules, wish to congratulate their 21-year-old fighter for his impressive performance on Friday night at the Chumash Casino Resort and live on ESPN Friday Night Fights.

Los Angeles (May 16, 2011) – This past Saturday at The Home Depot Center in Carson, heavyweight Bowie Tupou improved his record to 20 wins, with 16 of those victories by knockout, with only one loss, by stopping Manuel Quezada (29-7, 18 KOs) with a 7th round knockout on the undercard of SHOWTIME’s Super Six [...]

By Richard Hall: Only at the young age of 22 new undefeated British prospect Tyson Fury (14 – 0 10KOs) is looking to strike early while the heavyweight division is weak and has plenty of time to become the next British heavyweight world champion. Tyson is now looking to fight at the top level of [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Promoter Frank Warren is reportedly hoping to match his fighter WBO light heavyweight interim champion Nathan Cleverly (30-0, 10 KO’s) against 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins (51-5-2, 32 KO’s) in the near future if both Hopkins and Cleverly win their next fights. Hopkins faces WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (26-1-1, 16 KO’s) this [...]

May 16, 2011 – A multitude of fans congregated in the city of Gilroy, California yesterday to honor their hometown hero, Five-Time World Champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, as May 15, 2011 was officially declared Robert Guerrero Day in the garlic capitol of the world and The Ghost was officially commended for his accomplishments in [...]

BALTIMORE, MD (May 16, 2011) Local fan favorites, The Brothers Taylor, Maxell and Emmanuel, are primed and ready to shine this Saturday night, May 21st at the second UNITED BOXERS EVENT at the Maryland Sportsplex in Millersville.

By William Mackay: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch sees this Saturday’s clash between British super middleweight champion James DeGale (10-0, 8 KO’s) and challenger George Groves (12-0, 10 KO’s) as a 50-50 fight where he can’t pick out the guy that will emerge as the winner in this fight. Groves and DeGale are two [...]

Unbeaten Jose “Chelo” Gonzalez already have rival for his June 3 fight in his hometown of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, where he will headline the second edition of the series “A Puño Limpio” against Pipino Cuevas Jr. in a PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP) presentation to be televised on WAPA America.

Andy Lee, Irish Kronk middleweight fighter, currently ranked # 3 in the WBA , # 9 in the World Boxing Council (WBC) and # 13 in the WBO rankings will be in action again against Alex ‘The Technician ‘ Bunema this Wednesday evening, May 18 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, [...]

Greg Cohen, Founder of Greg Cohen Promotions, wishes to congratulate Guilderland, New York, 135-pound phenom Mikey “Baby Faced Beast” Faragon for another great performance last Thursday night.

By Dan Ambrose: Rather than try and avenge his recent loss to Victor Oriz, former World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-1, 21 KO’s) is looking to take on 35-year-old IBF welterweight champion Jan Zaveck (31-1, 18 KO’s) in August in a fight that could give the 27-year-old Berto a relatively easy opportunity [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) has really struggled in the majority of his Super Six tournament fights, winning two of them but looking terrible in two of the three fights. On June 4th, he faces pressure fighter Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) in a semifinal match-up to determine [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) reportedly is sparring with 6’7″ 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Deontay Wilder (16-0, 16 KO’s) in trying to get ready for Haye’s July 2nd fight against 6’6″ IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) at the Imtech Arena in Hamburg, Germany. Wilder, a 25-year-old [...]

Relive every moment from Saturday’s stellar performance by ANDRE WARD Catch the replay of WARD VS. ABRAHAM on SHOWTIME EXTREME: TOMORROW/Tuesday at 10pm ET/PT

By William Mackay: WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley decided recently to put off facing WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan for the time being. It’s not because he’s afraid of facing him. Bradley is reportedly waiting for his contract to expire with his current promoter before he hooks up for a fight against Khan. [...]

By Dan Ambrose: 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins (51-5-2, 32 KO’s) faces World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (26-1-1, 16 KO’s) in a rematch on Saturday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The winner of the Hopkins-Pascal fight will face the winner of Saturday’s undercard fight between former WBC champion Chad Dawson [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) still hasn’t said when/if he’ll be fighting again with Top Rank. They are waiting for Donaire to report and start planning for his next. This comes after an arbitrator ruled in favor or Top Rank in their tug of war with Golden Boy Promotions [...]

By Chris Williams: Trainer Nazeem Richardson believes that a blueprint to beat Manny Pacquiao was created in his last fight against his fighter Shane Mosley. Although Pacquiao won the fight handily by a lopsided 12 round decision, he struggled with the movement of Mosley and seemed incapable of cutting off the ring properly to force [...]

By Rafa Garcia: This article is based on the rapid decline of boxing over the last twenty years. I am 35 years old, boxed since i was eight and had my first amateur bout at twelve years old, my career was cut short due to a broken back (car accident). Myself and so many others [...]

CHICAGO, IL, (May 16, 2011) Chicago’s Polish Prince Andrzej Fonfara returns to battle against Brockton, Massachusetts’ Anthony Russell on Friday, May 20th in the ten round main event at Windy City Fight Night 17 at the UIC Pavilion.

James DeGale has warned George Groves that he’ll need more than David Haye in his corner to beat him on Saturday. The rivals meet for the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles at the 02 Arena, London, live on Sky Box Office.

ESPN’s Friday Night Fights presented by Corona Extra, will originate from Newark, N.J. May 20 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2 when former junior middleweight world title challenger Joel “El Predador” Julio (36-4, 31 KO’s, World Boxing Council (WBC)#33) and undefeated 2008 U.S. Olympian Sadam “The World Kid” Ali (12-0, 7 KO’s) are featured in [...]

Riverside, Ca – Originally scheduled to fight Jose Angel Beranza, Michael “Lil Warrior” Franco 18W-0L (12 KO’s) will now face Rafael “The Dominican Man” Lora 11-5 (5 KO’s) on Saturday May 21st from the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa. No specific reason was given for the change but sources say Beranza wasn’t willing to face [...]

Welsh ace Nathan Cleverly says his fight with Juergen Braehmer on Saturday night is his “defining moment”. Unbeaten Cleverly meets the dangerous German for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) World light-heavyweight title at The 02 in London in the main event, with chief support seeing the grudge fight between James DeGale and George, live on [...]

MARTIN MURRAY hopes to wrap a third major title belt around his waist after his showdown against Nick Blackwell was sanctioned for the vacant British middleweight title. The unbeaten St Helens boxer will also be putting his Commonwealth championship on the line when he tackles Blackwell at Robin Park Arena, Wigan on Saturday June 18.

By Gerardo Granados: A long time ago there was a fighter who was not considered to be the greatest of all time, but he had enough talent that lead him to be enshrined in to the international boxing hall of fame. His upbringing was humble, as a kid he was so poor that some times [...]