Archive for June, 2011

• Upcoming fight: June 25 vs. Raul Munoz (21-13-1, 16 KOs) at South Philly Arena (7 W. Ritner St): Jones: “This fight means a lot to me, obviously, because I’m back home for the first time in more than two years. I want to look my best when I’m at home, just like I do [...]

By John F. McKenna: Later this year Mexican boxing legend Juan Manuel Marquez (52-5-1, 38 KO’s) will finally get his chance to avenge his razor thin loss in 2008 to Filipino Superstar Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s).

ESPN’s Friday Night Fights presented by Corona Extra will originate from Temecula, Calif. June 24 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2, ESPN3D, ESPN Deportes and ESPN3.com. Joe Tessitore and Teddy Atlas will be ringside at the Pechanga Resort Casino describing the action, while studio host Jonathan Coachman will present all the latest boxing news and [...]

Olympian Billy Joe Saunders will challenge for his first title next month at the Excel London as chief support on the Kevin Mitchell-John Murray undercard. The hard-hitting southpaw takes on the Southern Area Middleweight Champion Gary Bouldon from Shepperton.

FORMER WEST HAM TEAM MATES FEATURE AT THE EXCEL Top prospect Billy Morgan is promising a night to remember for West Ham ABC on July 9.

R & R Promotions CINCINNATI’S OWN ADRIEN “THE PROBLEM” BRONER WINS THE WBC USNBC R & R Promotions Saturday June 18th in Guadalajara Mexico Adrien “The Problem” Broner took his 4th belt After the impressive 1st round knockout at the 2:58 mark against Jason “The American Boy” Litzau The Problem can boast a record of [...]

CHICAGO, IL (June 20, 2011) Golden Boy Promotions and Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions are pleased to announce that they will team up to present “SOLO BOXEO TECATE”: WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT 18 on Friday, August 26 at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion.

By Scott Gilfoid: To no great surprise, WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch is picking fellow Brit and close personal friend WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 Ko’s) to beat IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) in less than two weeks on July 2nd. Froch thinks Haye will get to Wladimir early [...]

By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro: On Saturday night close to fourteen hundred hardy souls braved the rain and packed the York Hall to capacity, stormy weather wasn’t going to stop them being ringside, at Spencer Fearon’s Hard Knock Boxing promotions ‘Summer Smash’ event, to watch former World Champs Choi Tseveenpurev (World Boxing Union (WBU/WBF) and [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez may wind up getting a title shot against the newly crowned WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. The World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman reportedly is saying that Chavez Jr. has a voluntary defense of his WBC title for his next fight but after that [...]

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Over 500 athletes, boxers, coaches and officials arrived in Colorado Springs on Sunday in preparation for the 2011 USA Boxing National Championships, June 20-25. The event draw took place on Sunday evening, determining the path each athlete will have to navigate to take home a gold medal, and in the 13 [...]

ANTHONY CROLLA, Joe Murray and Martin Murray have signed contract extensions with Hatton Promotions. And Hatton Promotions President Ricky Hatton purred: “They will all be world champions.”

World Boxing Council (WBC) silver junior middleweight title holder Vanes Martirosyan was impressed with Saul Alvarez’s dominating performance over Ryan Rhodes on Saturday night. Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KOs) closed the show by stopping Rhodes in the 12thg round.

By Scott Gilfoid: Of all the people that I thought would ever stop talking trash it’s WBA heavyweight champion David Haye. After all these years of trash talking the Klitschkos, Haye has suddenly turned over a new leaf and has decided he no longer needs to do this in order to sell his July 2nd [...]

By Gerardo Granados: It has been a while now since the first time a saw Canelo fight on an undercard, since then I saw something special in the eighteen years old kid, he was raw but he sure had power and a killer instinct.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): In an article in the London Daily Star, World Boxing Association (WBA) Champion David “The Haymaker” Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) says he has dumped his trash talk and no longer needs it to sell his July 2 unification fight with IBO, IBF, WBO and Ring Magazine Champion Wladimir “Dr. Steelhammer” [...]

IFBA and WBAN Independent champion Chevelle “Fists of Steel” Hallback is opening her own boxing gym. The grand opening of “Fists of Steel Boxing Academy” is scheduled for Friday, June 24 from 5:30-8:30 PM, in Tampa Bay, Florida at 3020 “B” W. Kennedy Ave. The official opening date is July 5. “It’s going to be [...]

By Jason Kim: Former IBF junior middleweight champion Kassim Ouma (27-8-1, 17 KO’s) was reportedly hospitalized after suffering a 10th round TKO loss to WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (21-0, 18 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Arena Roberto Duran, Panama City, Panama.

By Dan Ambrose: Former two time world champion Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KO’s) has pretty much given up all hope of ever facing WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s), who Martinez feels has been ducking him for the last year and half despite Martinez’s frequent attempts to get a fight with him.

By Dan Ambrose: Promoter Oscar De La Hoya says he would make a fight between his fighter WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s) and unbeaten Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (43-0-1, 30 KO’s) in a second if the fight were to take place at 154 lbs. It’s hard to disagree with De La [...]

By Eric Thomas: In a night of mismatches, WBA/WBO light flyweight champion Giovanni Segura (28-1-1, 24 KO’s) destroyed a badly over-matched journeyman Eddy Zuniga (7-6-1, 1 KO’s) in a 1st round blowout last Saturday night in a non-title bout held at flyweight at the Musica hall, in Toluca, Mexico. Segura, 29, knocked the unknown Zuniga [...]

By Jason Kim: The July 2nd bout between WBA heavyweight champion David Haye and IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko pits two fighters with opposite fighting styles going up against other. Haye is a pure slugger that wins by stunning his opponents with big hayemaker shots followed by flurries to take them out, while Wladimir tends [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Ryan Rhodes (45-5, 31 Ko’s) talked a good game before his fight with WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s) last night at the Arena VFG, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico, but when it came to putting his words into action he failed miserably, losing by a 12th round knockout [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It was interesting to see Ryan Rhodes (45-5, 31 KO’s) heaping praise on undefeated WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s) after being destroyed by a 12th round knockout in a failed attempt to capture Alvarez’s World Boxing Council title at the Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico. It was as [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated super featherweight contender Adrien Broner (21-0, 17 KO’s) made it look easy in destroying highly ranked Jason Litzau (28-3, 21 KO’s) by a devastating 1st round knockout last Saturday night at the Arena VFG, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico. Broner, ranked #6 WBO, #7 WBA, #7 WBC, and #14 IBF in [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s) showed what he’s made of last Saturday night in first beating up and then taking out his number #3 WBC contender Ryan Rhodes (45-5, 31 KO’s) by a 12th round knockout at the Arena VFG, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: The massively talented unbeaten former Olympic heavyweight Bronze medalist for the United States Deontay Wilder (17-0, 17 KO’s) scored his 17th consecutive knockout on Saturday night beating the “Dangerous” Damon Reed (46-16, 32 KO’s) by a 2nd round knockout at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

By Byron Wallin: During the last few years, boxing sites and magazines all over the world have been inundated with articles regarding what is potentially the biggest fight in boxing history. Present and former pound for pound Kings Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather (41-0 25 KOs) and Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao (53-3-2 38 KOs) find themselves in the [...]

MIKE JONES FACT SHEET • Upcoming fight: June 25 vs. Raul Munoz (21-13-1, 16 KOs) at South Philly Arena (7 W. Ritner St): Jones: “This fight means a lot to me, obviously, because I’m back home for the first time in more than two years. I want to look my best when I’m at home, [...]

MARTIN MURRAY achieved his lifelong ambition to win the British middleweight title on Saturday night and roared: “Bring on the best”. The St Helens captured the vacant crown when brave challenger Nick Blackwell was pulled by his corner out after five rounds.