Archive for June, 2011

HARTFORD (June 18, 2011) – Youth defeated experience tonight as red-hot welterweight prospect Javier “El Chino” Flores extended his perfect record to 6-0 with six knockouts, stopping 30-fight veteran Shakha Moore in the seventh round of the main event on “The New Generation Boxing Series” card, presented by Bulldog Cartel Promotions, at the Connecticut Convention [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In a total massacre of a fight, WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s) toyed with British challenger Ryan Rhodes (45-5, 31 KOs) for 11 rounds before getting serious with him and putting Rhodes out of his misery in the 12th on Saturday night at the Arena Vicente Fernandez in [...]

By Jim Dower: Undefeated super featherweight contender Adrien Broner (21-0, 17 Ko’s) jumped on a seemingly unprepared Jason Litzau (28-3, 21 KO’s), stopping him in the 1st round on Saturday night on the undercard of the Saul Alvarez vs. Rhodes bout at the Arena VFG, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico.

Undefeated cruiserweight Ryan “The Irish Outlaw” Coyne (16-0 6 KOs) has finished up training camp. Tomorrow he returns back to St. Louis for next Saturday’s title clash versus Guillermo Jones (37-3-2 29KOs) at the Family Arena in St. Charles, MO.

By Dan Ambrose: According to the latest boxing news, former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik could wind up facing IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute in November.

By William Mackay: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) believes his fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) will out-do the 800,000 UK pay per view buys that the Lennox Lewis fight did against Mike Tyson.

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten Martin Murray (23-0, 10 KO’s) defeated Nick Blackwell (8-1, 2 KO’s) by a 5th round TKO on Saturday night to capture the British middleweight title at Robin Park Centre in Wigan.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): When Floyd “Money” Mayweather (41-0, 25 KO’s) fought Oscar De Lahoya he eked out a split decision. When Floyd took on Ricky Hatton he had all kinds of problems for eight rounds before finally figuring him out and knocking him out in the 10th round.

By Sean McDaniel: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 Ko’s) seems to finally have acknowledged what he’s up against in his July 2nd fight against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) by saying that he has to get to Wladimir early in order to avoid something bad happening to him.

By Sean McDaniel Unbeaten heavyweight Tyson Fury (14-0, 10 KO’s) has always been able to walk down his overmatched and smaller opponents to batter them at close range to score knockout wins. For the most part, Fury has been able to get away with this despite having very mediocre boxing. Fury has done it on [...]

By William Mackay: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) sees his July 2nd opponent WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) as being all flurry and pretense rather than someone that is legitimately a good fighter. Wladimir believes that Haye will fold when he’s met with resistance in the form of a [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Once promising junior middleweight James Kirkland (27-1, 24 KO’s) will try to get his career back on track on June 24th in a scheduled eight round bout against 38-year-old journeyman Saul Duran (37-18-2, 30 KO’s) at the Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco, Texas.

By Eric Thomas: WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-2-2, 22 KO’s) has already come up with a strategy to try and beat undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0, 25 Ko’s) in their fight on September 17th at a still to be determined venue. Ortiz, 24, says he’s going to take the fight to Mayweather and try [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye believes fellow Brit Ryan Rhodes (45-4, 31 KO’s) will pull off an upset tonight against unbeaten Mexican WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (36-0-1, 26 KO’s) at the Arena VFG, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico.

By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten number #1 ranked World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (30-0, 19 Ko’s) thinks he would knock out WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (36-0-1, 26 KO’s) if he had the opportunity to fight him, and doesn’t feel that the 20-year-old Alvarez deserves to be the WBC world champion [...]

Hidalgo, Texas (June 17, 2011) – Tonight’s edition of “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” featured a five-fight event at the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas that was presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Cavazos Boxing Promotions. If you missed the live action or the TeleFutura broadcast, below is a summary of the results:

By Byron Wallin: Being British myself I could not banish the feelings of shame that arose whilst watching the recent Max Kellerman Face off between IBO, WBO and IBF Heavyweight World Champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBA Heavy Weight World Champion David Haye. Haye chose to express himself using foul language and terms that one might [...]

By Peter Wells: Photo: Leopoldo Gonzalez – On first seeing this match up made many used the term ‘mis-match’ but after weeks of preparation many are starting to believe that this may well be Saul Alvarez’s toughest fight to date. The gritty Sheffield man is coming to win after a long career it seems he’s [...]

By William Mackay: It looks like there is next to no one that is picking WBA heavyweight champion David Haye to pull off an upset of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko next month on July 2nd. Mike Tyson is the latest well known figure to pick Wladimir to beat Haye, as did Sky Sports Ringside [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Making his first defense of his World Boxing Association (WBA) World middleweight title unbeaten champion Gennady Golovkin (21-0, 18 KO’s) stopped former IBF junior middleweight champ Kassim Ouma (27-8-1, 17 KO’s) in the 10th round at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City, Panama. TGolovkin, 29, hurt Ouma with a series of [...]

State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas Gary Russell Jr KO 4 Antonio Meza Omar Figueroa SD 8 Eric Cruz

By Jim Dower: In one of ESPN2′s better Friday Night Fight’s cards, 40-year-old Grady Brewer (28-12, 16 KO’s) pulled off a huge upset by stopping previously unbeaten junior middleweight contender Fernando Guerrero (21-1, 16 KO’s) in the 4th round of a scheduled 10 at the Frank Erwin Center, in Austin, Texas. Brewer went right hand [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): It was reported in the “Malaya Business Insight” that after signing a multi million dollar deal with Hewlett-Packard a month ago, WBO Welterweight Champion and Pound for Pound king Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s) is set to sign a more lucrative deal with the giant apparel company Nike.

Graham Earl is out, Michael Lozada is in, and Erik Morales is next as Katsidis and his team lock in the Gold Coast Convention Centre as the venue for “the great’s” next fight. Katsidis’s manager/trainer Brendon Smith today revealed that after a breakdown in contract negotiations with Graham Earl, Katsidis will now face 27 yo [...]

WEIGHTS FROM HARTFORD HARTFORD (June 17, 2011) – The official weigh-in was held today for tomorrow (Saturday) night’s professional boxing show, “The New Generation Boxing Series,” presented by Bulldog Cartel Promotions at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.

Montreal, Friday, June 17th, 2011 – EuroPlus Computers S.R.L., in collaboration with InterBox, have finalized the opponents for World Boxing Organization (WBO) #2 rated Super Middleweight contender Renan St-Juste and fellow Quebecker Pier-Olivier Cote. Both InterBox protégés will lace up the gloves in Bucharest, Romania on the undercard of the July 9th Lucian Bute vs. [...]

North Bergen, NJ (June 18, 2011) – Lightweight prospect Danny McDermott of North Bergen, NJ will get the opportunity to fulfill his life-long dream of winning a world title on July 16 when he challenges for the vacant World Boxing Union (WBU) title at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

By Gerardo Granados: Photo: Leopoldo Gonzalez – It seems that the young WBC light middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez performs well inside the ring, he has a good defense but still has a lot of room to improve, he has the temple and patience of a veteran, he moves well and also has good speed, [...]

By Jim Dower: Unbeaten World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (36-0-1, 26 KO’s) weighed in at 153.2 lbs for Saturday’s fight against British challenger Ryan Rhodes (45-4, 31 KO’s) at the Arena VFG, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, in Jalisco, Mexico.

To the Boxing Community, In complete respect for your opinions and understanding that it must be very hard to comb through and observe all of the boxer’s careers throughout the world, in all the different weight classes, I ask you to please review the stats below and give consideration to Robert Guerrero as a candidate [...]