Archive for June, 2011

By William Mackay: Former featherweight champion Barry McGuigan is picking WBA heavyweight champion David Haye to stop IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko this Saturday night. McGuigan believes that Wladimir has never been in with a puncher that hits as hard as Haye before and sees it as only a matter of time before Haye lands [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) is already looking past his October 29th Super Six finals bout against WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) towards his fight after the tourney ends.

By Eric Thomas: Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (32-5, 25 KO’s) thinks WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KOs) can beat IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) on Saturday night because of his the game plan that his trainer Adam Booth will have put together to beat the [...]

By Dan Ambrose: According to Dan Rafael is ESPN, there is talk of an undercard fight between former WBO light welterweight champion Kendall Holt and Argentinian Lucas Matthysse on the undercard of the WBC light heavyweight title fight between champion Bernard Hopkins and former two time champion Chad Dawson on October 15th.

By William Mackay: Trainer Emanuel Steward sees WBA heavyweight champion David Haye as utterly failing and his wasting his time with his useless attempts to intimidate the bigger, more experienced and talented IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko ahead of their fight this Saturday night.

By Jason Kim: Photo: Stefan Hoyer – WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KOs) was slightly disgusted with IBF/WBO Wladimir Klitschko after the Ukrainian got deeply upset after Haye suggested recently at their Hamburg press conference that Wladimir may get badly hurt and have to leave the Imtech Arena with the assistance of an [...]

Ratings based upon results through June 18, 2011. Fight of the month: Lateef Kayode’s successful defense of his cruiserweight title and Luis May making the first defense of his flyweight belt are recognized this month. Boxer of the month: In what may be considered an upset, Grady Brewer becomes our new super welterweight champ with [...]

NORTH BERGEN (June 29, 2011) – Undefeated heavyweight contender Mariusz Wach of North Bergen, NJ by way of Krakow, Poland will face his biggest test – literally – when he meets “The Clones Colossus” Kevin McBride on July 29 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT.

Anthony Dirrell has a new opponent for Saturdays Universal Boxing Organization™ (UBO) Inter-Continental Super Middleweight title fight at the Atwood Stadium in Flint, Michigan. Original foe Michi Munoz won’t be able to fight after being arrested, and in steps 2000 Olympian Dante “Inferno” Craig (18-9-1, 13 KOs).

CRAIG WATSON has revealed how his parents couldn’t sleep after he lost the British welterweight title to Lee Purdy. He gets an immediate chance of revenge when he faces the Essex man at Oldham Sports Centre on July 16.

DAN GOOSSEN: Paul Williams vs. Erislandy Lara will be in association with Golden Boy Promotions also with my good friends for many years Luis DeCubas and his son Junior. We expect a very competitive fight with two-time world amateur champion Lara, undefeated and now living in Miami, FL. The fight will be at Atlantic City’s [...]

New York, NY (June 28)…It’s the biggest against the best and it doesn’t get much better or brighter. Boxing’s biggest star, undefeated Floyd “Money” Mayweather, and its newest star, WBC Welterweight World Champion “Vicious” Victor Ortiz, will align their super powers when they meet in “STAR POWER: Mayweather vs. Ortiz.” The mega-fight, which will be [...]

By William Mackay: Super Zab Judah (41-6, 28 KO’s) says that he’s ready for the best ‘A’ game that WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) has got on July 23 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Judah, 33, has resurrected his career at light welterweight with the [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): It was reported in the UK Telegraph that Vitali Klitschko (44-2, 39 KO’s) is jealous that his brother Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) is fighting David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s). Vitali says he is very disappointed that he is not the one fighting Haye.

By Chris Williams: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. assured boxing fans that he does still want to fight Manny Pacquiao in the future. However, Mayweather Jr. has an obstacle in front of him in the form of WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz, who Mayweather Jr. faces on September 17th.

NEW YORK, June 28, 2011 – HBO Sports’ groundbreaking “24/7” reality franchise, which has captured 14 Sports Emmy® Awards, returns in August for its tenth boxing installment with 24/7 MAYWEATHER/ORTIZ, an all-new four-episode, all-access series, it was announced today by Ross Greenburg, president, HBO Sports. Debuting SATURDAY, AUG. 27 (10:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), the series will [...]

By Eric Thomas: Fellow Hayemaker fighter George Groves, who currently holds down the British and Commonwealth super middleweight domestic titles, figures that IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) is in big trouble on Saturday night against WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s). Groves sees Haye beating Wladimir and taking his two [...]

By William Mackay: David Haye’s WBA heavyweight title may not be on the line for Saturday’s clash with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko due to Haye and his camp not being happy with the choice of the referee working the fight. According to fight news, referee Genaro Rodriguez is slated to work Saturday’s fight.

By Dan Ambrose: If WBA heavyweight champion David Haye wants to fight WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko after Haye’s fight against his brother IBF/WBO heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko this Saturday then Haye will have to forget all about retiring in October, because Vitali says he won’t be fighting him. Haye has said that unless Vitali fights [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is saying that Emanuel Steward, the trainer for IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, spoke to him about wanting to train Haye after his fight against Wladimir this Saturday night, according to thesun.co.uk. Steward would be training Haye for a fight against Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir’s older brother. Steward, [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): WBA Heavyweight Champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) unveiled the latest stage of his strategic plan to undermine IBF, IBO, WBO and Ring Magazine belt holder Vitali Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’S) at their joint press conference ahead of their Saturday night showdown. Haye and Klitschko will square off in Hamburg, [...]

WILLIAM HILL have taken bets from twenty different countries on the outcome of the weekend’s World Heavyweight title showdown between David Haye and Wladimir Klitschko – but punters from only one country outside of Britain have supported David Haye, while Klitschko has attracted support from all twenty.

Earlier this month, at the EBU General Meeting in Dublin, Ireland, the EBU Assembly voted that the Malta Boxing Commission become affiliated to the European Boxing Union.

London (28th June) Female First.co.uk met up with Tyson Fury ahead of his British and Commonwealth title challenge against Champion Dereck Chisora.

Unbeaten German sensation Dominik Britsch (23-0, 8 KOs) has set his sights on his first major belt when he takes on Ryan Davis (23-8-3, 9 KOs) for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Intercontinental Middleweight Title in Munich on July 16. The gifted 23-year-old, who has twice fought on Super Six World Boxing Classic undercards [...]

Matthew Macklin hopes that the uproar surrounding his controversial points defeat to World Boxing Association (WBA) World Middleweight Champion Felix Sturm in Germany at the weekend will decrease the chances of David Haye suffering a similar fate against Wladimir Klitschko in Hamburg this Saturday.

Tony Bellew says that he will never be better than John Conteh, but he aims to carve out his own niche at light-heavyweight.

LOS ANGELES, June 28 – Antonio Tarver’s next bout, against International Boxing Organization (IBO) cruiserweight champion Danny Green, will be dedicated to Nick Charles, his former colleague at SHOWTIME Sports. Charles passed away on Saturday, June 25, after a long and inspirational fight against cancer.

BRITISH prospect Tyson Fury believes International Boxing Federation (IBF)/World Boxing Organization (WBO) heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has the mental strength to defeat World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champ David Haye and unify the heavyweight division when the pair lock-horns in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday.

June 28, 2011 – By José Sulaimán: Who do you believe, your eyes or me ? I feel to be a citizen of the world in boxing, but a mexican in other sports. I was overwhelmed with the victory of our National soccer team -17 years old – over Holland and also with the great [...]