Archive for June, 2011

By Jim Dower: In a loaded undercard of the Lucas Matthysse vs. Devon Alexander fight card at the Family Arena, Saint Charles, Missouri, IBF light heavyweight champion Tavoris Cloud (23-0, 19 KO’s) stopped #1 International Boxing Federation challenger Yusuf Mack (29-4, 17 KO’s) in the 8th round. Cloud, 29, making his fourth defense of his [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): WBC heavyweight champion Davie Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) told the Telegraph Sport on Friday that he could not be better prepared for his July 2 unification title fight showdown with IBF, IBO, WBO and Ring Magazine title holder Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s).

By Dallan O’ Donnell: In the worst display of judging I have ever seen, Mathew Macklin has been robbed of a certain world title by controversial and plain awful judging. One judge gave the bout rightfully to Macklin in an extremely close contest scoring it 115-113.

By Dallan O’ Donnell: Kell Brook cruised to a unanimous point’s victory over Lovemore N’Dou giving him the worst beating of his long career. Brook who has never been passed 7 rounds fought brilliantly for 12 despite not fighting for 6 months. N’Dou was brave but extremely lucky to survive the fight and was in [...]

By Sean McDaniel Unbeaten number #2 ranked World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight contender Kell Brook (24-0, 16 Ko’s) defeated the 39-year-old former IBF light welterweight champ Lovemore N’dou (48-13-2, 31 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK. Brook hurt the aging N’dou in the [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) says he’s in the peak condition of his life for his bout against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko on July 2nd.

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten German based heavyweight contender Manuel Charr (18-0, 10 KO’s) stopped British heavyweight Danny Williams (43-10, 33 KO’s) in the 7th round on Saturday night at the Lanxess-Arena in Cologne, Germany. The younger Charr kept the pressure on the 37-year-old Williams, punishing him with shots, hurting Williams in the 3rd round and [...]

By William Mackay: HBO analyst Larry Merchant doesn’t believe that WBA heavyweight champion David Haye will retire if he beats IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko next month. Merchant correctly points out in an article by Michael Marley at examiner.com that Haye would get millions of dollars to fight WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, and he [...]

By Gerardo Granados: In a recent interview on ESPN GOLPE A GOLPE hall of fame trainer Ignacio Beristain stated that both Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and Saul Canelo Alvarez were just good prospects and that the main Mexican TV networks should keep them by they own. When asked if both have future as world champions [...]

By Jason Kim: What we saw from Devon Alexander (21-1, 13 KO’s) in his last two fights is that he struggles if his opponents put continuous pressure on him and tag him with hard jabs, as Timothy Bradley and Andriy Kotelnik both did. Alexander won the Kotelnik fight by controversy in a 12 round unanimous [...]

By Dan Ambrose: ESPN2 boxing analyst Teddy Atlas was less than complimentary of unbeaten WBA junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez after watching Alvarez defeat Britain’s Ryan Rhodes recently. Instead of pouring praise on the young 20-year-old Alvarez or at least acknowledging out how good Alvarez is for someone so young, Atlas pointed out last night [...]

By Sean McDaniel: 37-year-old former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Danny Williams (43-9. 33 KO’s) will be facing undefeated Manuel Charr (17-0, 9 KO’s) of Germany tonight in a scheduled eight round bout on the undercard of the Felix Sturm vs. Matthew Macklin card at the Lanxess-Arena in Cologne, Germany. Williams has lost three out [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: As we’ve seen in a number of WBA heavyweight champion David Haye’s past fights, he can throw a mean rabbit shot from time to time. He also is deadly when he’s holding and hitting in the thick of things. I don’t think Haye tries to throw rabbit punches, but he shouldn’t be [...]

By Sean McDaniel: British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) may be the smaller man on July 23rd against the 6’9″ Tyson Fury (14-0, 10 KO’s) when they meet up at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London, UK. However, Chisora isn’t worried about anything that he sees from Fury and feels that he’ll [...]

By William Mackay: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) expects huge crowd of 10,000 Brits to flock to the Imetech Arena in Hamburg, Germany on July 2nd to give him support in his unification bout against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s). Whether 10,000 Haye fans show up or much less [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten heavyweight hopeful David Rodriguez (35-0, 33 KO’s) kept his unbeaten record intact with a crushing 3rd round KO of 35-year-old Owen Beck (29-8, 20 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Don Haskins Convention Center, in El Paso, Texas.

By Dallan O’Donnell: When Kell Brook takes on Lovemore N’Dou tonight in Sheffield for the vacant WBA intercontinental welterweight title we will witness another step in the long journey to the top for Brook. After never facing any decent opposition, N’Dou will be the most decorated fighter to face Brook. With undoubted talent, fast hands [...]

By Peter Wells: For some fighters they were born into the boxing world with 9 lives. Meaning if they lost their first world title shot it wouldn’t matter because the next year they’d get a second shot. This can sometimes be to do with age as they are still young enough to have another couple [...]

Frisco, Texas (June 24, 2011) – Tonight’s edition of “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” featured a six-fight event at the Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, Texas that was presented by Golden Boy Promotions. If you missed the live action or TeleFutura broadcast, below is a summary of the results:

By Dan Ambrose: Junior middleweight James Kirkland (28-1, 25 KO’s) looked a little sharper and more lean in beating Dennis Sharpe (17-8-3, 4 KO’s) by a 1st round TKO on Friday night in a two knockdown fight at the at the Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, Texas. However, Kirkland showed all the same defensive liabilities [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Just looking at how short WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is you can’t really give him any chance to beat IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko on July 2nd. Haye lacks the arm length and can’t jab to save his life. We’re talking about a guy that struggled to beat Monte Barrett, John [...]

By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is considering unbeaten welterweight contender Mike Jones (24-0, 18 KO’s) as one of the possible opponents for Manny Pacquiao in 2012. Jones, 28, fights for the same promotional company as Pacquiao and this would be another in house fight for Pacquiao along the lines of his mismatches [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: The talented super middleweight contender James DeGale (10-1, 8 KO’s) is a strong possibility for a fight against former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (37-2, 32 KO’s) for a fight in the fall if Pavlik doesn’t wind up facing IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute. DeGale’s promoter Frank Warren wants the fight, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Argentinian Lucas Matthysse (28-1, 26 KO’s) is taking a big risk by agreeing to face former IBF/WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-1, 13 KO’s) in his own home town on Saturday at the Family Arena in Saint Charles, Missouri. Timothy Bradley wanted no part of fighting Alexander in Missouri and the [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32 Ko’s) will be fighting former two time light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson (30-1, 17 KO’s) on HBO pay per view (PPV) on October 15th, according to Steve Kim. It’s good fight but it’s unclear how well this fight will do on PPV, because [...]

By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says he would make a fight between his fighter WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez right now, according to ESPN. Arum says he would forget about Chavez Jr. facing his next opponent, which is slated to be Peter Manfredo [...]

By Jim Dower: in a couple of bad mismatches on Friday night, James Kirkland (28-1, 25 KO’s) destroyed little known Dennis Sharpe (17-8-3, 4 KO’s) by a 1st round knockout at the Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, Texas. Kirkland, who was coming off a 1st round knockout loss of his own, blitzed Sharpe early in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: For some reason WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is complaining about the referee for his July 2nd fight against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. The word is Haye isn’t pleased that the referee, Genaro Rodriguez, has worked on four of Wladimir’s fights in the past. I don’t see what the big deal [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: The UK’s Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) has a pretty much impossible task of facing WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. I wish I could give the 29-year-old Macklin a real chance at winning this fight but I can’t. [...]

By Jim Dower: To no great surprise, lightweight contender John Molina (22-1, 18 KO’s) stopped journeyman Robert Frankel (28-11-1, 5 KO’s) when Frankel failed to come out for the 6th round on Friday night at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California. Molina cut up Frankel’s face with some big shots and had him [...]