Archive for June, 2011

By Alexis Aviles: Boxing in the summer is usually the slow point of the year gearing you for the more anticipated fights happening later in the fall. A year ago the most we got was Juan Diaz vs Juan Manuel Marquez in their second fight, which failed to live up to their first fight. We [...]

By Rasheed Catapang: Return of the King… Many are called but only a few are chosen. In the end, the victim must fit the profile. And so, Mayweather finally broke his long hiatus to face another willing sacrifice, the welterweight title holder Victor Ortiz. In a sleight of hand, the self-proclaimed King is relevant again.

By Eric Thomas: The now slender heavyweight contender Chris Arreola (32-2, 28 KO’s) will be facing 39-year-old journeyman fighter Friday Ahunanya (24-7-3, 13 KO’s) next month in a scheduled 10 round stay busy fight at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Arreola, 30, is currently ranked #2 WBC, #5 IBF, #12 WBO, #15 [...]

LAS VEGAS (June 22, 2011) – KZ Event Productions announced today that World Boxing Association/International Boxing Association Light Heavyweight World Champion Beibut Shumenov will make his third title defense July 29, showcased on TeleFutura’s Solo Boxeo Tecate show, live from South Point Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.

18 year old Charlie Edwards led the charge as four boxers from Great Britain secured a medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Ankara. In his first senior International since joining GB Boxing’s Podium Squad, the Croydon teenager defeated Jose Kelvin Nevin of Spain to secure a place in Thursday’s semi-finals and guarantee at [...]

London (22 June 2011) With just over 4 weeks to go till the biggest domestic clash of 2011, British and Commonwealth Heavyweight champion Dereck “Del Boy” Chisora has told Hennessy Sports that he is looking forward to defending his titles against challenger Tyson Fury live on Channel 5. “I was worried that it might not [...]

WORLD BOXING COUNCIL NEWS June 22, 2011 – Mexico City. From the office of WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán: The following is one of the weekly “Hook to the Body” columns by WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán that are published in El Universal every Sunday. From June 19, translated from Spanish:

ANTONIO TARVER PREPARES FOR WAR WITH DANNY GREEN Danny Green vs. Antonio Tarver – July 20 – Sydney Entertainment Centre – Sydney, Australia “I know he’ll be trying to knock me out something that’s never been done before – and vice versa. I’m going to try to knock him out too, so I think with [...]

“North ‘n South” rivals John Murray and Kevin Mitchell are divided on everything to do with their big showdown next month, but they are united on one thing – that David Haye will KO Wladimir Klitschko.

Richard Towers fights on the undercard on Kell Brook v Lovemore N’dou on Saturday live on Sky Sports – another step in the remarkable turnaround in his life.

HBO’s hit late-night boxing franchise goes back to Missouri for an action-packed tripleheader when DEVON ALEXANDER VS. LUCAS MATTHYSSE, TAVORIS CLOUD VS. YUSAF MACK AND BERMANE STIVERNE VS. RAY AUSTIN is seen SATURDAY, JUNE 25 at 9:45 p.m. (live ET/ taped-delayed PT), from The Family Arena in St. Charles, exclusively on HBO. The HBO Sports [...]

Ricky Burns expects to see the best of Nicky Cook next month – but still plans on sending him into retirement. World Boxing Organization (WBO) World Super-Featherweight champion Burns takes on Cook at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Saturday 16th July, live on Sky Sports 1HD.

Undefeated cruiserweight contender Ryan “The Irish Outlaw” Coyne (16-0, 6 KOs) expected to have his dreams come to fruition on Saturday night when he was scheduled to face Guillermo Jones for his World Boxing Association (WBA) World cruiserweight championship. Coyne’s dream was put on hold when Jones pulled out of the fight citing that he [...]

By William Mackay: Freddie Roach is once again making an outrageous prediction, this time with his prediction that his fighter WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) is going to destroy IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah (41-6, 28 KO’s) in the early rounds of their fight on July 23 at the Mandalay [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Marcos Maidana (30-2, 27 KO’s) and Robert Guerrero (29-1-1, 18 KO’s) will be fighting for Amir Khan’s World Boxing Association World light welterweight title after the WBA made Khan the Super World Boxing Association light welterweight champion recently, and that’s the belt Khan will be defending on July 23 against IBF light [...]

By Jason Kim: Number #7 ranked WBA middleweight contender Matt Korobov (15-0, 9 KO’s) faces Lester Gonzalez (12-3-2, 6 KO’s) on the undercard of Brandon Rios vs. Urbano Antillon bout on July 9th at the Home Deport Center in Carson, California. If the 28-year-old Korobov beats Gonzalez then his manager Cameron Dunkin is going to [...]

Three-time middleweight champion FELIX STURM (35-2-1, 15 KOs), of Germany, makes his 10th defense of his World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight title against top-rated contender MATTHEW “Mack the Knife” MACKLIN (28-2, 19 KOs), of the UK, This Saturday! June 25. It will be televised Live to the U.S., from the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, [...]

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Fifty-seven boxers recorded second round victories on Tuesday night to advance on to the critical quarterfinal round. All of the winners in the 13 Olympic weight classes in Wednesday’s competition will earn berths into the U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) wants two more fights in 2011 – IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah and possibly WBC/WBO light welterweight champ Timothy Bradley – and then Khan wants to face the winner of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz in September. [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Big 6’9″ heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury sees IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) easily beating the smaller 6’2″ 210 lb WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) next month at the Imtech Arena in Hamburg, Germany. Fury believes that Wladimir has already been in with similar small and quick [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former IBF/WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-1, 13 KO’s) will be looking to impress the doubters on Saturday night against Argentinian Lucas Matthysse (28-1, 26 KO’s) at the Family Arena in Saint Charles, Missouri. Alexander was beaten in his last fight against WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley and a lot [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): It has been reported in the Philippine Star that Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s), the man who has won multiple world titles in eight different weight divisions, says that his inspiration and source of power is where he came from and the manner in which he grew up. Manny grew [...]

By William Mackay: One thing you got to like about WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 Ko’s), he’s always been pretty transparent about what he plans on doing both in the ring and out of it. Before his fight with John Ruiz, he said he was going to go out and try crush him [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (37-2, 32 KO’s) will reportedly be looking to fight a tune-up bout in August to help get Pavlik ready for a possible big money fight against someone like IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute later on before the end of the year. Pavlik, 29, has only [...]

WEIGHTS FROM NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Ossie Duran 160 – Latif Mundy 160 (USBA Regional Middleweight Title)

As unbeaten Mike Jones, of Philadelphia, PA, who is 24-0, 18 K0s, and is ranked the #1 welterweight in the world behind World Boxing Organization (WBO) champion Manny Pacquiao, prepares to meet Raul Munoz (21-13-1, 16 KOs), of Leon, Mexico, on Saturday, June 25, at South Philly Arena, he has had an excellent training camp. [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is looking for an opponent for his fighter WBC welterweight champion Saul Alvarez’s next fight on September 17th after Alvarez was impressive in beating number #3 ranked World Boxing Council contender Ryan Rhodes by a 12th round knockout last Saturday night.

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Several of the United States’ top Olympic hopefuls put on a show on the second day of action at the USA Boxing National Championships in Colorado Springs, Colo. Forty-five bouts of action in eight weight classes were contested in Tuesday’s afternoon action.

By Scott Gilfoid: Number #2 ranked WBO welterweight contender Kell Brook (23-0, 16 KO’s) continues his incredibly slow climb to the top on Saturday night when he faces the nearly 40-year-old Lovemore N’dou (48-12-2, 31 KO’s) in a scheduled 12 round bout for the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) Inter-Continental welterweight title at the Hillsborough [...]

By Jason Kim: Wladimir Klitschko’s old trainer Freddie Roach sees WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) as the fighter should be favored to win this fight on July 2nd because of Haye’s “Explosive power,” according to the Telegraph. Roach previously trained Wladimir for four fights years ago and is well aware of his [...]