Archive for July, 2011

Earlier today Dollis Hill, London, based American Super Middleweight Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Oshunrinde and Leicester’s Jahmaine Smyle came face to face for the first time ahead of their highly anticipated rematch, which headlines the Graham Earl promoted ‘Renaissance’ event at Liquid Nightclub, Gordon Street, Luton, on Sunday July 31st 2011.

HATTON Promotions super-featherweight star Gary Buckland will challenge Gary Sykes for the British super-featherweight title at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge Centre on Saturday 24th September.

Dazzling Darren Barker believes he can shock the world when he challenges Sergio Martinez for the Mexican’s World Boxing Council (WBC) Diamond Middleweight title on October 1 at the historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, live on Sky Sports.

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) is looking out on the horizon for his next potential opponent ahead of his fight this Saturday night against Tyson Fury (14-0, 10 KO’s).

By William Mackay: In case you haven’t already noticed, IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah (41-6, 28 KO’s) has put on a lot of news muscles for his fight against WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. This has [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Trainer Freddie Roach is really working up a lather bellyaching about how his fighter WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan is hurting him with body shots through Roach’s body pads while Khan is working out. Roach is talking highly about Khan’s power to the body, making it seem as if Khan is [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Welterweight Frankie Gavin (11-0, 8 KO’s) is blaming his awful performance last Saturday night against Curtis Woodhouse on fighting out of his weight class instead of looking at the possibility that he lacks the talent to run over good fighters like Woodhouse. Gavin will now be changing his diet and moving back [...]

By Dan Ambrose: If unbeaten WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr fights on September 24th it will be without the assistance of trainer Freddie Roach and strength coach Alex Ariza, who will be busy training the number #1 cash cow for Top Rank Promotions WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao for his November 12th fight [...]

Jermaine “Too Sweet” White (17-4, 9 KOs) was scheduled to fight Demarcus “Chop Chop” Corley for the United Boxing Organization (UBO) World Light Welterweight title last year, but the fight never came off as the promoter of the show decided to cancel the event last minute. Now, albeit not for the world title, White will [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KO’s) had to sit idly by recently and watch his younger brother IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko hog all the glory in an easy one-sided 12 round unanimous decision win over WBA heavyweight champion David Haye on July 2nd in Hamburg, Germany.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) who faces Zab Judah (41-6-0-2NC, 28 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, has struck back at the allegations made by Roger Mayweather that he is using steroids. Roger Mayweather is the uncle of Floyd Mayweather Jr., who [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Colombian knockout artist Breidis Prescott (24-2, 19 KO’s) is really hoping that WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan tunes in on September 10th when Prescott fights Paul McCloskey in an World Boxing Association light welterweight title eliminator bout at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) will be getting back in the ring after a year and a half out of action when he battles Sebastian Demers (31-4, 11 KO’s) next month in a 10 round bout in Oakland, California. Dirrell has been sidelined since being horribly fouled by Arthur Abraham in the [...]

By William Mackay: Kevin Mitchell (32-1, 24 KO’s) is riding high right now after his 8th round TKO win over John Murray last weekend at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England. It was a good win for Mitchell with him coming off a year of inactivity and a knockout loss in his last fight against [...]

By Dan Ambrose: No.1 ranked WBC/WBO heavyweight contender Tomasz Admek (44-1, 28 KO’s) believes he’s going to beat World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KO’s) with his speed instead of his power when they meet up on September 10th at the Stadion Miejski, in Wroclaw, Poland.

By Chris Williams: I’m not trying to take anything away from Manny Pacquiao, but I think the September 17th fight between World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-2-2, 22 KO’s) and unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr (41-0, 25 KO’s) will be a fight between the two best fighters in the welterweight division bar none.

By Jason Kim: Former light welterweight champion Antonio Tarver (28-6, 19 KO’s) fights for the first time this year against 38-year-old IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green (31-3, 27 KO’s) on Wednesday night at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia.

By Dan Ambrose: Former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-4-1, 28 KO’s) will be facing fringe welterweight contender Antwone Smith (20-2-1, 12 KO’s) on August 12th, according to boxing news from Dan Rafael.

July 19, 2011 – Mexico City. From the office of World Boxing Council (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 July 17, translated from Spanish:

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By Dan Ambrose: After three long years, middleweight contender Andy Lee (26-1, 19 KO’s) will finally be attempting to avenge his 7th round knockout defeat to Brian Vera (19-5, 12 KO’s) when he fights him on the undercard of the Sergio Martinez vs. Darren Barker fight at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

ORANGE, CA (July 19, 2011) – Friday night will be an evening which will determine the future for most of the featured fighters on this installment of Thompson Boxing Promotions “Path to Glory” card.

CHESTER, PA (JULY 19, 2011)—On Friday night August 12th, boxing returns to the beautiful Harrahs in Chester, Pennsylvania where crowd favorite Victor Vasquez will headline for a third time in a eight round Lightweight bout.

July 19, 2011: ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Classic will reair the main event of July 15’s edition of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights on July 20 and 22. The special will be the first non-regularly scheduled reair for ESPN’s Friday Night Fights.

NEW YORK, NY (July 19, 2011) – The reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) Diamond middleweight champion, reigning 2010 Fighter of the Year, and top three pound-for-pound elite fighter, Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez will return to the ring October 1 from historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KOs) will collide with the [...]

WHAT:“The Big Brawl” Professional Boxing Card WHO: BRITISH & COMMONWEALTH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS MAIN EVENT – 12 ROUNDS DERECK “Del Boy”CHISORA TYSON FURY

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) badly wants to fight the light hitting WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley as soon as possible. Khan sees that fight as validating him as the best fighter at light welterweight, even though Bradley might not even be as good as Lucas Matthysse [...]

It’s official! After 10 days of voting, Karen Franco and Monica Barco, have been selected by loyal Facebook fans to represent the city of New York in the nationwide search for the next Chicas Tecate. Karen received a resounding 35% of votes while Monica received an equally impressive 19%.

ROLLINS CENTER® Aug. 19 : Friday Night Fights, four championship titles Amir “Hardcore” Mansour vs. Dominick “The Southern Disaster” Guinn for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) North American Heavyweight Championship, as well as the NABO Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship, interim title. The NABO title will place the winner among the Top 15 heavyweights in the [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) sees WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) as all mouth and he plans shutting it on October 29th in their Super Six tournament finals bout at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.