Archive for July, 2011

CHICAGO/NEW YORK (July 18, 2011)– In the main event for CFC Promotions “Chicago Fight Night #2” welterweight Lanardo “The Pain Server” Tyner improved to (25-4-2 15 KO’s) by defeating former world champion “Vicious” Vivian Harris (29-7-1 19KO’s) via Unanimous Decision thus capturing the vacant USBO welterweight champion. The official judges score cards read 97-93, 97-93 [...]

LOS ANGELES, July 18 – It doesn’t get hotter than a July night in Tucson, Arizona, and that will apply to the action in the ring at the Casino Del Sol on Friday, July 22, as TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” broadcasts a sizzling lineup of bouts featuring unbeaten junior featherweights Christopher Martin and Mark Salser [...]

PROVIDENCE – 2004 United States Olympian, and professional heavyweight, Jason “Big Six” Estrada has been given a clean bill of health to begin full training following surgery to remove five bone chips from his elbow. Estrada, a promotional free agent, is hoping to get right back in the ring and erase the memories of his [...]

By Dan Ambrose: World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s) has decided to take it easy for his 2nd title defense on September 17th and will be taking on welterweight Alfonso Gomez (23-4-2, 12 KO’s) in what should be an easy little fight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, [...]

London (18th July 2011) AN apologetic Tyson Fury has called on Dereck Chisora to “grow up” and start acting like a real man ahead of their British and Commonwealth heavyweight title fight on Saturday night (July 23rd) at Wembley Arena.

Paul McCloskey will fight at the Odyssey Arena live on Sky Sports on September 10 in a World Boxing Association (WBA) eliminator, with promoter Eddie Hearn is promising to announce an exciting opponent at tomorrow’s press conference (July 19).

London (18th July) HE says he’s the future of heavyweight boxing in Britain and on Wednesday Tyson Fury will be a panelists on The Wright Stuff and telling Mathew Wright why everyone in Britain should be watching Channel 5 at 10pm on Saturday night (23rd July) when he clashes with British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion [...]

Canada-based Romanian top-contender Ionut Dan Ion, AKA Jo Jo Dan, will fight Floyd Trumpet for the vacant Universal Boxing Organization™ Inter-Continental Welterweight title on July 29 at the Jean Pierre Sports Complex in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.

After a big weekend of cruiserweight boxing in Germany, the newly crowned IBF international and PABA cruiserweight champion Firat Arslan (who scored an impressive fifth round TKO victory over Lubos Suda on Friday) called out World Boxing Organization (WBO) world champion Marco Huck (who stopped Hugo Hernan Garay in the tenth on Saturday).

LAS VEGAS, NEV. (July 18, 2011) – Chapter three of boxing’s best-selling rivalry goes on sale this week. The No. 1 pound-for-pound box office attraction and the Fighter of the Decade, MANNY “Pacman” PACQUIAO (54-3-2, 38 KOs), the lone congressional representative from the Sarangani province in the Philippines, returns to the Fight Capital of the [...]

SCOTT QUIGG insists his boxing career is ready to move onto the next level under new trainer Pat Barrett.

DOUBLE ABA heavyweight champion Danny Price has signed a three year managerial and promotional deal with Frank Maloney.

On Saturday July 23rd, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing will team up with the American Cancer Society to host a benefit at the Hunts Point Produce Market to “Knock Out Cancer”. All of the proceeds from the event will be donated to the American Cancer Society. The show will feature a number of up and coming [...]

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – May 17th– Today Antonio Tarver and International Boxing Organization (IBO) cruiserweight champion Danny Green had their final press conference at the site of the fight, the Sydney Entertainment Center. Both fighters were very respectful to each other, but also very confident about victory.

By David Kassel: For years Zab Judah has been one of boxing’s biggest attractions. The 33-year-old Brooklyn native is a box office mainstay and has been in the ring with some of the sport’s brightest talents. Nobody has ever questioned “Super” Judah’s ability. It’s Zab’s will and desire that have left fans craving more.

John Murray and Kevin Mitchell fought their hearts out on Saturday and it was a great encounter. John is a ‘no nonsense’ type of fighter and I do like his style; wearing his opponents down with constant pressure and, up until this with fight Kevin, he had always got his own way.

Quirky former Big Brother star Angel McKenzie is taking a break from her busy television schedule to travel to Spain this week, where she is determined to wrench World Welterweight Champion Mikaela Lauren’s coveted WPBF title from her grasp.

NEW YORK (July 18, 2011) – The stakes couldn’t be higher, the drama more intense. On Saturday, Oct. 29, two confident reigning world champions–one from America, the other from Europe–will collide in the eagerly awaited Super Six World Boxing Classic Final, a World Championship Unification, live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West [...]

Unbeaten Flyweight prospect Jonathan “Bomba” Gonzalez will fight for the fourth time since his pro debut last April, when he headlines with Juan Mercedes and Luis Joel Gonzalez the 5th edition of the series “A Puño Limpio” to be held at the Coliseo Mario “Quijote” Morales in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on Friday, August 5, in [...]

By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro: On Saturday night at the Echo Arena in Liverpool young guns Kevin Mitchell and John Murray had a true Western style shoot out.

A major fund raising dinner in support of ABF The Soldiers’ Charity will be held at London’s 5 star Grosvenor House Hotel on 17th September.

By William Mackay: The recently beaten Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) will be announcing who his next opponent will be for his September 10th fight at the Odyssey Arena. Dan Rafael from ESPN said that it could be Breidis Prescott that McCloskey ends up fighting. However, the talk is now that McCloskey won’t be facing [...]

By Jason Kim: IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah now understands that he should have never left the light welterweight division after suffering a loss to Kostya Tszyu in 2001. At the time, Judah was the second best fighter in the division and he would have still been the number #2 guy even after the [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KO’s) will be looking to score his 40th knockout of his career on September 10th against Polish heavyweight Tomasz Adamek (44-1, 28 KO’s) at the Stadion Miejski, in Wroclaw, Poland. Some boxing fans believe that Adamek has the skills to beat Vitali, while other fans [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: For a fighter that has only been boxing for five years, Curtis Woodhouse (15-3, 10 KO’s) has a heck of a lot of talent. I was really impressed with his performance against Frankie Gavin last Saturday night. I had Woodhouse winning that fight by a couple of rounds, but Gavin nicked it [...]

In preparation for his July 23rd world championship unification match against Amir “King” Khan on July 23rd at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas , Zab “Super” Judah hosted a media workout at H.I.T. Factory Boxing Gym in Las Vegas Nevada.

By Sean McDaniel: If you listen to WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan talk you’d think he’s already a legend in the sport of boxing. Khan likes to self-promote and the picture he creates for himself doesn’t exactly fit with the actual reality of how he’s performed in his fights.

Blaisdell Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States Brian Viloria UD 12 Julio Cesar Miranda WBO flyweight title

New York, NY (July 17, 2011) – Gunning for his third consecutive knockout, Captain Boyd Melson will have extra motivation when he battles Zach Schumach Wednesday evening at the Oceana Theater in Brooklyn, NY.

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) is expecting a tough fight this Saturday night in his unification bout against International Boxing Federation (IBF) light welterweight champion Zab Judah (41-6, 28 KO’s) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Khan sees Judah either coming at him and looking to slug it out or [...]