Archive for July, 2011

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten Tyson Fury (14-0, 10 KO’s) faces British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s next Saturday night at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London. Fury, 23, recently created a great deal of controversy when he said he mentioned killing Chisora in the ring during a telephone conference call last week. [...]

By William Mackay: Lightweight Kevin Mitchell (32-1, 24 KO’s) reignited his stalled career last night with an 8th round TKO of number #2 ranked WBC contender John Murray (31-1, 18 KO’s) with an 8th round TKO in Liverpool. After the fight, Mitchell talked of wanting to avenge his defeat against Michael Katsidis from a year [...]

By Jason Kim: Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KO’s) might need to consider taking another tune-up fight to get ready for his November 12th bout against Manny Pacquiao after last night’s amusing joke of a fight against Likar Ramos (24-4, 18 KO’s). Marquez won the fight by a 1st round knockout after hitting the 25-year-old [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) thinks that he can become the number #1 fighter in Britain now that David Haye and Ricky Hatton are pretty much after thought. Khan faces International Boxing Federation (IBF) light welterweight champion Zab Judah next Saturday on July 23 at the [...]

By William Mackay: WBO super featherweight champion Ricky Burns (32-2, 9 KO’s) is eying a fight against No.1 ranked super featherweight Mzonke Fana (30-4, 12 KO’s) for the The Ring title. The title is currently vacant right now, but Burns, 28, wants to fight the 37-year-old Fana for the belt. I usually have a lot [...]

By William Mackay: Unbeaten Commonwealth light heavyweight champion Tony Bellew (16-0, 10 KO’s) will reportedly be the next opponent for World Boxing Organization (WBO) light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (22-0, 11 KO’s) later on this year.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Saturday nights fight between WBO, WBA and Ring lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KO’s) and World Boxing Association (WBA) interim champion Likar Ramos (24-4, 18 KO’s) turned into a farce. The fight, if you can call it that, was supposed to be a tune up for Marquez who [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I guess I should have smelled something was rotten to begin with when WBO super featherweight champion Ricky Burns (32-2, 9 KO’s) first signed the contract to fight the non-top 15 ranked Nicky Cook (30-3, 16 KO’s). It had mismatch written all over it even in the planning stages of the fight.

By Scott Gilfoid: Showing what a good one he is, World Boxing Organization (WBO) Inter-Continental lightweight champion Kevin Mitchell (32-1, 24 KO’s) promised to give the defeated John Murray (31-1, 18 KO’s) a rematch next year after Mitchell picks up a world title. Heck, Mitchell might as well have told Murray that he would fight [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Fresh off his impressive 8th round knockout of domestic fighter John Murray (31-1, 18 KO’s) last night at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England, Kevin Mitchell (32-1, 24 KO’s) is now targeting Australian fringe lightweight contender Michael Katsidis for a rematch. It was only last year that Katsidis blew Mitchell out with [...]

By Peter Wells: After Freddie Roach had slammed middleweight Sergio Martinez, saying that he doesn’t believe he has many boxing skills and boasted that his young sensation Peter Quillin would beat Martinez. Team Martinez have now shot back laughing off suggestions that Quillin is good enough to beat Martinez. They believe Roach should back his [...]

The 21-year-old Oliveira, rated No. 18 by the World Boxing Council, is a Brazilian native fighting out of Miami. “Sao Paulo Fight Night,” presented by MO Productions, was the third installment in a six-fight, two-year deal with Brazilian network giant, TV Globo.

By Peter Wells: We all felt frustrated after Murray-Mitchell was delayed for a week, and was shoved onto an already packed bill. It didn’t seem we needed any more big fights on the show, but then we realized ‘everything happens for a reason’. And wasn’t it a good job Murray-Mitchell was moved back a week.

By David Kassel: Juan Manuel Marquez did exactly what he intended on doing Saturday night versus Likar Ramos in his tune-up fight for Manny Pacquiao. Well, sort of. He got the victory which sets up a trilogy with arguably the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter this November. However Marquez got the victory via a 1st-round KO [...]

Sports Centre, Oldham, Lancashire, United Kingdom Lee Purdy TKO 5 Craig Watson BBBofC British welterweight title Denton Vassell PTS 6 Ronny McField

By Dan Henderson: Life is looking good for WBC super-middleweight champion and super six finalist Carl Froch as the 29th of October is fast approaching and looking to be a career defining fight against American and tournament favorite Andre Ward.

By Jim Dower: In somewhat of a foul plagued performance by World Boxing Organization (WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (33-1, 24 KO’s), he stopped number #15 ranked contender Hugo Hernan Garay (34-6, 18 KO’s) in the 10th round on Saturday night at the Olympia-Eissportzentrum, in Munich, Bayern, Germany.

Credicard Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil Michael Oliveira KO 6 Jose Soto

ATLANTIC CITY (July 16, 2011)—TONIGHT not only will Maurice Harris be defending his USBA Heavyweight championship crown against Derric Rossy but some of the best fighters of the last quarter century will be in attendance and will participate in a world wide internet webcast from Resorts in Atlantic City.

Cataño, Puerto Rico (July 15, 2011) – Golden Boy Promotions in association with Promociones Miguel Cotto and H2 Entertainment returned to Cataño, Puerto Rico tonight for “Electrizante,” a nine-fight event at the Coliseo Cosme Beitia Salamo. If you missed the live action or TeleFutura “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” broadcast, below is a summary of the results:

By John F. McKenna (McJack): It has been reported by the Boxing Examiner that long time HBO sports president Ross Greenburg has been sacked by the TV network cable company. Multiple news sources are now reporting the departure of Greenburg. Greenburg’s dismissal will be effective Monday, July 18.

By William Mackay: Unbeaten southpaw welterweight prospect Frankie Gavin (11-0, 8 KO’s) had to struggle to beat Curtis Woodhouse (15-3, 10 KO’s) by a 12 round split decision on Saturday night at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England. The final judges’ scores were 117-112, 116-112 for Gavin, and 115-114 for Woodhouse. I had Gavin barely [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: The excuse that George Groves’s team gave for not giving the talented James DeGale (10-1, 8 KO’s) a badly needed rematch was that Groves was moving on to bigger and better things after Groves won a controversial 12 round majority decision in May.

By Jason Kim: Robert Guerrero (29-1, 18 KO’s) is going into his August 27th fight against knockout artist Marcos Maidana (30-2, 27 KO’s) as the favorite to win when the two punchers slug it out at Guerrero’s home arena at the HP Pavilion, San Jose, California.

By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s) has picked out some more cannon fodder for his next fight in choosing fringe welterweight contender Alfonzo Gomez (23-4-2, 12 KO’s) as his next opponent on September 17th. The Alvarez-Gomez fight will be taking place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

By Eric Thomas: Boxing great big George Foreman (76-5, 68 KO’s) has his doubts about IBF/WBA/.WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) leaving much of a legacy when he retires from the sport someday because of the way that Wladimir fights so defensively.

By Dan Ambrose: Former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver (28-6, 19 KO’s) doesn’t plan on standing right in front of the hard hitting International Boxing Organization (IBO) cruiserweight champion Danny Green (31-3, 27 KO’s) next week in their fight on July 20th at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia.Tarver is a lot more mobile than [...]

By Scott Gilfod: Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye never did say how he broke his right baby toe before his fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko on July 2nd. Haye was beaten badly in that fight and never really was able to land many of his big right hands that he had promised [...]

By William Mackay: IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah (41-6, 28 KO’s) is looking really muscular and cut up for his July 23rd fight against WBA World light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) for their fight at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. In fact, this is the best [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Having now lost three of his last four bouts at super middleweight, Arthur Abraham (32-3, 26 KO’s) says he’s moving back down to the middleweight division where he previously held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) middleweight title between 2005 to 2009.