Archive for August, 2011

By Chris Williams: WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire is picking fellow countryman WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s) to stop challenger Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KO’s) between five to eight rounds when they fight for the third time on November 12th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Estonian super middleweight warrior Anton Sjomkin (13-4, 11 KO) will be on the road again on the 10th of September 2011, fighting 8 rounds against Mariusz Cendrowski (21-3-2, 8 KO) on Vitali Klitschko – Tomasz Adamek -undercard at the Megashow in Wroclaw, Poland.

By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten No.1 WBO ranked contender Adrien Broner (21-0, 17 KO’s) is eager to face WBO super featherweight champion Ricky Burns (32-2, 9 KO’s) in November so that he can expose him and take his World Boxing Organization title. Burns’ promoter Frank Warren met recently with Broner’s promoter Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy [...]

By Dan Ambrose: The undercard of the September 10th fight between WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KO’s) vs. challenger Tomas Adamek (44-1, 28 KO’s) isn’t one that is loaded with stars or recognizable fighters to the typical boxing fan for the fight that takes place at the Stadion Miejski, Wroclaw, Poland. It looks [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former two-time world champion Humberto Soto 56-7-2, 32 KO’s) was recently offered to fight WBA light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana on August 27th, but instead of that great fight, Soto has decided to take on trail horse Jose Alfaro (25-7, 22 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout on September 3rd at [...]

By Jason Kim: Undefeated heavyweight contender Robert Helenius (15-0, 10 KO’s) takes a slight step down fight against former WBO heavyweight champion Sergiy Liakhovich (25-3, 16 KO’s) next Saturday on August 27th at the Messehalle, in Erfurt, Germany. Helenius, 27, will be defending his WBA Intern-Continental and WBO Inter-Continental heavyweight titles.

On the non-televised undercard of the Hitz Boxing in Association with Banner Promotions’ Fight Night at the Horseshoe ESPN Friday Night Fights event on Friday, August 19 at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, former world champion Montell “Ice” Griffin (50-8-1, 30 KOs) of Chicago notched his landmark 50th professional victory with a hard-fought unanimous decision [...]

NEW YORK (August XX, 2011) – The hard-hitting World Champions in “The Final” of the Showtime Super Six World Boxing Classic Tournament, Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KOs) and Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KOs) will be sharing their U.S. swing of their international press tour with the world via internet stream.

The Irish Youth squad put the finishing touches to their preparations today ahead of the opening bell for the eagerly anticipated 2011 European Youths Championships. The Irish Amateur Boxing Association hosted Championships glove off at the Citywest Convention Centre in Dublin tomorrow. Over 200 talented young boxers from 38 nations will be competing in the [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Undefeated British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury’s September 17th fight in Belfast, Norther Ireland, is fast approaching and Fury still hasn’t come out and said who he’s going to be fighting on that date. The list of opponents are down to the light hitting Coleman Barrett (13-1, 2 KO’s), unbeaten Cuban [...]

This past Friday, August 19, a delirious crowd of more than 3,000 people watched an exciting night of Universal Promotions, in association with Gary Shaw Productions, boxing at the Juan “Pachin” Vicens Auditorium in Ponce.

By Dan Ambrose: September will see a pair of mismatches by WBC champions Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (43-0-1, 30 KO’s), the WBC middleweight champ, and Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s), the WBC junior middleweight title holder. Both Chavez and Alvarez are hugely popular in their native country of Mexico, and it doesn’t seem to matter [...]

By Chris Williams: Fernando Montiel (46-3-2, 36 KO’s) defeated Alvaro Perez (21-4-1, 12 KO’s) by a third round KO on Saturday night at the La Cetto Vineyard, in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. It was a good win but a weak opponent for the 32-year-old Montiel.

By Chris Williams: Former three division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KO’s) realizes that in order for him to be guaranteed of a win over WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s) he may have to knock the Filipino out on November 12th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s [...]

By Allan Fox: 46-year-old former WBC heavyweight champion Oliver McCall (56-11, 37 KO’s) defeated 2nd tier heavyweight Damian Willis (30-3-1, 23 KO’s) by a 10 round unanimous decision on Saturday night to win the vacant World Boxing Foundational International heavyweight title at the Houston Athletic Fencing Center in Houston, Texas.

By Dan Ambrose: No.2 ranked WBC junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (20-1, 17 KO’s) breezed through a badly over-matched Joseph Gomez (17-5-1, 8 KO’s) in stopping him in the 1st round on Saturday night to claim the vacant World Boxing Council Continental Americas light middleweight title at the Nido Sport Center in Mexicali, Baja California, [...]

1. You won your fight against former European Boxing Union & IBO champion Jason Cook in spectacular fashion at Wembley Arena on 23rd July. Did your strategy go to plan?

Paul Grahams Prospect Boxing are pleased to announce the signing of Scots based Maltese boxer Daniel MiCallef. Micallef currently has 2-0 record and makes his Prospect boxing debut there 10th of September show at Ayr Town Hall.

GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO – Before his travel to training camp, Mike Oliver, trained in Puerto Rico for his October 1st challenge against former two time world champion Juan Manuel “Juanma” Lopez in the show “Triple Crown III” to be held at the coliseo Ruben Rodriguez in Bayamon, in a PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP) and [...]

By Eric Thomas: Fernando Montiel (46-3, 36 KO’s) picked up an easy win on Saturday night, stopping little known Alvaro Perez (21-4-1, 12 KO’s) in the third round at the Cetto Vineyards in the Guadalupe Valley, Baja California. Montiel, 32, dropped Perez with a hard left hand that finished him. The fight was officially stopped [...]

WORCESTER, Mass. (August 20, 2011) – Hometown hero Edwin“La Bomba” Rodriguez remained unbeaten, stopping intra-state rival Chris Traietti in tonight’s Broadway Boxing main event, presented by DiBella Entertainment, in the 400th professional boxing show ever held at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts.

By Allen Fox: Former WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (26-2-1, 16 KO’s) could be facing International Boxing Federation (IBF) light heavyweight champion Tavoris Cloud (23-0, 19 KO’s) in December. Pascal’s promotional team is reportedly looking to make the fight with the 29-yer-old Cloud on December 17th at the Pepsi Coliseum, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

By Chris Williams: It seems like every time I read a post from one of Manny Pacquiao’s fans related to the upcoming September 17th fight between Victor Ortiz and Floyd Mayweather Jr. I see a lot of these fans hoping that Mayweather will lose to Ortiz. That really makes me wonder whether Pacquiao’s fans believe [...]

By Eric Thomas: Making his first fight in over a year, junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (20-1, 17 KO’s) destroyed a badly overmatched Joseph Gomez (17-5-1, 8 KO’s) in a 1st round TKO on Saturday night to capture the obscure WBA Continental Americas light middleweight strap at the Nido Sport Center, in Mexicali, Baja California, [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Ireland’s Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) is convinced that he’s going to be able to out-box knockout artist Breidis Prescott (24-2, 19 KO’s) next month in their WBA light welterweight eliminator bout. McCloskey, 31, is a slick fighter that likes to make his opponent’s miss and is counting on that attribute to [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-2-2, 22 KO’s) is still a little resentful of the bad press he got after he was stopped in the 6th round by Marcos Maidana. A lot of boxing fans and writers saw Ortiz as a quitter because of the way that the fight ended.

By Dan Ambrose: It was thought that the December 3rd fight between WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) and Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) was going to be taking place at the full 154 pound limit for the junior middleweight division.

By Danny Burns: 41 have tried and 41 have failed, to say newly crowned W.B.C champion vicious Victor Ortiz (29-2-2, 22 KO’s) is entering the dragons den come 17th September is an understatement. There standing in his way is future hall of famer Floyd Mayweather jnr (41-0, 25 KO’s). the man who calls himself “Money [...]

By Gerardo Granados: In the race to be crowned as the first ever Mexican fighter to achieve world titles in four different weight divisions only four warriors have a real chance to accomplish what Roberto Duran and Leo Gamez have done as Latin American fighters.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-2-2, 22 KO’s) who faces former Pound for Pound (P4P) king Floyd Mayweather at the MGM Grand on September 17 is brimming over with confidence.