Archive for August, 2011

OAKLAND, Calif. (Aug. 24, 2011) – World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Middleweight Champion Andre Ward and World Boxing Council (WBC) Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch concluded their three-city international press tour on Wednesday formally announcing The Final of the Super Six World Boxing Classic LIVE on SHOWTIME®, Saturday, Oct. 29 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed [...]

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza sees Pacquiao being too much for the older Juan Manuel Marquez on November 12th in their fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ariza, not one to keep his thoughts to himself about Pacquiao, had this to say at fighthype.com: “Marquez is [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In one of the bigger mismatches in recent years, knockout artist Breidis Prescott (24-2, 19 KO’s) is being handed a little snack in the form of Irish fighter Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) on September 10th. The winner of the fight takes on WBA light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana in a fight [...]

Sampson Boxing LLC has joined forces with Boris Grinberg to create a new organizational division of the Sampson Boxing family in Russia and usher a new era of blood into the heavyweight division. A jubilant Lewkowicz stated: “The signing of “Mago” Magomed Abdusalamov to a long-term promotional contract represents the next future heavyweight champion. We [...]

By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. thinks Manny Pacquiao doesn’t want to fight him for some reason. Mayweather wants Pacquiao to stay in the U.S and train there while taking the random drug tests conducted by the USADA.

IRISH AMATEUR BOXING ASSOCIATION Ireland recorded a hat-trick of wins tonight to advance another three boxers into Thursday’s quarter-finals at the European Youth Championships at the Citywest Convention Centre in Dublin. Ireland team captain Michael McDonagh, Kieran Forde and Michael O’Reilly had their hands raised in victory.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): In the recent Saul Alvarez media day at Big Bear Lake, California “Canelo” took time out from training to field questions from reporters at his training camp. Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s) is training at Big Bear for his upcoming fight with Alfonso Gomez (23-4-1, 12 KO’s) on September 17 [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Light welterweight contender Robert Guerrero will go under the knife on Tuesday to repair the torn rotator cuff in his left shoulder, according to Dan Rafael. At the minimum, Guerrero will be out of action for at least four months, but it could be longer depending on how rehabilitation goes.

By Scott Gilfoid: Photo: Casino/Showtime – WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward isn’t amused with the mental games that WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch has been playing at their press conferences to promote their October 29th Super Six tourney finals fight. In the latest news, Froch has reportedly bumped Ward on more than one [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Things are starting to look a little bleak for undefeated British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (15-0, 10 KO’s) for his September 17th fight at the Kings Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. With a little over three weeks to go, Fury still doesn’t have an opponent to fight on that [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KO’s) is no longer even trying to disguise the fact that his fight against Poland’s Tomasz Adamek (44-1, 28 KO’s) on September 10th is a huge mismatch of epic proportions.

By William Mackay: If WBA light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (30-2, 27 KO’s) had his way he would be fighting Amir Khan (26-1, 18 KO’s) next or at least before the end of the year. Khan is scheduled to fight on December 10th, but he’s made it abundantly clear that he wants no part of [...]

LOS ANGELES, August 24 – The summer boxing scene is coming to a close, but when “Fight Night Club” returns to L.A. LIVE’s Club Nokia this Thursday, August 25, Golden Boy Promotions and AEG will be bringing the heat with five hard-hitting bouts that will keep Southern California fight fans cheering from start to finish.

The African Boxing Union celebrated its international convention in Zambia, hosted by Mr. Nelson Sapi of Zambia, with the attendance of all African countries where professional boxing exists on the continent.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): When the great Joe Louis fought challenger Tami Maurielli on September 18, 1946 he had already been heavyweight champion of the world for over nine years and was in the twilight of his brilliant career. It has been generally acknowledged by boxing historians that Louis was not the same fighter [...]

by Bradley Pearson: This Saturday saw the 46th win of Fernando Montiel’s professional career, as he staked his claim into the super bantamweight division with a bang. Montiel (46-3-2, 36 KO’s) sent his Nicaraguan counterpart Alvaro Perez (21-4-1, 12 KO’s) to the canvas with a combination in the 3rd round earning the stoppage victory in [...]

On Saturday, August 27th, Kevin “Kid” Rooney will make his Atlantic City debut when he meets New Jersey’s pro-debuting Carlos Perez at the Tropicana Showroom in the Tropicana Casino and Resort. Rooney-Perez is scheduled for four rounds in the jr. middleweight division, and will be one of the featured undercard bouts on Joe DeGuardia’s Star [...]

HBO Sports’ groundbreaking “24/7” reality franchise returns for its tenth boxing installment with the four-episode, all-access series 24/7 MAYWEATHER/ORTIZ. Debuting SATURDAY, AUG. 27 (10:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), the show follows boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather’s return to the ring against rising sensation Victor Ortiz as they prepare for their Sept. 17 welterweight title pay-per-view showdown at the [...]

London boxing promoter Mickey Helliet is bringing the original ‘Fight Night’ back home to one of the capital’s former hotbeds of professional boxing, the Elephant and Castle. He is launching the ‘Fight Night at The Coronet’ series, under his Hellraiser Promotions banner, starting on September 16th.

Following his sensational defeat of World #45 ranked Richard Turba last Friday, London based Dutch Cruiserweight prospect Mitchell Balker has rocketed into the top one hundred in the World Cruiserweight rankings, moving up from his previous #220 spot to #86.

By William Mackay: Unbeaten heavyweight David Price says he never received an offer to fight British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. There had been talk that Fury’s management had offered a fight to Price, but it looks like that’s not the case because Price is saying he was never contacted to fight Fury in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Badly burned with a poor decision in his last fight against George Groves, James DeGale (10-1, 8 KO’s) is vowing never to start slowly again in his future fights. DeGale is working on being more aggressive, cutting off the ring and taking the fight to his opponents much more than he did [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is still insistent on getting a 150 pound catchweight for his December 3rd rematch against Antonio Margarito. If that’s not enough, Cotto also wants Margarito to weigh no more than 160 pounds the morning of the fight, according to Steve Kim at maxboxing.com.

By Dan Ambrose: WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (43-0-1, 30 KO’s) will be going it alone for the most part after his trainer Alex Ariza reportedly refused to travel to Mexico to train Chavez Jr. for his September 17th fight against fringe contender Ronald Hearns (26-2, 20 KO’s) at the Palenque, Culiacan, Sinaloa, [...]

OAKLAND (August 23, 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 the final swing of their international press tour with the world via internet stream, live from Oakland, CA. The New [...]

By Glen Anglin: The sport of boxing has always competed against the ‘major’ sports for fans. Boxing had a larger share of fans in previous decades. Prior to the 1950’s when the NBA and NFL exploded onto the national scene, only baseball and college football were a greater fan draw than boxing.

Joe Fitzpatrick and Kieran Forde both claimed victories at this evening’s session at the European Youth Championships. But Thomas Conroy bowed out of the tournament after being stopped in round one by giant German super-heavyweight Florian Shulz.

NEW YORK (Aug. 23, 2011) – World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Middleweight Champion Andre Ward and World Boxing Council (WBC) Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch continued the three-city international press tour today in New York City to formally announce The Final of the Super Six World Boxing Classic LIVE on SHOWTIME®, Saturday, Oct. 29 at [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Carl Froch’s confidence seems to be going off the chart with some of his recent hyperbolic statements about his upcoming October 29th fight against WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward. I think confidence is a good thing to have up to a point, but Froch seems too confident for the limited talent [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Close friends Tony Thompson (36-2, 24 KO’s) and Eddie Chambers (36-2, 18 KO’s) have signed contracts to fight each other at Bally’s in Atlantic City on October 28. Both heavyweight contenders fight for promoter Dan Goossen. A rematch with heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is at stake for the winner.