Archive for September, 2011

Bantamweight prospect Michael Ruiz Jr. takes a step up in class tomorrow night as he vies for his first professional title against fellow unbeaten Jonathan Arrellano in the eight-round main event at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, California. The fight, which will air at a later date on Fox Deportes, takes place at 121-pounds and [...]

New York, NY – (9/22/2011) – On Saturday, October 1st, DiBella Entertainment (DBE) will present “Noche de ‘Maravilla’: Martinez vs. Barker” featuring Middleweight Champion Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26KO’s) defending his WBC Diamond belt and Ring Championship against England’s undefeated European Champion “Dazzling” Darren Barker (23-0, 14KO’s), at Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, NJ. Opening up [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): The now former World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Victor “Vicious” Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) who lost to new WBC champ Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) last Saturday night by a controversial 4th round KO has never been a pressure fighter.

NEW YORK (September 22, 2011) – Unbeaten middleweight contender Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin recently gained invaluable experience during his three weeks in Colorado Sprongs training with members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Boxing Team.

By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) is finally opening his mouth to complain about his controversial 4th round stoppage loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) last weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ortiz was clobbered twice by Mayweather after dropping his hands to apologize for headbutting him.

Los Angeles, CA (September 22, 2011) – The hottest young prospect to come out of Brazil since the great “Popo” will make his initial showcased appearance on a major U.S. fight card on Saturday night, October 29, in Atlantic City.

By William Mackay: Frank Warren Promotions has packaged the Michael Katsidis vs. Ricky Burns (32-2, 9 KO’s) fight and the George Groves vs. Paul Smith fights on one card on November 5th at the Wembley Arena. Katsidis-Burns was supposed to take place at the Kelvin Hall in Glascow, Scotland on November 12th.

President’s Report – September 2011: I was honored to supervise the Vitali Klitchko/Tomasz Adamek WBC heavyweight world championship in Wroclaw, Poland. While Adamek did his best, he was was no match for the champion.

Woodhaven, New York (September 22, 2011) – Local Promoters, Old World Boxing Promotions, Universal Boxing NY Promotions and New Legend Boxing team up to present an action packed night of International Boxing this Friday at the Cordon Bleu in Woodhaven, New York.

By Jason Kim: A fight between WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (43-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (38-0-1, 28 KO’s) is reportedly being planned by Top Rank promoter Bob Arum for March 2012 at a catchweight of 158 lbs.

AN OPEN LETTER FROM CEDRIC “The Boz” BOSWELL Dr. Klitschko……Of course you know who I am. However, if you Have a memory lapse, my name is Cedric Boswell. I’m very sure you remember that we were scheduled to fight June 21, 2003 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles as the co-feature to the scheduled [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): WBA/IBF champion Amir Khan (26-1, 18 KO’s) will make the first defense of his International Boxing Federation (IBF) title against Lamont Peterson (29-1-1, 15 KO’s) most likely at the Washington, DC Convention Center on December 10. Details are still being worked out, but it is probable that cable giant HBO [...]

The cream of British boxing gathered at the Dorchester hotel in London on Tuesday night (20 September) for a charity dinner in honour of Michael Watson. Twenty years ago, Watson fought Chris Eubank at White Hart Lane for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) super middleweight title. Eubank won the fight in the final round, but [...]

Evander Holyfield has decided to relinquish the World Boxing Federation (WBF) World Heavyweight title in order to challenge Alexander Povetkin for the WBA “regular” World title in December. The legendary American informed this personally to WBF president Howard Goldberg.

Brooklyn-based Cindy “Checkmate” Serrano (15-3-2, 7 KOs) had her first shot at a world championship in 2005 when she fought to a draw with Rhonda Luna for the vacant WIBA Featherweight crown. Almost six years later she will get a second chance, as she travels to France to take on hard-punching reigning World Boxing Federation [...]

Undefeated #14WBC, #15WBO ranked Jr. Middleweight contender Demetrius Andrade (15-0 10KO) destroyed former 2 time World Championship challenger Saul Duran (38-19-2 31KO) by a third round TKO last night in the main event at the 10th annual “Fight To Educate” in Manchester, NH.

New York, NY – (9/22/2011) – On Saturday, October 1st, light heavyweight Isaac “Golden Boy” Chilemba (17-1-1, 8KO’s) will make his DiBella Entertainment (DBE) debut when he takes on Jameson Bostic (23-4, 13KO’s) in an eight-round light heavyweight match-up on the undercard of “Noche de Maravilla’” featuring Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez’ WBC Middleweight Diamond belt and [...]

LONDON, September 22, 2011: Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren and Boxing Channel Media are delighted to announce the launch of BOXNATION – a new, groundbreaking and innovative sports TV channel. The channel’s investors include Zoom Communications, South East Asia’s leading provider of broadcast services and facilities.

Patrick and Micki Nielsen will both be in action on November 5 on the undercard of the WBO Super-Middleweight Title clash between Mikkel Kessler and defending champion Robert Stieglitz. They will take on opponents to be announced. “I look forward to fighting at a packed PARKEN Stadium again,” Patrick Nielsen said. “It is going to [...]

Unbeaten Welterweight star Kell Brook has signed a sponsorship deal with sports clothing giant adidas – becoming their UK boxing ambassador.

By Scott Gilfoid: I don’t know why a lot of the Brits are frothing at the mouth about the match-up between WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (22-0, 11 KO’s) and No. 13 ranked World Boxing Organization contender Tony Bellew (16-0, 10 KO’s) on October 15th at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England.

By Dan Ambrose: On December 3rd, Showtime will be televising a rematch between IBF and WBC Silver Bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s) vs. Joseph Agbeko (28-3, 22 KO’s) at the Honda center in Anaheim, California. Also on the card, WBA Super World bantamweight champion Anselmo Moreno (31-1-1, 11 KO’s) will be defending his [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It doesn’t get any easier than this for WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KO’s) in his first defense of the recently created Diamond trinket against Britain’s Darren Barker (23-0, 14 KO’s) on October 1st at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

0921_victor_ortiz_tmz_EXVictor Ortiz tells TMZ, Floyd Mayweather screwed him out of a fair fight — catching him completely off-guard with a sucker punch … and now he wants a rematch.

GARY SYKES will be throwing an incredible 120 punches a round in Saturday’s (Sept 24th) British super-featherweight title defence against Gary Buckland.

By Babatis Banda: Victor Ortiz was brutally knocked out on the 17th of September by the super star, Floyd Mayweather Junior in the fourth round of their scheduled 12 round bout. From very early on, it was clear, Victor was headed for a lopsided loss, or indeed, a knock-out at some stage of the fight.

By Scott Gilfoid: I’m giving Paul Smith (31-2, 17 KO’s) an excellent chance of not only beating British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (13-0, 10 KO’s) but dominating him as well on December 17th at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England.

By William Mackay: Undefeated British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (16-0, 11 KO’s) thinks he can learn a thing or two from former Olympic Gold Medalist and former heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis in developing some skills.

By Chris Williams: UFC president Dana White was disgusted with how referee Joe Cortez lost control of last Saturday night’s mega match up between WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz and Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By William Mackay: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-1, 18 KO’s) is excited about all the mistakes he saw from Floyd Mayweather Jr. last weekend in his 4th round TKO win over WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz in Las Vegas, Nevada.