Archive for September, 2011

Kissimmee, FL: All Star Boxing, Inc, Promoter Tuto Zabala, Jr. and Telemundo Network will celebrate the 10th Anniversary in Kissimmee, FL of the successful series “Boxeo TELEMUNDO Ford” at the Kissimmee Civic Center on Friday, October 14.

MEMPHIS, TN – Prize Fight makes a triumphant return on October 1st as it presents the latest installment of “Fights at the Fitz” from the Grand Ballroom at Fitzgerald’s Hotel & Casino in Tunica, MS. There have been many first class line ups featuring many world class boxers during the impressive seven year run of [...]

Atlantic City, NJ—World-ranked Garrett Wilson, the poster boy for good fighters with bad records, makes the first defense of his USBA cruiserweight title when he faces Chuck Mussachio in the scheduled 12-round main event Saturday evening, Nov. 19, in the Grand Ballroom at Bally’s Atlantic City. First of seven fights will be 7.30 pm.

GARY BUCKLAND is bidding to become the second fighter from his gym inside a week to claim a British title. Hatton Promotions’ Cardiff fighter challenges Gary Sykes for the British super-featherweight championship at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge Arena on Saturday night (Sept 24)

NEW YORK (Sept. 20, 2011) – World Boxing Council (WBC) No. 1-ranked super lightweight contender Olusegun Ajose will face No. 6-ranked Ali Chebah in a WBC super lightweight eliminator on Friday, Sept. 30, in the main event on ShoBox: The New Generation LIVE on SHOWTIME® at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast) from [...]

Internet sensation Usman Ahmed will get the chance to make a name for himself in the right way as he joins the line-up for Prizefighter Super Flyweights at Liverpool Olympia on Wednesday October 12, live on Sky Sports.

London (20 September) PROMOTER Mick Hennessy has come out and ridiculed any suggestion from Mike Perez that he deserves a shot at British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.

Check out this YouTube video comparing the merits of Mike Perez and Tyson Fury:

Steve O’Meara aims to take inspiration from pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jnr when he steps into the ring for his Southern Area light middleweight title bout against Ryan Toms. O’Meara features as chief support to the Commonwealth Super-Featherweight clash between Liam Walsh and Paul Appleby at the York Hall, Bethnal Green on Friday 30th September.

By William Mackay: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan thinks Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) was in the right for sucker punching former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) twice while Ortiz was pulling back from a hug that he had just given Mayweather. Khan thinks it’s okay that Mayweather did that.

By Chris Williams: In response to Floyd Mayweather Jr. saying he doesn’t need to fight Manny Pacquiao when asked about the Filipino star at the Mayweather-Ortiz post fight press conference, Freddie Roach, the trainer for Manny Pacquiao, said Mayweather will live to regret it if he doesn’t fight Pacquiao before retiring from the sport in [...]

By Reni M. Valenzuela: A nation can only be as good as its media. While any sport cannot be any better than the scribes who mold the minds of its constituencies. Particularly the “influential” and “respected” opinion writers who are in privileged positions to be read by millions.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): When now former WBC welterweight champion Victor “Vicious” Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) lost it Saturday night and charged into new champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather (42-0, 26 KO’s) head first was he having a meltdown?

Hollywood, FL–What is the future of boxing? For years, self-professed prognosticators predicted its inevitable extinction due to avaricious promoters, self-involved fighters and corrupt sanctioning bodies.

By Gerardo Granados: Once up on a time Fighters fought to win and to defeat his opponent beyond any doubt, now it looks like many boxers are all in just for the money.

George Benton, one of the best never to win a world title, especially at a time when world titles meant something, passed away Sept. 19, 2011, at the age of 78. Promoter J Russell Peltz, International Boxing Hall of Fame class of 2004, recalls his days with The Mayor of North Philadelphia.

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s interesting to see WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) looking past his October 29th Super Six tournament finals bout against WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) and dreaming of a rematch against Mikkel Kessler.

By Kirill Davydov: Looking at the build up of Floyd Mayweather’s last fight against Victor Ortiz reminds me of all the hype back in the days before watching a Naseem Hamed fight. To say the least, these are my two favorite boxers of all time.

By William Mackay: WBA World light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (30-2, 27 KO’s) will be making his first defense of his World Boxing Association title this Friday night against Russian Petr Petrov (29-2-2, 13 KO’s) at the Sociedad Alemana Villa Ballester, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Floyd Mayweather’s famous dad is in his son’s corner — telling TMZ, there was nothing underhanded about Floyd’s sucker punch victory on Saturday … adding, “The fight was 100% fair.”

By Darren Barcomb: The Tommy Morrison saga took another strange turn recently as the Duke was arrested in Tennessee on an outstanding fugitive warrant from Kansas. After a stay in a Tennessee jail, Morrison has now been transferred to Sedgwick County, Kansas to face drug charges stemming back to a 2010 arrest.

CORK, Ireland (September 19, 2011) – Former European and Prizefighter super bantamweight champion Willie “Big Bang” Casey returned to the ring last Saturday night in Belfast, stopped veteran Daniel Kodjo Sassou in the eighth round of their fight on the Tyson Fury-Nicolai Firtha card in famed King’s Hall.

By Allen Fox: It looks like IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) is really scraping the bottom or the barrel with his selection of the 39-year-old former cruiserweight champion Jean Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO’s) to fight on December 10th at the ESPRIT arena, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

By Chris Williams: Former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KO’s) is looking past his next scheduled fight on October 1st against unbeaten middleweight contender Darren Barker (23-0, 14 KO’s) at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): After two weeks of training in Manila, World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s) is looking forward to the high altitude training in Baguio City to begin. With much of the rust already shaken off Manny’s strength and power are starting to come back.

New York, NY – (9/19/2011) – On Saturday, October 1st, DiBella Entertainment (DBE) will present “Noche de ‘Marvilla’: 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 Dan Ambrose: Referee Joe Cortez was quick to point out that it wasn’t his fault that former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz wasn’t ready to keep fighting after Cortez took a point away from Ortiz last Saturday night in the last seconds of Ortiz’s fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the MGM Grand in [...]

By Gerardo Granados: Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda – Boxing organization rankings are tricky, you can see some absurd rankings all the time, it is not new and maybe it will never change. But can the WBC ranking of Cano on number twelve legitimize Morales as an “authentic” four weight division champion?

By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro: On Sunday afternoon Miranda Carter and Bruce Baker co-promoted their first event of the new season – Great Expectations – at York Hall in the heart of the East End of London.

By Scott Gilfoid: After surviving a scare against the slow molasses journeyman Nicolai Firtha last weekend, unbeaten British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (16-0, 11 KO’s) is eying another easy mark, this time against the light-hitting, slow punching 34-year-old Canadian heavyweight Neven Pajkic (16-0, 5 KO’s) for his next fight. Fury is really setting [...]