Archive for September, 2011

INDIO, Calif. (September 23, 2011) – With a main event that featured a clash of former Olympians, and both fighters were seeking gold on Friday night at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif., fans were treated to an explosive six-fight card presented by Golden Boy Promotions and sponsored by Cerveza Tecate, DeWalt Tools and [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Making his first defense of his World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight title, Marcos Maidana (31-2, 28 KO’s) made easy work of Russian lightweight Petr Petrov (29-3-2, 13 KO’s) on Friday night, stopping the 28-year-old Petrov in the 4th round at the Sociedad Alemana, Villa Ballester, Buenos Aires. Maidana knocked Petrov down [...]

New York, NY – (9/23/2011) – Next Saturday, October 1st, Lou DiBella’s DiBella Entertainment in association with Matchroom Sport, and Caesars Atlantic City, presents “Noche de ‘Maravilla’: Martinez vs. Barker”, featuring the #1 middleweight in the world, and top three pound-for-pound fighter, Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez (47-2-2, 26KO’s) putting his World Boxing Council (WBC) Middleweight Diamond [...]

“THE LATIN SNAKE” LOOKS TO SPOIL THE COMEBACK OF “SHIBATA” FLORES NOVEMBER 4 BOUT AT FANTASY SPRINGS RESORT CASINO HEADLINES “SÓLO BOXEO TECATE” INDIO, Calif., September 23 – Southern California’s home for exciting boxing action, Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif., will once again be the host for an explosive night of fights on [...]

New York, NY – (9/23/2011) – There are few things in life that Sergio Martinez takes as serious as his boxing. His work with the anti-bullying “It Gets Better Campaign” Sergio Martinez is one of them. The middleweight champion, and top three pound-for-pound fighter in the world, who will be defending his title next Saturday, [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Top Rank CEO Bob Arum is furious with Golden Boy Promotions and its CEO Richard Schaefer. The reason for Arum’s ire is that Golden Boy has decided to go ahead with the International Boxing Federation (IBF) bantamweight championship rematch between current title holder Abner Mares and Joseph Agbeko on December [...]

BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO- Former double world champion Juan Manuel “Juanma” López and Mike Oliver weighed under the limit today at in the last pre weigh in for their bout in the show Triple Crown III next October 1st at the coliseo Ruben Rodriguez in Bayamon, in a PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP) and Top Rank, [...]

Originally Scheduled For Oct. 29, Organizers Actively Pursuing New Date NEW YORK (Sept. 23, 2011) – Andre Ward, the WBA Super Middleweight World Champion and Super Six finalist, sustained a cut above his right eye during a sparring session on Thursday, Sept. 22. As a result, the Super Six World Boxing Classic Tournament Final and [...]

By Allen Fox: WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward’s cut he suffered over his right eye on Thursday evening during a sparring session has Ward’s trainer Virgil Hunter baffled about it. Ward was reportedly wearing a full face guard during the sparring session and shouldn’t have have been in any danger of being cut, yet [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Bob Arum sees the December 3rd rematch between WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito going pretty much the same way it did last time they fought in July 2008, with Cotto hitting and running and Margarito stalking him continuously. Arum thinks that Cotto can win this time if he’s [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former British super middleweight champion James DeGale (10-1, 8 KO’s) has been sparring with middleweight Darren Barker to get ready for DeGale’s October 15th fight against EBU super middleweight champion Piotr Wilczewski (29-1, 10 KO’s) at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England. I think Barker will get more from the sparring to [...]

By Allen Fox: 35-year-old WBC light welterweight champion Erik Morales (52-7, 36 KO’s) is reportedly looking to get back in the ring quickly to defend his newly won World Boxing Council title in December in a fight that will be taking place in Mexico.

On September 24th, 2011, Knockout Promotions are proud to present “BAD BLOOD II,” another exciting night of boxing action at Emilianos Sports Bar in Houston, TX, top contender knockout artist Alexis Camacho from Monterrey, MX is scheduled to be on the main event. The co-main event will be a local cross-town rival war by battle [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Even when Top Rank CEO Bob Arum was promoting the fights for new World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champ Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) their relationship was anything but pleasant. The pair had an acrimonious split in 2006 and things have gone downhill ever since. Both parties continue [...]

INDIO, Calif., September 23- Some of California’s top young boxing standouts will show their skills at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif. tonight, Friday, September 23, with Coachella’s Angel Osuna, Los Angeles’ Raymundo Chacon and Cathedral City’s Adam Carrera all in action before former Olympians Vicente Escobedo (23-3-1, 14 KO’s) and Rocky Juarez (28-8-1, [...]

Below are the results of Thursday’s official weigh-in for Strikeforce: Larkin vs. Rossborough airing Tonight, September 23 at 11 pm ET, LIVE in Canada only on Super Channel, courtesy of Showtime. The event is headlined by undefeated light heavyweight striker Lorenz Larkin and lanky ground specialist Nick Rossborough and also features a lightweight bout between [...]

By William Mackay: Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye wants to show that he’s better than he was in his last fight against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. He says the loss was more due to an off night rather than simply him being outclassed and outsized by the 6’6″ Wladimir.

By Sean McDaniel: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s), is extremely upset with the news that WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) suffered a really bad cut in sparring yesterday that required seven stitches to sew up the cut.

Lausanne, Switzerland, 23 September 2011 – AIBA and WSB deny in the strongest possible terms that they accepted an investment from Azerbaijan in exchange for two gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics – or indeed for any improper purpose.

By William Mackay: Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) has doubts whether WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) is really interested in fighting him, as he’s not heard anything from Vitali’s management about a fight in 2012.

Super Six final likely for December date after Ward suffers cut eye in sparring Carl Froch’s Super Six final showdown with Andre Ward in Atlantic City on October 29 has been postponed after Andre Ward suffered an injury in sparring.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) will be seeking revenge when he takes on Antnonio Margartio (38-7, 27 KO’s) on December 3 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It was just over three years ago that Antonio scored an 11th round TKO [...]

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Mitchell Earns 67% of Votes from “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” Viewers aficionados via text message and Univision.com, Mitchell earned the title of the boxer with the most carácter, allowing him to enter the competition for the third “Cinturón Tecate” (Tecate Belt) of 2011 in sixth place.

British and Commonwealth Super-Middleweight Champion George Groves has been nominated the Best Young Boxer of the Year by the prestigious Boxing Writers’ Club for 2011.

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Following Michael Hunter’s (Las Vegas, Nev.) voluntary withdrawal from the 2011 AIBA Men’s World Championships, Joseph Williams (Queens, N.Y.) will represent the United States at the heavyweight division in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Olympic Champion James DeGale is taking inspiration from pound-for-pound best Manny Pacquiao as he looks to bounce back by winning the European Super-Middleweight title.

By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Sr. doesn’t see anything in Manny Pacquiao or Amir Khan, two of the names that are constantly mentioned as possible opponents, that would worry his son Floyd Mayweather Jr. Indeed, Floyd Sr. sees Mayweather Jr. beating Khan and Pacquiao on the same night.

By Sean McDaniel: Former EBU middleweight champion Matthew Macklin (28-3, 19 KO’s) will be watching the October 1st fight between WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and British challenger Darren Barker very closely, because Macklin wants to take on the winner of that fight in early 2012. Macklin suspects that it will be Martinez that [...]

By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum claims that blood and urine testing for a bout between his fighter Manny Pacquiao against Floyd Mayweather Jr. hasn’t been an issue for Manny for the past 18 months.