Archive for October, 2011

Who: Main event participants: Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez, Will “Power” Rosinsky, Co-featured fighters: Gabriel “Tito” Bracero, Daniel Sostre, and the rest of the undercard for “Octoberfist: Fight Night Done Right”.

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios (28-0-1, 21 KO’s) will be defending his World Boxing Association title for the second time on December 3rd against John Murray (31-1, 18 KO’s) in what promises to be an easy title defense at the Madison Square Garden, New York, New York. I can’t think of an [...]

By Joel Aybar: NEW YORK, NY — New York’s own 26 year old Will Rosinsky 14-0-0 8 KO’s will lace up the gloves in a battle of undefeated records against boxing prospect Edwin Rodriguez 19-0-0 14 KO’s of Massachusetts by way of the Dominican Republic.

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao is tired of the nickname “Mexicutioner” that has been given to him by lovesick fans and he doesn’t want that moniker stuck on him.

By Scott Gilfoid: British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (13-0, 10 KO’s) faces a tough test in former British super middleweight champion Paul Smith (31-2, 17 KO’s) next month on November 5th at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London, England.

By Allen Fox: Former heavyweight title challenger Eddie Chambers (36-2, 18 KO’s) experienced tightness in his back while training for his October 28th IBF elimination bout against Tony Thompson (36-1, 24 KO’s) and he won’t be able to fight on that date.

By Scott Gilfoid: If you saw WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly’s close 12 round majority decision win over challenger Tony Bellew (16-1, 10 KO’s) last Saturday night you would think the last thing that Cleverly needs to be doing is trying to move forward to fight WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson or 46-year-old [...]

By William Mackay: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan complains things aren’t like they used to be with WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao ever since talk started about Khan being a possibility for Pacquiao in 2012. Khan, who has been training with Freddie Roach in the same camp as Pacquiao, says that Pacquiao’s people seem [...]

By Kasim Aslam: British lightweight boxer Kevin Mitchell (32-1, 24 KO’s) last night challenged Paul Malignaggi (30-4, 6 KO’s) to a showdown on social networking site twitter. Mitchell, looking for an opponent after a TKO decision against fellow country man John Murray decided to try and get under the skin of Malignaggi through various tweets [...]

LOS ANGELES, October 19 – Two prestigious WBC title belts will be on the line at the Gimnacio Luis Estrada Medina in Guasave, Mexico on Saturday, October 22 when Guasave’s Mario Rodriguez meets Colombia’s Karl Diaz for the WBC Youth Light Flyweight championship and Mazatlan’s Pedro Guevara takes on Jorge Estrada for the vacant WBC [...]

ATLANTIC CITY (October 19, 2011)-This Thursday and Friday, boxing fans can meet the main event fighters for this coming Saturday night’s boxing card at the Tropicana Casino & Resort.

World Boxing Organization (WBO) president Francisco “Paco” Valcarcel announced today that great trainer Emanuel Steward will lead a seminar to Puerto Rican trainers next Wednesday, October 26, as part of the 24th WBO Annual Convention to be held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Isla Verde, Carolina, Puerto Rico from October 24 to October 29.

By Scott Gilfoid: It looks like WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) is leaving the UK to move to the United States to continue his career here. This must be sad news for British fans, but I guess I don’t blame Froch. It’s taken him ages to become a star there, while [...]

Mashantucket, CT/New York, NY – (10/19/2011) – This Friday, October 21, DiBella Entertainment will present “Octoberfist: Fight Night Done Right”, an exciting nine-bout cardfrom the beautiful MGM Grand at Foxwoods. The event will be co-headlined by a sizzling super middleweight showdown between Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez (19-0, 14KO’s) and Will “Power” Rosinsky (14-0, 8KO’s), and [...]

by the European Boxing Association – EBA – Undefeated ALEXANDER USTINOV will defend this Saturday, Oct. 22nd 2011, his European ‘EBA’ Heavyweight Championship against the strong Russian challenger DENIS BAKHTOV (33-6-0/23 KOs) in the city of Cherkassy, south from Kiev. It will be one of the strongest challenges so far for the European Heavyweight Champion [...]

October 19th – IRISH AMATEUR BOXING ASSOCIATION Katie Taylor is through to the semi-finals of the European Women’s Championships following a comprehensive victory over Ayzanat Hajiyeva of Azerbaijan in Rotterdam today.

By Jason Kim: Former two-time WBA super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (43-4, 25 KO’s) defeated Rigoberto Alvarez (27-4, 20 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision to captured the interim World Boxing Association junior middleweight title on Wednesday night at the Entertainment Centre, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The final judges’ scores were 114-113, 117-111 [...]

World Boxing Organization (WBO) Cruiserweight Champion Captain Huck (33-1, 24 KOs) could not believe his eyes when he met challenger Rogelio Rossi (17-2-1, 11 KOs) at today´s press conference in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Listed at two meters by BoxRec, the “Argentinian Giant” turned out to be much smaller than that. “Maybe he shrunk of fear,” Captain [...]

Nearly 20 years after beating Lewis, McCall continues chasing heavyweight dream PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Oct. 19th, 2011) – Even at age 46, Oliver McCall is as quick with his words as he is with his signature right hand, the same one he used to turn the heavyweight division on its ear in 1994 when he knocked [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s) is training incessantly for his showdown with WBO/WBA lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KO’s). “Pacman” and “El Dinamita” will face each other for the third fight of their Trilogy on November 12 at the MGM Grand Arena [...]

Promoter Turhan Altunkaya will present an intriguing match-up for the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) Intercontinental Cruiserweight title on Saturday October 22 at the Paul Horn-Arena in Tuebingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.

Ahead of his British Cruiserweight title challenge, against Rob Norton at York Hall in Bethnal Green this coming Friday, Streatham’s Leon ‘Solid’ Williams has inked a sponsorship deal with Harold Wood, Essex, based boxing equipment retailer Boxfit.

European champion targeting World title in 2012 Matchroom Sport are delighted to announce that European Middleweight champion Grzegorz Proksa has extended his promotional deal with the company.

Scottish middleweight Craig McEwan flew into Mexico City from Edinburgh this morning two weeks ahead of his 5th of November HBO televised showdown in Cancun with Brooklyn’s Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin. McEwan has agreed to spar with Mexico’s Alfredo Angulo who fights James Kirkland in the World Boxing Organization (WBO) light middleweight eliminator which tops [...]

Hall of Fame broadcaster Al Bernstein has joined the commentary team for the broadcast of the Logan McGuinness-Benoit Gaudet NABA super featherweight title match on Saturday, October 22. The match will be seen on Rogers Cable in Canada and on www.Boxingchannel.tv around the rest of the world.

LUCIAN BUTE VS. GLEN JOHNSON International Boxing Federation (IBF) World Super Middleweight Title Bout November 5th 2011, Colisee Pepsi, Quebec City

ATLANTIC CITY (October 19, 2011)-This Saturday night, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing will acknowledge National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with the use of Pink Gloves during a big night of boxing at the Tropicana Casino & Resort.

It’s a big weekend of action on the UK’s only fight TV channel, BoxNation (Sky Platform Ch. 456), starting on Friday (21st October) from the home of London boxing, the York Hall, Bethnal Green, when British Cruiserweight Champion Rob Norton defends his title against challenger Leon Williams in a battle of the big punchers.

Ricky Burns is eating for two as he heads into his big showdown with Michael Katsidis on November 5th at Wembley Arena. Burns, the former World Boxing Organization (WBO) World Super-Featherweight Champion, makes his debut at lightweight when he challenges the Australian dynamo for the Interim WBO World title, live on BoxNation (Sky platform Ch. [...]

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