Archive for October, 2011

By William Mackay: WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) will be fighting in front of a nationwide audience on November 12th against 40-year-old Joel Casamayor (38-5-1, 22 KO’s) on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Scott Gilfoid: British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (13-0, 10 KO’s) can’t even begin to entertain the idea that is experienced challenger Paul Smith (31-2, 17 KO’s) could pull off an upset and beat him next week when the two Brits meet up on November 5th at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London, [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: 40-year-old Audley Harrison (27-5, 20 KO’s) is convinced that all he needs to do to get a world title shot is to beat the tall and sadly inexperienced fringe contender Tyson Fury (16-0, 11 KO’s) and that will get Harrison a world title shot against one of the Klitschko brothers of the [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Muhammad Ali’s career has been hashed and rehashed over the past several decades, but it’s fair to say that he was one of the top heavyweight champions of all time. In his fight with George Foreman in Zaire (The Rumble in the Jungle) Ali demonstrated his greatness, perhaps more so [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): It is ironic that another fighter who transcended boxing was Joe Louis’s close friend Sugar Ray Robinson, who is generally acknowledged by boxing historians and those who actually saw him fight as the greatest “Pound for Pound” fighter who ever lived. As a matter of fact the term “Pound for [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Dempsey’s popularity ushered in the modern era of boxing. His fights were the first fights broadcast on the new medium of radio and he achieved the first million dollar gate when his fight with Frances popular war hero Georges Carpentier drew in 1.7 million dollars on July 2, 1921.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s) who fights WBO and WBA lightweight champion Juan Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KO’s) on November 12 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas has transcended the sport of boxing.

PR BEST BOXING PROMOTIONS INC. “NOCHE DE CAMPEONES DIRECTV” “WBO Champions Tournament” Saturday, October 29, 2011 COLISEO MARIO “QUIJOTE” MORALES, GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO

BOB ARUM: I would like to welcome everyone to the conference call and I would like to particularly welcome Timothy Bradley to the promotional ranks of Top Rank. We also have Timothy’s manager. who has more world class fighters under his management than anyone else in the world, Cameron Dunkin. This starts what I’m sure [...]

October 28th IRISH AMATEUR BOXING ASSOCIATION THE Holy Trinity BC in Belfast registered a hat-trick at tonight’s U/21 Championships finals at the National Stadium in Dublin.

New York, NY – (10/28/2011) – Earlier this week, heavyweight contender Amir Mansour (15-0, 11KO’s), in search of an opponent for his upcoming bout on December 2nd in his home state of Delaware, reached out to DiBella Entertainment to see if their undefeated heavyweight, Kelvin Price (12-0, 6KO’s), would be interested in facing the self-proclamined [...]

By William Mackay: With the heavyweight division completely emptied out now that former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has been badly exposed and sent packing into retirement, WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) says he’ll fight only one or two more times before retiring from the sport.

By Daniel Echevarria: NOW finally after waiting over a month with tons and tons of speculation and rumors about the Sept 17 clash between Floyd Mayweather vs. Victor Ortiz PPV numbers they are in. Just moments ago according to Dan Rafael of ESPN sports Mayweather vs. Ortiz generated 1.25 million buys and $78.44 million in [...]

DOVER, Del. — Dover Downs Hotel & Casino announces the next Friday Night Fights series event on Dec. 2 in the Rollins Center. Ranked number eight in the world, Amir “Hard Core” Mansour returns with his amazing 15-0 record defending his World Boxing Organization (WBO) Title with whomever is brave enough to step up. In [...]

Franklin Lawrence 231 – Raymond Ocheing 246 Derrick Webster 168.5 – Teneal Goyco 171.5 Joey Tiberi 137 – Mike Maley 135 Alex Barbosa 121 – Brian Gonzalez 119 Anthony Young 145 – Kywame Hill 145

London heavyweight rivals Dereck Chisora and Larry Olubamiwo will put everything on the line next week at Wembley Arena as they aim to get their careers back on track. They clash in an eight-round contest on the undercard of Ricky Burns’ Interim WBO World Lightweight title challenge against Michael Katsidis, plus George Groves’ British and [...]

LAS VEGAS (October 28). Floyd Mayweather puts more meaning to his ring name “Money” every time he fights. With early pay-per-view numbers counted and confirmed, the pugilist’s recent STARPOWER fight against Victor Ortiz generated buys from 1.25 million homes with a value of $78,440,000 dollars in pay-per-view revenue. These numbers make the event the second [...]

MARTIN MURRAY will have the Army fighting his corner when he challenges World Boxing Association (WBA) super world middleweight champion Felix Sturm in December. The British, Commonwealth and WBA inter-continental champion meets the German idol in Mannheim on Friday December 2.

Oct. 28, 2011 – Leading up to the highly anticipated world welterweight title showdown between ring warriors Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez — set for Saturday, Nov. 12 in Las Vegas and presented live by HBO Pay-Per-View® — HBO Sports will present the exclusive replay of their first two encounters. The HBO2 service will [...]

Liverpool fighter banking on amateur pedigree in London tomorrow night Lee Jennings plans to prove the old adage that ‘records are just for DJs’ when he aims for glory in the Prizefighter Featherweights tomorrow night live on Sky Sports 1 and HD1 from 8pm.

CANASTOTA, NY – OCTOBER 28, 2011 – The International Boxing Hall of Fame announced its flags will fly at half-staff in memory of trainer Amilcar Brusa. He passed away yesterday. He was 89. 2007 Hall of Fame Inductee Amilcar Brusa.

By Ian Aldous: There is a battle currently raging outside the ropes as to who will be the next opponent of interim WBA World welterweight champion, Ismael El Massoudi (36-3). The dispute is between two former World title challengers, Dmitriy Salita (33-1-1) and Matthew Hatton (42-5-2).

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Unbeaten 23 year old British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (16-0, 11 KO’s) has openly acknowledged that he is not ready to face the Klitschko’s.

By Dan Ambrose: IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24 KO’s) has had things mostly his way for the past three years since first capturing the International Boxing Federation strap in 2008. Bute has dined on the mostly weak opposition that the IBF has ranked in their top 15.

By Sean McDaniel: Former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (32-5, 25 KO’s) is reportedly slated to fight on November 11th in a comeback fight at light heavyweight on BoxNation. There still isn’t an opponent picked out for the 31-year-old Maccarinelli, but you can’t expect too much for him.

By Scott Gilfoid: European Boxing Union (EBU) super middleweight champion James DeGale (11-1, 8 KO’s) was hoping he would get a rematch with British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves (13-0, 10 KO’s) after DeGale defeated EBU champion Piotr Wilczewski by a 12 round majority decision on October 15th.

By Chris Williams: Bob Arum, the promoter for both for former WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (21-0, 16 KO’s) and the current WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios (28-0-1, 21 KO’s), says he wants to match Gamboa and Rios up against each other sometime in 2012.

By Chris Williams: WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (27-1, 18 KO’s) is moving up in weight now to the super bantamweight division to look for the biggest fights t that weight class rather than moving up just little more to the featherweight division to take on the really talented fighters. Donaire’s Top Rank promoters are [...]

By William Mackay: Despite having fought mostly 3rd tier opposition during his brief three year pro career, British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (16-0, 11 KO’s) feels he’s ready to take on the winner of the December 3rd fight between WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin and his 42-year-old challenger Cedric Boswell. That fight will [...]

Friday, Oct. 28, Bally’s Grand Ballroom, Atlantic City, N.J. Live at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast) on SHOWTIME® NOTE: WEIGHTS (Oct. 27, 2011) – Brandon “Flawless” Gonzales (14-0-1, 10 KOs) of Sacramento, Calif., weighed in at 161.5 pounds and Ossie “The Ghanaian Gladiator” Duran (26-8-2, 10 KOs) of Paterson, N.J., 161 pounds [...]