Archive for October, 2011

By John F. McKenna (McJack): In an interview with RingTV.com five time “Trainer of the Year” Freddie Roach believes his fighter, pound for pound king World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s) would have a decided advantage over the defensive minded World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, [...]

Due to unforeseen circumstances regarding her proposed opponent, World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight champion Kaliesha “Wild Wild” West (14-1-3, 4KOs) will not be defending her title ON Saturday, October 29th, on the HG Boxing fight card slated for Colima, Mexico.

IRISH AMATEUR BOXING ASSOCIATION TJ Waite and Blaine Dobbins will raise the curtain on Friday’s National U/21 finals with an all-Ulster derby at Dublin’s National Stadium.

By Gerardo Granados: Photo credit: Alma Montiel – The World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez was accused by the IBF light fly weight champion Ulises “Archie” Solis to have assaulted him. In real life you don’t get to pick your opponent in case a street brawl surface, if you have been [...]

By Chris Williams: Freddie Roach says he wants to see the Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. mega fight happen right now while both fighters are still relatively in their primes. Roach didn’t seem as anxious for the fight to happen last year when Mayweather was agreeing to weight penalties, glove sizes, and purse splits.

Don’t Miss Big-Time Boxing’s Return To Washington, DC When Unified Super Lightweight World Champion Amir Khan Meets DC’s Own Lamont Peterson At The Walter E. Washington Convention Center On December 10 Washington, DC (October 27)…Tickets for “Capital Showdown: Khan vs. Peterson” go on sale TOMORROW, Friday, Oct. 28 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Big-time boxing’s return [...]

Fight # 1 – 18:30 hrs 4 X 3 Minute Rounds Super-Featherweight Contest MARK EVANS v DAN NAYLOR

By Scott Gilfoid: It looks as if we haven’t heard the last of former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s). Just when you thought Haye had permanently retired to go off and seek his fortunes as a movie actor, he’s still talking about wanting to come back and fight the Klitschko brothers – [...]

By Chris Williams: Bob Arum of Top Rank lashed out at unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. yesterday in an interview, saying that it’s Mayweather who doesn’t want to make the fight happen with Arum’s fighter WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao.

By Glen Anglin: Manny Pacquiao is a once-in-a-lifetime treat for boxing fans. The man is a fiend in the ring; an electric, flashing, inexplicable force of nature. He throws blizzards of punches, is always in shape and always comes to fight and fights often. Are there flaws in his technique?

HATTON PROMOTIONS latest major champion Scott Quigg is still basking in the adulation of his brilliant British super-bantamweight title win.

Boxers Vito Antuofermo Carlos Ortiz Carmen Basilio Riddick Bowe Tony Canzoneri Benny Leonard Emile Griffith Gene Tunney Jake LaMotta Mike McCallum Ray Robinson Mike Tyson Non-Participants Steve Acunto Ray Arcel Gil Clancy Nat Fleischer Bill Gallo Jimmy Glenn Harold Lederman Arthur Mercante, Sr.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Although Robinson continued to pile up points and win rounds the intense heat and humidity appeared to be taking its toll. At one point his corner urged him to slow down and asked him if he thought he was Jack Dempsey.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): On February 5, 1943 after winning 85 fights as an amateur, 69 of those via the KO route, 40 coming in the first round and then winning his first 40 professional fights, Sugar Ray Robinson lost his first fight to “The Bronx Bull” Jake LaMotta.

By Glen Anglin: There are a few reasons why many otherwise even-minded people view boxing as a sport of criminals and boxers and boxing fans as borderline thugs. Ignorance, the desire to feel superior, disgust at the violence of a true blood sport all play into it.

One of Great Britain’s best known coaches, Johnny Eames, and his fighters never seem to be out of the sports pages or off the TV screens these days. Just last Friday Johnny guided Leon ‘Solid’ Williams to victory, over Rob Norton, to become the new British Cruiserweight Champion. So no surprise then that two more [...]

24/7 PACQUIAO/MARQUEZ OCT. 29 EPISODE

Yesterday promoter Ahmet Oner and Hall of fame coach Emanuel Steward agreed that Steward will from now on work as head coach of fast rising Cuban phenomenon Yuriorkis Gamboa. Today the protagonists expressed their excitement about the deal.

Unbeaten Irishman Dean Byrne will now headline the show tomorrow night at the Bowlers Exhibition Centre in Manchester. Dubliner Byrne, now based in London, takes on tough Frenchman Frank Haroche Horta over twelve rounds in an International welterweight contest following the unexplained withdrawal of Frankie Gavin.

ALEXANDER USTINOV successfully defended last weekend his European ‘EBA’ Heavyweight Title in Cherkasy, Ukraine, by defeating strong Russian challenger DENIS BAKHTOV (33-6-0/23 KOs). Although the experienced Russian boxer tried his best he could not beat the giant Belorussian Ustinov, who dominated most of the actions.

WBA, WBC & WBO Female Welterweight Champion Cecilia Braekhus (18-0, 4 KOs) will take on Hawaiian Kuulei Kupihea (7-1, 2 KOs) at Helsinki´s renowned Hartwall Areena on December 3. The fight was originally scheduled to take place on Team Sauerland´s big show in Copenhagen´s PARKEN Stadium on November 5, but the event was postponed after [...]

On Wednesday British Cruiserweight Champion Leon ‘Solid’ Williams returned to the TRAD TKO Boxing Gym, in Canning Town, for the first time since defeating long time Champ Rob Norton and winning the coveted Lonsdale Belt.

By Jason Kim: IBF welterweight champion Andre Berto (28-1, 22 KO’s) will likely be facing number #2 ranked IBF contender Randall Bailey (42-7, 36 KO’s) for his first defense of his International Boxing Federation title that he won over former champion Jan Zaveck last September.

By Dan Ambrose: Photo credit: Alma Montiel – At a press conference on Wednesday, WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez isn’t admitting that he hit International Boxing Federation (IBF) light-flyweight champion Ulysses ‘Archie’ Solis with a two punch combination during a training incident at the Barranca de Oblates in Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico.

On Wednesday, November 23, in Elk Grove, Illinois, Hitz Boxing Promotions will proudly present the “Thanksgiving Eve Belvedere Bash”, a night of exciting professional boxing at The Belvedere Banquet.

Undefeated Super Featherweight ADRIEN BRONER (www.twitter.com/AJtheproblem21) returns to the show as he prepares for his World Boxing Organization (WBO) Super Featherweight title fight in his hometown of Cincinnati.

Mathis coming from France to KO Holm & claim title as No. 1 female boxer in world ‘World Dominance,’ Dec. 2 at Route 66 Casino Hotel in Albuquerque ALBUQUERQUE, NM (October 26, 2011) – French knockout artist Anne Sophie Mathis (25-1, 21 KOs) plans to make a major statement December 2, fighting outside of Europe [...]

WATSONVILLE, CA – OCTOBER 26, 2011 – Carina “La Reina” Moreno (21-3, 6 KO’s) has found an opponent in Sharon Gaines (11-12-1, 3 KO’s) to challenge her this Friday October 28, 2011 at the Sherwood Inn Hotel in Salinas, California. The six-round bout will be at the agreed weight of 112 pounds and take place [...]

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO – Renowned trainer Emanuel Steward talked today to a group of Puerto Rican trainers as part of the 24th World Boxing Organization (WBO) Annual Convention held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel located in Isla Verde, Carolina, Puerto Rico.

CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO- Former two time world champion Ivan “Iron Boy” Calderon, former super bantamweight champion Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. and WBO junior flyweight champion Yessica Bopp will headline this Saturday, October 29, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Champions Tournament that will took place at the Coliseo Mario “Quijote” Morales in Guaynabo, in a PR Best [...]