Archive for October, 2011

Atlantic City (October 22, 2011)-Tonight’s fight at the Tropicana Casino, Heavyweight Chazz Witherspoon will get back in action after a lengthy hiatus when he takes on Ty Cobb (14-2, 8 KO’s) in an eight round bout that will be part of a card promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing.

PHARR, TX (October 21, 2011) – Earlier tonight, Rio Grande area fight fans were treated to an explosive night of boxing at the Pharr Convention Center in Pharr, Texas. The six-fight card was presented by Golden Boy Promotions in association with Cavazos Boxing Promotions and sponsored by Cerveza Tecate, AT&T and DeWalt Tools. If you [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Photo credit: Sumio Yamada – WBO/WBC bantamweight titleholder Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KO’s) is primed and ready to make his mark when he defends his crown against Argentinean Omar Narvaez (35-0-2, 19 KO’s) at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.

Weights from Panama Thomas Dulorme 146.25 / Charlie José Navarro 147

With a dominant performance, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Women’s World Middleweight Champion Christina Hammer remained undefeated and retained her title for the second time Friday night at the Brandenburg Halle in Frankfurt, Germany.

Mashantucket, CT/New York, NY – (10/22/2011) – Undefeated super middleweight Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez won a 10-round decision last night (Friday), sweeping every round on all three judges’ scorecard, against previously unbeaten Will “Power” Rosinsky in the main event on ShoBox: The New Generation LIVE on SHOWTIME® from MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Connecticut.

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Team USA endured a rough opening day of action at the 2011 Pan American Games on a historic Friday night in Guadalajara. Female flyweight Christina Cruz (New York, N.Y.) became the first female American boxer to compete in the Pan Am Games, but lost a heartbreaking tiebreaker in her quarterfinal contest.

NEW YORK (October 21, 2011) – Buffalo welterweight Nick “Hands of Gold” Casal felt completely justified last Saturday night after thoroughly destroyed previously undefeated prospect Michael “Slick” Anderson on the non-televised portion of the Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson pay-per-view event at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.

All participants for Star Boxing’s “Azteca America” show at the Tropicana in the Atlantic City weighed in today at the the Trop. The show, which is the first of a series of Star Boxing/Azteca events. The show will be broadcast Live on Azteca America. All fighters on the bout card will be wearing the pink [...]

IRISH AMATEUR BOXING ASSOCIATION Hugh Myres, Gavin McComb, Joel Scullion and Shane Roche won the first four bouts of the evening as 23 National U/21 Championships semi-finals were decided at the National Stadium in Dublin tonight.

Brandenburg Halle, Frankfurt, Brandenburg, Germany Robin Krasniqi TKO 4 Abdelkahim Derghal vacant WBO European light heavyweight title Susi Kentikian UD 10 Teeraporn Pannimit

Ashley Theophane ashleytheophane.com – Here in New York there is a discernible and growing feeling of outrage in the air. The residents are seriously unhappy with the Wall Street bankers and the US Government.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): In the lead up to the fight between then WBC welterweight champion Victor Oriz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) and new WBC welterweight champ Floyd Mayweather Jr., Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer was openly predicting that the Pay Per View buys for the fight would exceed 1.5 million and might go [...]

By Dan Ambrose: With the WBC giving back 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins his WBC light heavyweight title on Thursday after ruling that his fight with Chad Dawson was a technical draw instead of the original ruling of a 2nd round knockout, Hopkins now wants a rematch with Dawson to try and prove that he’s the better [...]

By Jim Amato: October 1,2009 my friend and mentor Sal Marino lost his brave battle against cancer. On that day a fine man left this world. To this day there is a void as Sal is sorely missed by his family and many friends.

Wach set to face former world champ McCall with potential title shot looming on the horizon PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Oct. 21st, 2011) – As if being 6-foot-7 weren’t noticeable enough, Mariusz Wach has even more difficulty maintaining a low profile within the Polish community these days after knocking out Kevin McBride to win the World Boxing [...]

Former world champions Ivan “Iron Boy” Calderon and Wilfredo Vazquez Jr., and prospect Jorge “Destroyer” Melendez showed good condition today during the last pre weigh in for their bouts on October 29 at the Coliseo Mario “Quijote” Morales in Guaynabo, in the WBO Champions Tournament card presented by PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP) as part [...]

LOS ANGELES (Oct. 21, 2011) – Unbeaten through his first 15 bouts, highly touted middleweight prospect Brandon “Flawless” Gonzales is expecting next Friday’s ShoBox: The New Generation telecast to be nothing short of exciting and eye-opening. Gonzales, who goes toe-to-toe with the very tough Ossie Duran next Friday, Oct. 28 at Bally’s Atlantic City (live [...]

Atlantic City (October 21, 2011) All participants for Star Boxing’s “Azteca America” show at the Tropicana in the Atlantic City will weigh in today in the Carousel Room in Tropicana 5:00 pm.

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – 2011 Pan American Games boxing action will begin today at the Expo Guadalajara Arena in Guadalajara, Mexico. Eight U.S. boxers will compete in the multi-sport event with a pair of American pugilists opening the competition in preliminary bouts tonight.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (31-2, 28 KO’s) has a list of potential fighters he’d like to take on next and on top of the list is unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. trailed by rematches against Amir Khan and Erik Morales.

London – Friday, 21st October 2011 – Steve Bunce and Richard Keys Head Up BoxNation Commentary Team For Big Fight Weekend. Mr Boxing himself Steve Bunce, along with former Sky Sports anchor Richard Keys, will be heading up the BoxNation (Sky Platform Ch. 456), ringside commentary team for tonight’s British Cruiserweight battle between Rob Norton [...]

Former four-division world champion, and one of the greatest boxers of all time, Roy Jones Jr. (54-8, 40 KOs) will take on Max Alexander (14-5-2, 4 KOs) for the vacant Universal Boxing Organization™ (UBO) Inter-Continental Cruiserweight title on December 10 in Atlanta, Georgia.

ATLANTIC CITY (October 21, 2011)-This Saturday night one of the top Jr. Welterweight prospects in the world will look to stay undefeated as Raymond “Tito” Serrano (16-0, 8 KO’s) will take on Angel Rios (9-7, 6 KO’s) in the main event of a six bout card at the Tropicana Casino & Resort.

BoxNation has once again team up with digital sports specialists PERFORM to stream this weekend’s big fights LIVE on www.boxnation.tv The action starts tonight from the York Hall, Bethnal Green, with the big cruiserweight clash between British champion Rob Norton and challenger Leon Williams.

Orange, CA (October 21, 2011) – The new installment of the popular boxing series “New Blood” could easily be named “The Unbeaten” as five undefeated prizefighters will enter the boxing ring at put their perfect records on the line at the Doubletree Hotel Ontario on Friday Nov. 4.

Here are the weights from Ludwigsburg, Germany ahead of Team Sauerland´s big show on Saturday night. World Boxing Organization (WBO) Cruiserweight Title:

by Boxing-Boy: “The Thunder Puncher” Pongsaklek Kaiyanghadaogym aka. P. Wonjongkam retained his WBC World Flyweight belt by impressive unanimous decision won over mandatory challenger “Iron Man” Edgar Sosa who is current WBC Emeritus Champion of the world in Light Flyweight Division and also World Boxing Council (WBC) International Flyweight champion at temporary boxing stadium in [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): In an interview with Ring TV.com, Emanuel Steward stated that WBO/IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko wanted to fight Chris Arreola next instead of 39 year old Jean-Marc Mormeck. Mormeck was the WBA/WBC cruiserweight champion until being dethroned by David Haye in November 2007.

New York (October 21, 2011) – Michael “The Artist” Perez is one step closer to becoming the first and only boxer to win two “Cinturón Tecate” belts in the same year. During his “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” appearance on October 14, Perez not only stopped Tyrone Harris via second round technical knockout, but he also earned [...]