Archive for November, 2011

By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten newly crowned WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (22-0, 18 KO’s) is reportedly interested in moving up in weight to face WBA World lightweight champion Brandon Rios (28-0-1, 21 KO’s) in the near future and feels he’s got what it takes to beat the 25-year-old Rios.

By Dan Ambrose: At the final press conference on Wedsneday, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto seemed to come unglued after listening to challenger Antonio Margarito tell him he hits like a girl and then mention how he doesn’t beat up his family members like Cotto.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 30, 2011 – Under the guidance of famed boxing trainer Freddie Roach, Zachary “Kid Yamaka” Wohlman emerges out of the Wild Card Boxing gym to make his pro debut this Thursday, December 1, 2011 at Golden Boy Promotion’s Fight Night Club at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California.

“World Dominance” features the top two women’s boxers in the world, American favorite Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm (30-1-3, 9 KOs) and French knockout specialist Anne Sophie Mathis (25-1, 21 KOs), in arguably the No. female fight of all-time.

ABNER MARES & JOSEPH AGBEKO ANSELMO MORENO & VIC DARCHINYAN FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES Also Promoters, Oscar De La Hoya, Don King And Gary Shaw; Wednesday, Nov. 30, Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif. World Championship Doubleheader This Saturday, Dec. 3, Live on SHOWTIME® at 9 p.m. ET/PT ANAHEIM, Calif. (Nov. 30, 2011) – In a potential [...]

By William Mackay: Former some reason IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan can’t seem to stop talking about his dream fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. It doesn’t seem to matter what Khan on his plate, he still goes back to talking about Mayweather.

“FIGHT NIGHT CLUB” FINISHES 2011 SEASON THIS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 WITH OXNARD’S UNBEATEN HUGO CENTENO JR. VS. DAVID LOPEZ IN THE MAIN EVENT AT CLUB NOKIA AT L.A. LIVE Former World Champions Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi & Michael Katsidis “The Great” Set To Attend Los Angeles’ Biggest Club Show LOS ANGELES, December 30 – The [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito scored some major points during Wednesday’s final press conference with WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto after a heated exchange. Margarito said “Here comes the criminal; open the doors for the criminal.

THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FIGHT CAMP 360° RETURNS TONIGHT ON SHOWTIME® FEATURING WARD VS. FROCH – THE FINAL

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Once again the boxing world is in a tizzy over the possibility of an impending fight between undefeated superstar World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) and Ring Magazine #1 Pound for Pound fighter in the world WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s).

By Dan Ambrose: WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) could be back in the ring in March 2012 against British middleweight contender Darren Barker (23-1, 14 KO’s) according to boxing news from Dan Rafael.

By Ian Aldous: On Saturday December 10th, Lamont Peterson (29-1-1) will challenge Amir Khan (26-1) for his IBF and WBA World light-welterweight championships in Washington, D.C. Just over a week away from the fight, Lamont took some time to talk with me about his thoughts on the fight.

By Dan Henderson: We have four world champions Carl Froch (WBC Super Middleweight), Amir Khan (WBA Super and IBF Light Welterweight), Nathan Cleverly (WBO Light Heavyweight) and Ricky Burns (WBO “Interim” Lightweight champion).

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Saturday nights rematch between World Boxing Association (WBA) light middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) and former WBA/IBF welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) is the ultimate grudge match.

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – USA Boxing’s European Tour squad has traveled to Ukraine for the second leg of their international competition overseas. The mixed squad of elite male and female athletes competed in the World Cup of Petroleum Countries in Surgut, Russia, November 24-27 before heading to the next stop on their journey.

Tomorrow night Bobby Gunn puts his world heavyweight bareknuckle boxing title on the line as he fights Ernest Jackson at an undisclosed location outside of Philadelphia. Although not aired live, the fight will be available at www.ibkba.com shortly thereafter.

By Chris Holbourne: This weekend there is not just the one British Murray in action. There is John Murray preparing to face to Brandon Rios state side, but in Germany Martin Murray will go toe to toe with WBA World middleweight champion Felix Sturm.

In addition to Wladimir Klitschko, the most dominant heavyweight champion defending his World Boxing Association (WBA), IBF, WBO, and IBO world titles against Jean-Marc Mormeck and the co-feature of Gennady Golovkin defending his WBA middleweight title against Lajuan Simon, there will be two more title fights on the December 10 show.

By Sean McDaniel: Using little more than his jab all night long, WBC cruiserweight champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (46-2-1, 33 KO’s) wore down 38-year-old former WBA World light heavyweight champion Danny Green (31-5, 27 KO’s) and knocked him out in the 11th round with a nice left hook to the head that put Green on his [...]

By Kevin Mutch: On Saturday John Murray (31-1, 18 KO’s) travels across the big pond to face what could be the biggest test of his career when he faces “Bam Bam” Brandon Rios (28-0-1-21 KO’s) in the mecca of boxing Madison Square Garden in New York.

Fighting to K.O. Liver Disease on ARES Promotions’ December 16 Card Albany, N.Y. — Shannon Miller will make history on December 16 when he returns to the boxing ring after donating half of his liver to his cancer-stricken uncle. Miller will donate his purse from ARES Promotions’ Fight NIght VII to help liver donors and [...]

This Thursday evening exciting Light Middleweight prospect ‘Sugar’ Nathan Weise is to be Chris Cohen’s studio guest for the Sports Tonight Fight Hour (Freeview HD Channel 112 and available worldwide on-line at www.sportstonightlive.com) from 5.30pm (GMT).

MIAMI (Nov. 30, 2011) – One of the hottest prospects in the world, unbeaten middleweight Michael “The Brazilian Rocky” Oliveira, returns to the ring December 17 in Quebec City.

With just over a week to go till the Cleland Miners show ,Propspect Boxing are please to confirm the line up for the card. Scheduled on the 3 fight card are Iain Butcher, Kris Hughes and Chris Steel.

James DeGale’s challenger Jose Maria Guerrero has called him a fool and told him he’d better finish him off early or get beat. Spanish hitman Guerrero challenges DeGale for his World Boxing Organization (WBO) Intercontinental Super-Middleweight title on Friday 9th December at the Liverpool Echo Arena, live on BoxNation (Sky Ch. 456, Virgin Ch. 546).

Roy Jones, Jr., John Ruiz, Tomasz Adamek & Emanuel Steward among award winners NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 30, 2011) – The 25th annual RING 8 Holiday Event and Awards Ceremony will be held Sunday afternoon (12:30-5:30 PM/ET), December 18 at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, New York.

By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s) is building up quite a reputation for taking on the lower hanging fruit rather than reaching up to take the best in the highest branches of the junior middleweight division. Whether that’s his doing or that of his promoters at Golden Boy isn’t [...]

By Daniel Echevarria: Today Fight Hype has released part 2 of yesterdays Interview where Floyd Mayweather called out to many Pacquiao and challenged him to “sign the contract if you really want to fight”. In part 2 of this exclusive interview that Floyd only chose to give to Fight Hype because he believes they are [...]

By Allen Fox: IBF bantamweight champion Abner Mares (22-0, 13 KO’s) feels that he’s got it under control in terms of his terrible habit of tagging his opponents low left and right in his fights, and he’s not going to stop throwing to the body even if it means he’ll likely lose points this Saturday [...]

By Chris Williams: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions is convinced that Bob Arum doesn’t want to make the fight Manny Pacquiao vs. Manny Pacquiao fight happen for some reason. De La Hoya thinks Arum is lying about wanting to make that happen.