Archive for November, 2011

David Price has a rescheduled bout with Big Bad John McDermott on January 21st in Liverpool and is then looking at taking on the British and Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion Fury.

By Chris Williams: With the Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez fight now over with Pacquiao winning a controversial points decision last Saturday night, the excuses are already starting to pop up for why Pacquiao struggled so badly against the 38-year-old Marquez. You knew the excuses would come, but I didn’t expect them to happen [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Juan Manuel Marquez made Manny Pacquiao look bad tonight in beating him every which way a fighter can beat someone. However, the judges saw it differently from most of the boxing fans at ringside at the MGM Grand, giving the decision to Pacquiao by a 12 round majority decision. This was supposed [...]

By William Mackay: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan worked the Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Manny Pacquiao fight as a commentator for Primetime PPV, and Khan shockingly saw Marquez as the winner in this fight, picking him as the victor over Khan’s good friend Pacquiao. That kind of tells you something when you’ve got Khan [...]

By Gerardo Granados: I have been I boxing fan for many years now but what I had never witnessed an absolute insult for boxing fans as I have witnessed today. I have witnessed robberies committed in pro boxing and amateur boxing but this one I have never seen before.

By Dave Lahr: WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) is celebrating his victory tonight over Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KOs) after beating him by a 12 round majority decision on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s hard to see what Pacquiao is celebrating because not only [...]

By Chris Williams: In a fight outcome that left virtually no one happy other than Pacquiao fans, WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) labored to a controversial 12 round majority decision on Saturday night against 38-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The final judges’ [...]

By Dan Henderson: Tyson Fury climbed up of the canvas to win a 3rd round stoppage against Canadian Neven Pajkic. Round 1. The first round was a scrappy round with not much happening. Pajkic came out swinging wildly and there was a lot of clinching.

By Gari Jones: After a tense and exciting three rounds in which Tyson himself hit the floor, it’s Tyson Fury who takes the win in a round three stoppage due to Neven Pajkic being unfit to continue. This fight was expected to go longer than this, but after the first round when both fighters felt [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s) who faces WBO/WBA lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KO’s) tonight in Las Vegas is demonstrating once again that his scope goes far beyond boxing and that he is a worldwide economic force to be reckoned with.

By Gari Jones: Having been watching Boxnation these past couple of weeks, I’ve been left pondering the idea why do some fighters keep on going? Boxing is a young man’s game, careers are short, the training is rigorous, retirement comes way before your state pension and there’s always the risk of permanent damage.

By Manuel Perez: Okay, justice will be served when Juan Manuel Marquez beats WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao tonight in front of a worldwide audience on HBO pay per view at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is going to be a beating and I’m really looking forward to it.

By William Mackay: In what may be the best fights on the entire card tonight in Las Vegas, slugger Breidis Prescott (24-3, 19 KOs) faces the hard hitting Mike Alvarado (31-0, 22 KO’s) in a 10 round bout for Alvarado’s IBF Latino light welterweight title on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel [...]

By Dave Lahr: Freddie Roach is still yakking about the t-shirt Juan Manuel Marquez chose to wore when he visited the Philippines not too long ago. The t-shirt, which said Marquez beat Pacquiao twice, seems to have really angered both Pacquiao and Roach because neither of them seems to want to acknowledge the reality that [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Photo credit: Casino/Showtime – In a fight that should have never been showed on Showtime, WBA World light middleweight champion Austin Trout (24-0, 14 KO’s) easily defeated number #14 ranked World Boxing Association contender Frank Laporte (15-5-2, 7 KO’s) on Friday night at the Cohen Stadium in El Paso, Texas.

By Chris Williams: At Friday’s weigh-in for today’s mega fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, Pacquiao came in at a slightly lower weight than he’s been weighing for this fight at 143 pounds. It’s a probably a much better weight for Pacquiao than coming in [...]

Boxing Channel offers you all the details of this week’s events leading to Pacquiao-Marquez mega fight Coverage can be seen at BoxingChannel.tv, hall of fame boxing broadcaster Al Bernstein was there to give you all the details of what happened during the press conference this past Wednesday, if you missed the weigh-in, watch the recap [...]

WBF Womens World Super Middleweight Title: Zitka Zatyko, 13-0-1 (10) / Hungary: 76,0 Kg. / 167,58 Lbs. Diana Kiss, 7-4-1 (6) / Hungary: 76,2 Kg. / 168 Lbs. Promoter: Profibox Promotion.

The weigh in for Sunday’s International Masters Welterweight title clash, between Chester’s Chris Goodwin and Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium Wesley Hertoghe, at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, took place today at the TRAD TKO Boxing Gym in Canning Town. WEIGHTS & QUOTES Chris Goodwin – 63.9kg “Everything has gone well, training wise, fingers crossed that everything [...]

EL PASO, Texas (Nov. 12, 2011) – After three years without national television exposure, undefeated World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight champion Austin Trout dominated Frank LoPorto for more than five rounds before referee Rafael Ramos stopped the fight at 2:32 of the sixth in the main event of ShoBox: The New Generation. In the [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (16-0, 11 KO’s) will face Canadian heavyweight champion Neven Pajkic (16-0, 5 KO’s) on Saturday night at Event City, Trafford Park in Manchester, England. The fight will be aired live on channel 5 in the UK.

Las Vegas, NV (November 11) – In under 24 hours, Juan Carlos Burgos (27-1, 19 KOs) of Tijuana, Mexico and Puerto Rican Luis Cruz (19-0, 15 KOs) will step into the squared ring and battle it out for 10 hard rounds for the super featherweight WBO/NABO title. The Burgos-Cruz match up will air tomorrow, Saturday, [...]

London, England (November 12, 2011) – Primetime guest commentator Amir ‘King’ Khan has shared his thoughts on tonight’s highly anticipated super fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez, broadcasting live from Las Vegas on Primetime (Channel 480 on Sky). The reigning WBA and IBF light-welterweight world champion has tipped his stablemate to win in [...]

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza is really predicting big things for his fighter Pacquiao on Saturday, seeing him possibly stopping the 38-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez in the 1st round.

By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (16-0, 11 KO’s) has picked a nice easy opponent for this Saturday night against unbeaten Neven Pajkic (16-0, 5 KO’s) at the Event City, Trafford Park, Manchester, Lancashire, England.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): The long anticipated fight between WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KO’s) and WBO/WBA lighweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KO’s) is now down to the wire.

By William Mackay: IBF/WBO light welterweight champion Amir Khan makes no bones about who he’s picking in this Saturday’s bout between WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Sam Geraci: On the undercard of Saturday’s mega fight, World Boxing Council (WBC) champion in recess and apparent future superstar in recess Timothy Bradley defends his WBO championship against Olympic gold medalist and former super featherweight and lightweight champion Joel Casamayor.

By Peter Wells: Usually when fighters have two classic wars that are so close that those watching can’t agree on who won then both those fighters will both go on to greater fights. But sometimes there’s an exception. Manny Pacquiao has gone on to become the best boxer on the planet and beaten everyone put [...]

HOBOKEN, New Jersey (November 11, 2011) — FIGHT NOW TV TM – America’s only 24-hour combat sports and entertainment channel – announces it will air tomorrow’s (Saturday, Nov. 12) heavyweight title fight between British and Commonwealth champion Tyson Fury and the Canadian title holder Neven Pajkic, starting at 4:45 PM/ET, live from Manchester UK.