Archive for November, 2011

Former British and Commonwealth Featherweight Champion Stephen Smith is backing stablemate John Murray to victory this weekend in New York. Liverpool star Smith, 26, has been training with Murray in the build up and says he is looking impressive ahead of his fight against World Boxing Association (WBA) World Lightweight Champion Brandon Rios at Madison [...]

On Thursday 1st December BoxNation will become the UK’s first ever boxing subscription channel, dedicated to getting the fans closer to boxing than they’ve ever been before.

By Chris Williams: This should be interesting. Trainer Freddie Roach will reportedly be working behind the microphone as a commentator for this Saturday’s fights on EPIX/EPIXHD.com for the heavyweight title fight between WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin vs. 42-year-old Cedric Boswell and Dereck Chisora vs. Robert Helenius in Helsinki, Finland.

By Scott Gilfoid: On December 30th, boxing fans will be getting a really good treat in the form of the Showtime fight between Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) vs. Darryl Cunningham (24-1, 10 KO’s) and Jermain Taylor (28-4-1, 17 KO’s) vs. Jessie Nicklow (22-2-3, 8 KO’s) at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan still wants to beat WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley to take his belt and prove to the boxing world that he’s the best fighter at 140. If Khan can’t get the Bradley fight, he says he’ll move up to 147 to seek out bigger names.

By Jason Kim: For American boxing fans interested in seeing the December 17th fight between IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and 39-year-old former cruiserweight champion Jean Marc Mormeck, you can see it on ESPN Deports by a same day tape, as well as live on ESPN3.com, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.

By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is saying that slugger Marcos Maidana (31-2, 28 KO’s) and former IBF/WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (22-1, 13 KO’s) have agreed to fight in a bout that will take place at welterweight instead of light welterweight.

By Chris Williams: I’m still debating whether to spring for purchasing the Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito II pay per view card on HBO on Saturday night.

By Scott Gilfoid: Former EBU lightweight champion John Murray (31-1, 18 KO’s) has partially revealed one of his strategies that he plans on using to try and rip the title away from WBA World lightweight champion Brandon Rios (28-0-1, 21 KO’s) this Saturday night on the Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito undercard at the Madison [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) has had to listen to WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s whining and complaining for the past month about how he thinks Margarito loaded his hand wraps in their previous 2008 fight.

By Dan Ambrose: 35-year-old World Boxing Council (WBC) light welterweight champion Erik Morales (52-7, 36 KO’s) will be making his first defense of his World Boxing Council belt in January 2012 against an opponent still to be determined.

By William Mackay: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan was his usual cocky self during today’s telephone conference call to promote his fight against Lamont Peterson on December 10th. Khan sees himself winning either by a convincing decision or a knockout.

While the rest of the world will be welcoming December and the upcoming holiday season this Thursday, Bobby Gunn will have his mind focused on one thing. and one thing only—defending his world heavyweight bareknuckle boxing title.

November 28th, 2011 – Canada based, Romanian fighter and World Boxing Council (WBC) SILVER Championship welterweight challenger JO JO DAN will be released on Tuesday, November 29th, from the UNIVERSITY Hospital in Trabzon, Turkey. On Sunday, surgeons successfully repaired his broken jaw suffered Saturday night in the 2nd round of his close 12 rounds UD [...]

READY FOR NEXT STEP… FIGHTS FOR USBA WELTERWEIGHT TITLE LOS ANGELES (Nov. 28) – Ricardo Williams has endured throughout the good and bad times. But now, he believes he has a chance to finally achieve the goals he set out to accomplish back when he fought for his country in the 2000 Olympics, winning a [...]

Nov. 28, 2011 – International boxing promoter and advisor Sampson Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing today announced he has retained the services of noted boxing publicist Andre Courtemanche and his firm Big Media Buzz.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Former World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) has confirmed that that discussions are underway for him to fight WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) in March 2012.

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By Daniel Echevarria: In an interview at FIGHTHYPE, Floyd Mayweather says to Manny Pacquiao that “ I been told you May 5th was open I’m waiting let’s make it happen what’s going on.” At this point that is the million dollar question folks what is really going on after all the accusations that Mayweather was [...]

By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. is dead serious about wanting to fight WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao next on May 5th next year. So serious is Mayweather that he’s telling Pacquiao to step up and sign the contract so that they can get this fight done.

By William Mackay: In the latest boxing news, former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) says he’s in talks with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko for a fight that will, if the two fighters can come to an agreement, talk place in March of next year.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Top Rank CEO Bob Arum disclosed on Sunday that he is holding talks with investment groups who are interested in staging the Mega bucks match with undefeated World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) and WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquaio (54-3-2, 38 KO’s).

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO- World Boxing Organization (WBO) President Francisco “Paco” Valcarcel, congratulated Jorge “Travieso” Arce for his achievement becoming the first Mexican ever to win world titles in five different weight divisions, four of them for the WBO.

One of the most exciting young prospects from Johnny Eames’ always excellent TRAD TKO stable, ‘Sugar’ Nathan Weise, gets his first taste of Championship action – when he challenges West Drayton’s Steve O’Meara for the Southern Area Light Middleweight title on December 14th.

Manchester ace John Murray is aiming to follow in the footsteps of Ricky Hatton and conquer America this Saturday night. Murray has already held the British and European titles, but the 26-year-old now takes a big step up to world level when he faces World Boxing Association (WBA) World Lightweight Champion Brandon Rios at Madison [...]

Wolverhampton stages 23rd edition of the show on February 11 Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Sport are delighted to announce that Prizefighter will head to the Midlands for the first time as the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton plays host to the Light-Welterweights II of 2012 on February 11.

TORONTO (November 28, 2011) – Buxton Promotions and Hennessy Sports announced today that they are now co-promoting unbeaten Canadian light middleweight prospect Brandon “Bad Boy” Cook.

British Light Middleweight Champion Prince Arron looks set to establish himself as divisions top dog in his title defense against Brian Rose at the Robin Park Centre in Wigan this Saturday. Since winning prize fighter back in February 2010 Arrons has gone from strength to strength winning the British Title by knocking out Sam Webb [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: We already know that Vincente Martin Rodriguez was way over his head against the talented Adrien Broner (22-0, 17 KO’s) last Saturday night in an easy 3rd round TKO win for Broner to capture the vacant WBO super featherweight title.

By Scott Gilfoid: In what could shape up to be a potential fight of the year bout, unbeaten super middleweight contender Anthony Dirrell (23-0, 20 KO’s) faces Canadian slugger Renan St Juste (23-2-1, 15 KO’s) in an important weeding out fight this Friday night on Showtime at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California.