Archive for November, 2011

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Trainer Roger Bloodworth vows that his fighter former cruiserweight and light heavyweight champion Tomasz Adamek (44-2, 28 KO’s) will again challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world.

By Eric Thomas: If trainer Freddie Roach had his way the prospective mega fight between WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez will take place at the full middleweight limit of 160 pounds rather than 156 pounds, which would accommodate the smaller Alvarez.

By William Mackay: Not satisfied with being only the WBO lightweight interim champion, Ricky Burns (33-2, 9 KO’s) is now targeting the full champion Juan Manuel Marquez for his next fight, which Burns would like to take place in his native Scotland. It’s more of a pipe dream than reality, though, because Marquez will never [...]

Prior to their title fights at Helsinki´s renowned Hartwall Areena, World Boxing Association (WBA) & World Boxing Organization (WBO) Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion Robert Helenius (16-0, 11 KOs) and WBA/WBC/WBO Female Welterweight Champion Cecilia Braekhus (18-0, 4 KOs) today held an open training session at Berlin´s Max-Schmeling-Gym. While “The Nordic Nightmare” will take on Dereck Chisora [...]

Quarterly Boxing Matches Saturday Nights on NBC Sports Network Series Debuts Saturday, January 21, 2012 from Philadelphia Main Events To Coordinate Multi-Promoter Strategy with Hall-of-Fame Matchmaker J Russell Peltz NEW YORK – November 22, 2011 – NBC Sports Group announced today the formation of NBC Sports Network Fight Night, a boxing series featuring premier boxing [...]

New York, NY – (11/22/2011) – Tomorrow night the World Boxing Council (WBC) #7 and International Boxing Federation (IBF) #12 rated super middleweight contender, Thomas “Tommy Gun” Oosthuizen (16-0-1, 11KO’s), will look to defend his IBO Super Middleweight title and keep his unbeaten streak alive when he takes on dangerous Mexican knockout artist Francisco Sierra [...]

By Dan Ambrose: It seems that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is about to sabotage his December 3rd fight against Antonio Margarito by saying he’ll only fight Margarito in New York. I smell fear from Cotto.

ABNER MARES TO GET THE TELEFUTURA “CLASSICS” TREATMENT ON NOVEMBER 25 SEE THE BANTAMWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION ON HIS ROAD TO THE TOP AGAINST YONNHY PEREZ AND JONATHAN ARIAS ON SPECIAL EDITION OF TELEFUTURA’S “SÓLO BOXEO TECATE” LOS ANGELES, November 22 – In August of this year, 2004 Mexican Olympian Abner Mares struck gold as a [...]

By Saad T. Farooqi: La La Batalla II is a fight that is going to answer two looming questions. One, did Antonio Margarito really cheat against Miguel Cotto in their first fight? Second, it will serve as measuring stick in seeing how much these two warriors really have left in them? While the venue is [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Former middleweight and super middleweight champion Nigel Benn is urging former World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye not to fight World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s). Benn’s comments are based on reports that have been circulating in the media that the “Hayemaker” appears [...]

British Eurosport will broadcast LIVE coverage of the fight which takes place on Friday 25th November from 8pm. Murphy will go into the fight as favourite having boxed at a higher level, however may be rusty having not boxed competitively for a year. Despite this, Murphy will still be fit and will approach the fight [...]

By Babatis Banda: Manny Pacquiao and team have squeezed themselves in a difficult corner. It is not difficult to see that the next move for his promoter Bob Arum is going to be a tricky one. If Arum decides to go for a fourth rematch with Juan Manuel Marquez, it is going to be difficult [...]

By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro: Back in March this year 20 year old Olivia Goodwin became the youngest ever person to be licensed as a promoter by the British Boxing Board of Control, a couple of months later, on the 4th June, she made history again by promoting her first event, the massively successful ‘Search [...]

Frank Maloney will be promoting the Double British Title show at the Peterlee Leisure Centre on December 10th and is asking all fighters including Ashley Theophane and Nigel Wright to dedicate their fights in honour of the late Gus Robinson who helped keep boxing alive in the North East of England over the last 3 [...]

HBO AND FILMMAKER PETER BERG TEAM UP TO PRESENT NEW PRIME-TIME SERIES ON FREDDIE ROACH, DEBUTING FRIDAY, JAN. 20 ——– Emmy® Nominee Berg Directs And Executive Produces; Jim Lampley, Sarah Aubrey And Michael Price Also Executive Produce ——– HBO and filmmaker Peter Berg will team up for the innovative new primetime series ON FREDDIE ROACH, [...]

World Championship Doubleheader Highlights Spectacular Fight Card Co-Promoted by Don King Productions and Goossen Tutor Promotions Tavoris Cloud Risks IBF Light Heavyweight Title Against Zsolt Erdei, WBA Super Bantamweight Champ Rico Ramos Defends Against Guillermo Rigondeaux LOS ANGELES (Nov. 22, 2011) – Fans looking to celebrate the New Year in perhaps the biggest, most significant [...]

TORONTO (November 22, 2011) – One of Ontario’s best amateur boxers, undefeated featherweight prospect Tyler Asselstine, steps-up in class December 10 for his first scheduled eight-round bout against Frenchman Philippe Frenois at Bell Centre in Montreal.

Unbeaten cruiserweight prospect Stephen Simmons has been inspired by close friend and stablemate Ricky Burns ahead of fight this Friday night.

By Allen Fox: Kermit Cintron has badly under performed in the past couple of years in fights against the likes of Antonio Margarito, Paul Williams, Carlos Molina, Sergio Martinez and Antwone Smith. However, he still thinks he’s a better fighter than WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, who Cintron fights this Saturday night in [...]

By William Mackay: Ricky Hatton is convinced that his close friend IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan would give unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. a lot of problems if and when they fight in the future. Hatton sees Khan’s hand speed and his in and out attacks as something that would cause Mayweather to struggle. However, [...]

By Jason Kim: Next month, IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) will be fighting his hand-picked opponent 39-year-old Jean Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO’s) in a fight at the Esprit Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. Wladimir, 35, is saying this is the best opponent he could find out of the top 20 list of [...]

By Dan Ambrose: This Saturday night WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (38-0-1, 28 KO’s) will be making his third defense of his title against the struggling 32-year-old Kermit Cintron (33-4-1, 28 KO’s) at the Monumental Plaza de Toros, in Mexico City, Mexico. This is supposed to be a test for the 21-year-old Alvarez, as [...]

By Lisa Madeina: Boxing…it’s a sport of hit and not get hit, it’s a chess match, you know, poetry in motion. But it’s also a sport where anything can happen and one punch can change, or end everything. Agreed? I hope so. Which brings me to my point, are people writing off Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao [...]

By William Mackay: David Haye doesn’t have a very high yardstick in which to measure the talent and the progress of his fighter unbeaten heavyweight David Price (11-0, 9 KO’s). For Haye, all it will take for the 28-year-old Price to prove that he’s better than the other upcoming heavyweights – Robert Helenius and Tyson [...]

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Adrien “The Problem” Broner will take time from his fight week preparations to give back to his community. Broner along with Unified Black men, Stop the Violence Campaign “Put down the Guns and Pick Up the Gloves” and Radio One’s The Wiz (101.1 FM) have all come together to distribute 101 [...]

By Chris Williams: Ricky Hatton thinks a future bout between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will be an anti-climactic one with Mayweather easily beating the Filipino fighter by a lopsided 12 round decision. Hatton has been in with both fighters, and although he was taken out in the 2nd round by Pacquiao and beaten [...]

LOS ANGELES, November 21 – After another exciting season at L.A. LIVE’s Club Nokia, Golden Boy Promotions and AEG’s “Fight Night Club” will close out its 2011 campaign on Thursday, December 1 with another show to remember, this one featuring Oxnard sensation Hugo Centeno Jr. in the main event bout against David Lopez.

By Dan Ambrose: On December 3rd, Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) and WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) are going to be getting it on in a still yet to be determined venue. However, it really doesn’t matter where the fight takes place, it will be happening on December 3rd and Cotto [...]

Los Angeles, CA (November 21) – Champion Juan Carlos Burgos was on hand at El Paseo Inn Restaurant at the historic Placita Olvera earlier today to receive his World Boxing Organization (WBO) Latino Super featherweight belt and his World Boxing Council (WBC) International silver super featherweight/ WBC Latino super featherweight belt.

By Dave Lahr: WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao still stubbornly thinks he actually beat Juan Manuel Marquez in their third fight on November 12th, despite an overwhelming amount of boxing fans seeing Marquez as the winner of that fight. It’s kind of sad really to see Pacquiao, his trainer Freddie Roach and his legion of [...]