Archive for December, 2011

Atlantic City, NJ (December 20, 2011) – Captain Boyd “Rainmaker” Melson of New York City scored his seventh victory in as many bouts following a sensational knockout of Daniel Lugo last Saturday evening at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall.

British heavyweight sensation David Price made an impression with all the stars from the world of boxing at the recent World Boxing Council (WBC) convention in Las Vegas. Life long Liverpool fan Price took a signed Steven Gerrard football top to present the president of the WBC Jose Sulaiman and was impressed with his knowledge [...]

ESPN’s Friday Night Fights presented by Corona Extra will kick off its 14th season January 6 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and ESPN3 featuring super middleweights Dyah Davis (20-2-1, 9 KOs: son of 1976 U.S. Olympic Gold medalist Howard Davis) and Alfonso Lopez (22-1, 17 KOs). The 10-round main event, outdoors at [...]

LOS ANGELES, CA (Dec. 20, 2011) – It has been a tremendously successful 2011 for Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KOs), who after a twenty-six month journey is now the Super Six World Boxing Classic champion; the WBA champion; the WBC champion; the Ring magazine champion and the No. 1 Super Middleweight in the world.

Check out a short video of Perez and Garcia’s preparations for their US debuts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D2iHLrBRKk CORK, IRELAND (December 20th, 2011) – Unbeaten Irish based Cuban duo Luis “El Leon” Garcia (11-0, 9 KO’s) and Mike “The Rebel” Perez (17-0, 12 KO’s) are promising a double dose of seasons beatings when they make their US [...]

SCOTT QUIGG admits he was “gutted” when domestic rival Rendall Munroe dropped down to bantamweight. British super-bantamweight champion Quigg makes the first defence of his title against Cwmbran’s Jamie Arthur (18-5) in Premier Suite at Bolton’s Reebok Stadium on Saturday February 4.

HATTON PROMOTIONS will be returning to Sheffield when they stage a night of Championship boxing at Ponds Forge Arena on Saturday 24th March.

Liverpool star Derry Mathews headlines the Liverpool Olympia on Friday 20th January when he challenges Emiliano Marsili for the Vacant IBO Lightweight Championship. The show, promoted by Frank Warren and Stephen Vaughan Jnr., will be televised live and exclusive on BoxNation (Sky Ch. 456, Virgin Ch. 546).

There will be added incentive for Queensberry Promotions’ two Cruiserweight champions, Leon Williams and Tony Conquest, when they go head to head in what is set to be an all-out war at York Hall on 13th January, with Francis and George Warren looking to get the winner in contention for a European title shot at [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (23-0, 11 KO’s) is scheduled to be back in the ring on February 25th against an opponent still to be determined. The talk is that he’ll face #9 ranked World Boxing Organization contender Andrzej Fonfara on this date.

By Eric Thomas: 31-year-old former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (32-3, 26 KO’s) squares off against super middleweight contender Pablo Oscar Natalio Farias (19-1, 11 KO’s) in a crucial fight for Abraham on January 14th at the Baden-Arena in Offenburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Abraham recently signed a three year contract extension with Sauerland promotions and it [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Writer Steve Bunch feels that former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch has been in too many tough fights recently and he feels that this caught up with his last Saturday night in his loss to Andre Ward in the Super Six tournament. Bunce thinks Froch’s battles in the Super Six tournament, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: If you looked at how truly awful 35-year-old Erik Morales (52-7, 36 KO’s) looked last September in capturing the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) light welterweight title against 22-year-old fringe contender Pablo Cesar Cano you would know how precarious Morales’ position is as the new champion going into his fight next month [...]

By William Mackay: Kalle Sauerland, the promoter for Mikkel Kessler, feels that the Super Six tournament didn’t end last weekend with WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward’s win over WBC champion Carl Froch in the Super Six final in the United States. While the tournament, which was created by Showtime, technically ended last Saturday night [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: If you care about stuff like The Ring’s rankings then you might like this. WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) was moved up from the #9 position to #5 in The Ring’s pound-for-pound ratings. Personally, I see the rankings as a bunch of garbage since its put together by [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I don’t know if anyone’s noticed but Britain’s Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) isn’t even ranked in the top 15 by the World Boxing Council or any of the sanctioning bodies for that matter. How WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) can be fighting this guy is beyond me.

By William Mackay: What seems rather strange to me is why Amir Khan (26-2, 18 KO’s) so badly wants a rematch against Lamont Peterson after losing a narrow 12 round decision against him last week. Ever since Khan was beaten by Peterson, Khan has been up in arms saying he got robbed by the judges [...]

By Chris Williams: Promoter Bob Arum says he plans on sitting down with his fighter WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao in the start of next year for the two to select the next opponent. Initially it was thought that Arum was finally open to putting Pacquiao in with WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Tijuana featherweight Omar “Dinamita” Estrella (15-3-2, 10KOs) has a big opportunity in his near future when on Saturday, January 21st, he is scheduled to face the former world champion Daniel Ponce de Leon (41-4, 34KOs) in Mexico City at a venue to be determined. The ten round bout will be presented by Golden Boy Promotions [...]

Earlier today, Jon Miller, President of Programming for NBC Sports and VERSUS (which will become NBC Sports Network on January 2); Kathy Duva, CEO Main Events and series promoter for the NBC Sport Network Fight Night series; and Russell Peltz, Peltz Boxing Promotions and Fight Night series matchmaker, spoke with a group of media about [...]

By Dan Ambrose: If you’re bored and want to see a couple of mismatches you might want to check out the January 21st doubleheader headlined by Paul Williams (40-2, 27 KO’s) vs. Nobuhiro Ishida (24-6-2, 9 KO’s) and Erislandy Lara (15-1, 10 KO’s) vs. Ronald Hearns (26-2, 20 KO’s) in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

LOS ANGELES (Dec. 19, 2011) – Ten months after a classic and spirited slugfest that is a definite “Fight of the Year” candidate, former World Champions “Vicious” Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s), of Ventura, Calif. and Andre Berto (28-1, 22 KO’s), of Winter Haven, Fl., will slug it out again on Saturday, Feb. 11, at [...]

By Jason Kim: WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25 KO’s) is itching for a payday bout after beating three straight lower ranked contenders in the cruiserweight division. Having failed at enticing WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko into a fight due to Vitali not taking Huck seriously, Huck is now targeting WBA heavyweight champion Alexander [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) was hoping to make quick work of his December 30th opponent Darryl Cunningham (24-2, 10 KO’s) and then look to put a fight together with IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute next year to take his title. However, with the news that Carl Froch is poised to [...]

(Photo:Casino/SHOWTIME) By Scott Gilfoid: Anthony Dirrell (24-0, 21 KO’s) recently defeated Canadian Renan St Juste by a 4th round TKO earlier this month to become the mandatory challenger for the WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward. Up until last weekend, the belt belonged to Carl Froch, not anymore after Ward handed him a 12 round [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) is really looking forward to his February 11th rematch against Andre Berto (28-1, 22 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ortiz, 24, feels he’s in a good position to beat Berto for the second time if everything goes right.

By Scott Gilfoid: If you were a doctor examining the state of health of British boxing right now you would likely see it in need of life support after the losses of Dereck Chisora, Amir Khan, John Murray, David Haye, Ryan Rhodes, Carl Froch and Brian Magee. But Froch believes that British boxing is going [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s) and his promoter Eddie Hearn are reportedly on the verge of putting together a two-fight deal with IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24 KO’s) for 2012 where the first will take place in Montreal, Canada, which is where Bute fights 99% of the time, and [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) would like nothing better than to get another shot against Mikkel Kessler (44-2, 33 KO’s) and show that his 11th round technical decision win over him from two years ago wasn’t a fluke.

By Sean McDaniel: Undefeated Kell Brook (26-0, 18 KO’s) feels he’s ready to take on number #3 ranked IBF welterweight contender Mike Jones (26-0, 19 KO’s) for the vacant International Boxing Federation title after the 25-year-old Brook stopped Puerto Rican Luis Galarza in the 5th round last Saturday night on the Carl Froch vs. Andre [...]