Archive for December, 2011

In front of a noisy crowd at the Salle Marcel Cerdan in Thourotte, France, World Boxing Federation Intercontinental Light Welterweight Champion Yvan Mendy retained his title on Friday night with a fourth round stoppage over challenger Tarik Madni from Belgium.

By Jim Dower: In a fight that almost turned out to be a shocker, WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido (37-11-1, 24 KO’s) survived a scare against Filipino Weng Haya (15-5, 8 KO’s) in an eight round TKO on Saturday night at the Palengue de la Feria in Ciudad, Obregon, Sonora, Mexico.

By Scott Gilfoid: I’m still kind of stunned at how awful two of the judges’ scorecards were last night. How on earth could two of the judges – John Stewart and Craig Metcalfe – give Carl Froch five rounds in against Andre Ward? They scored it officially 115-113 each, while the other judge from the [...]

By William Mackay: Earlier tonight WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) shocked boxing fans by saying that IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24 KO’s) would have to earn a shot against him by beating an A level fighter first. Ward won’t be taking on Bute next despite this being the [...]

By Patrick McConnell: This is my first article but I am an educated boxing advocate to say the least. On a night were destiny would be the sky’s limit for either fighter, both came to fight. On the part of the underdog and under-rated, Carl Froch, the World Boxing Council (WBC) Champion of the world, [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (Dec. 18, 2011) – Andre Ward is the Super Six World Boxing Classic champion and the No. 1 super middleweight in the world. Ward dominated England’s Carl Froch to win a unanimous decision by the scores of 118-110, 115-113 two times in front of 5,626 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. [...]

By William Mackay: WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) said he was surprised at how slow his opponent WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s) when the two fighters first started mixing it up earlier tonight.

By William Mackay: Well, it didn’t take long for former World Boxing Council (WBC) super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s) to start talking about a rematch against WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s). Froch was beaten by Ward earlier tonight by a 12 round unanimous decision in the Super Six [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (Dec. 18, 2011) – Andre Ward is the Super Six World Boxing Classic champion and the No. 1 super middleweight in the world. Ward dominated England’s Carl Froch to win a unanimous decision by the scores of 118-110, 115-113 two times in front of 5,626 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. [...]

By William Mackay: Andre Ward says he’s going to look around and see who he wants to fight next after beating Carl Froch tonight to win the Super Six tournament final, Froch’s WBC belt, and the Ring title in their fight at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

By Scott Gilfoid: Once again, I was right about my prediction. Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) looked like a fighter a teaching boxing to an unskilled pupil on Saturday night in winning the Super Six tournament final bout against an outclassed and painfully slow WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s).

Photo: Casino/SHOWTIME – By William Mackay: Moments ago, undefeated WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) put on a masterful performance in defeating WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision to scoop up the Super Six tournament trophy in the finals of the Showtime tournament [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: The Carl Froch vs. Andre Ward is just about to kick off from the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, and I’m already wondering what excuse Froch is going to dream up afterwards for why he got whipped by Ward.

By Sean McDaniel: Moments ago Amir Khan shot a tweet on his social media account in response to some of the flack he’s been receiving from boxing fans who feel he’s afraid of unbeaten welterweight contender Kell Brook.

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten welterweight contender Kell Brook (26-0, 18 KOs) looked sensational on Saturday night in his American debut, picking apart a badly overmatched Luis Galarza (18-3, 14 KO’s) and stopping him in the 5th round at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

By Eric Thomas: Former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (32-3, 26 KO’s) will try to turn his career around in the new year against Argentinian Pablo Farias (19-1, 11 Ko’s) in a scheduled 12 round bout at the Baden Arena in Offenburg, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany.

By Sean McDaniel: Both Andre Ward and Carl Froch are going to be well paid for tonight’s Super Six tournament fight at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. According to news from Dan Rafael, Froch will receive $600,000, in addition to money from UK television, while Ward will get $900,000.

Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States Andre Ward UD 12 Carl Froch Bowie Tupou UD 10 Donnell Holmes Edison Miranda TKO5 Kariz Kariuki Cornelius White UD 6 Yordanis Despaigne Kell Brook TKO 5 Luis Galarza

By Scott Gilfoid: As the fight ticks closer, Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) is like a man possessed to beat WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) tonight to take his title and capture Showtime’s Super Six tournament trophy. Can Froch accomplish this? Probably not unless he raises his game a couple of [...]

By Sean McDaniel: With all the publicity that Amir Khan and David Haye have both received in 2011, unbeaten welterweight contender Kell Brook (25-0, 17 KO’s) has largely been forgotten by boxing fans. However, Brook is now on the threshold of trying to win over a whole different set of boxing fans in the United [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: If there’s anything that Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) is sure about in putting his WBC super middleweight title on the line against WBA champion Andre Ward, it’s that he feels strongly that he won’t be getting knocked out tonight.

Patrick Nielsen (12-0, 6 KOs) won the first title of his promising career in Herning in Saturday night when he cruised to a clear points victory over Michael Schubov (13-7, 6 K0s). The 20-year-old Dane was in control throughout, doing damage with his right jab. He cleverly kept his opponent at bay and fired in [...]

By Chris Williams: It may be a shock to some Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) coming out today on his 33rd birthday and stating that he’s willing to take a smaller percentage to make the fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2012, but I think Pacquiao really has no other choice in light of his [...]

By Jim Dower: The February 11th rematch between Andre Berto (28-1, 22 KO’s) and Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) will have Olympic style random drug testing for performance enhancing drugs. This no doubt is something that Berto wanted because he had questions about Ortiz shortly after his win over Berto last April. But now with [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch has been on his guard about not wanting to fight in other countries or in situations where he has a possibility of losing a hometown decision. To this day Froch feels he was robbed in his 12 round decision loss to Mikkel Kessler last year in [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): It is generally acknowledged by boxing fans that WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) is the most technically brilliant fighter of his generation. It is also a given that he would have given any of the great fighters from past generations a run for their money.

By Sean McDaniel: IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24 KO’s) wants first dibs on the winner of tonight’s Super Six mega fight between Carl Froch and Andre Ward. Bute, 31, wants the winner of this clash according to news from Dan Rafael.

By William Mackay: Amir Khan and Golden Boy Promotions may want to consider the advice from trainer Roger Mayweather before they go looking to get a quick rematch against IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson. Mayweather thinks it’s a really bad idea for Khan to ever fight Peterson again, because he thinks it’s a bad [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: International Boxing Federation (IBF) super middleweight champion Lucian Bute is picking Andre Ward to beat Carl Froch tonight in the Super Six tournament finals. I guess when it rains it pours, because this is yet another top fighter has come of the woodwork to pick Ward to beat Froch tonight in their [...]

By Chris Williams: World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao turned 33 today and perhaps because of his increasing age Pacquiao came out and said he’s willing to take a smaller percentage than Floyd Mayweather Jr. to finally make this fight happen.