Archive for December, 2011

By Jason Kim: Unbeaten Kell Brook hopes to look impressive tonight against the capable Luis Galarza on the undercard of the Carl Froch – Andre Ward fight in the United States. Above all, Brook doesn’t want to look awful like fellow Brit Amir Khan did in losing his IBF and WBA light welterweight titles to [...]

By Dan Ambrose: With the latest ruling by the World Boxing Council mandating that WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins must fight an immediate rematch against Chad Dawson, it was hoped that boxing fans could see whether Hopkins could handle the younger Dawson without falling down with some kind of injury.

By William Mackay: Mikkel Kessler (44-2, 33 KO’s) has been quite vocal about wanting to fight the winner of tonight’s Super Six tournament finals bout between WBC champion Carl Froch and WBA champion Andre Ward sometime in 2012, but does Kessler deserve the chance?

By Allen Fox: WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins was asked what he feels about who will win tonight’s fight between Carl Froch and Andre Ward, and Hopkins tipped the American to win the fight. While Hopkins liked Froch for what he described as his backward/unorthodox style of fighting, he felt that won’t be enough [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch comes into tonight’s fight against Andre Ward as one of the few remaining British world champion and he wants to make sure that he’s not whipped like the others have been. Before December started, it was thought by some British fans that this was a new [...]

Photo: Casino/SHOWTIME – By Wayne Lloyd: Tonight in Broadway Hall – Atlantic City – the WBC World Champion Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KOs) will take on the undefeated WBA World Champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) in what is set to be one of the most hotly anticipated showdowns off 2011.

Photo credit: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME – By Marcus Sales: After 2 years, the Super Six tournament to determine the number 1 168 pound fighter in the world comes to it’s conclusion tonight. Do we have the two best Super Middleweights facing off at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City? Some would argue not, but I think [...]

By Dallan O’ Donnell: As with all fights on foreign soil, the traveling fighter rarely has the outcome of the fight go his way. We have seen it recently in Germany when Martin Murray had a win taken away from him because he was the visiting fighter, fighting a hometown favourite.

By Jason Kim: Number #1 ranked WBC middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio (53-5-1, 46 KO’s) will finally be getting his long awaited world title shot against World Boxing Council middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) on February 4th next year, according to the latest boxing news.

Fighting in front of a more-than-sold out crowd filled with boxing royalty, WBC #1 and World Boxing Organization (WBO) #3-rated middleweight Marco Antonio Rubio (53-5-1, 46 KOs) pounded out a workmanlike TKO 5 over always-tough Matt “The Predator” Vanda (44-14, 24 KOs) on Friday night at the Sampson Boxing in Association with Promociones del Pueblo [...]

Photo: Casino/SHOWTIME – By Scott Gilfoid: British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groves is going with fellow countrymen WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch in his Super Six matchup against Andre Ward tonight in the U.S. Groves has sparred with Froch in the past and was reportedly knocked down on one occasion and is [...]

Woodland, Calif. (December 16, 2011) – Earlier tonight, northern California fight fans were treated to an explosive night of boxing at the Woodland Community Center in Woodland, Calif.. The six fight card was presented by Don Chargin Productions and Golden Boy Promotions in association with Paco Presents and sponsored by Cerveza Tecate and AT&T. If [...]

By Dan Ambrose: 43-year-old Antonio Tarver (29-6, 20 KO’s) is still holding out hope that IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko will decide to fight him in 2012, and Tarver thinks he can knock Wladimir out. What’s even more laughable than that is Tarver believes that HBO and Showtime would be interested in seeing him fight [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch has taken issue with the scoring in two out of his last four fights in the Super Six tournament, and still refuses to acknowledge that he deserved to lose a 12 round unanimous decision to Mikkel Kessler last year in April 2010 in a fight that [...]

By Jim Dower: In a stay busy fight for number #1 ranked WBC middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio (53-5-1, 46 KO’s) he took out journeyman Matt Vanda (44-14, 24 KO’s) in the 5th round on Friday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

(Khan seen here shoving Peterson to the canvas with an elbow in the 1st round. No punch landed, just the elbow. The referee ruled this was a legit knockdown.) By William Mackay: I got a kick out of Amir Khan on Sky Sports Ringside recently. Without any real prompt from the Ringside analysts, Khan inserted [...]

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao turns 33 on Saturday, and that may seem young to some people, it’s not young for a small fighter. They tend to wear down a lot quicker than the bigger guys at the higher weights. If you’ve watched WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao plod his way through his last four [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: ESPN writer Dan Rafael sees WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s) beating Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) tomorrow night in a fight that Rafael doesn’t see as being a close one. This may seem a bit jarring for some boxing fans because a lot of people seem to be [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan looked like a traumatized person on Sky Sports’ Ringside the other day; no doubt still feeling the emotional pain of being beaten by Lamont Peterson and having a hard time figuring out what went wrong. Khan was asked his thoughts on Saturday’s battle between Carl Froch and Andre Ward, and [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: David Haye sees his good friend WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch as having too much for WBA super middleweight champ Andre Ward in their huge Super Six finals fight tomorrow night in New Jersey. Haye, who was wrong with his recent pick of Amir Khan in fight against Lamont Peterson, sees [...]

Photo credit: Casino/SHOWTIME – By Scott Gilfoid: 90 percent of the time you can tell who’s going to win a fight just by looking at the two fighters at their weigh-in the day before the fight. That was never more true than in today’s weigh-in with WBC super middleweight champ Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KO’s) [...]

By William Mackay: If IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson gets his way he’ll face WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley next and then fight the anxious and unhappy Amir Khan after that. Peterson feels he has unfinished business with Bradley, because he was beaten by him two years ago in a noncompetitive fight in [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (Dec. 16, 2011) – A small but vocal contingent of British fans invaded Friday’s official weigh-in at Circus Maximus at Caesars Atlantic City in for the culmination of the Super Six World Boxing Classic, breaking into chants and song in support of the man they traveled over two thousand miles for, Carl [...]

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By Chris Williams: WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao sees the reason for his mega fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. not happening because Mayweather wants too much money. Pacquiao says Mayweather wants $100 million for the fight, and he sees this as a major reason why the two fighters haven’t set foot in the ring to [...]

Photo: Casino/SHOWTIME – By Scott Gilfoid: It’s interesting that WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch has done a lot of talking about how he’s worried about Andre Ward coming in with his head and headbutting him in their fight this Saturday night in the finals of the Super Six tournament. However, Ward sees Froch as [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten welterweight contender Kell Brook (25-0, 17 KO’s) has been completely ignored by fellow countryman Amir Khan despite having done well in the past year in beating a couple of quality fighters. Brook is still hoping to get a Khan fight in 2012 and sees Saturday’s fight against Luis Galarza (17-2, 13 [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Right about now Bob Arum, the promoter for WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s), has a lot of soul searching to do after the World Boxing Council mandated in their last meeting that Arum’s fighter Chavez Jr. must fight former WBC champ Sergio Martinez (48-2-2, 27 KO’s) next.

By Allen Fox: Former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan got some bad news today from the International Boxing Federation, who had decided not to order a rematch between Khan and newly crowned Lamont Peterson.

* * OFFICIAL WEIGHTS * * CARL FROCH (167 1/2 lbs) vs. ANDRE WARD (168 lbs) KELL BROOK (148 lbs) vs. LUIS GALARZA (147 1/2 lbs)