Archive for December, 2011

By John F. McKenna (McJack): New International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (30-1-1, 15 KO’s) wants a crack at World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) in 2012.

By Peter Wells: Well, another year is coming to an end, and what a year it’s been. It’s pretty hard to sum it all up in one article but I’ll do my best to review what has been a fascinating year to say the least.

By Glen Anglin: No matter what happens in the future, the boxing world should forever recognize the fighting exploits of Floyd Mayweather. PBF has already fought so many good fights against tough competition, that it seems silly to suggest otherwise.

Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KOs), who just weeks removed from a dominant Super Six Tournament Final victory over the gritty and brash-talking Brit, Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KOs), retained his World Boxing Association (WBA) belt, while also capturing the WBC, Ring and the inaugural SHOWTIME Super Six World Boxing Classic Cup. In addition, Ward, who [...]

Promotor Frank Maloney predicts a busy year for his heavyweights starting with January 21st at the Liverpool Olympia. Headlining the bill is hot prospect David Price vs John McDermott in a 12 round final eliminator for the British and Commonwealth heavyweight title.

WORLD BOXING COUNCIL NEWS December 29, 2011 – Mexico City. From the office of WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán: Numerous media outlets have reported that WBC middleweight world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will fight Marco Antonio Rubio on February 4, 2012.

New York, NY – (12/29/2011) – This Friday night, former undisputed world middleweight champion Jermain Taylor returns to the ring and the 160-pound division when he faces 24-year-old Jessie “Beast” Nicklow, of Baltimore, MD, in the main event of a special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation, live at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the [...]

The UK’s only fight dedicated TV channel BoxNation (Sky Ch. 456, Virgin 546) has lined up a strong schedule for early 2012 featuring FOUR world title fights all live and exclusive on the New Home of Boxing.

By Chris Williams: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. is extremely disappointed with the lack of progress that former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan has made while under the guidance of trainer Freddie Roach in Los Angeles, California. Mayweather Sr. doesn’t see any improvement in Khan’s game whatsoever since Roach started training him and says that [...]

A professional fighter should have a team he can trust, a team that knows the sport and is dependable. The manager and trainer should be interactive and do what is best for the fighter. When a manager and trainer are divided it puts more stress on the fighter and does not allow him to focus [...]

By Eric Thomas: Undefeated WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (22-0, 18 KO’s) faces what could be the toughest test of his still young three year pro career against undefeated No.1 World Boxing Organization ranked contender Eloy Perez (23-0-2, 7 KO’s) on HBO on February 25th at the Scottrade Center in Saint Louis, Missouri.

By Scott Gilfoid: WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (23-0, 11 KO’s) says former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (33-5, 26 KO’s) has to earn a shot at his title by proving himself at light heavyweight despite Maccarinelli being the much more proven fighter and having faced much better opposition than Cleverly has fought before.

By William Mackay: It goes from bad to worse for IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) in 2012. Not only does he have to waste the first quarter of 2012 getting ready to destroy 39-year-old smallish ex-cruiserweight champion Jean Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO’s) on March 3rd in Germany, but Wladimir then has [...]

By Allen Fox: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (28-4-1, 17 KO’s) is making a comeback on Friday night and looking to make a new run at becoming the No.1 fighter in the middleweight division. Taylor faces Jessie Nicklow (22-2-3, 8 KO’s) in a fight that should give fans a good indication of whether Taylor [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In watching Amir Khan’s fights in the past year or so, I’ve not been blind to his bad habit of fouling his opponents repeatedly in his fights. The fouls that I’ve seen from Khan are as follows: Holding & hitting, pulling down on his opponents’ heads, shoving them, rabbit punching, headbutting, and [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: 6’7” former 2008 Olympic heavyweight bronze medalist Deontay Wilder (20-0, 20 KO’s) is the textbook version of a one-punch knockout artist and he’s arguably the best heavyweight prospect in boxing in my opinion. Wilder has knocked out all 20 of his opponents with most of the knockouts coming in the first here [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Floyd Mayweather Sr. says he sees Andre Dirrell and Andre Ward as becoming the big stars in the boxing world after his son Floyd Mayweather Jr. retires from the sport.

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s still difficult to erase the image of small overmatched Tomasz Adamek (44-2, 28 KO’s) looking like a helpless schoolboy in getting whipped by WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) last September in a 10th round TKO loss in Poland.

By William Mackay: It’s no secret that David Haye has been involved with two of the worst fights in recent years with his Audley Harrison and Wladimir Klitschko fights, which were expensive pay per view bouts where the boxing public got very little value for the money they dished out to watch Haye fight. We [...]

By Dan Ambrose: It’s been two years now since Miguel Cotto was battered and bruised in losing to Manny Pacquiao by a 12th round TKO in November 2009. Cotto looked awful in that fight after the first couple of rounds and seemed to be in the survival mode until being blasted out in the 12th [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) is looking to make up for lost time when he comes back this Friday night against Darryl Cunningham (24-2, 10 KO’s) in their televised fight on SHOWTIME. Dirrell, 28, wants to beat the 37-year-old Cunningham in impressive fashion and then use the momentum from this victory get [...]

By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Sr. has serious doubts that WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao ever really wanted to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. Floyd Sr. thinks Pacquiao is avoiding the fight to save himself from getting a beating from his son.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): It’s kind of interesting how much flak WBA/IBF/WBO/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) has taken for his upcoming fight with Frenchman Jean-Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO’s). Many boxing observers and fans have been highly critical of “Dr. Steelhammer” for taking on the former WBA/WBC cruiserweight champion.

By Reynaldo Sanchez: Next February 3rd, Hylon Williams 15-0-0 (3KO’s) will face Rances Barthelemy 14-0-0 (11 KO’s), in Las Vegas, Nevada. Today, Hylon sparr in The Heavy Weight Factory GYM in Hollywood, Fla. against Amir Iman.

When he opens the new NBC Sports Network’s Fight Night series on January 21, 2012 at Asylum Arena in his hometown of Philadelphia, top Heavyweight Contender “Fast” Eddie Chambers has promised to impress Philly’s discerning boxing fans and make lots of new ones. According to Chambers, taking on former World Heavyweight Champion Siarhei “White Wolf” [...]

NEW YORK (Dec. 28, 2011) – Two Super Six World Boxing Classic fighters, former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor and consensus top-five super middleweight Andre Dirrell, took part in a media teleconference call on Wednesday to discuss their return to the ring on a special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation this Friday, Dec. 30, [...]

Description: Description: Description: wbc%20webpage%20header WORLD BOXING COUNCIL NEWS December 28, 2011 – Mexico City. From WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán: “I would like to clarify my feelings about some recent comments of mine, and apologize for not finding the right words in English – there are many times when I cannot find the right words [...]

By Dan Ambrose: The previously scheduled fight between WBC light welterweight champion Erik Morales (52-7, 36 KO’s) and #1 ranked World Boxing Council contender Danny Garcia (22-0, 14 KO’s) has been moved to March 24th, according to the 35-year-old Morales, who revealed the information on his twitter.

By Jason Kim: WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25 KO’s) is really hoping that a win over the WBA heavyweight paper champion Alexander Povetkin (23-0, 16 KO’s) on February 25th in Germany will get him the fight against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) that Huck has been looking to get for [...]

By Chris Williams: Now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is firmly out of the picture for a mega fight against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao for early 2012, 38-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KO’s) is speaking up saying he wants a fourth fight between him and Pacquiao, but not in Las Vegas, Nevada. There it [...]