Archive for December, 2011

By William Mackay: Former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-2, 18 KO’s) is pretty confident that he’ll get the rematch that he’s been talking about from Lamont Peterson (30-1-1, 15 KO’s) in 2012, and says he’ll be ready to face him in April or May.

Blog Talk Radio’s “The Pugilist KOrner” is proud to present: Hall of Fame Trainer Emanuel Steward, IBF Light Middleweight Champion Cornelius “K 9” Bundrage, World Boxing Association (WBA) Light Middleweight Champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout, Light Middleweight Prospect Kevin Rooney Jr, and current Super Middleweight Contender Alfonso “El Tigre” Lopez.

By Jason Kim: WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (36-2-2, 15 KO’s) will reportedly be returning to the ring on April 13th to defend his World Boxing Association strap in a still to be determined venue in Germany. As of yet, there still isn’t an opponent for that date, but don’t expect it to [...]

By Dan Ambrose: The January 28th fight card headlined by WBC light welterweight champion Erik Morales vs. Danny Garcia has now been officially shelved, according to ESPN. It was already announced that the Morales-Garcia fight had been canceled due to the 35-year-old Morales’ recent gallbladder surgery.

By Allen Fox: 6’1 ½” WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25 KO’s) will be moving up in weight on February 25th to take on WBA World heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (23-0, 16 KO’s) in a fight at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany. Huck, 27, has been fighting 200lbs in the cruiserweight division.

ESPN’s Friday Night Fights’ Delvin Rodriguez-Pawel Wolak I was named 2011’s Fight of the Year by SportsIllustrated.com.

by John F. McKenna (McJack): New WBA/IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (30-1-1, 15 KO’s) is being considered as a possible opponent for pound for pound king WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s).

December 27, 2011….Danbury, CT/Bronx, NY – The City of Danbury (Connecticut) welcomed home its newest champion, Delvin Rodriguez this past Thursday night at Danbury Billiards. Over 200 proud fans packed into Danbury Billards as Mayor Mark Boughton welcomed Delvin home from his unanimous decision victory over Pawel Wolak on the undercard of Cotto – Margarito [...]

When referring to 15-year-old amateur boxer Bobby Gunn Jr., saying that the apple didn’t fall far from the tree would be the understatement of the year. Having the opportunity to follow his father-former IBA cruiserweight champion and current world heavyweight bare knuckle boxing champion Bobby “The Celtic Warrior” Gunn-around the gym since the age of [...]

Baltimore, MD (December 27, 2011) – Jake “The Snake” Smith of Baltimore Boxing Promotions and Scott Wagner’s Ballroom Boxing announced that the area’s top amateur fighters will battle the Naval Academy’s best boxers Thursday, January 26 at Michael’s Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie, MD.

LOS ANGELES, December 27 – The Friday, Jan. 6 edition of ShoBox: The New Generation on SHOWTIME promises to kickoff 2012 with yet another night of competitive prospect action as Golden Boy Promotions announced today that the co-featured fight will be another intriguing matchup in the 135-pound weight class pitting unbeaten prospects Michael Perez and [...]

ST. LOUIS (December 27, 2011) – The most dangerous puncher in the lightweight division, World Boxing Council (“WBC”) Continental Americas champion Dannie Williams, sooner rather than later, plans to add the North American Boxing Federation (“NABF”) belt to his growing collection.

By Dan Ambrose: Two division world champion Nonito Donaire (27-1, 18 KO’s) moves up in weight to try and pick up the vacant WBO super bantamweight title against Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (21-1-1, 18 KO’s) on February 4th at the Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas. Donaire, 5’7”, has done well against shorter opposition in the flyweight, super [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Ward doesn’t agree that Carl Froch should go straight from a loss against him into an important fight against IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute. Ward thinks Froch needs a tune-up before taking that kind of fight, and I agree. I think Froch will pull a major dumb move if he [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward has some advice to give IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute if he wants to fight him in the near future, and that’s to fight an A level fighter like Andre Dirrell.

By Chris Williams: The wise Teddy Atlas doesn’t see a future fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. being a particularly close one if and when the bout happens. Speaking with fighthype.com, Atlas pointed out that Pacquiao has shown signs of being susceptible in taking punishment in some of his one-sided fights put together [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) paid Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s) a big compliment when he said he feels Froch is the No.2 fighter in the super middleweight division. Ward says this even though IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24 KO’s) is still unbeaten, and Mikkel [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Since successfully beating Breidis Prescott by a 12 round unanimous decision last September in a WBA light welterweight title eliminator bout in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Paul McCloskey (23-1, 12 KO’s) has kind of been the forgotten man in the division. The title fight that he had hoped would come with the Prescott [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Light welterweight contender Paul McCloskey (23-1, 12 KO’s) was feeling no sympathy for Amir Khan’s latest complaints that he was judged unfairly in his 12 round decision loss to Lamont Peterson. Khan was docked two points in the fight for shoving Peterson and as it turns out that was enough to tip [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Due to the controversy of the New York doctor stopping the fight just when Antonio Margarito was starting to take command of the fight, I think WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto needs to do the right thing and give Margarito a rematch so the two fighters can settle the matter once [...]

By Eric Thomas: It’s been eight months since then challenger Victor Ortiz made WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto look like an old man in wearing him down and beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision in April 2011. Berto has since come back and beaten IBF paper champion Jan Zaveck by a 5th round [...]

By Jason Kim: IBF/WBA/WBA heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) will likely be fighting in front of at least 50,000+ German fans on March 3rd against 39-year-old Jean Marco Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO’s) at the Esprit Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. That’s a lot of fans to be sitting and potentially watching a fight where [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA bantamweight champion Jorge Arce (59-6-2, 45 KO’s) will be making a voluntary defense against non-top 15 ranked Lorenzo Parra (31-3-1, 18 KO’s) on February 18th in Durango, Mexico. Arce, 32, fought Parra last year in September in a 10 round draw. I saw the fight and had Parra winning easily at [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) has revealed that the lengthy negotiations in putting together his proposed fight with former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) forced him to opt to fight Dereck Chisora (15-2, 10 KO’s) on February 18, 2012.

By Scott Gilfoid: Well, it looks like WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) has been given the cover he needed in picking out 2nd tier heavyweight Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) to fight on February 18th at the Olympiahalle, in Munich, Germany. When the fight first announced, Chisora wasn’t even ranked in the [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Mariusz Wach (26-0, 14 KO’s) will face 36-year-old Tye Fields (49-4, 44 KO’s) on ESPN on March 30th at the Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. This is a match-up between two big, terribly flawed heavyweights. Wach, 6’7 ½”, is ranked #9 by the World Boxing Council, but is painfully [...]

By Eric Thomas: To no great surprise WBC light welterweight champion Erik Morales (52-7, 36 KO’s) has pulled out of his scheduled January 28th bout against #1 World Boxing Council challenger Danny Garcia (22-0, 14 KO’s) following gallbladder surgery that the 35-year-old Morales had last week.

By Chris Williams: When you look around in the comment section of boxingnews24.com you’ll notice that Manny Pacquiao’s fans are in a collective celebratory mood about Floyd Mayweather Jr’s 90 day jail term, which begins on January 6th next year and will keep him out of action for the first quarter of next year.

By Chris Williams: If there’s a one thing that really stands out in Amir Khan’s fights against Marcos Maidana and Lamont Peterson it’s the amount of running that Khan did when experiencing pressure from these fighters. Khan literally couldn’t stand his ground and was backpedaling or circling the ring throughout both fights.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): It is kind of disturbing how many people are gloating over the misfortune that has befallen World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s). There have been numerous articles written by boxing writers since Floyd was sentenced in Las Vegas last week to 90 days in [...]