Archive for December, 2011

By Dan Ambrose: Manny Pacquiao’s next fight will be determined with the help of his promoter Bob Arum starting next month in January. The list of possible opponents are as follows: Miguel Cotto, Timothy Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez. Pacquiao reportedly is leaning in the direction of fighting Timothy Bradley next rather than fighting rematches [...]

By Jim Dower: After making his first defense of his title against 42-year-old No.14 ranked Cedric Boswell, WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (23-0, 16 KO’s) will make his next title defense against WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25 KO’s) on February 25th in Stuttgart, Germany, according to news from Dan Rafael.

By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Council has given WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. approval to make a voluntary title defense on February 4th, likely against no.1 ranked WBC contender Marcos Antonio Rubio. This comes after Chavez Jr. reportedly asked the WBC for permission to take the voluntary defense.

By Sean McDaniel: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (30-1-1, 15 KO’s) is looking to take the best offer he can get while he’s holding most of the tittles at 140lbs. Thus far, Peterson has already received a $1 million rematch offer with Amir Khan by Golden Boy Promotions, but he wants to see if [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former International Boxing Federation (IBF) light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (30-4, 6 KO’s) is in negotiations to fight WBA welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko (32-0, 21 KO’s) in early 2012 if the fight can be successfully negotiated. Malignaggi, ranked #3 WBA, is about the safest bet for Sencheko as far as him being [...]

By William Mackay: Promoter Lou Dibella is a big fan of Amir Khan and marvels at his hand speed and his boxing skills. However, Dibella was greatly disappointed in watching Khan struggle and lose to Lamont Peterson recently in Washington, DC.

In an extremely well fought fight, with two incredibly worthy opponents, Michael Medina (25-3, 19 KOs), Monterry, Mexico, defeated former champion Grady Brewer (28-14, 16 KOs), Lawton, Oklahoma, in a ten round decision, winning the NABF Junior Middleweight Title belt. Presented by catBOX Entertainment in Oklahoma City, OK at the Cox Convention Center, the bout [...]

December 23, 2011….Bronx, NY 0 Sports Illustrated.com has named the Delvin Rodriguez-Pawel Wolak 1 its “Fight of the Year” in its annual Boxing Awards for 2011. The epic battle between these two warriors took place July 15th at The Roseland Ballroom in NYC, promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing, and was broadcast live on ESPN2 [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It looks like former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s) is still licking his wounds after getting whipped by WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) in the Super Six tournament finals bout last weekend.

PHILADELPHIA (December 23, 2011)—Despite reports and rumors to contrary, Ivan Cohen is still the manager of Lightweight contender “Hammerin” Hank Lundy.

By Chip Mitchell: My colleague Robert Uzzell and I recently attended three major fight cards on the east coast. The events just so happened to take place on back-to-back-to-back weekends. Hey, who says all the good fights land in Vegas? As gas prices soared to about $3.80 per gallon, we wondered if Greyhound or even [...]

By Dan Ambrose: A third fight between Antonio Margarito (38-8, 27 KO’s) and WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) is being looked at for May or June of 2012, according to an interview by Margarito at fightnews.com.

By Scott Gilfoid: If former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) can agree to lower his demands for a fight against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s), the fight can take place in June of 2012, possibly at the Wembley Stadium in the UK.

By Dan Ambrose: Before World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) defeated Antonio Margarito earlier this month by a 10th round doctor’s stoppage, EPSN analyst and trainer Teddy Atlas believed that the 31-year old Cotto was damaged goods from the beatings he took in his loss to Margarito in 2008 [...]

By Chris Williams: Things haven’t been good for World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao with the news that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is going to jail for 90 days and won’t be available for a mega fight for a significant portion of next year.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) may have been presumptuous when his team reserved the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas for May 5, 2012.

By William Mackay: Undefeated welterweight contender Kell Brook (26-0, 18 KO’s) was supposed to be stepping it up a class after his last fight against Luis Galarza last Saturday night which Brook easily won by a 5th round TKO.

By Sean McDaniel: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) will be dealing with the best pressure fighter he’s faced in many years when he defends his title against the hard hitting Joe Frazier-like Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) on February 18th at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany.

By William Mackay: It’s a minor miracle that IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson was able to beat Amir Khan in their recent fight with all the pushing and pulling down on the head that Khan was doing in the fight.

Former World Boxing Council (WBC) light flyweight champion, Edgar Sosa (43-7, 26 Ko´s), announced today his return to the ring next January 7 at the “Foro Polanco” of Mexico City under the promotion of Ricardo Maldonado and RB Productions.

By Jim Dower: EBU heavyweight champion Robert Helenius (17-0, 11 KO’s) will be pressing ahead with his career without any guilt after beating Dereck Chisora by a controversial 12 round split decision earlier this month on December 3rd in a fight that Helenius appeared to have lost badly in the minds of many who saw [...]

By William Mackay: If the IBF or WBA don’t force Lamont Peterson to fight an immediate rematch against Amir Khan, trainer Freddie Roach says he’d like to see Peterson be matched against another one of his fighters WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, according to ringtv.

By Scott Gilfoid: I don’t mind a fighter doing as bit of crowing after a big win or some kind of accomplishment like winning an award, but I don’t understand how Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s) can be bragging about himself coming off of his one-sided 12 round decision loss to Andre Ward in the [...]

By Eric Thomas: 42-year-old Roy Jones Jr. (55-8, 40 KO’s) could be fighting for a world title for the first time in over eight years if he agrees to fight World Boxing Council (WBC) cruiserweight champion Krzystof Wlodarczyk (46-2-1, 33 KO’s) next year in March.

By Chris Williams: Now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is officially off the table for Manny Pacquiao’s next fight in early 2012 due to Mayweather’s 90 incarceration sentence, Pacquiao and his promoter Bob Arum are going to have to sit down in January to pick out just who will be the next fight for the Filipino [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: To show you how much better WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) was compared to Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s), Ward reportedly fought with a multiple fracture of his left the entire fight in pounding out an easy 12 round unanimous decision win over Froch in the Super Six [...]

By Dan Ambrose: If IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (30-1-1, 15 KO’s) doesn’t opt to give Amir Khan an immediate rematch either by force from the IBF or the WBA, he would like to fight former WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios (29-0-1, 22 KO’s).

By Dan Ambrose: HBO analyst Larry Merchant isn’t pleased that WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez may end up facing 40-year-old Shane Mosley next rather than a more deserving top contender in the division such as James Kirkland.

By Dan Ambrose: 35-year-old former two division world champion Tomasz Adamek (44-2, 28 KO’s) is looking to take on either Chris Arreola (34-2, 29 KO’s) or unbeaten Seth Mitchell (24-0-1, 18 KO’s) in the summer to pick up a nice win before trying to get another world title shot.

Roy Jones, Jr., John Ruiz, Tomasz Adamek & Emanuel Steward among award winners NEW YORK, NY (Dec. 22, 2011) – Star boxers, industry dignitaries and fans turned out in record numbers for the recent 25th annual RING 8 Holiday Event and Awards Ceremony at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, New York.