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NEW YORK (Feb. 8, 2012) — The four fighters who will compete in 12-round bouts on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING on Saturday, Feb. 18, live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) at American Bank Center Arena in Corpus Christi, Texas, and their respective promoters took part in a national media conference call [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: According to legrandclub.rds.ca, former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch is now the mandatory challenger for IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute. It’s a pretty interesting development given that Froch wasn’t even ranked in the top 15 by the IBF and now is suddenly Bute’s mandatory challenger.

By Chris Williams: For some reason WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao thinks that WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley will elect to run when they fight on June 9th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

CHICAGO, IL (February 8, 2012) Former world title challenger Edner “Cherry Bomb” Cherry kicks off his 2012 campaign on Friday, February 24th against Puerto Rican Guillermo “The Vampire” Sanchez at Windy City Fight Night 21.

By Dan Ambrose: IBF bantamweight champion Abner Mares (23-0-1, 13 KO’s) has decided to vacate his International Boxing Federation title in order to go after a fight against 36-year-old former WBA flyweight champion Eric Morel (46-2, 23 KOs) on April 21st in a fight that will likely take place in Mexico City, Mexico.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis (41-2-1, 32 KO’s) has been giving former World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) advice recently.

By Scott Fitzgerald: After Tyson Fury as everyone really expected decided to vacate the British & Commonwealth Titles the question not many pundits have asked is What’s next for David Price?

BRONX, NY (February 8, 2012) – Star Boxing president Joe DeGuardia has announced that former world title challenger Angel “Toro” Hernandez (30-10, 17 KOs) has replaced an ill Derek Ennis for Friday’s night’s main event against 2008US Olympian Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade (15-0, 10 KOs) on ESPN Friday Night Fights at Mohegan Sun Arena in [...]

Yoan Pablo Hernandez (26-1, 13 KOs) has set his sights on a quick return after receiving some bad news earlier this week. On Saturday, the 27-year-old defended his International Boxing Federation (IBF) Cruiserweight Title with a spectacular points victory over Steve Cunningham. On Monday morning, a routine check of his left hand, which was still [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Undefeated British heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (17-0, 12 KO’s) has elected to vacate his British and Commonwealth heavyweight title belts to pursue a world title fight.

Kevin Mitchell is aiming for a big summer showdown with rival Ricky Burns once he has smashed Felix Lora this Friday night.

Team Price are extremely disappointed that Chicken Fury has gone clucking away.

David Price’s promoter Frank Maloney has blasted Tyson Fury for vacating his British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles and preventing a fight against Price.

London (Feb 8.) Hennessy Sports have announced this morning that Tyson Fury has vacated his British and Commonwealth Heavyweight titles in pursuit of being a household name on his journey to become Heavyweight World Champion.

This coming Friday World Boxing Organization (WBO) Inter-Continental Lightweight Champion Kevin Mitchell is set to face Spain based Felix Lora in a non-championship bout at the famous York Hall in Bethnal Green, London.

By Eric Thomas: Trainer/HBO analyst Emanuel Steward feels that WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25 KO’s) has a very good chance of beating undefeated WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (23-0, 16 KO’s) this month on February 25th at the Porsche-Arena in Stuttgart, Germany. Steward likes Hucks’ power and mental strength.

By Allan Fox: We could see Chris Arreola (34-2, 29 KO’s) get out-boxed by the 6’5” Eric Molina (18-1, 14 KO’s) on February 18th in their fight at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.

2008 Olympian Bradley Saunders makes his long awaited professional this Friday night on the undercard of Kevin Mitchell’s London return at the York Hall. The 26-year-old light-welterweight from Stokton-on-Tees goes straight into a six-round contest against Jason Nesbitt.

By William Mackay: It’s looking more and more like IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson will decide against facing Amir Khan in a rematch so Peterson can instead fight face Juan Manuel Marquez at the Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas with the possibility to get a fight against Manny Pacquiao in November.

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum has already screwed up in the past by letting big fights marinate too long to where one of the fighters gets beaten. It may happen yet again on June 9th when his number #1 fighter Pacquiao defends his WBO welterweight strap against Top Rank challenger Timothy Bradley [...]

By Dan Ambrose: HBO analyst Larry Merchant asked WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. if he was considering moving up in weight last Saturday due to Chavez Jr’s struggles to make the 160 pound middleweight limit for his fight against Marco Antonio Rubio.

By Babatis Banda: A lot of people will tune in just to, hopefully see Floyd lose to Cotto. While this is an unpredictable game with possibilities happening, it is only remotely possible that Cotto will beat Floyd. There is so much that has happened in this sport, just as much as that which has not [...]

By Dan Ambrose: According to RingTV, the reason why there wasn’t any drug testing for WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. last Saturday night was because the Texas State Athletic Commission failed to book a drug testing laboratory.

By Scott Gilfoid: A fight between David Price and British heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is a possibility, as purse the purse bids were expected to be lodged today. Price is the mandatory challenger after beating John McDermott by a 1st round TKO last month. Fury was thought to be vacating his British title in order [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (23-0, 11 KO’s) says he’s not overlooking his scheduled opponent Tommy Karpency (21-2-1, 14 KO’s) whom he’ll be meeting on February 25th at the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales.

By Allen Fox: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (37-2, 32 KO’s) has an advantage that WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez doesn’t have in trying to land a fight against WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KO’s) in that Pavlik fights for Top Rank Promotions, the same promoter as Chavez Jr.

By Chris Williams: Newly crowned WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire didn’t break his left hand in his win over Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. last Saturday night, according to Steve Kim of maxboxing.com. Kim is reporting that Donaire’s wife, Rachel Donaire, says there were no fractures round during the medical check on Donaire’s left hand.

By Scott Gilfoid: Former European Boxing Union (EBU) super bantamweight champion Rendall Munroe (24-2, 10 KO’s) is ready to beat a couple of young upstarts Commonwealth super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton 12-0, 8 KO’s) and British super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg (24-0, 17 KO’s) to prove who the best fighter really is at super bantamweight [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): When former World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) retired last October he left the door ajar as to whether he would come back to fight again.

By Chris Williams: There are certain fighters that theoretically would give Floyd Mayweather Jr. a lot of trouble, and Miguel Cotto is one of them. And as much as the boxing public is high on Manny Pacquiao right now, I don’t think he would give Mayweather even slight problems compared to Cotto.