Kevin Mitchell Boxing News

By William Mackay: The May 15th clash between World Boxing Organization lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (26-2, 21 KO’s) and number #1 ranked challenger Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) will be taking place at Upton Park, in West Ham, London. The location of the fight will benefit Mitchell, a Brit, and there could be as [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBO lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (26-2, 21 KO’s) could be facing number #1 ranked Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) at the Upton Park football stadium on May 15th. This is a large arena which seats 35,000 boxing fans. It’s debatable whether it sellout or not for this fight card, which reportedly [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Earlier today, I read an amusing press release in which lightweight Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) said he’d be knocking out World Boxing Organization lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (26-2, 21 KO’s) when they fight on May 8th. As of now, there’s still no location set for the fight, but it could [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is becoming something of a Nostradamus predictor in the boxing world. In his latest round of predictions, the 29-year-old Haye is predicting that British fighters Amir Khan, Carl Froch and Kevin Mitchell will all win their next fights coming up. Haye, who seems to have an eye [...]

By Tim Walsh: World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye feels that unbeaten lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) will win one of the lightweight titles in 2010. In an article at ESPN, the 29-year-old Haye says “Kevin Mitchell will win a world title this year. I think Mitchell could beat anyone in the [...]

By Sam Gemmell: Frank Warren has won the purse bid for the fight between Kevin Mitchell (31-0(23) and Michael Katsidis (26-2(21), which is expected to take place in May, 2010. The fight will be held somewhere in England, with the O2 Arena in London looking most likely.
Mitchell, 25, has looked great in his last [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Promoter Frank Warren has reportedly won the purse bid for the WBO bout between number #1 contender Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) and World Boxing Organization lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (26-2, 21 KO’s) after placing the winning bid of $515,000, beating the Katsidis’ manager Brendon Smith’s bid of $501,000. What this [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s looking like number #1 World Boxing Organization lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) will be having to go to Australia to face World Boxing Organization lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (26-2, 21 KO’s), according to the Mirror. This is bad news for the 25-year-old Mitchell, because he was hoping to [...]

By Ronny Jordan: In recent years the UK has produced some great fighters. Throughout the 80s there was Barry Mcguigan, Lloyd Honeyghan. The 90s Naseem Hamed, Lennox Lewis, and more recently Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe plus more. All great champions of there time and will be remembered and loved by the UK public.
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Derek Chisora vs. Carl Baker – Heavyweights
This was yet another mismatch on the card. Derek Chisora (12-0, 7 KO’s) stopped Carl Baker (9-5, 6 KO’s) in the 2nd round of a scheduled 10 round bout. The stoppage was way too quick by referee Richard James Davies in the 2nd round. Chisora landed a hard right [...]

By Sean McDaniel: 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist James DeGale (6-0, 4 KO’s) put on an impressive punching display tonight in stopping a badly over-matched Matthew Barr (14-6, 6 KO’s) in the 2nd round of a scheduled six round bout at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London. DeGale, 24, was putting everything he had in his shots [...]

By Alan Dawson: Saturday evening provides British boxing fans with their biggest domestic night of the year. After one of the headline acts provided more ducking than a Whack-a-mole machine that donned the defensive-nous of shoulder-roll happy Floyd Mayweather, promoter Frank Warren worked steadily to bring in adequate replacements. The omission of British Welterweight champion [...]

By William Mackay: Lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (30-0, 22 KO’s) will be facing 2nd tier lightweight Ignacio Mendoza (27-5, 18 KO’s) this Saturday in a stay busy fight at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London. Mitchell, 25, is hoping to get a win so that he can possibly line up a fight against World Boxing Organization [...]

By Liam Brindle: How Impressive was Kevin Mitchell’s win against the lightweight contender and knockout artist Breidis Prescott on the 5th December in Newcastle? When the fight was made I thought it was a leap forward and a leap too far for ‘The Dagenham Destroyer’ because he had never fought anyone who punched like Breidis [...]

By Mark Fletcher: At the start of 2009, things looked promising in the lightweight division as far as Great Britain were concerned, Amir Khan came back well from his first round knockout by Breidis Prescott, Jon Thaxton had rolled back the years to capture the European title and John Murray was set start a promising [...]

By Chris Williams: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (23-1, 21 KO’s) had some positive words to say about fellow countryman Carl Froch, Amir Khan and Kevin Mitchell in an article from the Telegraph. Haye, 29, who recently defeated World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev by landing pot shots and running all night long, feels [...]

By Dave Lahr: World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Kitschko (38-2, 37 KO’s) will be returning to action this Saturday night in a title defense against unbeaten American Kevin Johnson (22-0-1, 9 KO’s) at the PostFinance Arena, in Berne, Switzerland. It’s only been three months since the 38-year-old Klitschko last fought and with that kind [...]

By Peter Wells: Don’t worry, I’m not going to become obsessed with the Super Six, but for my next articles I will be talking about a Super Six tournament in these weight divisions: Lightweight, Light Welterweight, Welterweight, Middleweight, Light Heavyweight, Cruiserweight and Heavyweight.

By Peter Wells: Last night Kevin Mitchell rose up from Super Featherweight to take on the man who only last year, knocked out Amir Khan in under a minute. Breidis Prescott was beaten last night for sure, but it was far from an easy ride for Kevin. In this fight I was expecting Mitchell to [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: First let me start off by saying that the decision given to Kevin Mitchell (30-0, 22 KO’s) was one of the most undeserving that I’ve ever seen since I started following boxing many years ago. No way did I see Mitchell winning this fight, not with the running he did against the [...]

By Richie Doyle: As a young gambling boxing fan I find myself gob smacked at what I witnessed Saturday night in Newcastle my bets consisted of two sizable bets one on Breidis Prescott to KO the smaller Kevin Mitchell and the other was on Dmitry Salita to beat an overrated Amir Khan and by god [...]

By Dennis Broadhurst: Amir Khan has destroyed Dmitriy Salita in one round tonight! Khan came out strong and floored Salita with a huge right hand, Salita got up but didn’t recovered and was knocked down twice again in the round before the fight being stopped. I know I predicted Khan to win this one but [...]

By William Mackay: Lightweight Kevin Mitchell (30-0, 22 KO’s) pulled off something of an upset tonight in defeating hard hitting Colombian Breidis Prescott by a 12 round decision in a World Boxing Organization eliminator bout at the Metro arena in Newcastle. The final judges’ scores were 119-110, 118-111 and 117-111 Mitchell landed the more numerous [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I hate to say this but I think World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan and lightweight Kevin Mitchell are both going to be destroyed tomorrow night at the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear. Khan, shaky chin and all, will be facing unbeaten Dmitriy Salita, while Mitchell was be [...]

By William Mackay: At today’s weigh-in, World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) weighed in at 139.5 for his title fight against unbeaten challenger Dmitriy Salita (30-0-1, 16 KO’s) on Saturday at the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear. Salita, 27, weighed in at 140 for the bout. Salita is [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Breidis Prescott (21-1, 18 KO’s) is looking to take Kevin Mitchell (29-0, 22 KO’s) out in the 4th round on Saturday night on the undercard of the Amir Khan vs. Dmitriy Salita bout for Khan’s World Boxing Association light welterweight title at the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear. Prescott, 26, [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: British former super featherweight contender Kevin Mitchell (29-0, 22 KO’s) is making a huge mistake in taking on Colombian slugger Breidis Prescott (21-1, 18 KO’s) this Saturday night on the undercard of the World Boxing Association light welterweight clash between champion Amir Khan and challenger Dmitriy Salita at the Metro Radio Arena, [...]

By Steven Wain: It’s good to be back after so many weeks due to immense amounts of homework and family problems. I was looking at different fights through out the remaining of 2009 and one fight in particular caught my eye with the exception of Khan, Kessler ETC, and this fight is Prescott VS Mitchell.

By William Mackay: A bout between lightweight Breidis Prescott and super featherweight contender Kevin Mitchell is reportedly being set up but no date as of yet, according to the latest boxing news. This would figure to be a very tough fight for the brawling 5’8” Mitchell, because he’s shown to be very hittable in his [...]

By Nate Anderson: Undefeated BBBofC British welterweight champion Kell Brook (20-0, 13 KO’s) defeated a badly over-matched Michael Lomax (15-2-1, 2 KO’s) by a 3rd round TKO in the 3rd round on Saturday night at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, England. Brook, 23, hurt Lomax with a hard left hand in the 3rd round and [...]