Andre Dirrell boxing news
By Scott Gilfoid: The Dirrell brothers, Andre and Anthony, will be in action tonight on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike TV.
Super middleweight Andre Dirrell (24-2, 16 KOs) has a tough assignment on his hands against former 175lb title challenger Blake Caparello (22-1-1, 6 KOs) at the beautiful Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
By Scott Gilfoid: #5 IBF, #5 WBC Andre Dirrell (24-2, 16 KOs) has to take care of business on Friday night with his 10 round fight against Blake Caparello (22-1-1, 6 KOs) on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox from the Trump Taj Mahal, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Dirrell, 32, plans on beating Caparello and then going on to avenge his loss to IBF super middleweight champion James DeGale after that. Dirrell lost to DeGale last year by a close 12 round unanimous decision by the scores of 114-112, 117-109 and 114-112.
The loss didn’t sit so well with Dirrell, as he wants to get DeGale back into the ring to prove who the better fighter is. Dirrell doesn’t care if he has to travel to the UK to make the fight happen. He wants that fight.
By Scott Gilfoid: The talented Dirrell brothers will be fighting this Friday night on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike TV from the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Super middleweight contender Andre Dirrell (24-2, 16 KOs) will be fighting former world title challenger Blake Caparello (22-1-1, 6 KOs) in a 10 round fight.
Andre’s brother, Anthony Dirrell (28-1-1, 22 KOs) will be taking on the hard hitting former world title challenger Caleb Truax 26-2-2, 16 KOs) in a 10 round fight. This should be a great card from beginning to end.
By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC super middleweight champion Anthony Dirrell (28-1-1, 22 KOs) will be facing former world title challenger Caleb Truax (26-2, 16 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round fight on April 29 on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike TV at the Trump Taj Mahal, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The 32-year-old Truax will be moving up from the 160lb division to take the fight against the 31-year-old Dirrell. It should be a good fight for as long as it lasts. Also on the card will be Anthony’s talented brother Andre Dirrell (24-2, 16 KOs) facing former light heavyweight title challenger Blake Caparrello (22-2-1, 6 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round fight in the co-feature bout.
FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA (October 5, 2015) – Rising star Prichard “Digget” Colon (16-0, 13 KOs) faces undefeated Terrel Williams (14-0, 12 KOs) on Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on NBC Saturday, October 17 from EagleBank Arena at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
By Scott Gilfoid: This month’s October 17th Premier Boxing Champions card on NBC got some bad news today with the talented #8 IBF super middleweight contender Andre Dirrell (24-2, 16 KOs) having to pull out of his scheduled 10 round fight against former world title challenger Blake Caparello (21-1-1, 6 KOs) at the EagleBank Arena, in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
The Dirrell-Caparello fight was supposed to be the co-feature bout on the Lamont Peterson (33-3-1, 17 KOs) vs. Felix Diaz (17-0, 8 KOs) card. Dirrell has a medical issue that has forced him off the card.
By Scott Gilfoid: After narrowly losing a 12 round majority decision to Danny Garcia last May in a catch-weight fight at 143 pounds, former IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (33-3-1, 17 KOs) will be trying his hand at welterweight (147) against 2008 Olympic light welterweight gold medalist Felix Diaz Jr. (17-0, 8 KOs) next month in a 12 round fight on Premier Boxing Champions on NBC from the EagleBank Arena at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Peterson, 31, looked sensational in his last fight in moving up to welterweight to give Garcia all he could handle for 12 rounds. Peterson put on an excellent display of taking the fight to Garcia and punishing him with power shots to the body and head.
By Scott Gilfoid: #8 IBF 168lb contender Andre Dirrell (24-2, 16 KOs) says his adviser Al Haymon is telling him that a rematch with IBF super middleweight champion James DeGale (21-1, 14 KOs) is a big possibility. DeGale, 29, has been out of the ring for three months since his very, very close 12 round unanimous decision win over Dirrell last April, and he still hasn’t fought an opponent.
DeGale’s promoter Eddie Hearn was hoping to get him back into the ring by September or October, but thus far he’s come up empty in terms of opponents. Mikkel Kessler and Lucian Bute were two of the names that had been floated around for DeGale’s first title defense, but Kessler has retired and Bute is scheduled to fight on August 15th.
By Scott Gilfoid: Kenny Porter, the trainer for former IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter, sees IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) as not being an unstoppable force that can’t be beat, or can’t be stopped from his seven year knockout streak that he’s had going since 2008.
Porter specifically names the following fighters that can either beat Golovkin or give him some serious problems inside the ring: Andre Dirrell, Andre Ward, and Bernard Hopkins. Porter feels that Hopkins and Ward would straight beat Golovkin, and he also thinks that Dirrell would give him major problems as well.
By HK: Well it has been quite a successful and exciting month of boxing, especially from a British perspective. We now have four fully fledged British world champions, who all hold the IBF version of the title. James DeGale (Super-Middleweight), Kell Brook (Welterweight), Lee Selby (Featherweight) and Carl Frampton (Super Bantamweight).
Although these haven’t all come from within the space of one month it is nonetheless extremely encouraging to see British fighters consistently challenging at world level. This coupled with the various interim and regular titles held by British fighters and British boxing could not be in a better place right now.