Adonis Stevenson vs. Noe Gonzalez Alcoba on April 20th

Image: Adonis Stevenson vs. Noe Gonzalez Alcoba on April 20thBy Jim Dower: 34-year-old super middleweight contender Adonis Stevenson (17-1, 14 KO’s) will be fighting contender Noe Gonzalez Alcoba (28-1, 20 KO’s) in a 12 round bout at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This isn’t the fight that Stevenson wanted, as he was hoping to take on former two time title challenger Librado Andrade. However, Andrade reportedly past on the idea of fighting Stevenson for whatever reason.

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First Unofficial Boxingnews24 Champions

Image: First Unofficial Boxingnews24 ChampionsBy Gerardo Granados: If the reader care to take more than five minutes to read the ranking list of the numerous boxing organizations he might end up confused or more likely disagree on the rankings. You can find unknown names, old lions and others names that make you wonder how did them managed to climb so high on the ranking lists. Sure, you will get to see a great fighter ranked low away from the top five or seven on his weight class.

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So many boxers dodging one another

By Dominic Sauboorah: It’s quite disappointing to see how some fighters claim to be the best without actually fighting the best. The idea of logic just clearly doesn’t exist to these sorts of people. There are boxers for sure who are extremely talented and definitely could make it far on the world stage of boxing, but when they haven’t been there and yet claim to say that they could beat the best, well why don’t they?

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Boyd Melson – A Champion in Every Aspect

by Chip Mitchell: Sacrifice is defined as the surrender of something for the sake of something (or someone) else. If the dictionary allowed for a picture of a human being to exemplify sacrifice, Boyd Melson would be on a multitude of selection committee’s short lists.

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Mayweather-Cotto, Gamboa-Rios – Big fights coming up

Image: Mayweather-Cotto, Gamboa-Rios - Big fights coming upBy Jake Headland: With the summer fast approaching us fight fans the world over are looking forward to this years mega-fights. Ok, they’re looking at Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Manny Paquaio to see if they are at last fighting one and another………with the answer of course being no. I am one who still believes this fight will never happen, the problem is that success breeds egotism and when you have the 2 best fighters on the planet there is a lot of success and therefore a lot of egotism!

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Oosthuizen stops Yannick; Mabuza defeats Wills

By Jim Dower: Undefeated IBO super middleweight champion Thomas Oosthuizen (18-0-1, 13 KO’s) completely dominated challenger Serge Yannick (14-2, 7 KO’s) on Saturday night, stopping him in the 6th round of a one-sided fight from start to finish at the Emperor’s Palace, Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Smith destroys Jones in 1st round blowout

By Scott Gilfoid: Former British and Commonwealth featherweight champion Stephen Smith (14-1, 8 KO’s) picked up another easy 1st round TKO win this time over 29-year-old Ben Jones (12-3-1, 4 KO’s) to grab the vacant WBO Inter-Continental super featherweight title on Friday night at The Troxy, Limehouse, in London, UK.

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Oosthuizen vs. Yannick on Saturday

Image: Oosthuizen vs. Yannick on SaturdayBy Eric Thomas: IBO super middleweight champion Tommy Oosthuizen (17-0, 12 KO’s) will be making his fourth defense of his International Boxing Organization title on Saturday night against 29-year-old Australian Serge Yannick (14-1, 7 KO’s) at the Emperor’s Palace, Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa.

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