Recent world title challenger Marcos ’El Chino’ Maidana and hot prospect Víctor Ortiz will meet on June 27 for the WBA interim super lightweight title on the undercard of the rematch between the WBA featherweight champion Chris John and Rocky Juarez at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Maidana lost ...
After his ninth round knockout of mandatory challenger Juan Carlos Gomez in Germany, the WBC champion Vitali Klitschko would re-issue his challenge to WBA champ Nikolai Valuev. Vitali has the WBC title and his younger brother Wladimir holds the WBO/IBF titles. "The Klitschko brothers wants to have all four of ...
Unbeaten WBO #2 rated middleweight John Duddy (26-0, 17 KOs) outboxed Matt Vanda (39-9, 22 KOs) over nine one-sided rounds, then survived a late Vanda rally in the tenth to win 99-91, 99-91, 97-93. Unbeaten Olympian super middleweight Matt Korobov (4-0, 4 KOs) kept his perfect KO streak alive when ...
Oscar De La Hoya said that he felt so weak and helpless during last December's stoppage loss to Manny Pacquiao that during the seventh round he was hoping for the Filipino fighter to land a knockout blow. What's even more telling is De La Hoya's claim that Pacquiao is not ...
Fightnews.com was informed by inside sources that Ricardo Mayorga has withdrawn from his scheduled bout on February 14 against unbeaten junior middleweight prospect Alfredo Angulo.
Ring legend Marco Antonio Barrera (65-6, 43 KOs) won by third round disqualification over emergency replacement Freudis Rojas (1-8-1) on Saturday night at the Auditorio Telmex de la UG in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. Rojas was DQ’d for a headbutt which left Barrera with a bad gash over his left eye. ...
In the first huge shocker of 2009, highly touted cruiserweight hope Alexander Alekseev was stopped by unknown Argentinian Victor Emilio Ramirez after nine hard-fought rounds for the WBO interim cruiserweight title in front of 4000 excited fans on Saturday at the Burg-Wächter-Castello in Dusseldorf, Germany. Alekseev started well, keeping the ...
After months of negotiations, distracions and arguments, both fighters have agreed upon to what may be the biggest fight in the history of New Zealand boxing. Heavyweights rivals David Tua (49-3, 42KOs) and Shane Cameron (22-1, 19KOs) will battle on June 6, with each receiving $500,000 dollars. Cameron has to ...
2004 Olympic gold medalist Yuriorkis "El Ciclon de Guantanamo" Gamboa sat down with Ryan Burton for his first interview on Boxingtalk. As one of boxing's biggest prospects, there is much talk of the former Cuban Olympian fighting for a world title in the near future. Although his pro career has ...
WBO/IBF heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko is happy with David Haye's arrival to the heavyweight division. He says the British fighter's big mouth has brought a lot of attention to the heavyweight division. Haye's big mouth doesn't bother him. He actually thinks the division needs more fighters like Haye. "We need ...
