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By Anson Wainwright: When Vyacheslav “Steel Power” Uzelkov, 25-1 (16), steps into the ring this weekend to challenge...
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By Marty Mulcahey: Last week, “Friday Night Fights” matched four sluggers in head-on collisions. Tonight, there is a wider variety of boxers on display but the match-ups promise action nevertheless. “FNF” opens with a pairing of two undefeated lightweight prospects worthy...
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By Alec Kohut: Rest in Peace, Angelo Dundee… Snooki the Promoter and the Return of Joe Palooka… I must confess that I have...
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John J. Raspanti: For all his talents as a trainer, Angelo Dundee had one trait that everyone who knew him admired...
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Anson Wainwright: In a coming-of-age fight late last year, Scott Quigg lived up to his billing as one of Britain’s best up-and-coming fighters when...
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By Steve Kim (Photo © German Villasenor): This weekend at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, HBO televises a doubleheader featuring WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (against Marco Antonio Rubio) and Nonito Donaire (versus Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. for...
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It’s official. Boxing superstar Floyd "Money" Mayweather will return to the ring, step up in weight and challenge three-division World Champion Miguel Cotto for his WBA Super Welterweight World title in what will be a gargantuan showdown between two future Hall of Famers who bring excitement and fierce competition every time they step
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Earlier today DiBella Entertainment hosted a media teleconference to announce "Bombs Away", the much anticipated March 17th co-feature fight between top-rated Super Middleweight contenders Edwin Rodriguez and Donovan George.
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Scotsman Paul Appleby will meet Irishman Steven Ormond for the Vacant Celtic Super Featherweight championship as chief support to Ricky Burns’ defence of his WBO World Lightweight Championship at the Braehead Arena, Glasgow on 10th March.
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Liverpool’s Stephen Smith will start his comeback in Germany on the undercard of Dereck Chisora’s WBC World Heavyweight title fight against Vitali Klitschko.
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British bantamweight Lee Haskins is aiming to make boxing history by setting his sights on winning a major world title in 2012.
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German Villasenor: Hard-hitting, Russian super lightweight Ruslan Provodnikov, 21-1 (14), put on a display of punching power by sending Othello...
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Allan Scotto: Hey, fans! Welcome to Ask Gerry Cooney, where you get to ask former heavyweight contender “Gentleman” Gerry Cooney any boxing-related...
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By Steve Kim: The last time we spoke to Steve “USS” Cunningham, he was in the final stages of preparing for this weekend’s bout in Frankfurt, Germany against Yoan Pablo Hernandez in an attempt to regain the IBF cruiserweight title. As I wrote last week, there are two ways to see the world. The first is to join the Navy, which Cunningham did. The other way is to do what Cunningham...
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Due to a left biceps injury sustained while training on Monday, January 30, Andre Berto will be unable to compete in his scheduled February 11 SHOWTIME televised bout against Victor Ortiz at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., forcing a cancellation of the event on that date. All parties involved are actively seeking a possible postponement date for
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Steve Kim: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer has announced that Amir Khan will be headlining May 19th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The question is...
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By Gabriel Montoya: Saturday night has been a long time coming for middleweight challenger Marco Antonio Rubio. Last April, he was merely seen as an aging veteran on the verge of gatekeeper status. Somehow, he had found himself in a WBC final elimination bout for the middleweight title...
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Gabriel Montoya: My first impression of 19-year old super featherweight prospect Joel Diaz Jr., 7-0 (6), was that he was like the cool little brother I always...
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Allan Scotto: Welcome to this week’s edition of The Barbershop, a column designed to give you a forum to speak your mind about our question(s) of the week or...
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Chevelle Hallback and Terri Blair will rematch at the Convention Center in Tampa, Florida March 2
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IBF Cruiserweight Champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez (25-1, 13 KOs) will face two-time world champion Steve “USS” Cunningham (24-3, 12 KOs) in a hotly-anticipated rematch in Frankfurt on Saturday night. Boxing-online.com recently spoke to the 27-year-old Cuban.
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By Steve Kim (Photo © Chris Farina / Top Rank): On the night of October 22nd at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, Nonito Donaire was involved in the easiest yet most unfulfilling night of his career against the reluctant (to say the least) Omar Narvaez, whose...
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By Gabriel Montoya: At age 31, after nearly 400 amateur fights, two Olympic gold medals and a mere 9 professional fights Cuban sensation Guillermo “El Chacal” Rigondeaux is finally a professional world champion. Last week, Rigondeaux stopped former WBA 122 lb...
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Jackie ‘Aztec Princess’ Nava easily out-pointed Panamanian Chantall Martinez to win the WBA female super bantamweight world title in Tijuana, Mexico on Saturday night.
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Former WBO light heavyweight champion Jürgen Brähmer finally made it back into the ring after three previous late withdrawals to score a fourth round tko win over José Maria Guerrero at the Grand Elysée in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday .
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By Steve Kim: The latest hysteria involving the fight that won’t happen in May or June centers on the listed purses (courtesy of the Nevada State Athletic Commission) for both Manny Pacquiao’s and Floyd Mayweather’s recent fights in Las Vegas. There is a great disparity...
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Marc Livitz: ESPN’s "Friday Night Fights" provided the backdrop to showcase the talents as well as potential of Russian light welterweight Ruslan Provodnikov. An uptempo fight crowd at the Northern Quest Resort and Casino in Airway Heights...
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Arfan Iqbal is looking forward to picking on someone his own size !
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Carl Frampton says he thrives on the pressure to perform as he defends his Commonwealth Super-Bantamweight title against Kris Hughes on Saturday.
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Tons of fresh news Links...
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Gabriel Montoya: When the World Series of Boxing was first announced, the idea was met with some derision by what can be called mainstream boxing...
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Marty Mulcahey: The Russian-Korean pairing of Ruslan Provodnikov and Ji-Hoon Kim has co-headlined ESPN shows before and neither has disappointed from an action...
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Scott Quigg has been boosted by the possibility of a mouth-watering domestic clash against Rendall Munroe later this year.
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Irish amateur star Ryan Burnett has signed a long-term promotional deal with Hatton Promotions.
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Kell Brook is back in Sheffield after a training camp in Spain, and has told Matthew Hatton that he will be in prime shape when they meet at the Sheffield Motorpoint Arena on March 17, live on Sky Sports.
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By Steve Kim: There are two ways to see the world. One would be to join the military. The other is to become a professional cruiserweight. Steve Cunningham has done both. Next week in Frankfurt, Germany, he faces Yoan Pablo Hernandez once again in an attempt to reclaim his IBF title. It will be just his latest trip to Germany in a career that included forays to South Africa and Poland...
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By Peter Lerner: In the first part of our look back at South African boxing in 2011, Pete Moscardi told us about his choices for Fighter of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter Who Most Deserves a Break. In this concluding part he looks at prospects and disappointments, improved fighters and foreign fighters, and the general situation in the country.
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To round out the SHOWTIME Championship Boxing tripleheader headlined by the highly-anticipated rematch between Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto, Golden Boy Promotions and DiBella Entertainment have announced two more high-impact fights from the MGM Grand Gard
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On Friday, February 17, 2012, boxing returns to the Cicero Stadium in Chicago, Illinois, when SM Promotions presents "International Rumble in Cicero".
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Carl Frampton’s Commonwealth Super-Bantamweight title defence at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Saturday 28 January against Kris Hughes is completely sold out.
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Alex Arthur will make his return to the ring at Meadowbank Sports Centre in his native Edinburgh on April 14.
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Don Charles, the trainer of Dereck Chisora, believes the Londoner will give Vitali Klitschko nightmares when the pair clash for the Ukrainian’s WBC heavyweight crown on 18th February.
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Anson Wainwright: Fast-rising, Pinoy power-puncher Lorenzo “Thunderbolt” Villanueva boasts an impressive 91% KO ratio on a pristine 21-0 (20)...
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By Daniel Kravetz: At 4:30 p.m. on a cold Thursday afternoon, Danny Davis was coasting around the ring by the front entrance of Joe Hand Boxing Gym, extending his mitts in a crooked “W” and delivering rapid instructions. “Jab-hook-jab! Again! Again!” Across from Davis, a solidly-built teenage...
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By Ryan Waugh: Dereck Chisora is in tip top shape ahead of next month’s WBC heavyweight championship clash with champion Vitali Klitschko in Munich, Germany.
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Carl Frampton is not taking anything for granted in his opening fight of a massive year
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Darren Barker’s team have turned down a big offer for him to meet British and Commonwealth middleweight champion Martin Murray.
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The St Andrew’s Sporting Club Boss Tommy Gilmour today made a groundbreaking announcement that for the first time since its inception in 1973 The Club will play host to an Amateur Boxing evening on Monday 20th February 2012.
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When government funding ceased three years ago for the New York City Police Athletic League ("PAL") Cops & Kids Boxing program, The Dr. Theodore A. Atlas Foundation absorbed operational costs, expanded its reach into education, an
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Anson Wainwright: In late 2009, Juan Carlos Salgado put the boxing world on notice, knocking out previously unbeaten Jorge Linares (who had been...
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