Pacquiao Media Day Oct. 18
By Nick Giongco Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and his Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum are holding a media day at 1 p.m. on Oct. 18 in the Filipino fighter’s high-altitude training camp in Baguio City in the Philippines. “It should be a huge event,” said Arum from Los Angeles on Monday afternoon (Sunday night [...]
Spina-Echols: Report/Gallery
Ringside Report by Billy “Loops” Luppert and Scott Ploof Photos: Ray Bailey One would think a change of opponents 48 hours prior to fight time could have one scurrying to change game plans, especially given the different styles of the opponents. Not for Joey “KO Kid” Spina. To Spina (26-1-2, 18 KOs), it doesn’t matter [...]
Maidana to train in Vegas
By Gabriel F. Cordero WBA interim super lightweight champion Marcos “El Chino” Maidana will be headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada as he prepares for his showdown on December 11 with the WBA super lightweight world champion Amir Khan at the Mandalay Bay. Maidana will be accompanied from Argentina by trainer Cristian Rodríguez and advisor Sebastián [...]
Lee-Lowry: Photo/Report
By Jacob Chavez at ringside Photos by John Booz Rising star Andy Lee (25-1-0, 19 KOs) of the middleweight division stayed active with an annihilation of Troy Lowry (27-12-0, 11 Kos) Saturday night at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, IN., just 15 days after scoring a TKO over Michael Walker. This victory secures a proposed [...]
Fuchigami wins Japanese 160 belt
By Joe Koizumi Tricky and fast-moving southpaw, top contender Makoto Fuchigami (14-6, 5 KOs), 159.25, wrested the Japanese middleweight belt when he battered defending champ and OPBF #1 Tetsuya Suzuki (25-9, 15 KOs), 160, from the outset, decked him with a southpaw left cross in the second and finally halted him with a fusillade of [...]
Klitschko-Chisora close
By Karl Freitag Promoter Frank Warren says unbeaten British heavyweight and Commonwealth champion Derek Chisora (14-0, 9 KOs) has been offered a December 11 title shot against IBF/WBO/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. “The money on the table is not amazing,” Warren wrote in his column in The Sun, “but Derek has told me he just [...]
More grief for Hatton
Just days after a British tabloid posted video of “The Hitman” allegedly using cocaine, followed by the BBBC stripping Ricky of his boxing license, Ricky Hatton has now been accused of having an eleven month affair with a female fighter who says Ricky dumped her to go back his fiancée. All the tawdry details are [...]
Montes wins WBC eliminator
By Gabriel F. Cordero Mexican super flyweight Juan José “Goofy” Montes (19-1, 12 KOs) won a five round technical decision over Filipino Silvester Lopez (14-3-1, 10 KOs) on Saturday night in an important WBC 112lb eliminator by technical decision at the Olympic Coliseum at the University of Guadalajara. The bout was sent to the judges [...]
Boxing back in Hungary
By Ervin Gallen / www.profiboksz.hu Unbeaten Hungarian middleweight Istvan “The Spartan” Szili (6-0, 1 KO), returning five months after his previous fight, scored a four round unanimous decision over Janos Petrovics (19-36, 8 KOs) in a good bout on Saturday night at the Dr. Papp Laszlo Sporthall in Szentes, Hungary. This fight, witnessed by 1,500 [...]
Concepcion, Jones defend belts
By Karl Freitag WBA interim flyweight champion Luis “El Nica” Concepcion (22-1, 17 KOs) impressively destroyed former champion Denkaosan Kaovichit (50-3-1, 20 KOs) in the first round on Saturday night at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City, Panama. Concepcion spectacularly dropped Kaovichit three times in the first round prompting referee Rafael Ramos to wave [...]