NEW YORK – International Boxing Federation junior welterweight champion Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi has started off the new year in grand fashion, appropriate for one befitting a young world champion with his flamboyant personality and crossover appeal. Read the rest of this entry »
New York —DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing returns to New York City on Wednesday night March 5 at the Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center.
YOUNGSTOWN - It was standing room only at the Southside Boxing Club in Youngstown yesterday as undefeated middleweight champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK (32-0, 29 KOs), and trainer JACK LOEW hosted a media workout. Reporters and TV crews from all over Ohio descended on the only gym Pavlik has ever known to speak to its favorite son as he prepares for his epic rematch against former undisputed world champion Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor (27-1-1, 17 KOs), from Little Rock, AK. Promoted by Top Rank and DiBella Entertainment, Pavlik-Taylor II takes place Saturday, February 16, at the MGM Grand. It will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View, beginning at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT. Read the rest of this entry »
Serious, smart and sexy with a sledgehammer-like right hand, Laura Saperstein has touched off something of a mini-media frenzy in the UK while quickly becoming one of the hottest prospects in British boxing since making her pro debut last November. Read the rest of this entry »
By Phil Santos – Overhandright.com - Saturday night on HBO’s Boxing after Dark the most recent hope for an American Heavyweight champion was vanquished. To make matters worse for the red white and blue the loss came at the hands of yet another promising young Russian in Alexander Povetkin. Read the rest of this entry »
Two-time national amateur champion Edwin Rodriguez of Worcester, Mass., made a most successful professional debut Saturday night, stopping Samuel Ortiz Gomez by technical knockout in the first round of a middleweight bout scheduled for four rounds in Mansfield, Mass. Read the rest of this entry »
By Per Ake Persson
Berlin, Germany: Russian heavy Alexander Povetkin, 15-0, outscored “Fast” Eddie Chambers, 30-1, over twelve in an IBF
eliminator. There were no knockdowns. It was scored 117-111, 119-109 and 116-112. The early part of the fight was very exciting with Chambers getting off with quick counters against his agressive opponent.
Povetkin was clearly rocked in the first and third but worked hard and gradually took over, in the mid-rounds it was as if Chambers gave it away. He protected himself well but his workrate dropped. Povetkin kept coming, kept a very fast pace and while not that
effective he was winning rounds. In the eighth Chambers came back a little but by now he was tired and not that precise with his punches.
In the co-feature EBU middle champ Sebastian Sylvester outscored French challenger Francois Bastient. It was scored 120-108, 118-109 and 119-108. The challenger was down in the eighth and outboxed throughout. At the same time Sylvester took no risks which for a not very exciting fight.
Cruiser Enad Licina impressed in outpointing tough Czech Lubos Suda over eight. It was scored 79-73, 80-74 and 80-73.
There were two special visitors at the Max-Schmeling-Gym this week when unbeaten heavyweight star Alexander Povetkin (14-0, 11 KOs) presented his new fightname. The 2004 Olympic gold medal winner will now be known as “The White Lion”. Between two practice sessions, he took time out to meet two exotic talismans, Amir and Nell. The four-month-old baby lions from the Safaripark Stukenbrock certainly enjoyed playing with the Russian star. It was Wilfried Sauerland´s idea to give Povetkin the new nickname. “I´ve been living in Africa for a long time and that´s why I have a soft spot in my heart for lions,” the promoter said. “The lion is the king of the animals, and Alexander fights like a lion. When a good friend of mine adopted the two babies from the Safaripark, the idea came up.” Read the rest of this entry »
HOLLYWOOD, FL, January 24 – The training camp of WBO Heavyweight Champion Sultan Ibragimov is in full swing, and as the champ prepares for his February 23rd unification bout with Wladimir Klitschko in New York’s Madison Square Garden, the action at the South Florida gym affectionately referred to as “Sultan’s House” has been fast and furious, something trainer Jeff Mayweather has been very pleased with.
“Sultan came into this camp in the best shape I’ve ever seen him in, and he’s getting better and better by the day,” said Mayweather. “His speed for a heavyweight still amazes me, and I know Klitschko is not going to be able to handle it on fight night.”
With five weeks to go before the highly-anticipated clash, Ibragimov began sparring this week for the fight of his life, and he couldn’t be happier. Read the rest of this entry »
Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez produced two of the most exciting, bloody, give-and-take slugfests of 2007 which inevitably has led to one of the most highly anticipated rubber matches in history. Now they battle for the World Boxing Council (WBC) 122-pound title and super bantamweight supremacy in the third and final chapter of boxing’s best rivalry in recent memory in Vazquez-Marquez III “Final Confrontation,” Saturday, March 1, 2008 from The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. Read the rest of this entry »