Archive for September, 2010

Boxing News for: Roy Jones, Jr, Danny Santiago, Glen “The Road Warrior” Johnson, Mikkel Kessler, Devon Alexander, Michael Angelo Perez, Judah vs Matthysse, David Haye, Audley Harrison, Vanes “The Nightmare” Martirosyan, Hasim Rahman, Chad Dawson, Tavor Cloud

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• Roy Jones, Jr. vs. Danny Santiago – Postponed

Square Ring Promotions announced today that it was postponing the Roy Jones, Jr. vs. Danny Santiago Boxing event scheduled for October 7 due to a hand injury suffered by Roy Jones, Jr. John Wirt, CEO of Square Ring Promotions, said “Roy’s manager, McGee Wright, informed me today that Roy injured his left hand while sparring on Saturday and that on Monday, he went to the doctor and X-rays were taken. While the X-rays do not show a fracture, his hand is swollen and continues to bother him to such an extent that we have no choice but to postpone the fight. At this point, we are planning on rescheduling the fight and will make an announcement regarding the new date as soon as possible.”

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• Glen “The Road Warrior” Johnson replaces Mikkel Kessler

Veteran contender Glen “The Road Warrior” Johnson has been tapped to replace the injured Mikkel Kessler in the Super Six World Boxing Classic and is preparing to meet Allan Green in a Group Stage 3 bout on Saturday, Nov. 6, live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast), it was officially announced today by SHOWTIME Sports® Executive Vice President and General Manager Ken Hershman.

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• Alexander Vs Mabuza - Bid

A Purse Bid was held in the IBF Office yesterday for the IBF Jr. Welterweight Championship mandatory defense between champion Devon Alexander and Kaizer Mabuza. Branco Sports Productions was the only bidder. Branco bid $ 101,500.00. The winning bidder has 90 days to put the fight on.

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• Michael Angelo Perez on Judah vs Matthysse Undercard

Unbeaten lightweight sensation Michael Angelo “The Artist” Perez will appear in a six round special attraction bout as part of the Zab Judah-Lucas Matthysse undercard Saturday, November 6 at the Prudential Center in his hometown of Newark, NJ.

Perez, a skilled pugilist with an intriguing style, is regarded amongst the top prospects on the East Coast. Unbeaten at 9-0 with 4 wins by knockout, the 20 year old phenom is coming off a devastating first round stoppage of veteran Jorge Ruiz. Prior to that, Perez made a name for himself on a national level, dominating previously unbeaten Francisco Reyes on TeleFutura. Perez opponent will be announced shortly.

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• Haye: I’ll Beat The Klitschkos, Retire Like Lennox Lewis

WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is still planning to chase unification fights with both Klitschko brothers. Haye has vowed to retire by next October, which doesn’t leave him with a lot of time to get the fights done. He wants to fight each Klitschko and then retire in the same manner as his idol, former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis.

“There’s a year to make those unification fights happen, win them and then retire at the top just like Lennox Lewis did. The brothers know I am the most dangerous person on the planet for them but I am sure the fights will happen and that I’ll win them,” Haye told The Sun. All this of course after his grudge fight with Audley Harrison on November 13 at the MEN Arena in Manchester.

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• Vanes “The Nightmare” Martirosyan

Undefeated junior middleweight sensation Vanes “The Nightmare” Martirosyan (28-0, 17KOs) will be returning to the ring in December, most likely against the rugged Pawel Wolak (27-1, 17KOs). The bout will take place either on the undercard of the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Alfonso Gomez pay per view event on December 4th or it will be the main event of a Fox Sports card that will take place on December 18th. The date should be finalized within the next couple weeks.

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• Hasim Rahman Back Against Marcus McGee

Hasim Rahman, the former heavyweight champion who is still best known the world over for sensationally upsetting all-time great Lennox Lewis via 5th-round KO, fights again this Saturday night. Looking to stay busy in the hopes of landing one last title shot,” Rock,” now aged 37 and with a good 48-7-2(39) record, will face journeyman Marcus McGee in an eight-rounder at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama.

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• ChadDawson

Former two-time light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (29-1, 17 KO’s) could be facing International Boxing Federation (IBF) light heavyweight champion Tavoris Cloud (21-0, 18 KO’s) in early 2011, according to boxing news from Steve Kim. Kim says that Dawson and Cloud’s people are in discussion for this fight.

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Heavyweight title challenger Shannon Briggs has demanded that WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko resign as Ambassador for UNESCO, citing comments attributed to Vitali that Briggs says trivializes asthma.

Shannon Briggs Statement: “We all know Dr. Klitschko holds a PHD in P.E, as he and his publicist remind us all the time. What many people don’t know is Klitschko holds a much more important distinction, as an Ambassador for UNESCO (United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization). Vitali Klitschko has disgraced this very important post with his ignorant and dangerous remarks about asthma not being a deadly disease and just a good excuse. Any real Doctor and certainly any educated member of UNESCO would know that over 300 million men, women and children suffer from asthma around the world and over 250,000 of them died last year alone. I apologize to all the parents, children, brothers and sisters of those who died from asthma last year for Vitali’s extremely insensitive and ignorant remarks. I hope what he said doesn’t cause even one child who may need help and treatment from asthma to not seek it due to “The Champ’s” dismissive remarks. UNESCO is about education, improving and saving lives, not about spreading ignorance and potentially endangering lives with misinformation.

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WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is still planning to chase unification fights with both Klitschko brothers. Haye has vowed to retire by next October, which doesn’t leave him with a lot of time to get the fights done. He wants to fight each Klitschko and then retire in the same manner as his idol, former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis.

“There’s a year to make those unification fights happen, win them and then retire at the top just like Lennox Lewis did. The brothers know I am the most dangerous person on the planet for them but I am sure the fights will happen and that I’ll win them,” Haye told The Sun.

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Undefeated junior middleweight sensation Vanes “The Nightmare” Martirosyan (28-0, 17KOs) will be returning to the ring in December, most likely against the rugged Pawel Wolak (27-1, 17KOs). The bout will take place either on the undercard of the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Alfonso Gomez pay per view event on December 4th or it will be the main event of a Fox Sports card that will take place on December 18th. The date should be finalized within the next couple weeks.

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By Gabriel F. Cordero

Many big names in action Saturday at the WBA KO Drugs Festival in Panama. Here’s is the full card:

Luis “El Nica” Concepcion vs. Denkaosan Kaovichit
12 rounds WBA flyweight interim world title
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Guillermo “El Felino” Jones vs. Valery Brudov
12 rounds WBA regular cruiserweight world title
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Irving Berry vs Feider Viloria
9 rounds WBA Int’l featherweight title
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Hassim “The Rock” Rahman vs. Marcus McGee
8 rounds heavyweight
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Ogleidis Suarez vs. Shantall Martínez
9 rounds WBA super bantamweight Fedefem title
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Nilson Tapia vs. Jorge Sebastián Heiland
9 rounds WBA Fedelatin title
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Ameth Díaz vs. Javier Castro
9 rounds WBA Int’l lightweight title
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Santos Benavides vs. Joel Cerrud
9 rounds WBA Fedecentro super featherweight title
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Timur Ibrhagimov vs. Luis Pineda
9 rounds NABA heavyweight title
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Pablo Vásquez vs. Brad Salomon
9 rounds WBA Int’l welterweight title
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Alexander “El Explosivo” Muñoz vs. Leopoldo Arrocha
8 rounds super bantamweight
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Manuel Videz vs Ricardo Torrero
6 rounds “Primer Guerrero” final
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Francisco “Wizard” Palacios vs. Donnell Wiggins
6 rounds cruiserweight

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Super Six News

Veteran contender Glen “The Road Warrior” Johnson has been tapped to replace the injured Mikkel Kessler in the Super Six World Boxing Classic and is preparing to meet Allan Green in a Group Stage 3 bout on Saturday, Nov. 6, live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast), it was officially announced today by SHOWTIME Sports® Executive Vice President and General Manager Ken Hershman.

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Square Ring Promotions announced today that it was postponing the Roy Jones, Jr. vs. Danny Santiago Boxing event scheduled for October 7 due to a hand injury suffered by Roy Jones, Jr.

John Wirt, CEO of Square Ring Promotions, said “Roy’s manager, McGee Wright, informed me today that Roy injured his left hand while sparring on Saturday and that on Monday, he went to the doctor and X-rays were taken. While the X-rays do not show a fracture, his hand is swollen and continues to bother him to such an extent that we have no choice but to postpone the fight. At this point, we are planning on rescheduling the fight and will make an announcement regarding the new date as soon as possible.”

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Antonio Margarito steps in to make a dream come true for four young Olympic boxing hopefuls.

Selling tamales, tortillas and bracelets to raise funds to send four local boxers to the 2010 National PAL Boxing Championships in San Antonio, Texas proved impossible for the families of the young Olympic hopefuls when their hard work produced less than $300. That is until Antonio Margarito came into the picture. When Margarito heard of the family’s misfortune he immediately offered to pay for round trip airfare and room accommodations for the fighters. When asked why he did it Margarito stated, “I’ve been there. I know what it’s like to have a dream crushed because you have no money.”

So on Tuesday Antonio presented a check to the fighters at his training camp at the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy in Oxnard, Ca. Obviously overjoyed and with one less thing to worry about, the fighters can now focus on their dream of representing the USA at the 2012 Olympics held in London.

Margarito is in intense preparation for his world super welterweight championship battle with Manny Pacquiao, scheduled for November 13 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

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WEC is live on VERSUS today!

WEC Featherweight Championship
Jose Aldo 145 vs Manny Gamburyan 145

Jamie Varner 156 vs Donald Cerrone 155.5
Miguel Angel Torres 136 vs Charlie Valencia 136
Chan Sung Jung 146 vs George Roop 145
Leonard Garcia 146 vs Mark Hominick 145
Tiequan Zhang 154 vs Pablo Garza 154
Mike Brown 145 vs Cole Province 146
Chris Horodecki 155 vs Ed Ratcliff 155
Tyler Toner 145 vs Diego Nunes 145
Antonio Banuelos 136 vs Chad George 135
Demetrious Johnson 135 vs Nick Pace 135

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WEC 51: Aldo vs. Gamburyan is an upcoming mixed martial arts event held by World Extreme Cagefighting scheduled to take place on September 30, 2024 at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado. The event will be the first that the WEC has hosted in Colorado.

Alex Karalexis was expected to face Zhang Tie Quan, but was forced from the card with an injury and replaced by Jason Reinhardt. Reinhardt was then forced from the card after failing a prefight eye exam and replaced by Pablo Garza.

Former Ring of Combat Bantamweight champion Nick Pace signed with the WEC and replaced the injured Clint Godfrey, to faceDemetrious Johnson.

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Reigning Olympic Champion and national hero of Kazakhstan Bakhyt Sarsekbayev is one of fourteen boxers who will be competing for the Astana Arlans WSB team from November 19.

Sarsekbayev is undoubtedly the biggest name in the team, where he is one of the national boxers together with other top athletes such as Beijing Olympic duo Kanat Abutalipov, Merey Akshalov and Junior World Championships silver medalist Azamat Smagulov.

The Astana Arlans team is owned by the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation and will be competing in the Asian conference against teams from Baku, Beijing and Delhi.

Bakhyt Sarsekbayev was born in Chirchik, in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan on November 29, 1981. He competed for the Uzbek national boxing squad in 2000, taking a silver medal at the Nationals in the lightweight division and progressing to a gold medal in the light welterweight division at the same tournament the followng year.

In his first major international event at the 21st Asian Championships in 2002, which were held in Seramban, Malaysia, Sarsekbayev won the gold medal after beating top contender Shin Myung Hoon of South Korea in the final.

The young Sarsekbayev travelled to the Busan Asian Games as the biggest favourite in the 63.5kg weight class but was defeated by eventual winner and Sydney Olympic Games quarter-finalist Nurzhan Karimzhanov of Kazakhstan in the semi-final and bagged a bronze medal in South Korea.

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