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Airs Friday, May 4 at 6:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO

Apr. 30, 2012 – Boxing fans can get a ringside seat for one of the sport’s most dramatic pre-fight activities when HBO telecasts WEIGH-IN LIVE: MAYWEATHER/COTTO, the world championship fight weigh-in, featuring boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather and super welterweight title-holder Miguel Cotto. The half-hour special airs Friday, May 4 at 6:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.

Hosted by Jim Lampley, who will be joined by commentators Larry Merchant, Max Kellerman and Emanuel Steward, the fast-moving program will include the moment when both prizefighters tip the scales as well as providing boxing fans with unprecedented access to the festivities.

In addition to the main event, the HBO special will also include the weigh-in for the intriguing co-featured attraction which pits super welterweight title-holder Canelo Alvarez against challenger Sugar Shane Mosley. All of the action will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

An encore presentation of WEIGH-IN LIVE will air on HBO on Friday, May 4 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.

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LOS ANGELES, April 29 - “The Magic Man” is back on top. Using pinpoint accurate punches and a punishing attack from start to finish, Brooklyn’s Paulie Malignaggi stopped previously unbeaten Vyacheslav Senchenko in the ninth round on Sunday to win the World Boxing Association (WBA) world welterweight championship.

Fighting at the Donbass Arena in Senchenko’s hometown of Donetsk, Ukraine, Malignaggi took away the home crowd advantage almost immediately, dominating the bout until referee Steve Smoger deemed Senchenko unable to continue due to a grotesquely swollen left eye.

“This is the happiest day of my life,” said an elated Malignaggi from his dressing room in Donetsk. “I trained really hard for this fight and believed in myself. I don’t care what anyone says, I’m a two-division world champion. This is exactly why I signed with Golden Boy. I’m ready to fight any welterweight in the world.”

“Paulie went into the lion’s den and again showed everyone what he is all about,” said Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer. “With his dominating performance, he put everyone at 147 lbs. on notice. Ever since he moved to the welterweight division, he has assembled one thrilling performance after another and now the crowning achievement…Welterweight World Champion! Brooklyn here we come!”

With the win, the 31-year old Malignaggi, now 31-4 with 7 knockouts, becomes a two-time and two division world champion, having previously held the IBF junior welterweight crown from 2007 to 2008.

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Home of “Irish” Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund – for the first time in seven years, on Wednesday night, May 9 at Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Local fan favorites “Irish” Joe McCreedy and Sean Eklund, whose uncles are Micky and Dicky, will fight in front of their hometown fans for the first time as pros on the “Homecoming” card, and former world champion “Vicious” Vivian Harris will be making his Bay State debut.

“Homecoming” is presented by Chicago Fight Clubs Promotion (“CFC Promotion”). “We signed Joey and Sean and they both fought on our last show in Burbank, Illinois (Oct. 7),” CFC Promotion president Cynthia Tolaymat explained why a Chicago promoter is doing a show in Massachusetts. “The two fighters and Dicky Eklund spoke to me and my husband, Wasfi Tolaymat, who now manages Joey and Sean, about the possibility of doing a show in Lowell. We liked the idea of Joey and Sean featured on a show in their hometown. I have faith in them and their legendary trainers, Micky and Dicky. Lowell may be a small city but it has so many GOOD boxing fans. We have been welcomed with open arms in Lowell. We’re looking forward to the May 9th show and it being the first of many there for CFC Promotion. ”

The popular McCreedy (13-5-2, 6 KOs) takes on Benjamin “El Trapicha” Diaz (11-6-2, 8 KOs) in the 10-round main event for the vacant United States Boxing Organization (“USBO”) super middleweight title. McCreedy is trained by Dicky Eklund at Micky Ward’s gym in nearby Chelmsford. Eklund (10-4, 2 KOs), trained by Ward, faces light welterweight James Ventry in an eight-round bout.

Harris (29-7-2, 19 KOs), a Guyana native fighting out of Brooklyn, squares-off against Jermaine “Too Sweet” White (17-4, 9 KOs) in the 10-round co-feature for the vacant USBO welterweight title. In 2002, Harris captured the World Boxing Association (“WBA) light welterweight championship, stopping Diosbelys Hurtado the second round. Vivian successfully defended his WBA crown three times against Soulemane M’baye and Oktay Urkal twice.

Also fighting on the card is hot Chicago light welterweight prospect Antonio “Aztec God of War” Canas (6-0, 3 KOs), who faces the stiffest test of his young career in a six-round match versus Tyrone Chatman (9-1-1, 6 KOs). Also on the undercard in a pair of four-round bouts is pro-debuting welterweight Jimmy Smith, of Portland (ME), vs. Rafael Vasinmo, of Lawrence (MA); pro-debuting middleweight Bernie Ongewe, of Dracut (MA) vs. Anthony Jones (0-0-1). Smith is a former New England Golden Gloves Tournament winner who served two tours in Iraq as a U.S. Marine. All fights and fighters are subject to change.

Harris and Canas are handled by CFC Promotion, which also promotes IBF International light welterweight champion Albert “Tornado” Mensah, who successfully defended his title against Michael Katsidis, as well as world middleweight title challenger Osumanu Adama.

Tickets, reasonably priced at $25.00, $40.00 and $75.00, may be purchased by calling 978.761.8374 or at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium box office. Doors open at 6 PM/ET, first both scheduled for 7:00 PM/ET. Go to www.cfcpromotion.com or www.irishjoemccreedy.com for additional information.

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It’s now confirmed that a rematch between perhaps the two best pound-for-pound female boxers in the world, and definitely the two best welterweights, Anne Sophie Mathis (26-1, 22 KOs) of France and American Holly Holm (30-2-3, 9 KOs), will take place on June 15 in Albuquerque, New Mexico for Mathis’ World Boxing Federation World Welterweight title.

This serves as clear indication that the WBF is already the top sanctioning body for female boxing, and WBF president Howard Goldberg, who will be acting as supervisor for the bout, is delighted about the progress his organization has made in short time: “We have many of the absolute best female boxers as our world champions, and it is only fitting that the rematch between these two amazing fighters is for the WBF title. I think it’s outstanding that the WBF is already at the very top when it comes to women’s boxing, but I am not surprised that promoters and boxers are realizing that our title is the title to pursue”.

Mathis and Holm had a grueling encounter last December with Mathis winning by seventh round knockout. As their original fight, the rematch, appropriately billed as “The Reckoning”, will take place at Route 66 Casino Hotel, and will be promoted by Fresquez Productions. It will be Mathis’ third defense of the WBF World title she won in June of last year.

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Saturday Night Boxing Results & Notes

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia

Cruiserweight - Pieter Cronje Lost to Mosese Sorovi TKO 6 / 12 - time: 2:15 - IBF Pan Pacific cruiserweight title

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Spiroudome Arena, Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium

Featherweight - Alexander Miskirtchian beat Philippe Frenois on UD 12 / 12 - EBU (European) featherweight title (supervisor: Enza Jacoponi)

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Hall Omnisport, Loncin, Liege, Belgium

Light welterweight - Steve Jamoye beat Tarik Madni on UD 10 / 10 - vacant Belgium light welterweight title

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Grand Oasis Resort, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Featherweight - Jhonny Gonzalez beat Elio Rojas on UD 12 / 12 - WBC featherweight title (supervisor: Peter Ngatane)

Super featherweight - Juan Carlos Salgado beat Martin Honorio on MD 12 / 12 - IBF super featherweight title

WBC featherweight world champion Jhonny Gonzalez (52-7, 45 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over WBC world champion in recess Elio Rojas (23-2, 14 KOs). Defending his title for the fourth time, Gonzalez pressed the action with Rojas trying to box from the outside. Gonzalez put Rojas on the deck in round ten. Scores 116-111, 116-112, 117-111. IBF jr lightweight world champion Juan Carlos Salgado (25-1-1, 16 KOs) retained his title by majority decision over Martin Honorio (32-7-1, 16 KOs). Salgado dropped Honorio in round two with a hard jab and put him down again in round three, however the champion was cut over the left eye by a headbutt midway that bled heavily for the rest of the night as Honorio got back into the fight. Scores were 114-112, 114-112, for Salgado and 113-113.

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Gimnasio Alexis Arguello, Managua, Nicaragua

Lightweight - Winston Campos beat Luis Sanchez by TKO 4 / 10 - time: 2:36

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Sucat Peoples Park, Barangay Sucat, Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Light flyweight - Michael Escobia beat Ricky Oyan KO 2 / 10 - vacant Philippines Boxing Federation (PBF) light flyweight title

minimum weight - Joan Imperial drew with Jetly Purisima – TD 2 / 10 - vacant Philippines Boxing Federation (PBF) minimumweight title

Super bantamweight - Danilo Pena beat Ryan Origenes by KO 6 / 10 - vacant Philippines Boxing Federation (PBF) super bantamweight title

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Bowlers Exhibition Centre, Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Middleweight - Warren Tansey beat Kieron Gray on PTS 10 / 10

Cruiserweight - Martyn Grainger lost to Mike Stafford on PTS 10 / 10

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, London, United Kingdom

Middleweight - Billy Joe Saunders beat Tony Hill by TKO 1 / 10 - vacant Commonwealth (British Empire) middleweight title

Light middleweight - Sam Webb beat Matthew Hall on SD 12 / 12

Middleweight prospect Billy Joe Saunders was supposed to at least a good workout from southpaw Tony Hill, but before Hill knew what was happening, the fight was over. Saunders landed a left and a rocking right hand after it just moments after the opening bell, and followed that up with a massive flurry of unanswered shots, forcing the referee to step in and end the fight before it ever really even started. - Terry Holmes vs Dean Byrne: Holmes stayed unbeaten with a points win over Ireland’s game but very limited Byrne. Holmes (6-0, 1 KO) put a pretty good beating on Byrne (15-2, 6 KO) in the middle rounds, including a point where Byrne’s corner threw in the towel. The referee threw it back out, because sometimes referees love playing the dramatic hero, which I think is an awful practice. In this case, it led to both corners entering the ring, only for the referee to throw the towel back out. Holmes, celebrating his win, was thus nearly blindsided by Byrne, because with all the confusion of guys running into the ring, the referee left Holmes totally vulnerable. Holmes wound up announced as the winner by a 67-65 score.

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Fairplex, Pomona, California, United States

Light flyweight - Roman Gonzalez beat Ramon Garcia Hirales – TKO 4 / 12 - time: 2:09 - WBA World light flyweight title (supervisor: Robert Mack).

WBA junior flyweight champion Roman Gonzalez (32-0, 26KOs) made his second ring appearance in the United States and stopped former champion Ramon Garcia (16-4-1, 9KOs) in the fourth round. Gonzalez controlled the contest and put Garcia down twice in the fourth before the fight was stopped. -Welterweight contender Anthony Lenk (14-1, 7KOs) won an eight round unanimous decision by outboxing Alberto Herrera (8-6-1, 5KOs). The scores were 78-74, 78-74, and 77-75. - In the co-feature, welterweight prospect Wale “Lucky Boy” Omotoso (22-0, 19KOs) stopped Larry Smith (10-10, 7KOs) in the eighth and final round. Smith went down in the seventh and again in the eight before the fight was stopped. Omotoso will now return on June 9th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, as part of the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley undercard.

· Saturday 28 April 2024 – Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

Light heavyweight - Bernard Hopkins lost to Chad Dawson – MD 12 /12 - WBC light heavyweight title

Heavyweight - Seth Mitchell beat Chazz Witherspoon by TKO 3 / 12 - time: 2:31 - vacant WBO NABO heavyweight title - Jake Hall : NABO Heavyweight Title Bout.

Hopkins - Dawson This rematch was ugly and perhaps disappointing as Hopkins came out wrestling and clinching and also threw in a few head butts. But it was Dawson who appeared to control most of the action with a faster and more accurate pace, However Hopkins, did not agree with the two judges who scored the fight 117-111 for Dawson. The third had it 114-114, “What did he do to win that fight?” Hopkins said. “The only way I knew I would win is if I knocked him out. Let the public judge for themselves.” - Mitchell - Witherspoon An -exciting slugfest that saw both fighters absorbing punishment, 29-year-old Mitchell finally won it in the 3rd, when he connected with two rights into 30-year-old Witherspoon’s jaw, prompting ref Randy Neumann to dive in and stop the fight. Witherspoon started well and landed some big right hands to Mitchell’s jaw in the first round; Mitchell came back in the second with some good body-work; then in the third Mitchell sent Witherspoon down with a left hook and shortly after pounding Chazz around the ring finished him off. The official time was 2-minutes and 31 seconds. Mitchell is now 25-0-1(19). Witherspoon is now 30-3(22).

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Santa Ana Star Casino, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Lightweight - Fidel Maldonado Jr lost to Fernando Carcamo by TKO 2 / 10

Maldonado lost his WBC lightweight youth belt to unheralded Mexican Fernando Carcamo (10-3, 7 KOs). Maldonado was floored in round one by a right uppercut and, in the second, a short right hand by Carcamo dropped the hometown favourite a second time. When the fight resumed, Carcamo pounded Maldonado with a big left, prompting the ref to stop the fight at 1:10. In the co-main event, Albuquerque welterweight “Hurricane” Hector Munoz (20-7-1, 13 KO’s) forced John Revish (9-6-2, 8 KOs) to quit halfway through the third round. Backed by former 5-time champ Johnny Tapia in his corner, Munoz forced the action, overpowering his opponent until the ref waved it off at 1:30.

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Huntington Center, Toledo, Ohio, United States

Middleweight - Bronco McKart beat Jose Medina on MD 12 / 12

· Saturday 28 April 2024 - Coliseo El Limon, Maracay, Venezuela

Super flyweight Liborio Solis beat Santiago Ivan Acosta – UD 12 / 12 - interim WBA World super flyweight title

Featherweight - Ogleidis Suarez beat Pamela Elizabeth Benavidez on UD 10 / 10 - interim WBA female featherweight title.

WBA interim super flyweight beltholder Liborio Solis (14-3-1, 7 KOs) outpointed Santiago Acosta (17-9-2, 7 KOs) over twelve rounds to retain his belt. Scores were 117-111, 119-109 and 120-108. WBA interim female featherweight beltholder Ogleydis Suarez (17-2-1, 7 KOs) topped Pamela Benavidez (9-8-3, 2 KOs) over ten by scores of 98-92 on all three cards. Bantamweight Henry Maldonado (15-1, 11 KOs) won an eight round unanimous decision over Jose Jimenez (19-5, 13 KOs)

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