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Television Boxing Schedule – from Friday 4th to Friday 11th February 2011- Broadcasting on: Australia FOX, Chile VTR, FOX Espanol, Mexico Azteca, Mexico Cadena 3, Mexico Televisa, United Kingdom SKY, United States ESPN2, United States FOX, United States Showtime, United States Showtime, United States TeleFutura

Boxing - PPV & Television Schedule

Note all information provided could be incorrect, incomplete and subject to change.

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• Friday 4 February, Television: Australia FOX

Southport RSL Club, Southport, Queensland, Australia

Middleweight - Les Piper vs Josh Clenshaw

Heavyweight - John Szigeti vs Lucas Browne

Light welterweight - Ryan Langham vs Jack Asis

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• Friday 4 February, Television: United States TeleFutura

Coliseo Felix Mendez Acevedo, Lares, Puerto Rico

Lightweight - Michael Perez vs Marcos Herrera

Super bantamweight - Jayson Velez vs John Alberto Molina

Lightweight - Daniel Jimenez vs Miguel Angel Munguia

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• Friday 4 February, Television: United States ESPN2

Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Middleweight Sergio Mora vs Bryan Vera

Welterweight Charles Hatley 1 vs Chris Chatman

Super middleweight - Emanuel Ledezma vs James Freeman

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• Friday 4 February, Television: United States Showtime

Chumash Casino, Santa Ynez, California, United States

Cruiserweight - Lateef Kayode vs Nicholas Iannuzzi

Featherweight - Luis Franco vs Leonilo Miranda

Welterweight - Michael Anderson vs Octavio Narvaez

Featherweight - Rufino Serrano vs Jose Morales

Light middleweight - Francisco Santana vs Adan Leal

Super middleweight - Kurtiss Colvin vs Stanley Harvey

Super bantamweight - Roman Morales (debut) vs Beto Perez

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• Saturday 5 February, Television: Mexico Azteca

Coliseo Bernado Caraballo, Cartagena, Colombia

Light flyweight - Ramon Garcia Hirales vs Jesus Geles - Interim WBO light flyweight title

Super bantamweight - Jhonatan Romero vs Mario Macias - Vacant WBO Latino super bantamweight title

Lightweight - Darley Perez vs Alejandro Heredia

Bantamweight - Yuri Mendez vs Alfonso De la Hoz

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• Saturday 5 February, Television: Mexico Cadena 3

Sala de Armas, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Minimumweight - Juan Hernandez vs Moises Fuentes - NABF minimumweight title

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• Saturday 5 February, Television: Mexico Televisa

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Light middleweight - Rigoberto Alvarez vs Austin Trout - Vacant WBA World light middleweight title

Minimumweight - Jesus Silvestre vs Yader Escobar

Super bantamweight - Horacio Garcia vs Orlando Rizo - Vacant WBA International super bantamweight title

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• Saturday 5 February, Television: United Kingdom SKY

Leisure Centre, Brentwood, Essex, United Kingdom

Super bantamweight - Jason Booth vs Jamie Arthur - Commonwealth (British Empire) super bantamweight title & BBBofC British super bantamweight title

Heavyweight - David Price vs Osborne Machimana

Super flyweight - Martin Power vs

Super middleweight - Erick Ochieng vs Lee Noble

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• Saturday 5 February, Television: United States, FOX Espanol, United States FOX

MaywoodActivity Center, Maywood, California, United States

Super middleweight - Francisco Sierra vs Dyah Davis

Lightweight - Oscar Meza vs Leo Martinez

Heavyweight - Andy Ruiz Jr vs Kelsey Arnold

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• Friday 11 February, Television: Chile VTR

Gimnasio Club Mexico, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Lightweight - Oscar Bravo vs Hector Medina

Super flyweight - Miguel Gonzalez vs

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• Friday 11 February, Television: United States ESPN2

BellCentre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Welterweight - Ionut Dan Ion vs Steve Forbes

Welterweight - Antonin Decarie vs Shamone Alvarez

Welterweight - Kevin Bizier vs Edgar Ruiz

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• Friday 11 February, Television: United States Showtime

Bally’s Atlantic City, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

Heavyweight - Eddie Chambers vs Derric Rossy

Super bantamweight - Rico Ramos vs Alejandro Valdez

Super middleweight - Cornelius White vs Don George

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• Friday 11 February, Television: United States TeleFutura

SportsCenter, Fairfield, California, United States

Welterweight - Alan Sanchez vs John Ryan Grimaldo

Super middleweight - Peter Quillin vs Dennis Sharpe

Welterweight - Fidel Maldonado Jr vs

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Baku Fires Still Unbeaten after 7 Weeks

By WSB

There was little change in the team standings at the end of the week seven matches in the World Series of Boxing, as the leading teams continued to dominate. But a few surprises in the individual bouts caused plenty of movement in the individual standings that will determine which boxers go through to the individual championships, which offer a quote place for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
With 5-0 wins in each of the team’s first two meetings, the Mexico City Guerreros were hoping for more of the same as the two teams dueled at the DeSoto Civic Center on Thursday, but the Force showed a resolve that had been missing in five of their first six contests, leaving a close split decision in the light heavyweight to decide the match and hand the Guerreros a 3-2 victory.

The deciding bout of the evening took place in the light heavyweight division featuring Javier Ortega, and Tony Mack of the Memphis Force. Ortega got the better of Mack, scoring a split-decision victory by the narrowest of margins, 48-47, 47-48, 49-48, to put the Guerreros up for good 3-1. Ortega’s win moved him up the WSB rankings to fourth, while Mack was left with a 0-2 record.

Heavyweight Javonta Charles got to fight in front of his hometown fans, friends and family in his third WSB bout and took advantage of that momentum to break into the win column for the first time in his young WSB career. Facing Alex Rivera, who came into the battle already fatigued with an illness, Charles wouldn’t let up throughout the bout. By the fifth round, Rivera had decided he had had enough and didn’t come out of the corner, giving Charles the TKO victory.

Hollywood Fight Night turned into another Los Angeles Matador exhibition on Sunday as the league-leading team showcased their superiority over the competition yet again and secured a 5-0 win against the visiting Miami Gallos.

The Matadors, competing in their new home at the Avalon Hollywood , move to 6-1 on the year and gain another three points in the overall standing for a total of 19, six ahead of their nearest competitor the Mexico City Guerreros. Miami fall to 3-4 overall with nine points. The Gallos have now dropped two in a row to the Matadors after defeating them on November 23 in each team’s season opener.

The Ukraine’s Vyacheslav Shabranskij put together perhaps the upset of the inaugural WSB season by defeating 2008 Olympic silver medalist Kenny Egan in the light heavyweight contest. Egan had been inactive since a cut to his eye in his opening bout and took a while to get his ring rhythm back again, which allowed Shabranskij to build up a good lead after two rounds, leading to the split-decision victory, 48-47, 46-49, 49-46. Shabranskij has been impressive with three wins and no losses to date, good enough to move him into third in WSB standings.
Dolce & Gabbana Milano Thunder became the first team to inflict a home defeat on Paris United on Friday as they took a crucial 3-2 away victory at the Halle Carpentier.

Milano Thunder’s night started well as Vittorio Parrinello scored a close victory over number one ranked bantamweight John Joe Nevin. A mighty punch thrown by Nevin to Parrinello’s head in the third round motivated the Italian, who managed to win on a split decision: 47-48, 48-47, 47-48. John Joe Nevin was disappointed: “Even if I didn’t box at my best, I thought I did enough to win. The Olympics remains my main goal and I will reach it anyway,” he said. The defeat drops Nevin from first to sixth in the individual rankings.

Ludovic Groguhe remains top in the light heavyweight rankings after an impressive performance against Milano Thunder’s new signing Thomas Edward McCarthy. The Frenchman appeared stronger from the outset and the bout was stopped in the last round due to an injury to McCarthy, handing Groguhe a clear victory with a unanimous 50-45, 50-45, 50-44 score card.

With the teams tied at 2-2 going into the heavyweight contest, the last bout of the night was the decider. Tony Yoka once again faced Olympic silver medallist Clemente Russo, who defended well thanks to faster foot work. For the third time of the night the battle was stopped in the last round after Russo sustained a cut above the left eye. The Italian won on a split decision: 47-48, 47-48, 48-47. “I don’t think I deserved to lose this fight” said Yoka afterwards. “I was better than last time, I think I did rather well”. The 3-2 victory allowed Milano Thunder to move within one point of Paris United in the team standings for Europe.

The Istanbulls took a 4-1 home victory against the Moscow Kremlin Bears on Friday night. New signing Sukhrab Shidaev was the only boxer to win for Moscow, with a unanimous decision against Onur Sipal in the middleweight contest.

Mehmet Topcakan extended his record to 3-0 at bantamweight, while new signing David Oliver Joyce opened with a victory over Adlan Abdurashidov in the lightweight contest. Germany’s Enrico Kolling also moved to 3-0 for the season after beating Zhavlonbek Usmanov by unanimous decision. The win moves Kolling up to third place in the individual boxer standings.

Heavyweight Mohammed Arjaoui improved to 2-1 with a unanimous decision over the new Moscow signing Arslanbek Makhmudov. The victory leaves the Istanbulls trailing Milano Thunder by five points in the hotly contested European conference.

Baku Fires remain the only unbeaten team in the WSB after once again beating the Beijing Dragons away on Saturday. But the victory was far from easy pickings as the teams were tied 2-2 going into the final heavyweight contest.

Luo Shaofang avenged his loss to Magomed Abdulhamidov in week one of the tournament by becoming the first boxer to beat the Azeri this season. Luo connected more often with strong punches, which the judges reflected with a unanimous 48-46, 49-45, 49-45 in his favor.

Baku Fires equaled the scores in the lightweight contest after Fang Lei admitted he was not satisfied with his performance against Ramal Amanov, in another repeat of the team’s opening match.

Liu Wei defeated Mahamed Nurudzinau of the Baku Fires with a unanimous decision on points. He had previously lost to Olympic Champion Bakhyt Sarsekbayev in week two. “He (Bakhyt) is a very experienced boxer. But I’m young and improving my status over every fight. I know I didn’t look too impressive, but a win is a win,” he modestly confided after the match.

Ramazan Magomedov brought Baku level again by beating Faye Assane in the light heavyweight contest. His new team mate Abdulkadir Abdullayev then quickly sealed the match for the Baku Fires with a second round TKO against Cheng Xiangyang in the heavyweight match-up. The undefeated Baku Fires are five points clear of their nearest rival, Astana Arlans, in the Asian conference and are statistically the best team overall.
The Astana Arlans maintain a slender lead over Milano Thunder as the best second-placed team overall after a 3-2 win against the Pohang Poseidons in Korea on Saturday.

Things started badly for the Poseidons on their first home match in a new venue, as the Arlans quickly opened up a 3-0 lead to seal the match after the first three bouts.

The Poseidons responded with wins for Abdelhafid Benchabla from Algeria in the light heavyweight bout, who is ranked second and remains in contention for a place in the individual championships, and his compatriot Chouaib Bouloudinats, who salvaged a valuable point for the Poseidons with a close win on points against Milutin Stankovic 48-47, 49-46, 48-47.

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By Rio
London - Thursday, 27th January 2011

Toks Owoh Vs. JJ Ojuederie Headline ‘Unleash The Fury’ At York Hall, March 5th.

Steve Goodwin celebrates his first year as a boxing promoter with two huge shows in March, the first, at York Hall in Bethnal Green, London on Saturday 5th March 2011, is headlined by Toks Owoh versus JJ Ojuderie and is supported by no less than fourteen bouts featuring the cream of the Capital’s upcoming young fighters.

On announcing the ‘Unleash The Fury’ event Steve Goodwin said, “The York Hall show, ‘Unleash The Fury’, on March 5th is a showcase for our boxers that are on the way up.

Our main show is at Dagenham on March 19th but we’ve got a lot of people that want to fight on our shows. Basically we’ve created a second show where we’re going to see a lot of upcoming talent, as well as a couple of boxers that have the potential to go to British and European championship level.

Toks Owoh will be headlining the show, he’s desperate to box Southern Area champion Leon Williams. He’s so desperate to fight Leon he says he’d do it for free because he wants to hurt him badly. He says he doesn’t want money for that. He’ll enjoy it. Unfortunately Leon’s got other arrangements, he’s on a Frank Maloney show in February.

Toks is hoping to put on a real good show on March 5th against JJ Ojuederie because he wants to show he can do a better job on JJ than Leon did. But he desperately wants to get Leon in the ring. Toks is after the British title, just the same as Leon is. That could be an interesting match up for later in 2011.

Also on the show we have the World Kick Boxing Champion, Llir Canolli from Cosavo. He’s very, very exciting to see. He is very well regarded and has been tipped to become a Boxing World Champion. So we’re very privileged for him to be coming over to fight on the show. He’s a true Cruiserweight prospect so we’re very excited to be seeing him.

I’m personally excited to see the come back of Michael Devine. He’s a very, very exciting come forward fighter. He lost in his last fight, on his 21st birthday, against Mark Alexander last year.

He took some time out and got himself back together. He’s working like a demon in the gym and I think this is the year we see Michael Devine progress through the ranks. Hopefully by December we’ll have Mark Alexander back in the ring with him so he can set the record straight.

It’s a big card, there will be fifteen bouts on the night. It’s going to be a big card, anything I am associated with I want to be known as giving value for money by the public and make sure that there is always a fantastic atmosphere and packed arenas.

It’s going to be a lot of four round fights with up and coming prospects. It’s going to be an exciting night of boxing. I’m really looking forward to it.”

Steve Goodwin’s ‘Unleash The Fury’ event at York Hall, Bethnal Green, London is headlined by a six round Cruiserweight contest between Toks Owoh versus JJ Ojuederie.

The huge fourteen bout undercard features some of London’s best upcoming talents and includes Ultrachem TKO’s ‘Dynamo’ Daryl Setterfield against Birmingham’s Andrew ‘Paddy’ Patterson.

Three Ultrachem TKO gym mates of Daryl Setterfield are also on the show, Light Heavyweight Joel ‘El Toro’ McIntyre, Light Middleweights Nathan Weise and Brett O’Callaghan, all against yet to be named opponents.

Also appearing on the show are Rainham Super Featherweight Richard Hines, Luton Lightweight Michael ‘Chunky’ Devine, unbeaten Biggleswade Light Middleweight Jamie Boness, Minster. Kent Light Heavyweight Dan ‘Woody’ Woodgate, Woolwich Super Middleweight Eder Kurti, Waltham Abbey Light Welterweight Phil Gill and unbeaten in twelve Hackney Middleweight Wayne Alwan-Arab.

Making his first outing as a professional is Highbury Super Featherweight Charlie Kelly who is set to face the highly experienced Birmingham battler Anthony ‘Spanner’ Hanna.

Also making their pro debuts at ‘Unleash The Fury’ are Harlesden Lightweight Met Sekiraqa and former World Kick Boxing Champion, Llir Canolli from Cosavo.

Tickets for Unleash The Fury at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, London on Saturday 5th March 2011 are on sale now - priced £35 (Unreserved) or £60 (Ringside).

For tickets call: 07960 850645, book on-line at www.tkoboxoffice.com or in person at The Ultrachem TKO Gym, Gillian House, Stephenson Street, Canning Town, London E16 4SA.

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According to LIITR Radio, on March 5th in Anaheim Ca. ,we will see once leading GoldenBoy fighter Jr. Middleweight Kassim Ouma face off with present GBP fighter Danny “The Golden Child” Jacobs .

Both men will be sharing the ring with Jr. Middleweight fighter James Kirkland who has been on his comeback since being released from prison in 2010. The bout is still under going in what weight they will be competing but more than likely it will be at the 160 limit.

It seems that contracts could be signed this morning while Ouma who is training out of Miami, Fl. sparring with Super Middleweight Champ Lucian Bute and contender Danny Judah, awaits .

Kassim Ouma who is promoted by promotional company “Let’s Get It On” will co-promote the event and Ouma will be putting his NABA middleweight title on the line.

Danny Jacobs since losing to Dmitry Pirog in July has trailed back with a 5th round TKO over Jesse Orta. LIITR host Gabriel Montoya will be meeting with Jacobs later next week for more details .

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Strong Uzbek Team in the Bocskai Memorial Tournament

By AIBA

25 – January - 2011

A strong Uzbek team will be taking part in the 55th Bocskai Memorial Tournament, which will be held in Debrecen, Hungary from February 8.

The Uzbek head coach, Sharaf Hudayberdiyev and his assistants, Olim Mukhamedov, former Uzbek national boxer Uygun Siddikov and Nabijon Boymatov, are expecting some gold medals in Debrecen. The event will be the first step for the Uzbek athletes on the long preparation for the 2011 AIBA Men’s Elite World Championships.

The Uzbek boxers claimed only one gold medal at the 16th Asian Games, where only Elshod Rasulov was able to defend his title in Guangzhou. In addition to Rasulov’s gold medal the squad took another two silver and two bronze medals.

Uzbekistan’s best light flyweight class boxer is Jasurbek Latipov, who celebrated his 19th birthday last year before the Asian Games. The talented young boxer claimed a silver medal at the Strandja Tournament and the Makar Mazay Memorial Tournament but lost to Zou Shiming in the first preliminary round of the Asian Games.

Popenchenko Memorial Tournament winner 22-year-old Andizhan-based Shahriyor Isakov had great expectations at the Asian Games but was defeated by Commonwealth Games winner Suranjoy Mayengbam Singh of India in the flyweight’s quarterfinal.

The team’s best bantamweight boxer is AIBA President’s Cup winner and Asian Championships silver medalist Orzubek Shayimov, who was gold medal contender at the 16th Asian Games but was unexpectedly eliminated by Zhang Jiawei of China in Guangzhou.

Lightweight Asian Junior Champion Hurshid Tojibayev was the youngest Uzbek boxing team member at the Beijing Olympic Games. At the Asian Games 21-year-old Tojibayev claimed a valuable bronze medal and may be able to make his second Olympic quota this year.

His compatriot Fazliddin Gaibnazarov is only 19 years old but despite his youth he defended his national title in December. Gaibnazarov is also a lightweight boxer and trying to secure his place in the top team.

Sanjorbek Rahmonov became Asian Champion in Zhuhai in 2009 and also claimed a bronze medal at the 16th Asian Games two months ago in the 64kg weight division. Welterweight’s new rising star Uktamjon Rahmonov was called to the Uzbek national team last year before the 16th Asian Games, where he acquired a silver medal after losing his final contest against two-time World Champion Serik Sapiyev of Kazakhstan.

Two-time AIBA World Champion Abbos Atoyev missed out on his first Asian Games title in Guangzhou after the 24-year-old middleweight boxer was defeated by India’s famous Vijender Singh in the final.

The oldest team member in the team is AIBA World Championships silver medalist Elshod Rasulov, who will be celebrating his 25th birthday in March. Rasulov put in an excellent performance in Guangzhou and defended his Asian Games title.

The team contains a strong heavyweight boxer as well: Makar Mazay Memorial Tournament winner Mirzokhidjon Abdullayev, who celebrated his 19th birthday in December and has great expectations in 2011.

After the Bocskai Memorial Tournament the Uzbek team will be travelling to the Strandja Memorial Tournament in Bulgaria on February 14.

Photo: Oleksandr Usyk

Photo Credit: Oleksandr Podovalenko

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Latest Boxing News in Brief – Monday 24^th January for: “Ali – Frazier” award, Charles defeats Vasquez, Chavez vs. Lyell, Diego Magdaleno, Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield, Freddie Roach, Gamboa vs. Solis, Jose Antonio Rivera, Juan Carlos Reveco, Martinez ‘Fighter of Year’, Oquendo destroys Santos

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• Gamboa vs. Solis - WBA Super World/IBF featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (19-0, 15 KO’s) will be taking on WBA interim super featherweight champion Jorge Solis (40-2-2, 29 KO’s) on March 26th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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• Chavez vs. Lyell - Unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) is probably facing the best opponent of his eight year pro career this Saturday night against 26-year-old Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO’s) at the Estadio Banorte, Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Chavez, 24, has effectively been filling in for not having much of an amateur career by extending his time facing B and C level fighters.

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• Comeback Jose Antonio Rivera. The Pride of Worcester, Massachusetts. 37-year-old former WBA World Light Middleweight Champion, and former WBA World Welterweight Champion. - After his retirement in 2008, with a professional record of 39 wins, against 6 losses, 1 draw and 24 knock outs, “El Gallo” has kept his guard up, as a Security Officer for the Worcester Housing Court - Rivera Returns on April 9th fight against a yet to be named opponent, on a boxing card promoted by Isperduli’s Paxton Promotions.

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• The WBA has affirmed that light flyweight champion Juan Carlos Reveco will continue to be recognized as champion for the moment. Reveco, who has been involved in a managerial dispute, is long overdue for a title defense and fought a non-title bout against WBA rules. “Everyone should be given the chance they deserve to seek justice,” stated WBA executive vice-president Gilberto Jesus Mendoza. He explained that Reveco will be asked to explain his actions, “and then the matter will be put to a vote.” He added that these “were flagrant violations,” and the process will take about a week. — Mendoza also clarified the situation involving former champion and #1 rated featherweight Celestino “Pelenchin” Knight, saying that Caballero is not the mandatory challenger. “The regulation is clear, and until the Committee acts, he isn’t the mandatory.

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Saturday night’s title fight between Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield and Sherman “Tank” Williams abruptly ended after three rounds due to a cut over Holyfield’s left eye that he suffered in the second round. Holyfield was unable to continue after three and the fight was declared a no contest because the cut was caused by an accidental head butt and the fight didn’t go minimum four rounds.

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• Charles defeats Vasquez - Osnel Charles (6-2) withstood a late surge by Victor Vasquez (12-5-1, 6 KOs) to win a majority decision in the six round lightweight main event Saturday night at Harrah’s Casino and Racetrack in Chester, Pennsylvania. In the co-feature, Zeferino Albino (4-12-2, 2 KOs) stopped “Big” John Poore (21-5, 18 KOs) after two completed rounds of a scheduled four round cruiserweight bout. The seven-bout card, which drew a standing-room-only crowd, was promoted by Joey Eye Boxing Promotions in association with David Feldman. It was the first-ever boxing event at the venue.

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• BWAA: Martinez ‘Fighter of Year’ - For Sergio Martinez, 2010 was a year to remember. He started by winning the world middleweight title from Kelly Pavlik, then successfully defended it with a sensational one-punch knockout of Paul Williams. As a result of Martinez’s success, the Boxing Writers Association of America have voted him recipient of the “Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year” award. Martinez becomes the second boxer from Argentina to receive this prestigious honor, the first being Carlos Monzon in 1972.

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• BWAA Awards - Freddie Roach maintained his perennial position as the “Trainer of the Year.” Roach won the for the third year in a row and fifth time overall. The award has always had special meaning for Roach as it is named after his mentor Eddie Futch.

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• BWAA Awards - “Ali – Frazier” award for “Fight of the Year.” - Amir Khan and Marcos Maidana. For the intensity and fury shown in December, when Amir Khan was pushed to the limit in winning a unanimous 12-round decision over Marcos Maidana.

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• BWAA Awards - Robert Guerrero had put his career on hold to deal with his wife Casey’s health issues. With her Leukemia in remission, Guerrero made a successful return to the ring. How he coped with the situation impressed the BWAA electorate who voted him the “Crawford” award for “Courage in Overcoming Adversity.”

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• Oquendo destroys Santos - In a clash for the NABO title on Saturday night at the Bayamón Correctional Complex 1072 in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, super bantamweight Jonathan Oquendo (21-2, 14 KOs) won by KO when he sent Cecilio Santos (25-17-3, 15 KOs) to the canvas with a body punch in the first round and Santos didn’t beat the count. Time was 2:46.

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Diego Magdaleno - The Dallas Event Center at the Texas Station Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday night featured a sold-out crowd. Magdaleno did not disappoint the raucous hometown crowd of 1505 in one of his most impressive performances to date. One of Top Rank’s fast rising stars captured the title and again showcased a more punishing demeanor as he earned a resounding fifth round TKO victory and claimed the title while improving to 18-0 with his 6th knockout.

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By Rio

London - Wednesday, 19th January 2011

Frank Maloney Signs Leon ‘Solid’ Williams - ‘Solid’ Added To 5th Feb Show

Southern Area Cruiserweight Champion Leon ‘Solid’ Williams has signed a promotional contract with Frank Maloney. ‘Solid’ also secured his first fight, at the Brentwood Leisure Centre on the 5th February, under the Frank Maloney banner.

27 year old Leon, ranked #6 in Britain by BoxRec, is one of the Cruiserweight division’s rising stars. He won the BBBofC Southern Area title back in October ‘10 with a virtual lockout points victory over former Southern Area Light Heavyweight champion JJ Ojuederie.

Leon dominated the proceedings throughout, forcing the normally stand up JJ to play it safe and stay out of trouble for almost the whole fight. It was the final round before JJ decided to stand his ground and trade punches with Leon. By then Leon’s aggressive all action approach had already earned him the belt, as was shown when Referee Jeff Hinds score card was read out - a decisive 99-92 points victory for Streatham’s favourite fighter.

Following a training session, under the watchful eyes of his coach Johnny Eames at the Ultrachem TKO Gym in Canning Town, Leon spoke briefly on his signing with Frank Maloney. “Finally I’m with a big promoter, I’ve signed with Frank Maloney and I’ve got a great deal.

I’ve been boxing small hall shows for a while, which has been fantastic, but I’ve wanted to fight on a bigger stage and for a promoter that has TV, hence Frank Maloney. It’s great, fantastic.

All I’ve got to do is win and look good for a few fights and then Frank says he’ll push me for the British title later this year.

I’ll be out for the first time under the Frank Maloney banner on the 5th February at the Brentwood Leisure Centre on the undercard of Jason Booth and Jamie Arthur’s Commonwealth title fight.

It’s a great stage for my ‘debut’ for Frank Maloney so I’m very excited. I’ll get all my Team Solid supporters up there. It’s gonna be good.

I’ve got a new promoter just weeks after signing with Johnny Eames as my trainer. Since I’ve been at the TKO Gym it’s just been fantastic. It’s the best gym.

There’s a lot of big boys here so I’ve been getting a lot of sparring, so I’m really happy about that. There’s people here with fast hands, there’s punchers. I have to work to deal with them. It’s great I’m learning every time I’m here.

I’ll be right up for it on the 5th, can’t wait.”

Leon ‘Solid’ Williams, against a yet to be named opponent will feature on the undercard of the Frank Maloney promoted Jamie Arthur vs Jason Booth, Commonwealth Super Bantamweight title clash at the Brentwood Leisure Centre, Brentwood, Essex on Saturday 5th February 2011.

Also featured on the card will be a six round Super Flyweight contest which pits former British Bantamweight Champion Martin Power against the unbeaten Ashley Sexton.

Commonwealth Gold and Olympic Bronze medalist David Price and exciting Light Middleweight prospect Erick ‘The Eagle’ Ochieng are also featured, against yet to be named opposition.

Tickets, priced £30, for Arthur vs Booth Commonwealth title fight are available now. Call Team Solid Ticket Hotline on 07538 150367 or buy on-line at www.tkoboxoffice.com

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Johnny Eames with Leon Williams on the heavybag at Ultrachem TKO Gym, London

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Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro
JustListen2This Publicity & Promotion
London, UK & Philadelphia, USA

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Latest Boxing news in Brief – Wednesday 19^th January, for: “The Canadian Kid” Molitor, Andy Lee, Hector Camacho, Holyfield vs. Williams, Khan vs. McCloskey not happening, Rafael Marquez, Rosinsky – Trevino, Zahir Raheem

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• Holyfield vs. Williams Internationally on NESportsTV.com — The only man to ever win heavyweight titles 4 times is coming to www.NESportsTV.com online Pay Per View this January 22nd when Evander Holyfield continues his quest to win a 5th heavyweight championship by taking on the hard hitting Sherman Williams Saturday January 22nd on www.NESportsTV.com online Pay Per View live from West Virginia.

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• Former world title challenger Zahir Raheem (31-3, 18 KOs) and Hector Camacho Jr. (52-4-1, 28 KOs) will headline in seperate bouts March 11th. The event titled “Latin Championship Night” will take place at the North Atlanta Trade Center and be presented by the Atlanta Boxing Association. The former 1996 U.S. Olympian Raheem will take on Estaban Almaraz (10-3, 4 KOs) of Texas in a 10 round junior welterweight bout for the vacant USBA Southern Regional title. Almarez scored the biggest win of his career with an upset over former world champion Nestor Garza in his last bout. Camacho Jr. will face former TV Series Season 1 “The Contender” participant Juan De La Rosa (20-3-1, 15 KOs) of Texas for the IBF Latino Light middleweight title.

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• Steve “The Canadian Kid” Molitor (33-1, 12 KOs) will not box at the Bell Centre on March 19th as previously expected, due to an IBF technicality. Top Rank had won a November 30th purse bid to present the Molitor vs. Takalani Ndlovu (31-6, 18 KOs) bout, and decided to work together with InterBox to place the fight on InterBox’s March 19th 2011 Showtime boxing card. However, according to IBF Rule 10.F.1, the winning bidder had the obligation to promote the bout within 90 days of the opening of the bids. The March 19th date surpassed this period by a little over 2 weeks. This opened the door for Ndlovu’s promoter to appeal to the IBF.

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• Rafael Marquez has recovered from his shoulder injury and is ready to start fighting again. Rafael Marquez underwent surgery for a shoulder injury which forced him to retire in the ninth round of his last fight against Juan Manuel Lopez. - After six weeks of convalescence Marquez is ready to begin training for his next fight. Plans are in the works for a possible rematch with Juan Manuel Lopez, or a fight against Yuriorkis Gamboa, another possible opponent could be Japanese boxer Toshiaki Nishioka current super bantamweight champion.

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• Andy Lee needs new opponent - With John Duddy’s sudden retirement announcement, middleweight contender Andy Lee now needs a replacement opponent for his March 12th bout on the undercard of the Sergio Martinez vs. Sergiy Dzinziruk card in Connecticut. According to boxing news from Dan Rafael of ESPN, Lou Dibella, Lee’s promoter, is looking Peter Manfredo Jr. 37-6, 20 KO’s) or unbeaten Craig McEwan (19-0, 10 KO’s) to replace Duddy. Dibella has to speak to HBO about this, though, and see what they say.

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• Khan vs. McCloskey not happening - The proposed fight between WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) and EBU light welterweight champion Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) isn’t going to be happening, according to McCloskey’s promoter Barry Hearn. Khan and his team weren’t willing to offer McCloskey the kind of money that he felt was acceptable.

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• Rosinsky - Trevino - On Friday night March 4th, The first ever show promoted by New Legend Boxing Promotions will take place at the Cordon Bleu Banquet Hall in Woodhaven, New York. In the main event, former amateur standout and undefeated Super Middleweight Will Rosinsky will see action in an eight round bout against Alfredo Trevino. Tickets for this fantastic show are priced at $40; $60; and $80 with special VIP tables costing $1500 (seating for ten at the table) and can be purchased by calling New Legend Boxing Gym at 718-487-4474

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Latest Boxing Results – From Saturday 15^th January, for: Adrien Broner, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Dante Jardon, James Bacon, Jason Egera, Jesus Marcelo Andres Cuellar, Jomar Cordinillo, Memphis Force, Oscar Ibarra, Ricardo Ezequiel Quinones, Guerreros

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• Boxing Results 15 January - Centro Recreativo Municipal, B A, Argentina

Featherweight - Jesus Marcelo Andres Cuellar def Jose Saez –TKO 2 / 12 - WBO Latino featherweight title.

Welterweight - Ricardo Ezequiel Quinones def Oscar Matias Nunez – SD - 6 / 6.

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• Boxing Results 15 January - Jose Cuervo Salon, Polanco, Mexico

Super flyweight - Oscar Ibarra def Junichiro Sugita – UD 12 / 12 - WBC Silver super flyweight title.

Super featherweight - Dante Jardon def Rene Gonzalez – UD 10 / 10 - WBC Youth World super featherweight title.

WBC Silver super flyweight champion Oscar Ibarra (25-4, 16 KOs) successfully made his second defense of the title with a twelve round unanimous decision over Junichiro Sugita (16-5, 7 KOs) on Saturday night at the Jose Cuervo Salon in Polanco, Mexico. Sugita had his moments, especially late, but judges scored it 115-113, 115-113, 116-113 for Ibarra. In a battle between WBC Youth super featherweight champion Dante “Crazy” Jardon (15-1, 13 KOs) and Rene Gonzalez (28-4-1, 22 KOs). The bout went the full ten rounds with Jardon winning by scores of 99-91, 98-92, 98-92.

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• Boxing results 15 January - Taft Masonic Temple, Ohio, United States

Lightweight - Adrien Broner def John Revish – KO 1 / 10 – Vacant WBC USNBC lightweight title.

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• Boxing Results 15 January - I.T. Park, Barangay Lahug, Philippines

Super bantamweight - Jason Egera def Rolando Magbanua – SD 10 / 10.

Super featherweight - James Bacon def Jake Verano – UD – 10 / 10.

Minimumweight - Jomar Cordinillo def Marlon Talili - UD 6 / 6.

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• WSB - Guerreros defeat Memphis Force - The Guerreros, behind three WSB newcomers, earned their first road victory of the season to move to a respectable 3-3 on the year and back into second place behind the front-running Los Angeles Matadors in WSB Americas action. The Guerreros had a similar start to the season against the Force with a 5-0 victory as well in Mexico City, November 19. Meanwhile, the Memphis Force fall to 1-5 on the year and continue to struggle having dropped four matches in a row.

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• Boxing Results 14 January (Friday) - Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In the main event, Steve ‘The Dragon’ Claggett (11-0-1, 6 KOs) battered previously unbeaten Mexican Jose Julio Mendoza (7-1, 3 KOs) to capture the WBC light welterweight Youth Intercontinental Title. Claggett started out very quickly and boxed well as he took the fight to Mendoza with his pressuring style. The Calgary native scored two knockdowns in Round two, one from a right cross and the other from a left hook. A gallant Mendoza beat the count but was sent down again in the third by a debilitating left to the liver. The Mexican showed a lot of courage in getting to his feet but the referee waived the bout off at the 2:54 mark of round three.

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Latest Boxing News in Brief – Thursday 13^th January for: “Dr. Steel Hammer” Klitschko, Bob Arum and Don King, David Haye, Duddy vs. Lee, Felix Sturm, Jhonny Gonzalez, Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley, Matthew Hatton, Ronald Hearns, Saul Alvarez, South African Boxing, Steve Herelius, Takefumi Sakata, Yoan Pablo Hernandez

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• Legendary rival promoters Bob Arum and Don King are set for their first co-promotion in five years. Next week, Arum and King will be officially announcing a pay-per-view extravaganza headlined by WBA super welterweight champion Miguel Cotto defending his world title against two-division world champion Ricardo Mayorga on March 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. It will be produced and distributed live on SHOWTIME PPV. Joining Cotto and Mayorga at the news conference will be former WBA super welterweight champion Yuri Foreman and his opponent Pawel Wolak, plus female legend Christy Martin who will be featured on the pay-per-view broadcast going for her landmark 50th professional victory.

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• WBA Middleweight Champion Felix Sturm (34-2-1, 14 KOs) and his challenger Ronald Hearns (26-1, 20 KOs) met face-to-face for the first time at the kick-off press conference for their February 19th world title clash at the Porsche-Arena in Stuttgart, Germany. Both fighters expressed their confidence at the presser. - “Everybody knows that Marvin Hagler is my boxing idol,” Sturm said. “The fight between Hagler and Ronald’s father Thomas was a brutal war and one of the greatest fights in the history of boxing. But Hagler destroyed Hearns – and now I will do the same to his son.”

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• Former -WBA flyweight champ Takefumi Sakata has announced that he is hanging up his gloves for good today (Thursday) in Tokyo, Japan. Having failed to win back his WBA 112-pound belt from compatriot Daiki Kameda this past September, Sakata, 30, was deeply considering whether to go on fighting. The busy-punching fighter managed to win the WBA belt in his fourth attempt, having lost twice to Lorenzo Parra both by a majority decision here and to Roberto Vasquez by a split verdict in Paris. The persistent Japanese finally gained the world belt by stopping his grudge rival Parra in Tokyo in 2007. Since then, he successfully defended it four times against Vasquez (W12), Denkaosen Kaowichit (D12), Shingo Yamaguchi (W12) and Hiroyuki Hisataka (W12). But it was his previous challenger Denkaosen of Thailand that annihilated and dethroned Sakata with a single lethal shot on the very last day of 2008.

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• “Dr. Steel Hammer” Klitschko - today launched a stinging tirade against Haye and his manager Adam Booth; saying he “does not trust these guys any more.” Wladimir went further, calling Haye “a piece of s**t, and “a liar who is playing the media. - Wladimir has today said he is more than happy to face Haye on July 2nd. In Klitschko’s mind, the fight is not yet “dead,” because he feels Haye’s constant talk of retiring in October of this year is nothing but another “lie.” - Wladimir says fighting Derek Chisora on April 30th and then Haye, nine weeks later on July 2nd, would be no problem for him. - “I don’t take David Haye as a super-special fight,” Klitschko told Sky Sports. “I don’t need half a year to prepare for this fight. I’m always in shape anyway. Me fighting Chisora first is good promotion for the fight with Haye because this guy is also British and very loud. He [Haye] could give [Ruslan] Chagaev step-aside money and then I’m going to be there with nobody to fight.

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• The 26-year-old Cruiserweight Yoan Pablo Hernandez (23-1, 12 KOs): WBA World Rankings leader in the Cruiserweight division will challenge Steve Herelius (21-1-1, 12 Kos, France) in Mülheim/Duesseldorf on February 12. Hernandez successfully obtained the right to a mandatory challenge from the World Boxing Governing Body WBA after a KO victory over Ali Ismailov in Berlin in December. The opportunity to fight Herelius soon emerged,” explained Sauerland Event CEO Chris Meyer. “We immediately tried to realise this opportunity and we managed to bring this fight to Germany.” - Alexander Frenkel will also be on the monster Sauerland Event card. The European Champion in the Cruiserweight division, who won the European crown in September with a stunning KO victory in the seventh round against the ex-World Champion Enzo Maccarinelli in Birmingham last September, will defend his title for the first time. – Also on the undercard, Super Middleweight King Arthur Abraham will fight a ten-round contest.

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• EBU welterweight champion Matthew Hatton (41-4-2, 16 KO’s) has decided to risk all and go after unbeaten knockout artist Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) next instead of going after easier targets like WBA welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko or Junior Witter. The contracts for the Alvarez fight will reportedly be signed in the new few days. The bout will be taking place on March 5th.

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• The fight contracts for the Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley bout have reportedly been finally signed and the bout is set to ahead for May 7th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao, 32, is guaranteed a minimum of $15 million for the fight and the 39-year-old Mosley could end up making as much as $7 million or more if it brings in more than 1 million pay per view buys.

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• Jhonny Gonzalez — Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez (47-7, 41 KO’s) is looking to challenge WBC featherweight champion Hozumi Hasegawa (29-3, 12 KO”s) next. According to fightnews, a purse auction will take place this Friday for the two fighters at the WBC headquarters in Mexico City. The bout could take place in Mexico, but it’s still up in there air right now in terms of where they want to put this fight.

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• First South African Boxing Tournament 2011 — At a luncheon held at the Wanderers Club near Johannesburg on Thursday Rodney Berman of Golden Gloves Promotions announced the final bill for the first tournament of the South African boxing year which will be held at Emperors Palace, Kempton Park on January 27. The tournament is a tribute to Baby Jake Matlala and also to help him pay off his huge medical bills after being struck down with illness. - Hekkie Budler (17-0, 5 KOs) will be making the second defence of his IBO junior flyweight belt against IBO strawweight champion Gideon Buthelezi (10-2, 4 KOs). Florante Simba will be hoping to make it 9-0 when he faces Sting Gonorenda Chomunorwa 6-8; 4. - Stephen Castle 5-1-2; 2 meets Elvis Moyo 0-3-1 in a scheduled six-rounder.

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• Duddy vs. Lee — Trainer Emanuel Steward says that the winner of the March 12th bout between his fighter middleweight contender Andy Lee (24-1, 18 KO’s) and fringe middleweight contender John Duddy (29-2, 18 KO’s) will be facing World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight champion Sergio Martinez next, according to the latest news. Lee, 26, was supposed have been selected to fight Martinez this time around, but HBO didn’t like the idea of a fight between Lee and Martinez.

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