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Latest Boxing News in Brief – Monday 31^st January For: Adamek vs. McBride, Amir Khan, Carl Froch, Carl Froch, David Haye, Giovanni Segura, ‘I`ll Go to War with Andy Lee!’, Ivan Calderon, Jamie “Mr Business”, Pittman, Liebling Award, Odlanier Solis, Paul McCloskey, Pete Hamill, Vitali Klitschko

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• Calderón-Segura II on April 2 - Former WBO 108lb champion Ivan Calderon will allegedly have a rematch with reigning WBO/WBA champion Giovanni Segura on April 2 in Mexico according to credible sources. The television money weighed in this decision, which should be announced in the coming days.

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• Hamill wins Liebling Award — Veteran New York journalist and author Pete Hamill has been selected by the Boxing Writers Association of America as the winner of this year’s A.J. Liebling Award. Bestowed since 1995 by the BWAA, the award honors the elegant New Yorker stylist, who chronicled the sport for decades and whose work was subsequently collected in the timeless boxing books The Sweet Science and A Neutral Corner. The Liebling Award will be presented at the BWAA’s annual dinner in Las Vegas on May 6th.

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• ‘I`ll Go to War with Andy Lee!’ - Scottish and Irish boxing fans on the East Coast of America are gearing up for their Fight of the Year as Holywood-based, Edinburgh middleweight Craig McEwan takes on Limerick’s Andy Lee at the Foxwoods Caino, Connecticut on 12th March. The fight ,which is being billed by top promoter Lou Di Bello as the ‘Celtic War’, is effectively a world title eliminator. Connecticut is deep in the heart of Irish America and it is likely that Lee’s countrymen will greatly outnumber Scottish fans on the night. However McEwan, who likes to fight as the underdog, will not be fazed by this.

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• WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) has decided to start his training camp this week for his May 21st bout against 42-year-old Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) for their semifinals Super Six tournament bout. As of now, there isn’t a designated venue, but Froch is holding out hope that the fight will take place in the UK. It’s going to be up to Showtime whether they’ll agree to that.

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• Khan reaches out to Katsidis — With negotiation attempts with EBU light welterweight champion Paul McCloskey and Lamont Peterson having been tried and failed, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) now says his management will be contacting lightweight contender Michael Katsidis (27-3, 22 KO’s) on Monday to see if he’ll be interested in a fight on April 16th in the UK.

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• Adamek vs. McBride - Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KO’s) has reportedly signed the contract to face 37-year-old Kevin McBride (35-8-1, 29 KO’s) in a tune-up bout on April 16th, at the Spodek, Katowice, Poland. According to fightnews.com, the contracts have been signed for this fight, which is a warm-up for the 34-year-old Adamek for his September bout against one of the Klitschko brothers in Poland.

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• Pittman and Leapai win — By Ray Wheatley - Former WBA middleweight challenger Jamie “Mr Business” Pittman (21-2, 8 KOs) was impressive as he outscored Tim Kanofski (11-4) in an action bout over six rounds at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Broad Beach Queensland, Australia on Saturday. Pittman, 6’1, boxing from the southpaw stance controlled the action in all the rounds as he connected, consistently with accurate combinations on his aggressive opponent. Kanofski came to fight but had no answer to the world class skills of the Athens 2004 Olympian. Pittman’s amateur record: (111-26). Pittman lost WBA middleweight challenge in 2008 when Felix Sturm stopped him in seven rounds. Pittman is managed by Bill Treacy and trained by Graham Shaw. “Pittman will be in regular action in 2011 and we will be looking for world rated opponent,” said Shaw.

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• Unbeaten former 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) is really serious his March 19th title challenge against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena, in Cologne, Germany. Solis, who came into his last fight in December weighing a fat looking 260 pounds, is currently training in the snow-covered mountains in Germany and is putting in 2 1/2 hours of roadwork each day to lose some of the fat that’s collected on his once lean 200 pound frame.

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• By Mark Vester — WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch would have liked to take part in a doubleheader with his close friend, WBA heavyweight champion David Haye, but he doesn’t believe it’s possible. Froch faces Glen Johnson in the semi-finals of the Super Six tournament on May 21, which is the same date as Haye’s scheduled title defense at the O2 Arena in London. — Sky Sports wanted Froch and Haye to take part in a pay-per-view doubleheader on the May 21 date. Froch says his contract in the Super Six orders the semi-finals, and the final bout, to take place in the United States. He’s not too happy about that, but says there is a chance that his fight with Johnson will take place in Canada. - “David is an old mate from my amateur days and we have been talking about a double header with Sky,” said Froch to the Nottingham Post. “I think it would be really good. But Showtime have said from day one that the semi-finals and finals would be in America. There is a chance I could fight in Canada and I might have to settle for that.”

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By Daniel Ciminera:

Wales UK

Tuesday 18^th January 2011

So much negativity is being thrown around right now about Amir Khan and his future. OK, there will always be a certain amount of “he should fight this guy or that guy”, everyone has a differing opinion, of course they do, but all of it at the moment seems completely negative.

To understand Khan’s situation you must look back at his earlier days when he was running his mouth and getting worried by D-rate fighters. I, along with all the current naysayers was hoping and wishing him to get knocked out every time he fought. Then it happened, and I thought great, now this kid will disappear and never be heard from again, or he’ll have a couple more fights to try to get back on the proverbial horse, but lose again and we’ll be rid of him.

How wrong was I? Amir Khan, the young man who many boxing “fans” still say has no heart, came back from that devastating knockout and became a world champion. Many of you will say Kotelnik was a bum, many of you will be wrong, Kotelnik was and still is, one of the most awkward, hard-to-beat fighters in boxing, Marcos Maidana can vouch for that.

For those who still say Khan has a weak chin, what is your evidence? Yes, he was hurt by weak fighters in the past, and was indeed knocked out by an “unknown” (to the casual) fighter in Prescott. But since then he has come through fights with much tougher opposition, Kotelnik caught him cleanly on many occasions but, didn’t shake the foundations. An aging Barrera also caught him, but lets be honest,

name a fighter who Barrera isn’t wiley enough of an old goat to cause problems for?

This of course leads us into his greatest test to date, Marcos Maidana. I read literally into the hundreds of articles and comments saying the fight would never happen and that Khan’s people would never expose him to such danger etc, and that even if they did, it would be pointless because Maidana would finish the job quicker than Prescott. Well, guess what… Khan, as I wrote in January 2010 that he would, took the fight, and won it fair and square. And as you all saw, had Maidana on the floor. Khan literally schooled Maidana for 9 rounds, with his vastly superior speed and boxing skills, Maidana looked lost and one-dimensional. Yes, you’re going to say, but Khan was seriously hurt in the 10th. Yes, he was, but did he go to the ground? Or did he battle on to close out a very hard fought final few rounds or what was a very gritty performance.

He has changed my opinion of his potential and future since being under the tutelage of Freddie Roach, not because I wanted him to succeed all along, but because he proved me wrong on so many levels. Not only that, but he comes to the ring each time willing to learn, he works hard to make sure he does not make the same mistake again. Not many fighters these days actively strive for better each and every time they train.

Now people are saying he simply MUST fight Prescott again to avenge the defeat, or he cannot be a credible contender. Why? Pacquiao is the biggest thing in boxing for over a decade, and he has unavenged losses on his record. Mike Tyson never got back in the ring with James Buster Douglas. Does this mean that both Pacquiao and Tyson ought to be written out of the hall of fame and struck from their legendary status in boxing history? Of course it doesn’t, because they are great fighters. And in turn, Khan has the opportunity to join them at those dizzying heights IF he continues down the path he is on and forgets all about Prescott. He has clearly rid himself of those demons and doesn’t need to revisit them for your sake, nor mine.

If Khan takes on European champion Paul McCloskey next, so what? He has just come through the fight of his life and beaten the hardest hitting guy in the division by a clear margin not just on the score cards, but in class too. Those who say khan is ducking greater opposition to fight McCloskey are horribly misinformed. This is a top 10 ranked fighter who, despite his age at 31, is a rising star at domestic and European level just like Khan was and just like Nathan Cleverly is. At some point, whether it was against Amir Khan or some other title holder, McCloskey was going to be given a shot at the world title. He’s had more pro fights than Devon Alexander, and only a couple less than Khan. Some may say the only reason he doesn’t enjoy the same profile as Khan is that he did not win an Olympic medal. This rings true, but the hype surrounding the medal is what caused Khan the headaches domestically to begin with. Something I am sure McCloskey will be glad of! As for the actual fight, I think Khan will win it in the later rounds, and people will say he only won because he fought a bum. Conversely, if Khan gets beaten, people will say he was beaten by a nobody. Both camps will be wrong of course, but that is exactly

why, aside from the skills of McCloskey, that this is such a dangerous fight for Khan. He’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.

I am sure he will face both Timothy Bradley and Devon Alexander at some point, and I am sure those fights will be great to watch, but Khan is still a young fighter very much in development and throwing him in against the very best in the division too soon will always result in him being beaten. That is not cherry picking, that is working your way through the ranks and learning your trade as a professional. For the remaining doubters, the clue is in the word professional. It would be reckless and amateurish to chase after something he’s not ready for like an excited puppy the way the armchair boxing fans would have him do.

Here’s to a bright and successful year for Amir Khan.

The above article was posted by “ Worldwide Weekly Boxing Predictions League” courtesy of Daniel Ciminera

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Results - Saturday 2 October 2024

Letterkenny Leisure Complex, Letterkenny, Ireland

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Unbeaten European light welterweight champion Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KOs) scored a seventh round KO over to retain his EBU belt against Barry Morrison (18-5, 8 KOs) on Saturday night at the Letterkenny Leisure Complex in Letterkenny, Ireland. McCloskey put Morrison on the deck in round five and finished him with a right left combination at 1:28 of round seven.

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Other Results:

Lightweight - Andy Murray defeated John Nolasco – PTS 10/10

Super bantamweight - Alexei Acosta defeated Cristian Faccio TKO 4/8

Supermiddleweight - Luis Garcia defeated Jorge Rodriguez Olivera TKO 6/8

Featherweight - Patrick Hyland defeated Yordan Vasilev PTS 6/6

Heavyweight - Coleman Barrett defeated Norbert Sallai PTS 6/6

Supermiddleweight - Brendan Fitzpatrick defeated Zahari Mutafchiev PTS 6/6

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