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By Chris Williams: WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao has had a world of problems in his three fights against Juan Manuel Marquez and he should feel himself incredibly lucky that he doesn’t have three losses to show for those fights against Marquez because there’s more a few boxing fans who believe that Pacquiao deserved to [...]

SERRANO AND MAYFIELD PUSHING MATCH FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. ALBANY MAY 17TH RESULTS ARE Jr. Welterweights MAIN EVENT 10 Rounds Raymond Serrano 139lb Vs. Karim Mayfield 139lb ____________________________ Middleweights 8 Rounds Jason Escalera 160lb Vs. Nick Brinson 160lb ____________________________ Middleweights 4 Rounds Kevin Rooney Jr. 160lb Vs. Anthony Jones 161lb ___________________________ Super Middleweight 4 Rounds Lekan [...]

By Eric Thomas: A bout between unbeaten heavyweight contender Seth Mitchell (25-0-1, 19 KO’s) and former WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev (29-2-1, 18 KO’s) is a possibility for July 7th on the undercard of former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s next fight card in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mitchell, #6 WBO, #9 WBC, is thought [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former world heavyweight champion and HBO analyst Lennox Lewis doesn’t like the idea of David Haye and Dereck Chisora circumventing the British Boxing Board of Control and going to the Luxembourg Boxing Federation to get their July 14th clash at Upton Park sanctioned. Lewis feels that Chisora should wait until the BBBofC [...]

By Chris Williams: Tim Bradley (28-0, 12 KO’s) is ready as he’ll ever be to topple WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao on June 9th, and give him his first loss since 2005. Pacauiao has had two close calls in controversial wins over Juan Manuel Marquez in 2008 and 2011, but his luck with the judges [...]

Golden Boy Promotions announced Thursday that it has signed two fighters to its growing roster, interim junior welterweight titlist Johan Perez of Venezuela and former amateur standout Julian Ramirez of Alhambra, Calif.

By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight hopeful David Price (12-0, 10 KO’s) fights on Saturday night against former Commonwealth heavyweight champion Sam Sexton (15-2, 6 KO’s) for Tyson Fury’s vacated now vacant British heavyweight strap at the Aintree Equestrian Centre, in Liverpool, UK. The 28-year-old Price’s promoter Frank Maloney thinks Price or Sexton could be a [...]

By William Mackay: Amir Khan is still unhappy about learning the facts about Lamont Peterson having tested positive for synthetic testosterone recently. Khan wants Peterson to be punished, although that obviously won’t change anything about how Peterson made Khan look so bad last December. They can punish Peterson, but the fact remains he beat Khan [...]

Franklin Lawrence 236 – Mike Mollo 230 (NABA Heavyweight Title) Ronica Jeffrey 126 – Jackie Trivilino 126 (NABF Featherweight Title) Venue: Dover Downs 1st Bell: 7:30 TV: Wealth TV & GFL.TV

GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS SIGNS WORLD CHAMPION JOHAN PEREZ AND FORMER AMATEUR STAR JULIAN RAMIREZ LOS ANGELES, May 17 – The best roster in boxing added to its luster this week with Golden Boy Promotions’ signing of current WBA Interim Super Lightweight World Champion Johan Perez and unbeaten former amateur standout Julian Ramirez to multi-year promotional [...]

Negotiations with unbeaten Danny Garcia fail to net a deal. Golden Boy Promotions tentatively plans to stage former junior-welterweight champion Amir Khan's next fight July 7 at the Honda Center, company Chief Executive Richard Schaefer said Thursday.

SHUMENOV TO FACE ENRIQUE ORNELAS AT HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO IN LAS VEGAS ON JUNE 2 LIVE ON FOX SPORTS NET AND FOX DEPORTES WITH FUEL TV TO AIR ON DELAYED BASIS LAS VEGAS (May 17, 2012) – Unable to secure a unification title fight against the other 175-pound world champions, World Boxing Association [...]

The veteran trainer will likely work as a consultant for the U.S. team for the London Olympics. That is, if any more politics don't get in the way. Freddie Roach, the multi-time professional boxing trainer of the year, has made several fighters into supermen. Manny Pacquiao would serve as Exhibit A.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer announced on Thursday that former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-2, 18 KO’s) is looking to Southern California for his next fight. Schaefer put a hold on the Honda Center in Anaheim with the intent of staging a fight there on July 7 [...]

BROOKLYN (May 17, 2012)—On Saturday night June 2nd at the Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn, Sadam Worldkid” Ali will take on Franklin Gonzalez in a scheduled ten round Welterweight bout that will be the main event of a big night of boxing that is promoted by Ali’s Worldkid Promotions. This will be the 2008 U.S. [...]

By Chris Williams: Contrary to the rumors floating around about trainer Freddie Roach having been canned by WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Roach is still with him according to RingTV. However, strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza won’t be working with Chavez Jr. for his current training camp to get ready for Andy [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Fight negotiations between former welterweight champion Paul Williams (41-2, 27 KO’s) and WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) have reportedly sped up for a September 15th fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions told RingTV “I met with Al Haymon yesterday, [...]

Lawton, OK (May 17, 2012) – WBC Continental Americas Middleweight champion George “Comanche Boy” Tahdooahnippah is becoming increasingly impatient for a date with one of the world’s top 160 pound fighters. The hard-hitting Tahdooahnippah, a huge draw in his native Oklahoma, has an outstanding professional record of 30-0-1 with 22 wins by knockout. All but [...]

(Tonight’s fights will be broadcast on May 24, exclusively on www.boxing.com. The broadcast team of Randy Gordon and former middleweight contender John Duddy will deliver bell-to-bell coverage of “Lights Out On Long Island,” Including blow-by-blow and ringside interviews. Check www.boxing.com IT’S FREE!) WHAT: “Bombs Away On Long Island” professional boxing WHEN: Thursday, May 17, 2012 [...]

By Chris Williams: According to rumor-mill, trainer Freddie Roach is no longer working with WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. There’s still nothing official out on this yet, but it does seem rather telling that Roach is now back at his Wildcard gym in Los Angeles, in California training Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan [...]