After reading several of the pieces involving the verbal battle between Lou DiBella, promoter of top middleweight star Sergio Martinez, and Russias Kirill Pchelnikov, the co-promoter and financial supporter of WBO middleweight beltholder Dmitry Pirog (19-0, 15 KOs), BoxingScene.com reached out to another member of Team Pirog to get his opinion on several topics read more ...

BoxingScene.com has received a copy of a letter dated July 13, 2011, from Aaron Davis, the commissioner of the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, advising promoters Dan Goossen and Golden Boy Promotions, that all three judges from last Saturday’s junior middleweight bout, involving Paul Williams and Erislandy Lara, have been indefinitely suspended read more ...

Luis DeCubas Jr., the manager of junior middleweight contender Erislandy Lara, is livid with his client’s majority decision loss to Paul Williams. On Saturday night at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, Williams (40-2, 27 KOs) was awarded a very unpopular decision over Lara (15-1-1, 10 KOs) read more ...

Say what? Erislandy Lara landed half of his power shots, with many of them being flush to the head of the diminished Paul Williams, who landed just one of every five punches he threw. Williams won a twelve round majority decision, but many of the ringside observers had Lara well ahead on their cards. HBO had a score of 117-111 for Lara read more ...

Rebounding from his KO loss to Sergio Martinez, Paul «The Punisher» Williams (40-2, 27 KOs) was looking to make statement against previously unbeaten Erislandy Lara (15-1-1, 10 KOs) on Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. He didn’t make the statement he wanted as the much shorter Lara seemed to dominate the fight, but Williams came away with a very controversial majority decision read more ...

Paul Williams 153.5 vs. Erislandy Lara 153 Akifumi Shimoda 121.5 vs. Rico Ramos 122 Chris Arreola 236 vs. Friday Ahunanya 244.5 Jhonny Gonzalez 125.5 vs. Tomas Villa 125.5 Thomas Lamanna 150.5 vs. Reggie Jenkins 147.5 . Cornelius White 175 vs. Dhafir Smith 172.5 read more ...

BoxingScene.com caught up with former welterweight champion Kermit Cintron, who faces Carlos Molina on Saturday in the co-feature bout to the Brandon Rios-Urbano Antillon main event read more ...

World Boxing Council featherweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez of Mexico has been confirmed to face Tomas Villa of Texas on July 9 at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, in what will be a co-promotion by read more ...

Former World Champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams looks to show the fans that he’s back and better than ever, and Rico Ramos, will be seeking to win his first world title on a July 9 twinbill in the Ballroom at Boardwalk Hall. Williams (30-2, 27 KOs), who sustained a stunning second-round knockout loss at the hands of middleweight champion Sergio Martinez last November, headlines in a scheduled 12-round bout against read more ...

In October, the WBC appointed interim middleweight champion Sebsatian Zbik the official mandatory challenger and ruled that Zbik must get his long waited shot at the full title by March 2011. With Sergio Martinez’ big win over Paul Williams, Zbik now knows who he will have to face. “The end rather surprised me,” said Zbik. “I was leaning toward Williams read more ...