WBC junior middleweight champion Saul «Canelo» Alvarez (39-0, 29KOs) is yet another fighter who lost the opportunity to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. Alvarez was also trying to get Mayweather in early 2012, but the WBC welterweight champion was recently sentenced to 90 days in jail for a domestic assault issue. After fighting four times in 2011, Alvarez wants a big fight to ignite his start in 2012 read more ...

In a clash of junior middleweight KO artists, James «Mandingo Warrior» Kirkland (30-1, 27 KOs) scored a sixth round TKO over Alfredo «Perro» Angulo (20-2-1, 17 KOs) on Saturday night at the Cancun Center in Cancun, Mexico. In a wild first round, Angulo dropped Kirkland and launched a fearsome attack that Kirkland weathered and then came back to drop Angulo! Angulo never really recovered and Kirkland pummeled Angulo for the rest of the fight before the referee stepped in read more ...

It is on. Former WBA (interim) light middleweight titleholder Nobuhiro Ishida (23-6-2, 8 KOs), who acclaimed international fame after vaporizing highly regarded James Kirkland in just a round, will try to repeat this trick against possibly a harder opponent. On Dec. 17 in Zaporizhyya, Ukraine, the lanky Japanese stylist will clash his horns with Gerogian bomber Avtandil Khurtsidze (26-2-2, 17 KOs) read more ...

WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (38-0-1, 28KOs) will not train in Big Bear, California for his upcoming fight against Kermin Cintron (33-4-1, 28KOs) on November 26. Alvarez, who trained in Big Bear for recent fights with Alfonso Gomez and Ryan Rhodes, wants to avoid the possibility of getting sick from the climate change in California. read more ...

Returning from his first professional loss, middleweight contender James Kirkland (28-1, 25 KOs) wasted little time in annihilating journeyman Dennis Sharpe (17-8-3, 4 KOs) on Friday night at the Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, Texas. Sharpe was down twice before Kirkland was declared a KO winner at 2:18 of round one read more ...

BoxingScene.com has been advised by manager Edison "Eddy" Reynoso, that Nobuhiro Ishida (23-6, 8KOs) has received an offer to face middleweight king Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26KOs) in the fall. On Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Ishida pulled off the upset of the year by stopping previously unbeaten James Kirkland in the first round read more ...

Nobuhiro Ishida: "As you know, Japan had a very big earthquake. It makes me happy and proud to come to the United States and win for my country. He [Kirkland] didn’t expect this from me. He didn’t respect what we had. Kirkland kept coming forward at me and so I kept going with my right, my right, my right and it worked read more ...

In a huge, huge upset, former WBA interim 154lb titleholder Nobuhiro Ishida (23-6-2, 8 KOs) destroyed previously unbeaten middleweight KO artist James Kirkland (27-1, 24 KOs) with a sensational first round KO. Ishida shockingly dropped Kirkland three times in a one-sided annihilation. Time was 1:52. Kirkland is rated WBO #4 at middleweight, Ishida is rated WBA #4 at super welterweight read more ...

Undefeated junior middleweight prospect James Kirkland (25-0) told BoxingScene.com that he cant wait to get back in the ring in his first televised fight on the Marcos Maidana-Erik Morales undercard on April 9th. Kirkland has to come out of his tune up on March 5th unscathed in order to solidify his spot on the Maidana-Morales card. His opponent for March 5th hasnt been named yet read more ...

Junior middleweight contender James Kirkland (25-0, 22KOs) is set to be released from prison on September 17 and placed into a halfway house. He was orginally scheduled to be released on October 2. Kirkland has been imprisoned since April 2009 after pleading guilty to a charge of gun possession by a convicted felon. Kirkland's co-manager, Camerin Dunkin, said his fighter is ready to roll read more ...