News - Devon Alexander

WBC/IBF super lightweight champion Devon Alexander is a prohibitive favorite to defeat former WBA champion Andriy Kotelnik in their showdown on DKP’s big world championship tripleheader on Saturday in Las Vegas. Hometown favorite Alexander is -900 at WilliamHill.com, -1100 at Sportsbook.com and -1200 at Bet365.com. Kotelnik backers can get +500/+600/+600 read more ...

“It’s going to be a devastating performance!,” exclaimed Devon Alexander (20-0, 13 KOs), when asked at today’s press conference how he was going to defeat Andriy Kotelnik (31-3-1, 13 KOs) at “Gateway to Greatness”, the Don King Promotions event to be held Saturday in St. Louis, Mo. Kotelnik responded to Alexander’s declaration by stating that, “I have a big surprise for him.” read more ...

Alan Hopper (Don King Productions, Public Relations Director) - On Saturday, August 7th, Don King Productions will present a world championship tripleheader, “Gateway to Greatness: The Homecoming” at Scottrade Center in St. Louis. We’ve heard a lot of talk recently from other boxing promoters wanting to present great top-to-bottom cards like Don King cards read more ...

ST. LOUIS—A typical boxing press conference today at Scottrade Center in St. Louis suddenly turned raucous after undefeated unified 140-pound world champion Devon Alexander’s trainer told former WBA junior welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik, a Ukrainian making his first visit to America, “That’s a long way to come for an ass whuppin.’ read more ...

Vadim Bukhkalov, the head of K2 East Promotions, commented on the recent status and upcoming future of several most notable fighters from his team in his interview for the Boxnews web portal. About WBA #5 and WBO #10 middleweight Avtandil Khurtsidze (21-1-2, 12 KOs read more ...

Undefeated Devon Alexander “The Great” stunned Juan “Iron Twin” Urango with two knockdowns in the eighth round that led to a spectacular technical knockout win on Saturday night at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn.. Alexander took Urango’s IBF title at 140 pounds and added it to his WBC super lightweight championship. “My coach told me to stay focused when Urango started bleeding [from the nose in the third round]. My coach said ‘Don’t stand there and get hit,’ read more ...

WBC super lightweight Devon Alexander (20-0, 13 KOs) retained his title and captured the IBF title as he stopped former champion Juan Urango (22-3-1, 17 KOs) at 1:12 of round number eight at the Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino in Uncasville, CT in the main event of HBO’s Boxing After Dark. Urango looked solid throughout the first seven rounds of the bout as he seemingly landed the better and harder punches during the fight read more ...

BoxingTalk has been informed that an intriguing junior welterweight match between undefeated WBC champ Devon Alexander "The Great" and Marcos Maidana is in the works and will likely take place on an HBO Boxing After Dark in March 2010 read more ...

In a clash for the WBC super lightweight title, unbeaten Devon Alexander (19-0, 12 KOs) claimed the vacant belt by making former champion Junior Witter (37-3-2, 22 KOs) quit after round eight. Alexander was in command throughout, staggering Witter several times before Witter suddenly called it quits read more ...

Timothy Bradley 139 vs Nate Campbell 138.5 (WBO junior welterweight championship) Junior Witter 139 vs Devon Alexander 138.5 (WBC junior welterweight championship) Venue: Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Promoter: Gary Shaw read more ...