Native New Yorkers Dmitriy Salita and Luis Collazo thrilled a packed house that included former world champions Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi and Iran “The Blade” Barkley at the Oceana Hall in Coney Island, Brooklyn in separate bouts on Wednesday night, each scoring decisive victories over their opponents read more ...

Dmitry Salita 149 vs. Ronnie Warrior, Jr., 148 Also on the card: former WBA welterweight title-holder Luis Collazo and former Golden Gloves champion Rafael Vasquez. Tickets ranging from $125 to $40 can be purchased at dsalita.com read more ...

Ricardo Mayorga is back on the scene again and this time he is trying to secure a fight against Ukrainian Sergiy Dzinziruk, current junior middleweight champion of the WBO, for a date of October 2. The rumored opponent for Dzinziruk was Luis Collazo, who recently said he was not interested in accepting the fight at this time and needed a tuneup or two read more ...

WBO light middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk (37-0, 23 KOs) told Fightnews.com that he’s planning to defend his belt against former WBA welterweight world champion Luis Collazo (30-4, 15 KOs) on October 2nd. Collazo, however, has released the following statement: “I will not be challenging WBO light middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk (37-0, 23 KOs) on October 2nd. I have not fought in more than a year read more ...

Undefeated junior middleweight Vanes Martirosyan spoke to BoxingScene.com after reading that WBO junior middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinzurik is trying to secure a fight with former welterweight champion Luis Collazo. A furious Martirosyan said, " I want to know why he (Dzinzurik) is fighting a 147 pounder? These guys want to sit around and wait for Manny (Pacquiao) or for big money fights. read more ...

WBO light middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk (37-0, 23 KOs) will fight on October 2th against former WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo (30-4, 15 KOs). “After my first fight in the USA against Daniel Dawson, I’ll fight with Luis Collazo,” Dzinziruk told Fightnews.com. “I’m assured it’s a fight that will be interesting for me, but I want the big fight with Paul Williams. Paul, I will find you and I will knock you out!” read more ...

In a battle of undefeated fighters Jo Jo Dan (26-0, 14 KOs) will be meeting Selcuk Aydin (19-0, 15 KOs) in Turkey June 5th for the WBC Silver (Interim) welterweight belt. “It’s a done deal,” Dan’s Romanian promoter Chris Ganescu of Gankor Promotions told Fightnews read more ...

BoxingScene.com has been advised that a very interesting doubleheader is being put together for April 10 on HBO. In the main event, undefeated WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto would defend his title against former champion Carlos Quintana. The deal for Berto-Quintana is nearly complete. Quintana is a very dangerous opponent for Berto read more ...

WBC executive secretary Mauricio Sulaiman sent a letter to the parties of WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (25-0,19 KOs) and former WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo (30-4,15 KOs) to begin free negotiations of a rematch on their January 17th bout of earlier this year. This ruling had been decided at the last WBC Convention that was held in Chengdu, China read more ...

WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (24-0, 19 KOs) barely got by former WBA champ Luis Collazo (29-4, 14 KOs) on Saturday night at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. Collazo got off to an excellent start against Berto as both fighters met at close quarters. After Berto was deducted a point for holding in round four, Berto started boxing from the outside in round five and had a few good rounds. Collazo got a second wind in rounds nine and ten, but Berto closed the fight strong to pull it out. Scores were 116-111, 114-113, 114-113. read more ...