In his first world title defense, unbeaten WBO super bantamweight champion Juan Manuel López (23-0, 21KOs) needed just 47 seconds to annihilate César Figueroa (30-7-2, 22KOs) on Saturday night at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. A left-right combination leveled Figueroa for the count read more ...

The 'Golden Boy' Oscar De La Hoya and four-time world champion Manny Pacquiao spoke to Chicago press at the top of the Sears Tower on Thursday for their upcoming world welterweight rumble 'Dream Match' on December 6 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. "We will be making history and we want to win this fight," stated the Pacman. "I want to give the glory to all my countrymen. I believe I can win and am going to train hard and I would read more ...

Former undisputed cruiserweight champion David Haye has promised to show the boxing public on November 15 that his chin is better than many think. Haye will face ranked heavyweight Monte "Two Gunz" Barrett at Greenwich’s 02 Arena in London. Because Haye was dropped and rocked a few times at the cruiserweight level, many experts believe that he's going to struggle against hard punching heavyweights read more ...

Experience will prevail over youth, Raul Marquez said, when he faces Arthur Abraham for the IBF middleweight title this Saturday in Bayern, Germany. It was Marquez' wealth of experience that earned him the title shot when he out-fought, out-boxed and out-slugged then-undefeated prospect Giovanni Lorenzo in June in a title elimnator in which only four out of thirty boxing pundits picked him to win. He will again be a huge read more ...

If words carry weight, the Oct. 11 showdown between light-heavyweights Chad Dawson (26-0, 17 KOs) and Antonio Tarver (26-4, 19 KOs), on Showtime, should blow out the co-headlining heavyweight title fight between Sam Peter and Vitali Klitschko. On a national teleconference held today, the two were at each other’s throats, with threats, promises and predictions of a dominating victory read more ...

The first world title fight between two German boxers in more than eight years (Michalczewski-Rocchigiani on April 15, 2000) is set for November 1 at the König Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen when WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm (30-2-1, 13 KOs) and mandatory challenger Sebastian Sylvester (29-2, 14 KOs) collide. At today's kick off press conference, both camps were already on the offensive read more ...

Speaking to insidesports.ph, Manila Standard and Viva Sports from the Wild Card Gym where Pacquiao worked out today, Roach said Pacquiao was coming along “great” and they had “a very good workout before the press tour” which opens at the Statute of Liberty in New York as we reported weeks ago following a conversation with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum read more ...

Juan Carlos Gomez (44-1, 35 KOs) is the new #1 contender for the WBC heavyweight title. "The Black Panther" outboxed Vladimir Virchis (24-2, 20 KOs, knocking down "The Hunter" in the fourth en route to a unanimous decision win. Scores were 117-110, 117-109, 115-111. "I told everybody before that it's Showtime!" stated Gomez. "I beat Virchis and more importantly I beat Klaus-Peter Kohl and Universum. Now I will read more ...

In a junior middleweight clash between former world champions, Shane Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) scored an entertaining twelfth round KO over Ricardo Mayorga (28-7-1, 22 KOs) on Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. Mayorga was more effective early, but Shane began to figure him out in round three. Round six was a big round for Mosley as Mayorga invited him to take a number of shots and Mosley obliged read more ...

BoxingScene.com has been advised that WBA junior welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik (30-2, 13KOs) has withdrawn from his title defense against undefeated Dmitriy Salita (28-0, 16KOs). The fight was the scheduled co-feature to the Joe Calzaghe-Roy Jones Jr. HBO pay-per-view on November 8 at New York's Madison Square Garden. One source tells BoxingScene that Kotelnik's camp are claiming the fighter suffered read more ...