‘Argenis Mendez’

Universidad Autonoma in Guadalajara, Mexico was the site of a thrilling fight last evening that saw Juan Carlos Salgado survive a rocky final round to capture the vacant IBF super feather crown against Argenis Mendez.

Salgado went into the bout having won two straight after losing the WBA super feather title to Takashi Uchiyama in Japan last year but the Mexico City man was expected to have a tough night against New York based Dominican Mendez.

Earlier this year Mendez had won an IBF title eliminator with a sharp performance against a former owner of that title, Cassius Baloyi, in South Africa, and had been victorious in his last six appearances.

Once the bell rang, the fighters got right down to combat with Salgado bringing the pressure but Mendez surprisingly chose to stand and fight rather than to use his advantages of speed and skill and box. More...

On July 28, 2010 at BB King Blues Club in New York City Argenis Mendez, a Dominican fighter out of Brooklyn, and Shamir Reyes, a Brooklyn southpaw, fought an war of egos that went the eight round distance.

Mendez dropped Reyes near the end of round one with a straight right, and won every round with left jabs which scored, as he had substantial reach advantage. Reyes fought a survival bout against Mendez for all eight rounds, resorting to hitting and holding, leaning on him on the ropes to tire him, grabbing into tangled clinches at every opportunity, hitting behind the head, and frequent head butting. Mendez got frustrated all night as tough Reyes took a good punch.

Following corner instructions, Mendez tried to put his opponent away in the last two rounds, forcing Reyes, who actually landed a few counters, to resort to wrestling Mendez along the ropes. Neither fighter appeared to be hurt. Mendez improves to 17-1 (9). Shamir falls to 18-7-2 (7), with one win since 2004.

The three judges saw the bout 80-71, 80-71, and 79-72. More...

Keisher “Fire”Mcleod-Wells steps back into the ring on July 28th against Melissa “Mighty” McMorrow at the BB King Blues club and Grill in Times Square, NY.

The Dibella Entertainment fight card will feature many of NY’s up and coming stars with the likes of Argenis Mendez, Gabriel Bracero and Willie Monroe Jr all seeing action. More...

After a prolonged and heavily hyped media build-up, light middleweights Paul Williams and Kermit Cintron fought an uneventful three rounds at Home Depot Center in Carson, CA last night.

The pair went about the fight cautiously from the outside without much taking place until the forth round when Cintron fell through the ropes after getting tangled up with Williams.

After landing upon the ringside tables, Cintron was declared unable to continue the bout and Williams was awarded the technical decision.

Williams improves to 39-1 (27), while Cintron falls to 32-3-1 (28).

The vacant USBA super feather belt was awarded to unheralded New Yorker Argenis Mendez, 16-1 (9), who won a 114-114, 116-112 and 116-112 majority decision against the far more experienced Martin Honorio, 28-5-1 (14), in the chief support bout.

Welterweight Mike Dallas, Jr, 14-0-1 (5), stopped Daniel Gonzalez, 9-28-2 (3), who has now lost 13 consecutive bouts, in the second.

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Three-time former World Champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams will face former Welterweight World Champion and knockout artist Kermit “The Killer” Cintron tonight at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA.

Light Middleweights, 12 rounds
Paul Williams: 152.5 lb
Kermit Cintron: 154 lb More...

If "The Weight Is Over” headliners Paul “The Punisher” Williams and Kermit “The Killer” Cintron are as accomplished at making predictions as they are with their fists, then “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather’s perfect record will be a thing of the past come this Saturday night in Las Vegas.

“The two proclaimed best welterweights in the world fighting Saturday night aren't the best welterweights in the world -- Paul Williams is the best,” declared the ever self-assured Williams (38-1, 27 KOs), who has challenged both of them on multiple occasions. More...

Seven bouts out of a scheduled eight went off as planned on Friday night, June 6, 2008, at the sovereign Performing Arts Center, in Reading, Pennsylvania promoted by Marshall Kauffman and Top Rank. Spanish channel Telefutura provided commentary in English and Spanish.

Attendance was spartan at the fight card as high school graduation was taking place in downtown Reading at the same time. Welterweight contender Kermit Cintron was in attendance at the fight card to witness the professional debut of his brother and sparring partner, Harold. Also in attendance was former three time New Jersey Golden Gloves champion Michael Torres, of Newark, currently 11-0 (6) as a professional junior welterweight and being trained by former 1960’s light heavyweight contender Johnny Persol (who beat Eddie Cotton, Harold Johnson and Bobo Olson).

A scheduled bout between Lancaster, Pennsylvania light middleweight Manuel Guzman 6-5-1 (2) and New Jersey’s Alex Perez 9-0 (6) was scratched, as Guzman instead took a different fight on Wednesday night at the Aviator Sports Arena in Brooklyn, New York, and upset previously undefeated hometown favorite, Tommy Rainone 11-1 (3) by a four round split decision.

Promoter Marshall Kauffmann explained in an interview that he is working on a fight card for September that will include a rematch between Guzman and Jorge Delgado, and will include his son Travis Kauffman, now 10-0 (7) as a heavyweight, on the card. Kauffman is billing his son as ‘The Great White Hope’ following the likes of Jim Jeffries, Rocky Marciano, Duane Bobick, Gerry Cooney, and Tommy ‘The Duke’ Morrison. Travis is now hard in training in California.

In the main event of the evening, middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio of Mexico moved a step closer to a title shot against World Middleweight Champion Kelly Pavlik with a fifth round stoppage of fading Alfredo Cuevas. Rubio, now 42-4-1 (37), fighting out of Georgetown, Texas, hardly had a workout with Cuevas, 26-10-1 (17), fighting out of Chicago. More...

Reading, PA will host a weekend of fistic warfare on June 6 and 7 at the historic Sovereign Performing Arts Center. Although the nation's largest and best World War II Reenactment Weekend will be taking place this same weekend on the nearby Reading Airport grounds, bombs will also be flying in the boxing ring in downtown Reading.

On Friday June 6, Top Rank Promotions, in association with King's Promotions, presents a night of professional boxing featuring heavy hitters and knockout artists in an event to be televised live by TeleFutura. More...

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Final Forum in association with Top Rank headlined an exciting night of boxing entitled “Fists a Flying at the Aviator” a sports and recreation center in Brooklyn , New York this past Thursday.

In the main event, NABF Super Welterweight Champion Yuri Foreman improved to 25-0 (8), out-boxing Saul Roman, 24-5 (20), over ten rounds with scores of 97-93 and 98-92 twice.

Foreman came out from the opening bell boxing and moving well which continued throughout the entire fight. During the third round, Roman was cut by an accidental head-butt over the left eye. The cut streamed with blood in the fourth round and was examined by the ringside physician who allowed the bout to continue. More...