WBC Super Middleweight Champ Carl Froch is expecting a full house at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham on October 17th when he kicks off his Super Six World Boxing Classic campaign against unbeaten American star Andre Dirrell.

Tickets for the event promoted by Hennessy Sports and Gary Shaw Productions are on sale from 1pm today and Froch says he’s delighted to be back in action in his hometown as he kicks off the Super Six tournament. More...

WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch recently celebrated his 32nd birthday, but the “Cobra” believes he’s still improving and he has the evidence to back it up.

Froch is part of the groundbreaking new Super Six concept which will ultimately crown the World’s best super middleweight and produce a leading candidate for the best pound for pound fighter in the world. More...

Undefeated super middleweight Andre “S.O.G.” Ward will share the stage with his first Super Six World Boxing Classic opponent Mikkel “Viking Warrior” Kessler on a special Saturday primetime edition of ShoBox: The New Generation, on Showtime.

Ward (19-0, 12 KOs) will tangle with Shelby Pudwill (22-3-1, 9 KOs) of McGlauglin, S.D., in a 10-round super middleweight scrap live from Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. More...

Talented WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel “Viking Warrior’’ Kessler of Copenhagen, Denmark, will make his eagerly awaited debut on Showtime earlier than expected.

One of the early favorites in the upcoming Super Six World Boxing Classic, Kessler (41-1, 31 KOs) will make a mandatory title defense against No. 1 ranked Gusmyl Perdomo (16-2, 10 KOs) of Turmero, Venezuela, on a special Saturday primetime edition of ShoBox: The New Generation, on Showtime, Sept. 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT via same day tape delay. More...

Last week, I previewed Showtime’s "Super Six World Boxing Classic" and gave my predictions for the first round of fights. When I sat down to write that article, I still felt as though this whole thing wasn’t real.

In the back of my mind, I thought that Ken Hershman of Showtime was just playing a cruel practical joke on the boxing public.

And then I saw the pictures of the six of them: Arthur Abraham, Carl Froch, Andre Dirrell, Mikkel Kessler, Jermain Taylor and Andre Ward with cocked fists and a mix of scowls and smiles. And then I pinched myself to make sure it was real.

That aside, let’s move on to the next set of predictions. Here is the rough schedule for the second and third rounds of the tournament, followed by my predictions.

January 2010: Abraham vs. Dirrell (U.S.)
March 2010: Froch vs. Kessler (Europe)
Spring 2010: Taylor vs. Ward (U.S.)

Summer 2010: Abraham vs. Froch (Europe); Dirrell vs. Ward (U.S.)
Fall 2010: Kessler vs. Taylor (U.S.)
January 2011: Semi-finals
May/June 2011: Final More...

WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch has laughed off any suggestions that unbeaten American star Andre Dirrell has got under his skin ahead of their opening round Super Six clash in Nottingham on October 17th.

Dirrell boasted yesterday that Froch would be his “easiest fight” in the groundbreaking new series which also includes WBA champ Mikkel Kessler, IBF Middleweight champ Arthur Abraham, former Undisputed Middleweight title holder Jermain Taylor and Olympic Gold medallist Andre Ward.

Froch will enjoy home advantage for the bout at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham with tickets for the event going on sale next week and he says all the pressure will be on Dirrell to back up his words when he arrives in the U.K. More...

Recently, it was announced by Showtime that they were putting a super six tournament together, comprising of the six top super middleweights, bar one, a certain Lucian Bute, to face off against each other in order to ascertain the new king of the division.

As the WBC and WBA titles are on the line, this looks set to be a very exciting event indeed. As most, including myself, were relatively confused as to how this would take place, allow me to simplify...

The tournament participants are, in alphabetical order, as follows:

Arthur Abraham, Berlin, Germany: 30-0 (24), IBF Middleweight Champion
Andre Dirrell, Flint, MI: 18-0 (13), 2004 Olympic Medallist
Carl Froch, Nottingham, England: 25-0 (20), WBC Super Middle Champion
Mikkel Kessler, Copenhagen, Denmark: 41-1 (31), WBA Super Middle Champion
Jermain Taylor, Little Rock, AR: 28-3-1 (17), former Unified Middleweight Champion
Andre Ward, Oakland, CA: 19-0 (12), 2004 Olympic Gold Medallist

Rules
Each boxer will fight three bouts against different opponents in a round-robin, points based competition. Points will be awarded after each bout.

Scoring is as follows:
2 points for a win, with a 1 point stoppage bonus
1 point for a draw
0 points for a loss More...

Unbeaten American star Andre “The Matrix” Dirrell has come out all guns blazing ahead of his Super Six showdown with WBC Super Middleweight Champ Carl Froch on October 17th.

Froch will have home advantage for the clash with promoter Mick Hennessy confirming that the fight will take place at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham with tickets for the event going on sale next week. More...

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First off, the boxing community is eternally indebted to Ken Hershman, Showtime’s boxing chief. Consider, for a moment, what he has actually managed to do: six fighters with five different promoters across two continents have agree to a 12-fight, round robin tournament over the course of about two years.

It sounds like a cross between message board fantasy and drug-induced delusion. But Hershman and Showtime really did it. They actually got all of the necessary parties—fighters, promoters, managers—to sign on to this thing.

Of course, that does not preclude the possibility that problems will arise. They most certainly will. However, there is great reason to expect that something unprecedented and spectacular will come as a result of Hershman’s inconceivable brilliance.

So, without further ado, let the banter begin. Here is the tentative schedule and point system for the tournament, followed by my predictions on how the first round will turn out. More...

Andre Ward arrived in Berlin, Germany yesterday to participate in the announcement of the "Showtime Sports Super Six World Boxing Classic".

Ward had been ill and was unable to attend the initial New York and Copenhagen press conferences.

Said Ward, "I am disappointed that I was unable to make the first portions of the announcement tour but as soon as I was physically able, I flew out to join my fellow competitors. More...

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Britain’s only reigning World Champion, Carl Froch, believes he can cement his boxing legacy by winning the inaugural "Super Six World Boxing Classic".

The “Cobra” is one of six world renowned fighters that have been selected for a groundbreaking new series which will begin later this year and culminate in a final bout early in 2011. More...

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Showtime Sports and six of the best super middleweight boxers in the world converged in New York City on Monday to announce an unprecedented new boxing tournament to be presented by Showtime in the United States and throughout the world on various television networks.

The inaugural "Super Six World Boxing Classic" is a round-robin, six-fighter tournament featuring the class of the Super Middleweight division from home and abroad.

The world renowned fighters have a staggering combined record of 161-4-1 with 117 knockouts. There are four undefeated fighters, two current world champions, two young, unbeaten, world-ranked contenders and one former undisputed world titleholder. More...

It didn’t take two-time WBA heavyweight champion John “The Quietman” Ruiz (43-8-1, 29 KOs) very long to respond to comments made by unbeaten heavyweight contender Chris Arreola and his promoter, Dan Goossen, at a press conference Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Arreola was quoted as saying, “There are a lot of old guys and former champs sitting around there that we need to take care of. Their time is up. They need to go.” More...

He’s called “Fast Eddie” for having, arguably, the fastest hands in the heavyweight division. He could be called “Steady Eddie,” for the consistent, workmanlike manner he conducts his business in the ring.

But in the aftermath of his disciplined victory at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles over former WBC Heavyweight Champion Samuel Peter, Eddie Chambers has proclaimed himself as “Ready Eddie”, as in ready for a shot at one of the recognized world heavyweight title belts. More...

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Heavyweights Sam ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ Peter and 'Fast Eddie' Chambers met with members of the media on Thursday, February 19 in Los Angeles as their upcoming bout on March 27 was announced.

Both fighters have recent losses they feel need accounting for, and will be looking for redemption at the Nokia Theater L.A. Live in the downtown LA venue’s first fight event, scheduled to air on ESPN Friday Night Fights at 10:00 pm ET/7:00 pm PT.

Heavyweight ‘Fast Eddie’ Chambers’ trainer Rob Murray Sr. has worked with the 26 year old Chambers since the heavyweight was 19 and sees the upcoming fight against Peter on March 27 as, “A mission, with a no-fail value, no fail in it whatsoever.”

‘Fast Eddie’, 33-1 (18), from Pittsburgh, PA., fought 17 straight times at the legendary Blue Horizon in Philadelphia before appearing on a Goossen-Tutor promoted show in Reno, NV in 2006 and is currently ranked #3 by the IBF. More...

Big time heavyweight boxing will be played out on March 27 when world-ranked contender Eddie Chambers and world-ranked and former WBC World Heavyweight Champion Sam Peter collide in a monstrous heavyweight battle scheduled for 12-rounds on a special edition of ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights” at10:00 pm ET/7:00 pm PT at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles. More...

On Saturday, June 7, SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING will present a world championship doubleheader as Vernon Forrest defends his WBC super welterweight title against Sergio Mora, while Carlos Quintana looks to defend his newly acquired WBO welterweight belt against the boxer he dethroned, previously unbeaten Paul Williams live at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast). More...

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Olympic Gold Medalist Andre Ward looks to take the next step toward a world title shot when Goossen Tutor Promotions in association with the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism presents “Cayman Knockout: Championship Boxing” from the Caribbean on Friday, June 20, 2008, live on SHOWTIME’s ShoBox: The New Generation (11 p.m. ET/PT delayed on the west coast). More...