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By Richard Eberline November 22nd, 2009 All Boxing Results
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing
American contender Andre Ward outboxed reigning WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler last night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA, winning the Showtime's Super Six tournament bout.
Kessler came forward early but couldn't find the target as Ward used excellent footwork to stay out of range while punishing the Dane with lightning quick left hooks and right hands.
Ward started to mix in the jab as Kessler got closer in the third but the fourth and fifth frames saw both men forced to shake off hard punches from the opponent. More...
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By Lee Bellfield November 21st, 2009 All Boxing Previews
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing
The first stage of the exciting Super Six Super Middleweight tournament concludes tonight when the recognised number 1 in the division, Mikkel Kessler, meets Olympic Gold Medalist Andre Ward for the WBA title in Oakland, California.
For the Dane Kesslerm it's his second spell as a World Champion. After unifying the WBA/WBC titles with a swift victory against Markus Beyer in 2006, Kessler gave Joe Calzaghe arguably his toughest test en route to losing a competitive 12 round points decision in Cardiff in November, 2007.
This is still his only defeat in 43 fights.
Kessler is strong and tough. A solid super middleweight with proven pedigree. More...
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By Al Bernstein November 19th, 2009 All Boxing Articles
 This weekend I will join the Showtime team in Oakland for the final stage of the Super Six Boxing Classic. WBA Super Middleweight Champ Mikkel Kessler travels across the pond from Denmark to battle Californian Andre Ward. It’s possible this match-up might end up being the best of the three in the tourney’s first stage.
The first two matches produced some intriguing results and some exciting moments. Arthur Abraham scored a 12th round knockout of Jermain Taylor, punctuating a great performance by this German superstar fighting in front of his home fans.
Taylor had his moments early in this match, but as has sadly become his custom lately, he faded as the match went into the middle and later rounds. Abraham showed us that his peculiar style is a tough one to master.
Showtime Boxing analyst Steve Farhood put it best when he said “Abraham is like a football team, he plays defense and he then plays offense, but never the two at the same time.”
Abraham comes out of his defensive shell to throw quick and powerful combinations. He will be a tough nut to crack in this tourney.
The next man to try will be young American Andre Dirrell who lost a split decision in stage one to WBC Champion Carl Froch. Dirrell landed some good counter punches against the charging Froch and even stunned him once or twice, but just didn’t quite do enough offensively to win the day according to two of the judges.
Dirrell came into the tourney as the least battle tested of the six, and he did show he has the poise and ability to hang with the big boys in this tourney. Froch, the tough Brit, came away with a less than artistic win. More...
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By Richard Eberline October 31st, 2009 All Boxing Previews
Tonight at Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas, NV, IBF bantam champ Joseph Agbeko faces the challenge of Yonnhy Perez in what should turn out to be an epic battle.
Agbeko, 27-1 (22), of Ghana, came out of nowhere in 2004 to lose a narrow IBF title challenge to Wladimir Sidorenko in Germany before capturing the vacant Commonwealth crown later that year.
After a two and a half year absence from the ring, Agbeko returned with three bouts in 2007, the last of which won him the IBF bantam crown when stopping Luis Alberto Perez in the seventh.
After a difficult majority decision victory against William Gonzalez last December, Agbeko really hit the limelight when soaking up everything multi-weight champ Vic Darchinyan had to offer in July, banging out a unanimous decision after 12 absolutely furious rounds.
Tonight, the 29 year Bronx resident puts his IBF belt at risk for the third time, facing undefeated Colombian Yonnhy Perez, 19-0 (14). More...
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By Nick Chamberlain October 29th, 2009 All Boxing Articles
As the first stage of the Super Six Tournament has been and gone, some questions have been answered whilst some remain.
Arthur Abraham did exactly what every-one predicted he would do; tucked up for the majority of every round but without letting the points stack up against him, riding out the storm, and toward the last minute of each frame would unleash hard, wild, looping hooks to head and body that quite visibly shook up Jermain Taylor.
Taylor was again slightly unlucky when he was levelled in the 12th round as he did not see the right hand coming, and it ended him. However, it was a good display from Abraham, who had a good game plan that he stuck to, showing us all the power he has when he lets his hands go.
Carl Froch tackled Andre Dirrell, whom we had not seen a lot of, and the majority of people thought it would be a repeat performance of the Taylor fight, while in fact it was Taylor who produced the repeat performance that night.
When first writing about the Super Six Tournament, my previous prediction was that Froch would stop Dirrell, but in reality Froch could not catch Dirrell.
Dirrell was sharp, fleet of hand and foot, his punches were clean and accurate, especially on the counter and the only thing going against him in this fight was that he did not want to get involved in a toe-to-toe war with Froch, which is understandable.
Froch was almost exposed in this fight, in which he was very, repeat, very lucky to get away with the win.
Next up for Froch is Mikkel ‘The Viking Warrior’ Kessler, who's glittering 42-1 (32) record has only been sullied by the top super middleweight of the last ten years, Joe Calzaghe. More...
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By Boxing Press October 18th, 2009 All Boxing Results
© Howard Schatz
The Super Six World Boxing Classic got off to a scintillating start in Europe on Saturday night.
At the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham, England, hometown hero Carl “The Cobra” Froch defended his World Boxing Council (WBC) title against Andre “The Matrix” Dirrell of Flint, Michigan by split-decision.
In Berlin, at the famed 02 World Arena, “King” Arthur Abraham treated his hometown fans to a spectacular final-round knockout victory of Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor. More...
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By Lee Bellfield October 17th, 2009 All Boxing Previews
© Winfried Mausolf
An exciting concept in the world of boxing kicks off tonight in Nottingham, England and Berlin, Germany.
Featured is a tournament comprising of six of the world's top super middleweights which will attempt to find out who the premier 168 pounder really is.
Certainly this isn't the first time an elimination tournament has taken place. One looks back to the eight man elimination tournament held in 1967 and 1968 to find a successor to Muhammad Ali, who was stripped of his heavyweight title. This series however could prove to be the most exciting. More...
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By Boxing Press October 17th, 2009 All Press Releases
Click for larger image © Howard Schatz
In front of an excitable crowd and a throng of cameras, hometown hero “King” Arthur Abraham (30-0, 24 KOs) of Berlin, weighed in at the division limit 168 pounds.
His opponent, Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor (28-3-1, 17 KOs) of Little Rock, AR, who had more than 20 American fans on hand, weighed in at 166.25 pounds. More...
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