World Middleweight Champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik returns to Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall on Saturday, December 5, for the biggest gamble of his world title reign as he faces two-division world champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams. Promoted by Top Rank and Goossen Tutor Promotions, in association with Caesars Atlantic City, …
Read More »Al Bernstein On Boxing: Loaded Schedule – Two Sleepers
The boxing schedule for the last quarter of the year is ridiculously good. Big matches abound, starting with next week’s Floyd Mayweather Jr’s comeback fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. There is another mega fight in Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto, then three great matches in the Super Six World Boxing …
Read More »Youngstown Air Reserve Drafts Boxing Champ Kelly Pavlik
The 910th Airlift Wing will unveil a C-130H Hercules cargo transport aircraft honoring Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik, Youngstown’s world champion boxer. The unveiling ceremony is scheduled for today, Tuesday, August 4 at 1 P.M. in Hangar 302. 910th Airlift Wing commander Col. Karl McGregor, Kelly Pavlik, members of Team Pavlik …
Read More »European Boxing News: Abraham, Lorenzo, Pavlik, Aydin, Ouali, Petranyi
By Per Ake Persson German tabloid Bild Zeitung wrote Sunday that IBF middleweight champ Arthur Abraham will fight mandatory challenger Giovanni Lorenzo on June 27 in Germany.
Read More »Boxing Perspective: Too ‘Old’ To Box?
Recent fights have had me thinking that the definition of an ‘old’ fighter needs revising. A fighter in his 30’s no longer seems to be all that old. Rob Norton at 37 handed David Dolan the second defeat of his career for the British Cruiserweight title in what proved to …
Read More »Super Middleweight Boxing Contender Jesse Brinkley Calls Out Kelly Pavlik
World ranked super middleweight Jesse Brinkley has returned to the gym, one month after his blood-filled destruction of Northern Nevada rival Joey Gilbert, and is looking to taking on the very best in his division. “I know all the big names and they know me, but it seems like they’re …
Read More »Boxing Result: Pavlik Stops Rubio In Comeback Title Defense
Any questions that may have surrounded the career of Kelly Pavlik following his serious dismantlement at the hands of Bernard Hopkins last year were answered last night as the Youngstown, OH man impressed a hometown audience at the Chevrolet Center by defeating challenger Marco Antonio Rubio. With the Hopkins bout …
Read More »Top Rank Boxing: Pavlik, Rubio Promise Fireworks
Wall-to-wall media at the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown, including two network affiliate television crews broadcasting live, attended today’s final news conference hosted by World Middleweight Champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik of Youngstown, his opponent, No. 1 contender and mandatory challenger Marco Antonio Rubio of Mexico, and Hall of Fame promoter …
Read More »Boxing Quotes: Cotto, Jennings, Pavlik, Rubio
Miguel Cotto: I don’t know anything about my opponent. I have not watched any tapes of him. Right now I feel good, but I miss the gym and the fights. I am hungry to get back. I have walked around at about 176 or 178. The people in Puerto Rico …
Read More »HBO Boxing: Cotto, Pavlik Headline Massive PPV February 21
It will be a tale of two cities when two-division world champion Miguel Cotto returns to the “Mecca of Boxing,” Madison Square Garden and World Middleweight Champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik makes his world title defense a real homecoming at the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown, Ohio. Cotto and Pavlik headline …
Read More »Pavlik vs. Rubio Boxing Tickets Hottest Thing In Youngstown
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow could keep the Pavlik Nation from the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown this morning to purchase tickets to World Middleweight Champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik’s homecoming title defense against No. 1 contender Marco Antonio Rubio.
Read More »IBF Boxing Champ Steve Cunningham Gets Guest Panelist Slot For Film Festival
© Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro IBF Cruiserweight Champion, Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham, will be taking a little time out from training for his upcoming title defense against Tomasz Adamek on December 11 at the Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey, to be one of the guest panelists at the U.S. Sports Film …
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