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  • Boxing In Argentina: Marcos Maidana vs. DeMarcus Corley

    Tonight, Buenos Aires’ famed Luna Park Stadium hosts an Interim WBA light welter championship bout between Marcos Rene Maidana and DeMarcus Corley.

    Titlist Maidana, 28-1 (27), puts his strap at risk for the third time and the Jose Leon Suarez resident will enjoy a massive hometown advantage over the visiting American veteran.

    An even bigger edge for the Argentine body puncher will be the reduced abilities of southpaw Corley, 37-13-1 (22), who is at least six years past his prime and has become a bit of an opponent these days.

    However, the 36 year old ex-WBO champ Corely has faced the far greater opposition during the course of his 14 year career in the form of Floyd Mayweather Jr, Zab Judah, Miguel Cotto, Devon Alexander, Junior Witter and Randall Bailey when those boxers were in their prime. (more…)

  • Arena Boxing: Gamboa vs. Salido September 11 In Las Vegas

    On September 11th Cuban featherweight phenomenon Yuriorkis Gamboa will enter the ring for his first championship unification bout when the WBA titlist faces IBF champ Orlando Salido at The Palms Resort Casino in Las Vegas.

    The show will be promoted by Top Rank in association with Arena Sports-Promotion and broadcasted live on HBO Boxing After Dark. (more…)

  • Boxing Result: Latimore Guns Down Ford In St. Louis


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    Junior middleweight contender Deandre “The Bull” Latimore went back to work this past Saturday night in his hometown of St. Louis, tearing into veteran Darien Ford, dropping him three times in the second round before referee Steve Smoger stopped the bout at the 2:46 mark of the third round following a hailstorm of punches. (more…)

  • Boxing Perspective: Willie Savannah – Making A Difference For The Youth Of Houston


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    Often, when people are first introduced to one another they politely say, “It’s a pleasure to meet you.” They may not mean it all the time but once in a while you come across someone that is truly a pleasure to meet.

    Willie Savannah is that individual.

    Although it was not my first time speaking with Savannah it was my first opportunity to visit him at his boxing club in Houston, Texas. He is an outgoing person who puts others before himself and says what’s on his mind.

    Most people may recognize Savannah as the manager of former three-time Lightweight World Champion Juan Diaz but his success and influence can be seen every day just by spending a few hours at the Savannah Boxing Club.

    We spoke for hours about a variety of topics not only closing up the gym but staying well after hours. Just after closing time as you looked out into the gym area it had a look of being well utilized for the day with full spit buckets, sweat on the floor, empty water bottles and a carpet peppered with lint and dirt after heavy use from students working the bags.

    As we sat in Savannah’s office I was amazed to see the last dozen or so kids ranging from ages ten to eighteen begin cleaning up. No one asking them, no one telling them just systematically each of them chose a role; dumping out the spit buckets, mopping the floor, filling and refrigerating water bottles, vacuuming the floor and even cleaning the bathrooms. (more…)

  • Boxing Preview: Juan Manuel Lopez vs. Bernabe Concepcion

    WBO featherweight ruler Juan Manuel Lopez puts his world title up for grabs this evening against challenger Bernabe Concepcion at San Juan Puerto Rico’s Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot.

    Southpaw Lopez, 28-0 (25), is the heir apparent to Miguel Cotto’s domestic superstar status in Puerto Rico as the 27 year old from Caguas has already won seven world title bouts in just over five years as a professional.

    The big punching lefty came into his WBO super bantam title challenge against Mexican slugger Daniel Ponce De Leon as the decided underdog in 2008 but left with world honors around his waist after a first round KO victory.

    After five successful defenses at 122 pounds, Lopez went up to featherweight where he lifted the WBO crown from highly skilled champion Steven Luevano via a seventh round stoppage in January. (more…)

  • Boxing Perspective: Pacquiao Will Fight On November 13 In Texas

    Trainer Freddy Roach has said publicly that his protégé, Manny Pacquiao, will fight at Cowboy stadium on November 13, 2010.

    There is no opponent scheduled yet but Roach is adamant that talks are in the works to get the undefeated welterweight, Floyd Mayweather Jr., to agree to a fight for that date.

    Earlier in the year, Bob Arum tried to work a deal for a Mayweather-Pacquiao bout, but talks broke down over Olympic-style drug testing.

    Roach has said that he is hopeful that an agreement can be reached for the fight to take place. However, should the negotiations fail, Roach said that Pacquiao would fight either Antonio Margarito or Miguel Cotto in Texas.

    Recently, Manny Pacquiao was sworn in as a congressman in the Philippines. This move into politics has some analysts wondering if Pacquiao plans to retire or if this might hurt the boxer’s preparations in future fights.

    According to Roach, Pacquiao will continue to prepare and be ready for his fighting obligations as he has always done in the past.

    A decision on the opponent is expected near the end of the summer. Mayweather has said that he is only interested in fighting in Las Vegas and would not consider fighting in Texas.

    In response, Roach says that he has no problem in moving the venue to Las Vegas, as long as Mayweather makes no more excuses.

  • Boxing In Australia: Mundine, Medley, Vea. Leapai Win Down Under

    Two good fight cards took place in Oz earlier this week with some big names on the domestic scene in action along with a former world champion.

    Ex-two time WBA super middle kingpin Anthony Mundine made it down to light middle this past Wednesday, headlining a show at Brisbane’s Entertainment Centre against experienced Argentine campaigner Carlos Adan Jerez.

    Mundine had no problems against the steel-chinned South American, who despite being in way over his head class-wise found a way to survive the much bigger Aussie’s barrages.

    The 35 year old Mundine was keeping busy and testing himself at the weight, where he could possibly challenge newly minted WBA titlist Miguel Cotto in the near future. (more…)

  • Ice Boxing: Corley Replaces Coleman On July 10 Fight Card

    Former world champion DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley of Washington, D.C. (36-13-1, 21 KOs) will fight Detroit southpaw Damian Fuller (30-7-1, 14 KOs) in the July 10th co-main event at the Patriot Center, replacing Baltimore’s Tim “The Pitbull” Coleman (17-1-1, 4 KOs) who suffered a laceration on his head during training last Thursday that forced him out of the fight. (more…)

  • Boxing Result: Cotto Stops Foreman At Yankee Stadium For WBA Title

    Yuri Foreman’s luck ran out last night at New York’s fabled baseball venue Yankee Stadium in The Bronx as the WBA light middleweight titlist was stopped by ex-two weight world champ Miguel Cotto.

    As expected, the taller Foreman looked to keep Cotto, making his first appearance as a light middleweight, at arm’s length and the strategy worked through the early rounds.

    But despite a successful jab, Foreman didn’t have the punching power to keep the smaller man at bay and by the fifth frame the challenger was in range and landing. (more…)

  • Top Rank Boxing: Big Foreman Entrance For Cotto Title Fight

    Just prior to undefeated WBA super welterweight champion and future rabbi Yuri Foreman’s ring walk to his first world title defense will be the sounding of the shofar.

    The shofar is a horn, traditionally that of a ram, used for Jewish religious purposes. The sounding of the shofar is incorporated in synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. (more…)

  • Boxing Perspective: The Welterweight Division

    The Welterweight division, at the moment, looks very promising indeed with some very good fighters sitting on or around the weight and already some mouth-watering bouts lined up.

    Number one pound for pound fighter in the world is Manny Pacquiao, and he currently resides in this division, although he started and won his first world title at flyweight he has moved up the weight divisions, capturing belts and beating some of the finest fighters in the world before settling in at welterweight.

    He looks comfortable at this weight, unusually so as history has so often repeated itself that when a smaller fighter steps up through the weight divisions they tend to lose either speed or power or sometimes they are not as recuperative as they once were.

    It is rare to see a fighter come up in weight and not lose any of their qualities. The strange thing with Pacquiao is, if anything, he has gotten better as he has gone up. (more…)

  • Al Bernstein On Boxing: Mayweather-Williams Has A Nice Ring To It

    Since negotiations fell through for a fight with Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Manny Pacquiao has moved on to find another fight—and a good one. He will follow up his win over Miguel Cotto with a match against one of the six best welterweights in the world—Joshua Clottey. Now it’s Floyd Mayweather’s turn to choose an opponent.

    With Floyd, Manny and Clottey accounted for, the rest of the top six (in my opinion) are Shane Mosley, Andre Berto and Paul Williams. Since he fights at other bigger weights some might think it’s a stretch to even list Williams as a welterweight, but he has held that title and says he can easily get down to 147. And, he has made a public statement that he is more than interested in fighting Mayweather on March 13 or another date.

    Given all that information, I suggest to you that the sport of boxing would be well served if we had the Berto-Mosley fight on Jan,. 30, the Pacquiao-Clottey fight on March 13, and then the Mayweather-Williams fight on another date. And, even if Golden Boy Promotions wants to battle with Top Rank and put the Williams-Mayweather fight on March 13, that‘s still better than having Floyd fight some junior welterweight coming up—especially if that is Paullie Malignaggi or Nate Campbell.

    The Mayweather-Williams match should be easy to make because Al Haymon is the advisor to both fighters and Williams’ promoter Goossen-Tutor Promotions has indicated a great desire to make the fight. So, why not? HBO would be thrilled with the prospect of this fight as a pay per view attraction and boxing fans everywhere would be interested.

    Add to that the fact that Williams looked vulnerable in his last fight against junior middleweight Sergio Martinez, and it should be an alluring fight for Mayweather. Williams has been thought of as “tough and dangerous” to fight as a welterweight, but, he is not invincible. He has lost twice at 147, once against Carlos Quintana (though to be fair, Williams came back to knock him out in the rematch). If Quintana fought Floyd Mayweather tomorrow, I think we know who the favorite would be.

    This fight can be sold to the boxing public and it would, along with the Pacquaio-Clottey fight, make boxing fans feel less disappointed about the failure to make the Pacquiao-Mayweather match. I see no down side to this. Williams is an action fighter who is thought of as one of the best pound for pound fighters in the game, and he can fight at 147. Where’s the rub? (more…)