Floyd Mayweather Jr has confirmed that he will not be facing eight-weight world champion Manny Pacquiao until at least the autumn after a deal was struck with Miguel Cotto for a May 5 showdown in Las Vegas. Representatives from both Golden Boy and Top Rank Promotions had distanced their respective fighters from the Mayweather-Pacquiao blockbuster [...]
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Scotland’s Ricky Burns has been formally instated as the WBO’s lightweight champion after previous belt holder, Juan Manuel Marquez, vacated the title. Burns (33-2) captured the interim version of the title with a captivating points win over Australian Michael Katsidis in November. Marquez has been weighing up his options since himself dropping a highly contentious [...]
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Former WBO super-featherweight champion Ricky Burns produced one of the performances of his career to see off a relentless Michael Katsidis in a classic at Wembley. Having gone into the fight a major betting underdog Burns began well, landing crisp shots and displaying organised footwork in the face of relentless aggression from the other side [...]
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Scottish former super-featherweight world champion Ricky Burns faces the biggest night of his life on Saturday as he takes on Australian gladiator Michael Katsidis in a lightweight WBO interim title fight at Wembley. Since capturing his super-featherweight crown in September 2010, Burns has flown under the radar of the boxing fraternity as he has enjoyed three very [...]
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Ricky Burns’ announcement this week that he would be vacating his WBO super featherweight title in favour of a move up a division to face dangerous Australian Michael Katsidis at lightweight has slipped under the radar of the sporting press. For Burns the move comes after a year as WBO champion, however after three unremarkable [...]
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True to their word the WBO have ordered unified WBA, WBO & Ring magazine lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez to face Michael Katsidis. Katsidis has been the WBO’s interim lightweight champion since September 2009 and last defended his status in a 3rd round knock out win against Brit Kevin Mitchell. Marquez comprehensive beat Juan Diaz [...]
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In a fast-paced junior welterweight match-up, 26-year-old Ruslan Provodnikov (16-0, 11 KO’s) scored a devastating technical knockout versus Emmanuel Augustus (38-32-6, 20 KO’s), 35, at 1:50 of the ninth round. Augustus, who took the fight on 4 days notice and appeared on ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights” series numerous times over the years, was no match [...]
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Amir Khan has defeated Paul Malignaggi on his American debut at the Madison Square Garden Theatre. The fight got off to a cagey start with both fighters displaying their speed. Khan won the opening round, however I scored the next two (despite opening rounds lacking clean punches) for the slicker Malignaggi who was making Khan [...]
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Michael Katsidis (27-2, 22 KO’s) stopped previously unbeaten Kevin Mitchell (31-1, 23 KO’s) at 1:57 of the 3rd round to retain his interim WBO lightweight title. Katsidis, 29, applied heavy pressure from the opening bell, scoring with consecutive left hooks in round one. Still, Mitchell controlled the pace of the round, circling and unleashing a [...]
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The power of football knows no bounds and the Michael Katsidis/Kevin Mitchell WBO interim lightweight title fight will show this as Katsidis has won the backing of Tottenham Hotspurs. The fight takes place at Upton Park, the ground of Tottenham’s rivals and the team Mitchell supports West Ham and so Katsidis has become some what [...]
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