On a charged up night in Glasgow, Scotland’s Ricky Burns got off the campus to triumph over Roman Martinez to take the WBO super featherweight title.
Martinez, who won the title last year in Britain by stopping Nicky Cook in 4 rounds, …
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Internet sensation Kimbo Slice has been handed a lifeline by Gary Shaw and is now set to try his hand at boxing having given up on his MMA career.
Kimbo came to public attention after a series of his backyard brawls became Internet hits and the fighter was signed to a mixed martial arts company. After that company folded Kimbo …
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According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, Antonio Margarito has been granted a license to fight in the state of Texas meaning that his fight with Manny Pacquiao will go ahead as planned on November 13th.
Margarito had his boxing license revoked last February after being caught with illegal knuckle pads in his hand wraps and was refused a license in California last Wednesday but a representative from the Texas …
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Mikkel Kessler has withdrawn from the Super 6 super middleweight tournament today with an eye injury. The Dane had been scheduled to take on Allan Green on September 25th in a final round bout of the competition’s first stage but the eye injury saw the WBC champion withdraw from the fight as well as the competition.
Kessler would have been able to compete in the early/middle part of …
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Antonio Margarito appeared before the California Athletic State Commission in order to regain his license ahead of a potential fight with Manny Pacquiao fight in November and it appears that the commission feels that Margarito has not served his time as they refused him his license.
Margarito had his license revoked following his WBA welterweight title fight with Shane Mosley in January 2009 after he was found to have …
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The Boxing Truth Radio returned to the internet airwaves with Texas lawyer Michael Miller who works with James Kirkland, Nonito Donaire, and others. Miller shares some information on the future return of James Kirkland and Nonito Donaire’s non-participation in the Showtime 118 pound tournament.
Michael Marley …
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The WBC have ordered a fight between their welterweight champion Andre Berto(26-0, 20 KOs) and their silver titlist Selcuk ‘Mini Tyson’ Aydin(20-0, 15 KOs).
A September 17th deadline has been set by the WBC for negotiations between Berto and Aydin’s camp to be concluded before the fight goes to a purse bid.
The announcement puts a dampener on any potential fight …
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BoxingScene are reporting that Gary Shaw is looking at matching Vic Darchinyan(35-2, 27KOs) with rising bantamweight star Abner Mares(20-0-1, 13KOs) before the end of the year.
It was thought that Darchinyan would face Nonito Donaire but after that fight failed to materialise Shaw is looking at putting together a fight with …
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LOL massive egg on my face! Pardon me I should have taken more care with that