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In a junior middleweight clash, Alfredo Angulo (18-1, 15 KO’s) stopped Joel Julio (35-4, 31 KO’s) at 1:39 of the eleventh round. Angulo, 27, hurt Julio with an overhand right in the early moments of the first round, which seemed to set the tone for the rest of the fight. After that, Julio, 25, was [...]

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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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Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez captured the WBC and WBO Middleweight Championship with a brilliant performance against Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik. Official scores were 115-111, 116-111 and 115-112 all in favor of Martinez. Martinez, 35, attended the post fight press conference, although Pavlik, 28, was taken to a nearby hospital due to the severe cuts he suffered [...]

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In HBO’s double header Lucian Bute retained his IBF super middleweight title with a 3rd round stoppage of Edison Miranda in Montreal whilst Sergio Martinez took Kelly Pavlik’s WBC/WBO middleweight titles after getting off the canvas. Miranda taunted Bute daring him to hit him but Bute needed no encouragement and landed a left hook and [...]

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When Kelly ‘The Ghost’ Pavlik takes on Sergio ‘Maravilla’ Martinez on April 17th expect a great fight. Both are coming off great displays in their last fights (Martinez looked solid losing an extremely close split decision to Paul Williams whilst Pavlik stopped Miguel Angel Espino in 5 rounds) further raising expectations when the two clash [...]

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Joel Julio (35-3, 31 KO’s), training in Deerfield Beach, Florida, spoke about his upcoming fight on April 24th with WBO Light Middleweight Champion, Alfredo Angulo (17-1, 14 KO’s). “This has been a tough camp. It’s been 8 solid weeks of training. I can’t compare it to any of my other training camps; that ‘so called [...]

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BoxingScene are reporting a deal has been struck between WBO junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley and WBA interim champion Marcos Maidana to square off on June 19th. Regarded as the best 140 pounder around now, Bradley was scheduled to fight Luis Carlos Abregu at welterweight in his HBO debut on June 26th but instead he [...]

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Willie Savannah, manager of former lightweight world champion Juan Diaz (35-3, 17 KOs) has confirmed a deal is close to being reached with Juan Manuel Marquez(50-5-1, 37 KOs) for a rematch to their 2009 bout. Their first fight which took place last February saw Marquez knock Diaz out in the 9th round was the Boxing [...]

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It was supposed to be the night Floyd Mayweather Jr. squared off against Manny Pacquiao. Instead, 50,992 fans filled Dallas Cowboys Stadium to witness Manny Pacquiao against Joshua Clottey in a fight billed as “The Event”. Unfortunately, for the stadium crowd and the thousands watching on HBO PPV, the fight looked like a one-sided sparring [...]

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On Friday English welterweight Kell Brook faces Poland’s Krzysztof Bienias for the WBO Inter-Continental title as well as the chance to become the mandatory challenger to current WBO welterweight champion and pound for pound king, Manny Pacquiao. And although the unbeaten British welterweight champion has set his sights high, claiming, “I’m looking at fighting the [...]

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