Andre Ward outclassed Allan Green winning every round and earning a unanimous decision victory in Oakland CA to retain his WBA 168 pound championship. All 3 of the offical judges had the fight 120-108 for Ward. With the win, Ward advances to the semifinals of the Super Six tournament and will face Andre Direll next.
Ward (22-0, 13 knockouts) completely controlled the fight starting off with a good jab to the body. Green found out early that Ward was not an easy target and couldn’t land his infamous left hook. By the third round Ward showed a new wrinkle to his game - fighting on the inside. Ward trapped Green against the ropes and beat Green to the punch each time. Read on to hear why Green said he felt "dead" in the fight...
The Super Six World Boxing Classic on SHOWTIME has offered compelling prizefighting on television.
In the last of the Group Stage 2 matches this Saturday, June 19, on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast), undefeated Andre Ward (21-0, 13 KOs) will defend his World Boxing Association (WBA) title against world-ranked Allan Green (29-1, 20 KOs) in Ward’s hometown of Oakland, Calif.
If Ward is victorious, he cinches a berth in the semi-finals and goes to the top of the leader board with four or, potentially, five points….read on for more…
CANASTOTA, N.Y.—Danny “Little Red” Lopez was slow and deliberate in his
acceptance speech, unlike his demeanor in the ring as a champion featherweight.
Longtime Associated Press boxing writer Ed Schuyler Jr. wasn’t so fast for a
change.
Being immortalized can have that effect. Read on for more...
Ivan Calderon earned an unanimous decision over Jesus Iribe in
the WBO Junior Flyweight Championship in Theatre at Madison Square Garden on
Saturday night.
Calderon was knocked down with a hard right hand in the second round, but
used movement and slickness to win most of the remaining rounds.
“I got hit hard and went down in the second round, but I knew good movement
would beat him,” Calderon said. The judges scored it 118-109, 118-109, 116-111 for Calderon.
Miguel Cotto shone brightly once again, this time under the
twinkling lights of Yankee Stadium.
The pride of Puerto Rico stopped a game Yuri Foreman in the
ninth round Saturday night to win the junior middleweight title, delighting
thousands of his fans in the first fight at the Bronx ballpark in more than
three decades.Official score cards had
the fight 79-73 (twice), 78-74 all in favor of Cotto at the time of the
stoppage.Read on for more…
NEW YORK -- Manny Pacquiao seems to win something, whether it's a fight or an award, just about every time he makes the long trip to the United States.
The pound-for-pound king and newly elected congressman from the Philippines accepted his third Fighter of the Year award Friday night at the Roosevelt Hotel, while his trainer Freddie Roach was honored for the fourth time by the Boxing Writers Association of America. Read on for more...
GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany -- Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine defended his WBC heavyweight championship belt Saturday night with a 10th-round knockout of Albert Sosnowski of Poland.
Klitschko improved his record to 40-2 (38 KOs) after the ring referee called the 12-round bout following a left-right combination to Sosnowski's head at the 2 minute, 30 second mark of the 10th round. Read on for more…
WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is the overwhelming favorite on Saturday to defend his title belt against Albert “The Dragon” Sosnowski.
The Ukrainian-born “Dr. Iron Fist” Klitschko, who lives in Hamburg, enters the fight at the Veltnis Arena in Gelsenkirchen with a 41-2 (37 KOs) record. Sosnowski, a native of Warsaw who lives in Brentwood, England, has a 45-2-1 (27 KOs) record. Read on for more…
Miguel Cotto has sold more tickets to boxing events in New York City over the past decade than anyone. The Puerto Rican star has won titles in two weight divisions, and long ago stamped himself as one of the most exciting fighters of his generation.
Yet all that success didn’t mean much when he hooked up with Manny Steward a couple of months ago. In fact, the Hall of Fame trainer barely knew where to start. Read on for more…
Former WBC and IBF light-welterweight champion Andreas Kotelnik of Ukraine will fight current champion Devon Alexander of the United States on Aug. 7 in St. Louis.
Boxing promoter Don King was in Lviv, Kotelnik’s hometown, for the contract signing. Read on for more…
Cuba's Yoan Pablo Hernandez, right, boxes his challenger Steve Cunningham from the US in an IBF cruiser weight world title fight in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Hernandez defended his title with a unanimous decision.
