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…

Press Release - In addition, Southern California's finest will be in action in more ways than one on the May 27 edition of "Fight Night Club" at L.A. LIVE's Club Nokia (downtown Los Angeles across the street from the Staples Center) veteran "Dangerous" David Rodela, rising star Frankie Gomez and Jesus Rodriguez will be joined by longtime contender Jose Navarro and members of the local Police and Sheriff's departments for what will be another memorable night of boxing action.

In the main event, Rodela will face an opponent to be determined in an eight round lightweight match and bouts featuring Gomez, Navarro and Rodriguez will round out the televised portion of the event.  Read on for more…