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Bernard Hopkins to Face Enrique Ornelas Before His Rematch With Roy Jones Jr.

Posted: Oct 8th 2009 11:29PM by Lem Satterfield (author feed)
Filed under: WBA, WBC, IBF, Golden Boy Promotions, HBO, IBO

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Bernard HopkinsFormer undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins will fight hard-punching Enrigue Ornelas on Dec. 2 at the Liacorous Center on the campus of Temple University in his hometown of Philadelphia.

The 12-round light heavyweight matchup for Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 knockouts) precedes an agreed-upon rematch with Florida's multi-champion Roy Jones (54-5, 40 KOs) that is slated for perhaps late January or early February, assuming Jones gets through his cruiserweight bout on the same night against Austrailia's Danny Green (27-3, 24 KOs).
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HBO Sports VP Dishes on Mayweather, Pacquiao-Cotto, PPV Fights

Posted: Oct 6th 2009 12:20AM by Lem Satterfield (author feed)
Filed under: WBA, WBC, IBF, Golden Boy Promotions, HBO, FanHouse Exclusive

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Mark Taffet, Senior Vice President of HBO Sports Pay Per View, said Floyd Mayweather "clearly has proven his star status by generating the kinds of pay per view numbers that very few men in the history of the sport have ever generated."

FanHouse spoke to Taffet, the man in charge of HBO's Pay Per View, as he addressed Mayweather, the Nov. 14 megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, the cable giant's "hunger to go younger" initiative geared toward drawing America's youth to the sport of boxing, and how the organization determines which fights are deserving of pay television status during this exclusive interview.
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Boxing's Real Champions

Posted: Sep 22nd 2009 12:50PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, IBO

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Despite big nights for the sport like we had on Saturday night, we're constantly hearing that boxing is a dying sport. Two of the biggest reasons for that are that no one can keep the weight classes straight and no one can keep the champions straight.

Ring Magazine deserves great credit for attempting to change that by establishing clear-cut criteria for determining its own champions, but I have two problems with the way Ring does things. The first is that the magazine ranks fighters in 17 different weight classes. That's too many. And the second is that the Ring ratings have so many vacancies at the top tthat only six fighters can be called Ring Magazine champions. That's too few.

So below is my attempt to list boxing's legitimate champions, using only the sport's eight traditional weight classes.
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Ring Announcer Michael Buffer Winning 'Rumble' With Cancer

Posted: Sep 14th 2009 3:30PM by Lem Satterfield (author feed)
Filed under: Golden Boy Promotions, HBO, FanHouse Exclusive

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In March of 2008, Michael Buffer was lying on an operating table at the USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles.

The man known for igniting crowds with an electrifying introduction of boxers with his signature, copywritten phrase, "Lets Get Ready To Rumble," was receiving potentially life-- if not -- career-threatening neck and throat surgery.

"The prognosis early on was that I would have to have continuous radiation, which, of course would cause a problem with the saliva glands, which would mean I wouldn't be doing any more announcing," said Buffer, 65, whose operation removed a lymph node attached to his tonsils -- the source of a cancer called squamous cell carcinoma.
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It's Mikkel Kessler vs. Andre Ward in Super Six Super Middle Clash

Posted: Sep 12th 2009 11:06PM by Lem Satterfield (author feed)
Filed under: WBA, WBC, IBF, Showtime

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Mikkel KesslerDenmark's Mikkel Kessler will attempt the third defense of his World Boxing Association super middleweight title on Nov. 21 against unbeaten Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward in Ward's hometown of Oakland, CA., during the first round of Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic -- a six-fighter event aimed at producing the sport's undisputed 168-pound champion.

The fighters set up their highly-anticipated matchup by winning impressively at seperate venues on Saturday night.
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Mikkel Kessler Stops Gusmyr Perdomo, Awaits Andre Ward in Super Six

Posted: Sep 12th 2009 9:22PM by Lem Satterfield (author feed)
Filed under: WBA, WBC, IBF, Showtime

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Denmark's World Boxing Association supermiddleweight champion, Mikkel Kessler, thrilled his countryman on Saturday at the MCH Messecenter in Herning, scoring his third straight knockout over mandatory challenger, Gusmyr Perdomo of Venezuela, in round four of his second defense.

Showing little affects from an 11-month layoff, having been out of the ring since October's third-round stoppage of Germany's Danilo Haussler, Kessler rose to 42-1 with his 32nd knockout against Perdomo (16-3, 10 KOs), a 33-year-old southpaw.
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Andre Ward Eyes Mikkel Kessler, Undisputed Super Middleweight Title

Posted: Sep 11th 2009 4:53PM by Lem Satterfield (author feed)
Filed under: WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, Showtime, FanHouse Exclusive

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As the youngest competitor in the Super Six World Boxing Classic, 25-year-old Andre Ward is motivated by the prospect of earning the title of undisputed super middleweight (168 pounds) champion of the world.

"Being the best -- I've been dreaming about those kinds of things my whole life. This tournament gives me that opportunity," said Ward, of Oakland, CA., whose counterparts hail from Michigan, Arkansas, Denmark, England and Germany.
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Chad Dawson Has Message for Rivals

Posted: May 7th 2009 9:46AM by Ariel Helwani (author feed)
Filed under: IBF, HBO, FanHouse Exclusive, IBO

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Following Chad Dawson's 12-round destruction of Antonio Tarver last October, there wasn't much interest in seeing a rematch. However, in the wacky world of professional boxing things like fan interest and common sense don't always come into play. Tarver excercised his rematch clause and there was nothing Dawson could do to avoid the fight.

Plus, Dawson, one of boxing's brightest young stars, will gladly remind you that he never ducks anyone.

FanHouse spoke to Dawson about being forced to fight Tarver again this Saturday night in his HBO debut and his thoughts on Bernard Hopkins' refusal to fight him. The interview is after the jump.
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Joe Calzaghe Retires Undefeated

Posted: Feb 5th 2009 1:39PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: Boxing Gossip

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Joe Calzaghe, the British boxer who beat two American legends in 2008 after a long career in which he built up an undefeated record against little-known European opponents, has announced his retirement.
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Joe Calzaghe Dominates Roy Jones in Lopsided Unanimous Decision

Posted: Nov 8th 2008 11:59PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: HBO

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World light heavyweight champion Joe Calzaghe defeated Roy Jones Jr. by unanimous decision tonight at Madison Square Garden in the signature performance of Calzaghe's career -- and possibly the last fight for both boxers.

Jones knocked Calzaghe down in the first round and looked like the Jones of old for about the first five minutes. But in the third round Calzaghe finally found his hand speed again, and for the rest of the fight he simply dominated. By midway through the fight he had opened an ugly gash over Jones' left eye, and for the rest of the fight Jones' face was a bloody mess. It was a one-sided fight; Calzaghe destroyed Jones.
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