Middleweight Boxing News

Although many folks are taking it easy this week because of Thanksgiving, that's not the case in boxing as several fights are in the works.

Kelly Pavlik will defend his World Boxing Council middleweight title against fellow American Miguel Espino on December 19 before a host of hometown supporters, according to promoters.

After the first two bouts in Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic, things were looking grim for the American participants.A Jermain Taylor was stopped in devastating fashion in the final seconds of his bout with Germany's "King" Arthur Abraham.A Later in the day Nottingham's own WBC Super Middleweight king, Carl Froch, took a close and ...

19 middleweight title bout November 24, 2009, 10:03PM fightnews.com Kelly Pavlik and Miguel Espino will meet in Youngstown on Dec.

Andre Ward left Oracle Arena after this weekend's big victory hoping for plenty of family time in Oakland with his wife and children.

It's been a while since Bernard Hopkins fought in his hometown. In fact, his last fight in Philadelphia was against Morrade Hakkar in 2003 at the Spectrum.

Marc Ketnor hopes victory on Sunday will take him a step closer to the fight he really wants.

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Joachim Alcine, from Montreal, lands a right to the head of Daniel Santos, from Puerto Rico, during their WBA light middleweight title fight Friday, July 11, 2008 in Montreal.

WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel a oeViking Warriora Kessler is scheduled to fight Andre a oeSon of Goda Ward in the Super Six World Boxing Classic Saturday night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.

Photos by Laura De La Torre / 411mania.com During this week's media day workout in Oakland, I had the chance to sit down and talk to 2004 Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward who is days away from his first crack at a world title against WBA champ Mikkel Kessler.

By Jerome O'Connell IT will be a number of weeks before Andy Lee charts his next step forward in his pro-boxing career.

Yuri Foreman Good thing it's getting dark early these days. Saturday night, after Shabbat had ended, Yuri Foreman won the WBA junior middleweight crown - after 12 rounds becoming the first Israeli to grab a boxing title belt: "Before I entered the ring my wife, Leyla, told me: 'Yuri, can I ask you something? Do me a favor, finish it quickly with a ...

Yuri Foreman became Israel's first professional boxing world champion when he comfortably outpointed Puerto Rico's Daniel Santos in Las Vegas.

A rabbi, a Ukranian immigrant and an undefeated New York boxer enter a boxing ring in Las Vegas to fight for the light middleweight title on Saturday night.

As the longtime owner of the fabled Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, New York, Bruce Silverglade has seen no shortage of pretenders and contenders walk through his doors over the years.

Many people would describe Joe Dwyer as a consummate politician, but the recently appointed NABF president wholeheartedly disagrees with that assessment.

Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik, forced to twice pull out of defenses against Paul Williams this fall because of a left hand problem stemming from a staph infection, will make his ring return Dec.

All eyes in the UK are currently on Dmitriy Salita, the Jewish boxer from New York who will fight Amir Khan in Newcastle next month for the WBA light-welterweight title.