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Unbeaten, hard-hitting Vanes 'Nightmare' Martirosyan of Glendale, Calif., is in Montreal where he will fight on the Lucian Bute vs. Brian Magee world title card at the Bell Centre on Saturday, March 19.
LAS VEGAS, NEV. – Baltimore Ravens safety TOMMY ZBIKOWSKI will make his Las Vegas debut – as a professional boxer – opening the pay-per-view televised broadcast of the “Relentless: Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga” world super welterweight championship fight, Saturday, March 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. “Relentless” will be produced and distributed live by Showtime PPV®. Zbikowski, who completed his third season with the Ravens, will take on Richard Bryant (1-2, 1 KO), from London, KY, in a four-round heavyweight bout.
LAS VEGAS, NEV – WBC female super welterweight champion CHRISTY MARTIN suffered a severe training injury and has been forced to withdraw from her rematch against Dakota Stone. Martin-Stone II was scheduled to open the SHOWTIME PPV® broadcast of “Relentless” – headlined by the Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga WBA super welterweight championship – Saturday, March 12, at the MGM Grand. A replacement bout will be announced on Friday.
WBA Lightweight champion, Miguel "Aguacerito" Acosta landed in Las Vegas today for his big showdown against Brandon Rios next Saturday in Las Vegas. Acosta who will take on Rios at the Palms was accompanied by his father and trainer Rafael Acosta, his brother Enrique Acosta and his wife Karla. The fight will be telecast by Showtime. Acosta, 28-3-2, (22 KOs) of Caracas, Venezuela, has won 19 fights in a row and for seven years, remains undefeated. Acosta has beaten three undefeated fighters in his last eight bouts. Rios, 26-0-1, (18 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., gave a sensational performance at the Palms where he looked powerful and precise while scoring a career-best win, a seventh-round disqualification over Anthony Peterson in a battle of rising stars. Rios is managed by Cameron Dunkin and is trained by Robert Garcia in Oxnard.
BOB ARUM: This fight between Nonito Donaire and Fernando Montiel -- everybody who follows boxing knows it will be a great fight. They will face off at the Mandalay Bay of February 19 and it will be televised live on HBO. The interesting thing for me about this fight – the countries where these fighters come from…the Philippines and Mexico – there is almost frenzy about this fight. I was informed last night that in the Philippines there are two one-hour specials promoting the fight and they are expecting a huge audience on Sunday morning, which is their time equivalent of when the fight will be aired. In Mexico there is tremendous anticipation and great media coverage. The Mexican TV network, TV Azteca is expecting another tremendous rating for this fight. It is my hope that the enthusiasm that is coming from The Philippines and Mexico permeates in the United States, that people that follow boxing and casual sports fans watch this fight on HBO because it truly will be a fight for the sport of boxing. It is accompanied by a great fight, a rematch between Jesus Soto Karass of Los Mochis, Mexico and Mike Jones of Philadelphia. I am proud that Top Rank can present such a splendid card and thanks to the two fight camps that are willing to engage in this climactic battle.
LOS ANGELES – FOX Deportes – FOX Deportes’ premiere boxing series, “Top Rank Live,” knocked-out the competition by delivering the highest boxing ratings in U.S. Latino sports-cable network history. With nearly 400,000 viewers, the network was first for the night in Prime and Late Fringe on Saturday, January 29th. The heavy-hitting two-hour broadcast featured a throw down between top contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Billy Lyell, and ranked #1 among Spanish Cable networks for the evening.
LAS VEGAS, NEV. – Pacman Fever hit MGM Grand this morning with one of the biggest ticket runs in Las Vegas boxing history. Between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. PT, 16,000 tickets were sold to the Manny Pacquiao vs. Sugar Shane Mosley world welterweight championship. Barely 1,000 seats remain for Pacquiao’s return to the Fight Capital of the World, where he hasn’t fought since 2009.
Culiacan, Mexico -- Over 10,000 fans are expected for the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr vs. Billy Lyell showdown at the Banorte Soccer Stadium here in Culiacan.
Atlantic City, N.J. - Tickets go on sale Friday, January 28, noon, for Top Rank's "Featherweight Fury!" with three big title fights on a Top Rank championship event at the Boardwalk Hall here on Saturday, March 26.
LAS VEGAS, NEV. – Boxing’s No. 1 pound-for-pound box office attraction and the Fighter of the Decade, MANNY “Pacman” PACQUIAO (53-3-2, 38 KOs), the lone congressional representative from the Sarangani province in the Philippines, returns to the Fight Capital of the World for the first time since 2009 when he defends his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title against three-division world champion and future Hall of Famer “Sugar” SHANE MOSLEY (46-6-1, 39 KOs), of Pomona, Calif. Pacquiao vs. Mosley erupts on Saturday, May 7 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nev.