Karim Mayfield: record, next fight and profile →
The televised opener featured a closely contest battle. 29-year old Kazakh welterweight Bakhtiar Eyubov (11-0, 10 KO), 142 ½, of Houston, Texas, was taken past the third round, all the way through a scheduled ten for the first time, just barely hanging onto his unbeaten mark with a split decision win over 35-year old Karim Mayfield (19-4-1, 11 KO), 142 ¾, of San Francisco, California. The referee was Michael Griffin.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The eight fighters who’ll be fighting on ShoBox: The New Generation tomorrow/Friday, Aug. 19, live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT) at Rhinos Stadium in Rochester, N.Y., all made weight Thursday. Undefeated Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller (17-0-1, 15 KOs) faces his toughest test to date in veteran Fred Kassi (18-5-1, 10 KOs) in the main event, which will take place at the outdoor USL soccer venue here. The co-main event features promising Louisiana lightweight “Rock Hard Mighty” Mason Menard (31-1, 23 KOs) facing his most dangerous foe to date in Bahodir “Baha” Mamadjonov (18-2, 11 KOs) of Houston, Texas, by way of Uzbekistan in a 10-round battle for the WBO NABO Lightweight title.
If the team behind Bakhtiyar Eyubov think his next fight will be another easy showcase for their unbeaten welterweight, his opponent, Karim Mayfield has a message.
Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada - Dmitry Mikhaylenko is nicknamed “The Mechanic,” and it’s fitting, then, that he won a workmanlike unanimous decision over Karim Mayfield.
"I would like to welcome everybody here. I want to thank HBO and Main Events for this opportunity. I like it here in Canada. It is my second time fighting here. It was just a year ago when I was here in the back row for this press conference and now I am in the front row. I thank Karim Mayfield for taking this fight on the short notice. Now my dream has come true and I am fighting on HBO. I don't like to talk much before the bout. I am 100% ready and I want to give the best show to our fans. The victory goes to the strongest guy."
Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Last week, Ray Robinson suffered injuries in a car accident which caused him to withdraw from his scheduled fight against undefeated welterweight Dmitry "The Mechanic" Mikhaylenko (20-0, 9 KOs). Today Karim "Hard Hitta" Mayfield (19-2-1, 11 KOs) agreed to step in and replace Robinson in the ten-round welterweight co-feature on the Saturday, Jan. 30 HBO World Championship Boxing® telecast which features the much-anticipated rematch between Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev (28-0-1, 25 KOs) and Jean Pascal (30-3-1, 17 KOs) for the WBO, WBA and IBF Light Heavyweight World Championship. The Mikhaylenko-Mayfield bout will be for the vacant USBA Welterweight Title. The HBO telecast begins at 9:45 p.m. ET/PT.
Egis Klimas, manager of unbeaten welterweight Dmitry Mikhaylenko (20-0) and several other fighters such as Sergey Kovalev, has advised BoxingScene.com that veteran contender Karim Mayfield (19-2-1) is the frontrunner to face his unbeaten prospect on the undercard to the Sergey Kovalev-Jean Pascal rematch, which takes place on January 30th from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
Greg Cohen of Greg Cohen Promotions is proud to announce the signing of San Francisco-based super lightweight contender Karim "Hard Hitta" Mayfield (19-2-1, 11 KOs) to an exclusive promotional contract. A local celebrity and boxing staple in the Bay Area, the charismatic Mayfield has already beaten former world champion Mauricio Herrera, as well as then-undefeated Raymond Serrano. He won the NABO Super Lightweight Championship in 2011 and defended it successfully twice.
Ryan Burton catches up with Karim Mayfield to discuss the situation with potentially landing a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr., thoughts on Andre Berto getting the opportunity to face Mayweather, thoughts on Sergey Kovalev vs. Nadjib Mohammedi and more.
Last month, WBC/WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26KOs) named Karim Mayfield and Andre Berto as potential opponents for his scheduled return on September 12th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. After disclosing those two names, very few people took Mayweather seriously. But now it appears that Mayweather may have been serious after all, with Berto being widely reported as the opponent of choice for Mayweather's debut on network television, with the fight taking place on CBS.