Nobuo Nashiro (15-4-1, 9KOs) will take on Petch Twins Gym (9-7-1, 7KOs) in Osaka, Japan. The super flyweight bout will take place on Saturday, December 31st. Nashiro lost the WBA super flyweight title in a rematch bout with Hugo Fidel Cazares in 2010. In 2011, he had two chances to obtain the WBC superflyweight title. He faced two top five fighters in Tomas Rojas and … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2011
Uchiyama-Solis to Unify WBA 130 lb. Title, Caballero-Hosono Title Bout in Co-Feature
WBA super featherweight champ, Takashi Uchiyama (17-0, 14 KOs) looks to make the fourth defense of the title he won from Juan Carlos Salgado in 2010 against interim WBA champ, Jorge Solis (40-3-2, 29 KOs) at the Bunka Gym in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan on Saturday, December 31. Uchiyama has been inactive since he beat fellow Japanese super featherweight, Takashi Miura, in … [Read more...]
Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell Make Ring Returns
By Gary Purfield This Friday night from the Morongo Casino Resort and Spa in Cabazon California, two of the Super Six participants that dropped out early in the tournament will make their returns to the ring in separate bouts aired on Showtime. Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell had to take time off and re-think their careers after each suffered head trauma during their last … [Read more...]
The British Boxing Year – Not So Much As A Bang But A Whimper…
It’s been a year of near-misses for British boxing in 2011. The UK entered the year with four legitimate world champions and exited with one, and in-between eleven British fighters failed to win in world title fights. December turned out to be our winter of discontent. Amir Khan surrendered his IBF and WBA light-welterweight belts to a resurgent Lamont Peterson, and promptly … [Read more...]
It’s the End of the Year as We Know It, and I Feel Fine (Part II); Magno’s Monday Rant
On last Monday's Rant we paid homage to the Festivus holiday season with an Airing of Grievances. This week we continue with my personal list of hot-button issues. --No National Commission, No Justice, No Peace It's ironic that the most dangerous sport with the greatest need for structure is the one major sport with no real, centralized commission. Oh, there are plenty of … [Read more...]