Strikeforce / Miesha Tate vs. Ronda Rousey - Sat. March 3rd on SHOWTIME

Strikeforce women's bantamweight champion Miesha Tate returns to take on submission specialist Ronda Rousey! Saturday, March 3 live at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.



Tate vs. Rousey on Saturday, March 3, 2012, featuring the highly-anticipated female world title fight between newly-crowned bantamweight champion Miesha Tate and undefeated sensation Ronda Rousey.

The main card, headlined by Tate vs. Rousey will air live on SHOWTIME® at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast), while preliminary fights will be shown live on SHOWTIME EXTREME® at 8 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on West Coast).

MAIN CARD – LIVE ON SHOWTIME AT 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast)

* All bouts are subject to change.

STRIKEFORCE Women’s Bantamweight Championship – 5 Rounds

Miesha Tate vs. Ronda Rousey

STRIKEFORCE Light Heavyweight Special Attraction – 3 Rounds

Gegard Mousasi vs. Mike Kyle

STRIKEFORCE Lightweight Special Attraction – 3 Rounds

Josh Thomson vs. KJ Noons

STRIKEFORCE Welterweight Special Attraction – 3 Rounds

Paul Daley vs. Kazuo Misaki

STRIKEFORCE Middleweight Special Attraction – 3 Rounds

Jacare Souza vs. Derek Brunson



PRELIMINARY CARD – LIVE ON SHOWTIME EXTREME AT 8 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast)

* All bouts are subject to change.



STRIKEFORCE Women’s Bantamweight Special Attraction – 3 Rounds

Sarah Kaufman vs. Alexis Davis



STRIKEFORCE LightweightSpecial Attraction – 3 Rounds

Caros Fodor vs. Pat Healy



STRIKEFORCE Middleweight Special Attraction – 3 Rounds

Scott Smith vs. Lumumba Sayers

STRIKEFORCE Lightweight Special Attraction – 3 Rounds

Ryan Couture vs. Conor Heun

Mauro Ranallo will call the action alongside analysts Frank Shamrock and Pat Miletich with Heidi Androl serving as cageside reporter. The executive producer is David Dinkins Jr.

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Devon Alexander, Marcos Maidana, Adrien Broner & Eloy Perez Saturday, February 25, live on HBO Boxing After Dark

"Arch Enemies: Alexander vs. Maidana," a 10 round welterweight fight taking place on Saturday, February 25 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri, is presented by Golden Boy Promotions in association with The Great Promotions and Universum Box Promotions. Also featured will be Adrien Broner vs. Eloy Perez in a 12 round fight for Broner's WBO Junior Lightweight World Title which is presented in association with R&R Promotions. The fights will be televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.

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PAUL WILLIAMS & NOBUHIRO ISHIDA, TAVORIS CLOUD & GABRIEL CAMPILLO

The four fighters who will compete in 12-round bouts on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING on Saturday, Feb. 18, live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) at American Bank Center Arena in Corpus Christi, Texas, will participate in a national media conference call.

In the main event, former world champion, southpaw Paul Williams (40-2, 27 KOs), of Aiken, S.C., will fight for the first time since taking a majority decision over Erislandy Lara last July 9 when he meets Nobuhiro Ishida (24-6-2, 9 KOs) of Osaka, Japan. Ishida has won his last two bouts via first-round stoppage, including an upset over then-undefeated James Kirkland in April of 2011.

Unbeaten Tavoris Cloud (24-0, 19 KOs), of Tallahassee, Fla., will risk his International Boxing Federation (IBF) 175-pound crown for a third time when he faces Gabriel Campillo (21-3-1, 8 KOs) of Madrid, Spain.

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NBC Sports Network Fight Night and Main Events Presents: ZAB JUDAH VS. VERNON PARIS - Saturday, March 24th, 2012!

Zab Judah is scheduled to fight Vernon Paris (26-0-0, 15 KOs) in a 12-round IBF junior welterwight eliminator fight on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn, New York. Paris who has decent punching power and a lot of natural talent had a big win in August 2011 when he defeated Tim Coleman by 7th round TKO. Its interesting to note that Paris who is from Detroit dubbed the US murder capitol survived a stabbing in 2008 and a shooting in 2006 and fights with bullets still lodged in his back and thigh. Judah vs Paris is being promoted by Kathy Duva of Main Events and will be televised live on NBC Sports Network's new Fight Night boxing series. The winner of Judah vs Paris will be the mandatory challenger for the winner of Peterson vs Khan.

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BROADWAY BOXING SERIES RETURNS MARCH 7 AT BB KINGS BLUES CLUB IN NYC

On Wednesday, March 7, DiBella Entertainment's (DBE)"Broadway Boxing" series returns to B.B. King Blues Club in New York City, with an exciting eight-bout card, headlined by an intriguing 10-round welterweight matchup between undefeated up-and-coming prospect Alex Perez (15-0, 9KO's) taking on his toughest opponent to date in longtime contender Francisco "El Gato" Figueroa (20-3-1, 13KO's).

DBE kicked off the 2012 season of "Broadway Boxing" before a sold-out crowd that on January 21 with a thrilling night of action-packed fights that had a little bit of everything, including knockouts, wars, and upsets. Now DBE looks to keep the momentum rolling in its ninth consecutive season of the popular boxing series by putting on what promises to be another exciting event headlined by the explosive crossroads matchup between Perez and Figueroa.

Perez last saw action as the opening bout of the January 21 card, scoring a vicious second-round TKO over Josh Sosa (10-1). Prior to that victory, Perez had been out of action for over seven months recovering from a hand injury. With the hand now completely healed, Perez will look to begin his climb up the ranks of the welterweight division, but he must first take care of business against the extremely dangerous Figueroa.

The Bronx-native Figueroa, a former New York State and NABF light welterweight champion, has been a staple of the New York boxing scene since his amateur days. Figueroa will be returning to the ring for the first time since November 2009, as he embarks on another run toward a world championship.
Also scheduled to see action on the card is Queens-native, four-time NY Golden Gloves champion Will Rosinsky (14-1, 8KO's), DBE prospects Tor Hamer (13-1, 9KO's) and Luis Rosa (9-0, 5KO's), as well as an eight-round junior middleweight showdown between undefeated up-and-coming prospects Delen "The Sniper" Parsley (6-0, 2KO's) and Boyd "Rainmaker" Melson (8-0, 4KO's). A complete list of the undercard will be announced shortly.


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Paul David To Face Travis Dickinson On 25th Feb - At Light Heavy

English Super Middleweight Champion Paul David is set to face Prizefighter - Light Heavyweight winner Travis Dickinson on the undercard of the Frank Maloney and Tommy Gilmore promoted Denis Shafikov versus Lee McAllister European Light Welterweight Title fight the Exhibition Centre in Aberdeen on Saturday 25th February.

Speaking earlier David, who will be making his first outing under the guidance of his new manager/coach TRAD TKO’s Johnny Eames, made it clear that he was relishing the prospect, “Yeah, I can’t wait, the fights on the undercard of Lee McAllister. I’ve fought up there before and Lee McAllister always sells out, so it’s going to be a packed hall.

I see Travis Dickinson earlier in his career, I didn’t think too much of him so was a bit surprised when he won Prizefighter at Light Heavy.

He’s going to be well prepared and up for it, but I’ve been here at the TKO about a month and half now and have been sparring with Leon (Williams), when he was British Champion, and had no problem with him. There’s Mitchell Balker from the Netherlands and I’ve had no problem with any of these guys.

They’re bigger guys than me but I use my speed and boxing skills to get around them, I’ll deal with Travis Dickinson the same way.

After I’ve dealt with Travis Dickinson I’m going to be looking for a British title fight, either the winner of Tony Bellew-Danny McIntosh or maybe I can get George Groves in the ring, hopefully Frank Warren can take his nappy off him and put him in with me like a real fighter.

I’ll get this fight out of the way then see what Johnny can do for me. All I want is either a serious English title defense, one that really means something, you know Robin Reid beat Daniel Cadman so maybe he’ll have the stones to step in the ring with me and we can start something like a British title eliminator so I can get at George Groves after he takes out his old foe Kenny Anderson.

Yeah, so it’s either Light Heavyweight or Super Middleweight works for me, even Cruiserweight, which is kind of weak at the moment, three divisions is open to me and I’m ready for all of them, I’m just ready to go.”

Johnny Eames then expanded on how the Dickinson fight was made, “Yeah, obviously since he joined us we have been trying to get Paul a fight, in the short time he’s been with us we have had numerous offers of fights, but each time the fight got close we heard nothing more.

I suppose we’ve had twelve different opponents he was going to have, including an English title defense against Patrick Mendy, which didn’t come around for no fault of our own.

Then Travis Dickinson was available, so I made the call to Frank Maloney and he said yes, so we can now get this show on the road and see what we’ve got.

This fights a six rounder at Light Heavyweight, not Super Middleweight - you know it’s a case of this week Light Heavyweight next week Super Middleweight with Paul, as all he wants to do is fight.”

Paul David against Travis Dickenson features on the undercard of the Denis Shafikov versus Lee McAllister’s European Light Welterweight title bout at the Exhibition Centre in Aberdeen on Saturday, 25th February.


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LaMANNA AND CRABTREE SQUARE OFF ON LINE BEFORE MAIN EVENT FIGHT THIS FRIDAY IN NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY

Last Wednesday night on ATG Radio (www.alltimegreat), undefeated Jr. Middleweight Thomas “Cornflake” LaManna and Daniel Crabtree squared off in a war of words in advance of their six round Jr. Middleweight main event main event fight that will take place this Friday night at Nutley High School.


LaManna was born and raised in Nutley

This on-air meeting was set up due to some bold predictions that Crabtree had vowed just a week earlier on Facebook. Below are quotes from both fighters.

Thomas “Cornflake” LaManna (6-0, 4 KO’s)
“He is a tough guy. I saw him on tape and respect him and said let’s go”
“It means everything to me to be fighting at home. I will have lots of support”
“I have been training extra hard”
“I laughed when I saw that Facebook post”
“I see a win and that’s it”

Daniel Crabtree (3-3, 3 KO’s)
“We are going to be coming hard on the 17th”
“He has a nice record. A 6-0 guy in his hometown is perfect for me”
“I enjoy fighting in New Jersey”
“I have one job and that’s too take his head off and I will be damned if he will do anything about it”
“I see a knockout no question about it”

The LaManna – Crabtree bout will headline a nine bout card that is promoted by Gabe LaConte’s First Round Promotions and can be seen LIVE worldwide on www.gfl.tv

The rest of the card is as follows:

Richard Person (9-2, 6 KO’s) takes on Anibal Acevedo (13-8-1, 11 KO’s) of Moca, Puerto Rico in a six round Middleweight bout

In a four round Middleweight bout, John Thompson (5-0, 1 KO) of Newark, New Jersey battles Laureno Laracuente (7-4-1, 2 KO’s) of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

John Lennox (9-1, 4 KO’s) battles Miles Kelly (2-6, 2 KO’s) of Pine Bluff, Arkansas in a six round Heavyweight bout.

Former Iraqi veteran Godson Noel will make his long awaited pro debut will take on fellow pro debuter Satchell James of Alabama in a Middleweight bout

Alantez Fox (6-0, 3 KO’s) of Newark, New Jersey will take on Fitzgerald Johnson (2-5, 1 KO) of Newark, New Jersey in a four round Light Heavyweight bout.

Aaron Kinch (1-0) of Newark, NJ will take on debuting Clyde Daniel of New York in a four round Heavyweight bout.

Leandro Acevedo of New York will make his pro debut against Marcus Clay (0-1) of Baton Rouge, LA in a four round Super Middleweight bout.

Jose Javier Calderon (3-0, 3 KO’s) will battle Jonathan Garcia (1-1, 1 KO) in a Jr. Welterweight bout featuring Puerto Rican based fighters.

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