Cloud / Campillo and Kell Brook / Matthew Hatton
Join What Looks to Be a Big Year for Boxing!

(Cloud / Campillo - Bropok / Hatton)

(January 10th) Forget about Manny Pacquiao / Floyd Mayweather and 2012 still looks to be a great year for boxing. Joining the list of top fights for 2012 the light heavyweight division will get into action when unbeaten Tavoris "Thunder" Cloud makes the fourth defense of his IBF Light Heavyweight title against Spain's former WBA Light Heavyweight Champion Gabriel "The Handsome Man" Campillo in the co-feature of the Paul Williams / Nobuhiro Ishida light middleweight bout February 18th at the American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Cloud, 23-0, 19Ko's claimed the vacant IBF Title with a unanimous decision over the UK's Clinton Woods, August 2009 the successfully defending his belt three times recording decision wins over Glen "The Road Warrior" Johnson and Columbia's Fulgencio Zuniga before stopping Yusaf Mack in eight this past June.

Former WBA Light Heavyweight Champion Campillo, 21-3-1, 8Ko's lost his WBA title by split decision to Kazakhstan's Beibut Shumenov in 2010 going onto stop Luzimar Gonzaga and Sergey Beloshapkin before battling Germany's Karo Murat to a split decision draw in a IBF Light Heavyweight Title Eliminator bout in October.

Heavyweight Chris "The Nightmare" Arreola, 34-2, 29ko's is scheduled to see action in a second co-feature against an opponent to be named.

On March 17th a busy St Patrick's Day of boxing Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK's unbeaten welterweight Kell "Special K" Brook, 26-0, 18Ko's will face fellow Britt Matthew "Magic" Hatton, 42-5-2, 16Ko's at Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield.

Fighting three times in 2011 Brook claimed the vacant WBA Inter-Continental Welterweight Title with a twelve round decision over Australia's Lovemore " The Black Panther" N'dou in June following up with Ko wins over Poland's Rafal "Braveheart" Jackiewicz and Puerto Rico's Luis "El Taino" Galarza to set up the Hatton face off.

Hatton moved up to light middleweight in March falling short in a challenge with Saul Alvarez for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight Title. Hatton returned to welterweight in August claiming the vacant IBF International Welterweight Title with a twelve round decision over Belarus's previously unbeaten Andrei Abramenka.

While Brook and Hatton are battling it out for the number one welterweight spot in the UK WBC Diamond Middleweight Champion Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez will be headlining a big St Paddy's Day card at Madison Square Garden in New York when he takes on UK's Matthew "Mack the Knife" Macklin.

Martinez, 48-2-2, 27Ko's waiting for possible big fights with Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather Jr. and a mandatory shot at WBC Champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
has recorded a twelve round win over Kelly Pavlik and three straight KO's including his revenge brutal second round KO of Paul Williams, an eighth round stoppage of Serhiy Dzinziruk and a eleventh round bang out of UK's Darren Barker in October since his controversial majority decision loss to Paul Williams in 2009.

Macklin, 28-3, 19Ko's running off eleven straight wins, six by KO since his fight of the year loss to Jamie Moore in 2006 is coming in hot off a very disputed split decision loss to Felix Sturm in June.

Other great fights scheduled:
Teon Kennedy vs Christopher Martin and Esteban Almaraz vs Yordenis Ugas, Friday January 13th at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas

Arthur Abraham vs Pablo Oscar Natalio Farias and Robert Stieglitz vs Henry Weberc, Saturday January 14th Baden-Arena, Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Rico Ramos vs Guillermo Rigondeaux and Brandon Gonzales vs Caleb Truax,
Friday January 20th at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas

Ruslan Provodnikov vs David Torres and Ji Hoon Kim vs Alisher Rahimov,     Friday January 27th at Pend O’reille Pavillion at Northern Quest Casino, Airway Heights, Washington

Kris Matthew Hughes vs Carl Frampton, Saturday January 28th at York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, UK

Mauricio Herrera vs Pier Olivier Cote, Friday February 3rd at Pavillion de la Jeunesse, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Edison Miranda vs Yordanis Despaigne and Hylon Williams Jr. vs Rances Barthelemy, Friday February 3rd at (TBA) Las Vegas

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs Marco Antonio Rubio and Nonito Donaire vs. Wilfredo Vazquez Jr., Saturday February 4th at the Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas

Steve Cunningham vs Yoan Pablo Hernandez and Enad Licina vs Alexander Alexeev, Saturday February 4th at Fraport Arena, Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany

Scott Quigg vs Jamie Arthur and Joe Murray vs Chris Male, Saturday February 4th atReebok Stadium, Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Andre Berto vs Victor Ortiz and Ronald Hearns vs Erislandy Lara, Saturday February 11th at MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Marvin Quintero vs John Molina, Friday February 17th at College Park Center, Arlington, Texas

Vitali Klitschko vs Dereck Chisora Saturday February 18th at Olympiahalle, Munich, Bayern, Germany

Alexander Povetkin vs Marco Huck Saturday February 25th at Porsche-Arena, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Marcos Rene Maidana vs Devon Alexander and Eloy Perez vs Adrien Broner,
Saturday February 25th at Scottrade Center, Saint Louis, Missouri

Juan Manuel Lopez vs Orlando Salido and Miguel Angel Garcia vs TBA, Saturday March 10th at (TBA) Puerto Rico

Erik Morales vs Danny Garcia and James Kirkland vs Carlos Molina, Saturday March 24th at Reliant Arena, Houston, Texas

Ryan Rhodes vs Sergey Rabchenko and Paul Truscott vs Gary Buckland, Saturday March 24th at Ponds Forge Arena, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK

Let's not forget the too big to list of great local cards that are the foundation and back bone of the sport.