World Boxing News 2010-2013

Phil D. Jay  WBN Editor ‘KO King’ lives up to his name in Las Vegas Randall Bailey produced a stunning stoppage win against Mike Jones at the MGM Grand tonight to pick-up the vacant IBF welterweight title after being dominated for most of a forgettable fight in Las Vegas. Both fighters started off tentatively, with Bailey taking the first round on work-rate alone, before Jones came into the fight from the second round and stamped his authority on the contest to take the centre of the ring. Bailey went into a shell, allowing Jones to bank round after round until the fifth round, when some exchanges brought the fight to life with Jones looking the more assured going into the middle of the fight. Jones, 29, continued to dictate the fight from round six, whilst Bailey waited far too long to get his punches off and ‘MJ’ was able to get inside to go to work with much more ease than the ‘KO King’ should have allowed. In the eighth, a comfortable Jones caught the t...

                                      Mike Jones v Randall Bailey (vacant IBF welterweight title ) MGM Grand, Las Vegas, USA 12x3          Jones                         Bailey              -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------                  Round 1                          9                                 10              -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------                  Round 2   ...

Phil D. Jay  WBN Editor ‘The Knock-out King’ set for fifth world title challenge Welterweight veteran Randall Bailey has told WBN that his speculated IBF welterweight title fight against unbeaten Mike Jones should happen in the spring following talk that the number one and two with the IBF would be paired after Andre Berto relinquished the title. The 37 year-old former WBO light-welterweight champion has accumulated 50-fights in a career spanning almost 16-years, holding the title between 1999 and 2000 - before suffering losses to DeMarcus Corley, Miguel Cotto and Juan Urango in failed attempts to regain the world crown. The American’s last attempt was in 2009 and since then, ‘The Knock-out King’ has put three wins together. Bailey will look to inflict Jones’s first defeat in 27 contests when the two meet in the coming months and may well see this as his final chance to be a world champion again. “The bout is going to happen sometime in April for sure,” Baile...

Mike Jones v Sebastian Lujan ( IBF welterweight title eliminator) Madison Square Garden, New York, USA 12x3                                                     Jones                        Lujan                     -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------                  Round 1                           10                             9              -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------           ...