Kelly Pavlik (32-0, 29ko's) scored a spectacular knockout over Jermain Taylor (27-1-1, 17ko's) to capture the middle weight championship saturday night in Atlantic City. In an all out boxing war, that showcased boxing, brawling, and competition at the highest level, Pavlik overcame a 2nd round knockdown to 1-2 his way back into the fight. Trailing on all 3 judges score cards, Pavlik launched an all out assault in the 7th round, capped off by a series of 1-2's that left Taylor stunned. After pinning him into the ropes, Pavlik let his hands go. As Taylor collapsed to the canvas, referee Steve Smoger stepped in to stop the bout.

NEW YORK—Heavyweight contender Jameel “Big Time” McCline (38-7-3, 23 KOs) will face newly crowned World Boxing Council interim heavyweight champion Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter (28-1, 22 KOs) at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Oct. 6.

McCline was supposed to meet Vitali Klitschko on Sept. 22 in Munich, Germany, but Klitschko pulled out less than two weeks before the fight. McCline subsequently agreed to fight DaVarryl “Touch of Sleep” Williamson for the North American Boxing Organization heavyweight title on Oct. 6.

Yet another fight has been postponed. The Heavy weight battle between Sam Peter and Oleg Maskaev has been postponed due to injury. No new date has been set. That will be the 4th fight this month that has been postponed due to an injury (Mayorga vs Vargas, Vlad Klitschko's return the the ring, and Marquez vs. Barios.) What was billed as a great month of boxing, has turned into a dark September.

New York, September 20—Dino Duva, president of Duva Boxing, the promoter of WBC no. 1 contender Samuel Peter, was very emotional about the fact that the sacred Madison Square Garden boxing ring has been retired before Peter’s October 6 World Heavyweight Title fight against Oleg Maskaev, and not after the fight.

SACRAMENTO, Calif—World Boxing Council No. 1-ranked mandatory challenger
Adrian “The Shark” Diaconu, scheduled to fight for a title against WBC
lightweight champion “Bad” Chad Dawson at ARCO Arena in Sacramento, suffered
a training injury on Thursday forcing him to pull out of the Sept. 29 match. Dangerous light heavyweight knockout artist Epifanio Mendoza (28-4-1, 24
KOs), from Barranquilla, Colombia, has agreed to replace Diaconu and will
face Dawson in the Sept. 29 main event.

Hamburg, September 11 – The boxing match between Vitali Klitschko (36) and American boxer Jameel McCline(37), scheduled for September 22nd in Munich, has been cancelled, as the Ukrainian boxer has just undergone surgery for a herniated disc.

Beverly Hills, CA; September 6, 2007 Former UFC and Pride Fighting Championship prodigy, Josh “The Punk” Thomson (34-2 (1 NC), will vie to extend his win streak to five consecutive bouts when he faces International Fight League (IFL) veteran, Adam Lynn (11-7 (1 No Contest), in a lightweight (155 lb. limit) contest during the Strikeforce mixed martial arts mega-event at The Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, California on Saturday, September 29th.

London (Sept. 6, 2007) – Sensational news for Mixed Martial Arts fans in the United Kingdom. Cage Rage, Britain’s original MMA brand and leader since 2002, is about to get bigger – and better. ProElite, Inc., an entertainment and media company dedicated to producing world-class MMA events, today announced the acquisition of Cage Rage Championships , Britain’s premier MMA organization.

The formal announcement of the new partnership was made by Gary Shaw, President of EliteXC, the respected live fight division of Los Angeles, Calif.-based ProElite.
“This is an exciting day for all of our organizations, but the biggest winners will be fans in the U.K.,’’ Shaw said. “In a short span of eight months, EliteXC has already got the well-deserved reputation for staging sensational fights with the world’s top fighters.

LOS ANGELES— Fans that have already purchased nearly $1 million worth of
tickets to see a boxing match featuring “Ferocious” Fernando Vargas vs.
Ricardo “El Matador” Mayorga at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 8
will now be able to put those tickets to use on the rescheduled date of
Friday, Nov. 23.

NEW YORK, September 4, 2007- The International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI), the world’s number one professional mixed martial arts league, moves to the 2007 World Championship semifinals, highlighting the matchup between Pat Miletich’s Quad Cities Silverbacks and Shawn Tompkins’ Los Angeles Anacondas in the next episode of “IFL Battleground” on Monday, Sept. 10, at 8 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. CT/MT). The Silverbacks, who won the IFL Legends Championship and IFL World Team Championship in 2006, look to avenge their only loss of 2007 in the rematch with the Anacondas. “IFL Battleground” airs every Monday night, with a replay on Saturday, on MyNetworkTV.