Unbeaten British Commonwealth Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (17-0, 12 KO’s) regained his composure to stop previously unbeaten Canadian Heavyweight champion Neven Pajkic (16-1, 5 KO’s) in Manchester, England on Saturday evening. Leading up to the fight both Fury and Pajkic exchanged words of bad blood and Fury promised his fans that he would stop Pajkic or he would retire. After a slow round one, Pajkic exploded in the second round knocking Fury down with a big right hand which clearly had the unbeaten champion in trouble. Fury struggled with Pajkic’s style in the early going but turned the fight around in the third round with a big body shot that buckled Pajkic knees, moments later Fury had Pajkic down on the canvas for the first of two knockdowns. Pajkic hit the canvas again as Fury applied the pressure and at 2:44 of round three referee Phil Edwards called a halt to the bout when Fury had Pajkic against the ropes. Pajkic was wobbled but did dispute the stoppage immediately. During the official announcement the angered Pajkic walked over to the microphone to let the fans know he could continue. After the fight, Fury’s promoter stated that Fury will be back in action in the spring potentially on St. Patrick’s day at Madison Square Garden’s in NYC.
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Manchester (Nov 11, 2011) Tyson Fury and Neven Pajkic came head to head at the official weigh in today at the Trafford Centre for the final time before their Commonwealth Heavyweight showdown at EventCity in Manchester, UK, tomorrow (Sat 12 Nov).
Fury vs. Pajkic, proudly presented by Hennessy Sports, will be broadcast LIVE in Canada only on Super Channel beginning at 4:45PM ET. Read More
Manchester (Nov. 9. 2011) Commonwealth Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and challenger Canadian champion Neven Pajkic met at the press conference for the first time since there heated encounter at the Casino Rama, Toronto, Canada back in December 2010, ahead of their showdown this Saturday night (Nov 12) at EventCity, Manchester.
Fury vs. Pajkic, proudly presented by Hennessy Sports, will be broadcast LIVE in Canada only on Super Channel beginning at 4:45PM ET. Read More
London (November 8, 2011) – Canadian heavyweight champion Neven “No Surrender” Pajkic has arrived in the UK ahead of his Commonwealth title fight against champion Tyson Fury at EventCity, Manchester this coming Saturday (Nov, 12).
Fury vs. Pajkic, proudly presented by Hennessy Sports, will be broadcast LIVE in Canada only on Super Channel beginning at 4:45PM ET.
The normally outspoken Pajkic, who said at his press conference in Canada on Dec, 20, 2010 “Once the day comes, if he gets enough balls to fight me, he is going to be well overmatched against me. And believe you me, Tyson Fury WILL get knocked out.” has now decided not to comment until he has ripped the title from around Fury’s waist.
His promoter Rick Smiciklas said “I’ve just talked to Neven and he said that he has no comment and is going to do his talking in the ring and he will have lots to say when he has the commonwealth belt around his waist on Saturday night.”
“Neven is in the best shape of his life and there will be no excuses from him as he looks to under promise and over deliver a great fight to people watching here on Channel 5 and back home on Super Channel.” Read More
LONDON (October 12, 2011) – A bitter, ongoing feud for the past year promises to finally erupt November 12 when a pair of 16-0 heavyweights, massive Tyson Fury and menacing Neven “No Surrender” Pajkic, put their perfect records on the line, as well as their immense pride, in a 12-round take-no-prisoners title fight at EventCity, Trafford Park (next to Trafford Centre) in Manchester, England. It will mark Fury’s first pro fight in his birthplace of Manchester.
“EventCity is thrilled to be the host venue for a world-class boxing event, and looks forward to welcoming spectators to a fantastic evening of sport and entertainment,” noted Andy Orr, Centre Director, EventCity. Read More
Canadian Boxing Federation heavyweight champion Neven Pajkic (16-0-0) of Toronto, Ontario, will be heading to Kanasin, Yucatan, Mexico, September 30 to take on Benito Quiroz (6-1-0) Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. This is likely a tune up fight for Pajkic, who will be fighting Tye ‘Big Sky’ Fields (48-4-0) of Edmonton, Alberta, in a mandatory CBF title defence in the not too distant future. Fields earned his title shot by knocking out Ray ‘Mount Kilimanjaro’ Olubowale of Toronto in the third round of their CBF eliminator back in February.
Also, heading to Mexico September 30 is cruiserweight Milos Pantelic (1-0-1) of Toronto. He will be fighting in a four round cruiserweight contest against an opponent TBA.
(Friday February 4th, 2011) – Wild Card Promotions held a fantastic, action packed and competitive seven fight card entitled “Super Brawl” in front of a capacity crowd at the Molson Centre in Barrie, Ontario.
In the Main Event of the evening Canadian Heavyweight champion Neven “No Surrender” Pajkic of Toronto captured the vacant NABA Canada championship by defeating Louisiana State Heavyweight champion “Lethal” Johnnie White of St. Martinville by a ten round unanimous decision. The judge’s scores were 97-93, 96-94, and 96-94.
Pajkic boxed using his height and reach to his advantage throughout in the early rounds of the fight. In addition, Pajkic landed his jab well and threw the straighter punches but was not landing at a high volume while White loaded up and threw looping bombs looking to land the one punch knockout but when he connected it was very clean and easy for the judge’s to see making it difficult to score as rounds could have gone either way. Read More
(Thursday February 3, 2011) Tonight at the Molson Centre in Barrie, Ontario, Wild Card Promotions held the final press conference for tomorrow evenings “Super Brawl” card. Rick Smiciklas of Wild Card Promotions has done everything possible to make this an exciting and crowd pleasing event and deserves a lot of credit. In addition Rick gave everybody praise for helping him to put together the card. Also in attendance was the legendary former Canadian Heavyweight champion George Chuvalo.
The Boxing Examiner.com was on hand to get quotes from each of the fighters in the main an co-main events.
First to take the microphone was Ray “Mount Kilimanjaro” Olubowale(8-4-1, 5KO’s) who has no love lost for his opponent from Edmonton, Tye “Big Sky” Fields (44-2, 40KO’s). Fields questioned Olubowale’s courage and heart for having to pull out of their previously scheduled match last year due to a cut received during training. This angered Olubowale who went on to state:
“I have taken him very seriously all along and was not taking a chance going into that fight with a cut so I pulled myself out of the fight. I have never turned down a fight in my life! All the talk of me being a chicken . . . it boils my blood and this is going to be my redemption!” Read More
Concord, ON – Inside the entertaining ‘Dave and Buster’s’ franchise, WCP founder Rick Smiciklas held a press conference confirming the upcoming card for “Super Brawl,” now just weeks away. The head table was stacked with some of Canada’s well-known boxing personalities including the legendary George Chuvalo, current Canadian Boxing Federation (CBF) heavyweight champion Neven Pajkic, former CBF and Commonwealth cruiserweight champion Troy Ross and former CBF heavyweight king Ray Olubowale. UFC fighters Sean Pierson and Claude Patrick were seated alongside their boxing counterparts, showing moral support for their pugilistic brethren.
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Smiciklas opened the floor confirming the final draft for this highly anticipated event. Its official, by placing tight restraints regarding potential opponents for Troy Ross, the Ontario Athletic Commission has prevented Ross from fighting entirely at WCP2. A disappointment for all, but by Ross’ own testament, “I’ll be on the next show that may be held sometime in May.” Ross will be fighting in Montreal with Smiciklas close-by, the first weekend following the Barrie show. Read More
Rick Smiciklas President of WCPannounced the complete line-up for thier first professional boxing card of the year scheduled for February 4th at the 4200 seat Molson Centre located at 555 Bayview Drive in Barrie, Ontario.
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Headlining the card will be undefeated Canadian Heavyweight Champion Neven “No Surrender” Pajkic (15-0 5KO’s) of Toronto who will fend off the challenge of hard punching “Lethal” Johnnie White ( 22-3 18KO’s) of Saint Martinsville, Louisiana in a 10 round heavyweight bout.
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The evenings World Championship co-feature will see a sizzling rematch between female pugilists. Champion “Lethal” Lindsay Garbatt (6-3-1 3KO’s) of Oshawa, Ontario will make the first defense of her World Title against former multi time Champion Jelena Mrdjenovich (24-6-1 12KO’s) of Edmonton, Alberta in a 10 round super featherweight rematch. Garbatt wrestled away the vacant title from Mrdjenovich in a hotly contested bout on Mrdjenovich’s home turf by split decision only 3 1/2 months before the scheduled date of the return match. Read More
In a final plea to Fury’s sense of pride, Pajkic said, “I will fight you in the parking lot, in the cage, in the ring, anywhere. You can bring your friends; you can bring your family. You’re a nobody.” If this wasn’t enough Pajkic sweetened the deal financially, assuring those in attendance that he would put his “entire purse on the line, winner take all,” if Fury would back up his words and enter the ring. So, the challenge is there, the money is right; will the bombastic Brit sign for the fight? Read More
