James Kirkland Tickets

James Kirkland defeated Alfredo Angulo (20-2-0, 17 KO) by TKO at 2:01 of round six in a WBC Continental Americas light middleweight title fight on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at the Centro de Cancun in Cancun, Mexico. Thirty seconds into round one Angulo knocked down Kirkland with a right hand reminiscent of the Ishida fight. Kirkland beat the count and Angulo went after him to finish him off but ended up punching himself out and being knocked down by Kirkland at the end of the round. After that it was back and forth trading round after round with Kirkland looking the stronger of the two and Angulo looking like he didn't have much left in the tank. In round six Kirkland had backed Angulo up against the ropes and was hitting him with a combination of punches as Angulo was becoming increasingly defenseless prompting the referee to jump in and wave off the fight.

Next up for Kirkland is a 12-round light middleweight fight against Mexican Carlos "King" Molina (19-4-2, 6 KOs) on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas. Molina is coming off a lopsided unanimous decision win over Kermit Cintron in July 2011. Kirkland has established himself again as top 154 lb contender after his win over Angulo. Note: The fight card was originally scheduled for January 28th but Erik Morales who is headlining the card in a fight against Danny Garcia had emergency gallbladder surgery and needed time to recover. All tickets for the January 28th date will be honored for the new March 24th date.

Fight Location Date Boxing Tickets
Kirkland vs Molina Reliant Arena,
Houston, TX		 March 24, 2012
Saturday 5:00 PM		 Kirkland vs Molina & Morales vs Garcia Tickets

James "Mandingo" Kirkland

(30-1-0, 27 KOs)

Kirkland vs Conyers

Kirkland beat Allen Conyers (11-3-0, 9 KOs) by round one TKO on November 30, 2007 at Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California. Kirkland survives a first round knockdown and opts to trade leather with Conyers rather than hold. Kirkland knocks Conyers down. Conyers gets up on shaky legs and two continue to trade leather. Kirkland knocked Conyers down again. Conyers raises but is out of it and has no legs. The referee stops the bout at 2:56 of round one.

James Kirkland beat Eromosele Albert (21-2-0, 10 KOs) by 1st round TKO at Buffalo Bill's Star of the Desert Arena in Primm, Nevada on Friday, May 17, 2008. Kirkland dropped Albert with a left to the body then finished him off with a combination after Albert beat the count. In addition to his win Kirkland took home the vacant WBO NABO light middleweight title.

Fighting in front of a hometown crowd James Kirkland beat challenger Ricardo Cortes (22-3-1, 15 KOs) by 2nd round TKO on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights on September 5, 2008 at the Music Hall in Austin, Texas. Kirkland knocked down Cortes in round two with a combination of punches. Cortes beat the count but the fight was waved off shortly after by the referee with Cortes up against the ropes getting hit with a barrage of punches. Cortes was still throwing punches but it was inevitable that he would be knocked out by Kirkland had the fight continued. Cortes was coming off a first round knockout to Alfredo Angulo in his previous fight in February.

James Kirkland beat Brian Vera (16-2-0, 10 KOs) by 8th round TKO on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fighting on the Hatton-Malignaggi undercard it took Kirkland more rounds than usual to end the fight. Round after round Kirkland bounced punches off Vera's head but despite being knocked down twice in round two and once in round eight it took the referee to stop to fight. Vera was coming off a TKO win over Andy Lee in March 2008.

Kirkland defeated Columbian Joel "Love Child" Julio (34-3-0, 31 KOs) of Miami, Florida by 6th round TKO in a light middleweight fight on HBO on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. Kirkland pressured Julio round after round. Julio was coming off a November 2008, 12-round unanimous decision loss to Sergiy Dzinziruk.

James Kirkland made a quick return to the ring knocking out Jhon Berrio (15-9-0, 11 KOs) at 1:06 of round two on Friday, March 18, 2011 at the Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa, California. Kirkland landed a body shot that put Berrio on his knees for the count. In Kirkland's previous fight on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on the undercard of Alvarez vs Hatton he also made short work of it knocking out Ahsandi Gibbs (10-3-0, 4 KOs) in 34 seconds in round one in a super middleweight bout. Kirkland came out fast hitting Gibbs with a left hook that put him down for the count.

Kirkland in an upset he lost by knockout at 1:42 of round one to Nobuhiro Ishida (23-6-2, 8 KOs) of Japan on Saturday, April 9, 2011 on the undercard of Erik Morales vs Marcos Rene Maidana at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ishida, a light puncher was supposed to be cannon foder, but instead he knocked down Kirkland three times in one round. The first knockdown came 20 seconds into the fight from a short left hand to the chin. Ishida's left and right hands continued to find home on Kirkland's chin knocking him down two more times prompting referee Joe Cortez to stop the fight. Kirkland denied being hurt saying that they were only flash knockdowns but it was obvious that they were real knockdowns and that he was shaken by them and never fully recovered his composure from the first knockdown. Kirkland has no defense now add a suspect chin to that.

Kirkland vs Ishida

James Kirkland beat Dennis Sharpe (17-8-3, 4 KOs) of New Jersey by KO at 2:18 of round one in a middleweight fight on TeleFutura on Friday, June 24, 2011 at the Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco, Texas. Sharpe who has now lost eight fights in a row was down twice in round one. Kirkland was coming off a 1st round knockout loss to Nobuhiro Ishida in April 2011 in what was supposed to be a tuneup fight for an upcoming title shot.

On Saturday, July 23, 2011 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, Kirkland defeated Alexis "Hurricane" Hloros (15-4-2, 11 KOs) by 2nd round TKO in a middleweight fight on the undercard of Khan vs Judah. Kirkland now back with his old trainer Ann Wolfe knocked down Hloros twice in round one. Having seen enough of the mismatch the referee to stepped in and stopped the fight at 0:25 of round two with a game but overmatched Hloros still throwing punches.