James Kirkland Tickets

James Kirkland beat 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.

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Kirkland vs TBA      

James "Mandingo" Kirkland

(25-0-0, 22 KOs)

Kirkland vs Conyers

James 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.