Archive for December, 2007

In perhaps the best match of the night on the undercard of Joshua Clottey-Shamone Alvarez was undefeated former Canadian Olympic middleweight Donnie Orr (11-0, 5 KOs) who had a tough time in defeating the talented Enrique Gallegos (6-3, 1 KOs) on Thursday night at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Though [...]

Former 2004 American Olympic welterweight, now competing as a light middleweight, Vanes Martirosyan (17-0, 12 KOs) obliterated his over-matched opponent Don Wallace (9-3, 3 KOs) in the 1st round on Thursday night at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Martirosyan hurt Wallace early with a right hand and then continued hitting [...]

Heavyweight knockout artist Tye Fields (39-1, 35 KOs) made a statement for himself as a potential challenger as he destroyed in 43 seconds of the 1st round on Thursday night at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fields, 32, came bursting out of his corner in the first round, hammering the [...]

Welterweight Joshua Clottey (33-2, 20 KOs) put in a workmanlike performance on Thursday, if not impressive, in winning a 12-round unanimous decision over previously undefeated Shamone Alvarez (19-1, 11 KOs) at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The final judges’ scores were 115-113, 116-112, 118-110. Clottey, 30, fought most of the fight [...]

World Boxing Council junior welterweight champion Junior Witter (36-1-2, 21 KOs) wants to arrange a bout with fellow Britain Ricky Hatton, offering him recently a financial incentive for the two to get in the right as early as next Summer. Witter, 33, is hoping that Hatton will look in his direction, since he’s already looking [...]

According to the latest boxing news, formerly unbeaten Ricky Hatton (43-1, 31 KOs) has been having a difficult time getting over his recent 10th round TKO loss to Floyd Mayweather on December 8th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hatton, 29, said in a recent interview “I feel like a women at the [...]

With only a month to go before Felix Trinidad (42-2, 35 KOs) comes out of retirement – for the second time – to face Roy Jones Jr., I’m wondering how much Trinidad has left in the tank at this stage in his career. At 34, soon to be 35 by the time they fight, Trinidad [...]

By now it must be obvious that the Ricky Hatton – Floyd Mayweather bout was an incredibly popular bout with the boxing public, but even more shocking are the final PPV numbers, which came out to over 850,000 buys in the United States, including $47 million in TV revenue, according to ESPN. Not bad for [...]

In an article by Pat Sheehan of the Sun, he states that the potential mega-bout between light heavyweight Bernard Hopkins and super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe will possibly be meeting in April, to take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. If the fight is indeed made, Calzaghe will reportedly make a career high 4million purse to [...]

In the latest boxing news, World Boxing Council welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs) said to Franklin McNeil of the New Jersey Star-Ledger, “He (Miguel Cotto) knows he can’t beat me. He knows. Cotto’s remedy to beat me is pressure, pressure, pressure. That’s not the remedy to beat me.” Apparently, Mayweather, 30, is [...]

Looking nothing like a future boxing star, undefeated featherweight Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (9-0-1, 8 KOs), the son of boxing great Wildredo Vazquez, fought to a 8-round majority draw with Mexican Jorge Cardenas (9-4-4, 2 KOs) on Saturday night at the Plaza de Toros, in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The final scores were 77-75, 76-76 and [...]

Lightweight challenger Miguel Huerta (26-8-1, 18 KOs) used a vicious body attack to stop veteran fighter Daniel Alicea (30-7-2, 22 KOs) in the 3rd round on Friday night at the Cicero Stadium, in Cicero, Illinois. Huerta, ranked # 8 in the World Boxing Council lightweight division, was pounding away unmercifully at Alicea with left hooks [...]

Former International Boxing Federation cruiserweight champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (39-2, 29 KOs) destroyed opponent Aloryi Moyoyo Mensah (14-5-1, 8 KOs) in the 5th round on Saturday night at the Hala na Podpromiu, in Rzeszow, Podkarpackie, Poland. Wlodarczyk, 26, in the 5th round, hit Mensah, a native of Ghana, with three successive right hands while he was [...]

Woman’s WIBF/WBA/GBU/WIBA super middleweight champion won a dominating one-sided 10 round unanimous decision victory over challenger Akondaye Fountain (7-1-1, 4 KOs) on Saturday night the Anhalt Arena in Dessau, Germany. In doing so, Ragosina, 31, won the vacant World Boxing Council super middleweight title, which had formerly been held by Laila Ali. Ragosina, formerly from [...]

Featherweight Orlando Salido (29-9-2, 19 KOs) stopped power-puncher Hector Avila (41-4, 37 KOs) in the sixth round on Friday night at the Cicero Stadium, in Cicero, Illinois, in the International Boxing Federation featherweight eliminator bout. Salido, ranked #3 in the IBF, had little trouble with the knockout artist Avila, dominating ever round of the fight, [...]

Naoki Matsuda (28-7-3, 11 KOs) defeated Rudy Lopez (20-4-1, 14 KOs) on Saturday night at the Plaza de Toros, in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, after the fight was stopped after the 8th rounds due to a severe cut on Lopez’s left eye, which had previously been opened by a left hand from Matsuda in the [...]

Unbeaten Tokyo-based World Boxing Council featherweight champion Jorge Linares (25-0, 16 KOs) stopped challenger Gamaliel Diaz (22-7-2, 9 KOs) in the 8th round on Saturday night at the Plaza de Toros, in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Linares, 22, appeared very relaxed in the early rounds of the fight, calmly jabbing a fierce-looking Diaz, who was [...]

World Boxing Organization super featherweight interim champion Alex Arthur (26-1, 19 KOs) narrowly defeated Stephen Foster (23-2, 16 KOs) on Saturday night at the Meadowbank Sports Centre, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The final judges’ scores were 114-111, 114-111 and 113-112. Both fighters were down, with Foster being knocked down in the 9th and Arthur going down [...]

Super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe has been busily attempting to arrange a potential mega-fight with light heavyweight Bernard Hopkins, but up to this point he’s had little luck for his efforts. The two met recently in a heated exchanged in which Hopkins said “I would never let a white boy beat me.” During that discussion, [...]

Last night, Australian light heavyweight Danny Green (25-3, 22 KOs) pulled off a minor upset when he won a lopsided 10-round unanimous decision over 6’5′ Croation Stipe Drews (32-2, 13 KOs) at the Challenge Stadium, in Mt Claremont (Perth), Western Australia. The final judges’ scores were 118-110, 120-108 and 118-111, giving Green the victory and [...]

Making his third defense of his World Boxing Association super featherweight title, Edwin Valero (23-0-0 23 KOs) brutally destroyed challenger Zaid Zavaleta in the 3rd round of a scheduled 12-round title bout tonight at the Plaza de Toros, in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Valero knocked Zavaleta down late in the 1st round, and rocked him [...]

Irish middleweight prospect Andy Lee (14-0, 11 KOs) caused his opponent Jason McKay (18-2, 5 KOs) to quit after the sixth round tonight at the National Stadium, in Dublin, Ireland. Though the fight was considered to be the toughest bout of the 23 year-old Lee’s career, the fight in fact was one of Lee’s easiest, [...]

Well, it appears that junior middleweight prospect Julio Cesar Chavez Jr’s bout with Contender star Alfonso Gomez is out the window, based on a report by Dan Rafael of ESPN, who said that Chavez’s promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, has had second thoughts about Chavez facing Gomez, apparently after seeing that Chavez, the son [...]

World Boxing Organization light welterweight champion Ricardo Torres (32-1, 28 KOs) will be defending his title on February 16th against unbeaten challenger Mike Alvarado (19-0, 13 KOs) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevado. Torres, 27, recently was involved in a questionable 11th round TKO of challenger Kendall Holt on September 1st, a bout [...]

According to a report from Dan Rafael of ESPN, undefeated World Boxing Council welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs) recommends that Ricky Hatton not fight again, stating “I hope Ricky Hatton is able get to through this one. This is tough on him and his family. I know he’s been through a lot [...]

In a recent press conference, WBO/WBC middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik said that he’s looking forward to his rematch with former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor in a PPV fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, on February 16th. Last time out, Pavlik destroyed Taylor, stopping him in the 7th round of their bout in September. [...]

Perhaps still smarting from his 10th round TKO to Floyd Mayweather on Saturday at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Ricky Hatton recently expressed interest in fighting a rematch with Mayweather, or possibly fighting Oscar De La Hoya. Both fights would seem remote at this point given the way Hatton performed against Mayweather. Who knows? [...]

In the boxing news, both World Boxing Council interim champion Samuel Peter and World Boxing Council champion Oleg Maskaev sent in their medical exams to the WBC in preparation for their February 2nd title match at Madison Square Garden, in New York City, New York. Vitali Klitschko, the WBC emeritus , also sent in his [...]

Moments after Floyd Mayweather’s 10-round destruction of Ricky Hatton last Saturday night, Mayweather commented that he wouldn’t allow boxing to retire him, that he would retire from boxing. However, knowing that Mayweather is often making threats of retiring from boxing but never actually carrying them out, I thought it would be interesting to discuss who [...]

Normally I wouldn’t advise a fighter as great as Ricky Hatton to retire this early on in his career, considering he’s only 29 years-old and would appear to have a lot of mileage left ahead of him, but in his case, I think it’s best that he hang up his gloves and call it a [...]