Archive for August, 2008

By Erik Schmidt: Undefeated middleweight contender Sebastian Zbik (24-0, 9 KOs) won an easy 12-round unanimous decision over Brazilian John Anderson Carvalho (18-3-1, 11 KOs) to successfully defend his little-known WBO Inter-Continental middleweight title on Saturday night at the Burg-Waechter Castello, in Dusseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The final judges’ scores were 119-109, 120-108 and 119-109. Zbik, [...]

By Manuel Perez: After two back to back disappointing performances, World Boxing Council number #5 ranked cruiserweight Matt Godfrey (17-1, 10 KOs) defeated WBA #9th ranked Emmanuel Nwodo (22-5, 18 KOs) by a 4th round stoppage to win the NABF cruiserweight title on Friday night at the Mohegan Sun Casino, in Uncasville, Connecticut. The fight, [...]

By Francisco Chantengo: Making his third appearance since being destroyed by Mexican Daniel Ponce de Leon in a 1st round blowout last year in August, number #2 ranked World Boxing Organization super bantamweight challenger Rey Bautista (26-1, 19 KOs) stopped Mexican Eden Marquez (16-4-3, 12 KOs) at 1:08 of the 2nd round of a scheduled [...]

By David Lahr: With heavyweight David Haye’s recent boost to the number #3 spot in the World Boxing Organization and # 5 in the World Boxing Council rankings, is he still going to as he says fight a top heavyweight in his next fight? Something tells me that’s not in the cards anymore, because why [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former World Boxing Council welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir (44-11-6, 13 KOs) reportedly wants a fight with top fighters Antonio Margarito, Joshua Clottey or Miguel Cotto according to Sycuan Ringside Promotions. The 37 year-old Baldomir hasn’t seen action since his 10-round majority decision win over light middleweight Luciano Perez in November 2007. Though [...]

By Aaron Klein: I don’t begrudge a guy for wanting to make some money, but come on, there’s a point where one can only stomach so much before they lose interest completely in the sport. For me, I think I’ve reach that point with the latest boxing news that Oscar De La Hoya (39-5, 30 [...]

By Michael Lieberman: Let me start off by saying that I’ve always been a huge fan of Joe Calzaghe. Indeed, up until his fight with Bernard Hopkins last April, I thought Calzaghe was one of the finest boxers of all time. However, my thoughts have changed since the Hopkins bout, and now that Calzaghe had [...]

By Erik Schmidt: With both fighters professing to have made great changes to their style of fighting, both weighed in on Friday for their bout for the vacant World Boxing Association heavyweight title on Saturday night at the Max Schmeling Halle, Prenzlauer Berg, in Berlin, Germany. The second foot Valuev weighed in at 317.7, while [...]

By Jim Dower: Having seen the first between these two fighters, I can’t go along with the logic that former World Boxing Council light middleweight champion Vernon Forrest )40-3, 29 KOs) was just having an off night when he lost a 12-round majority decision to then challenger undefeated Sergio Mora (21-0-1, 5 KOs) in June. [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to AP, Oscar De La Hoya may not be retiring after his December 6th fight with Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas. Apparently, because of De La Hoya’s inability to land a big mega fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr., who retired recently, it may be a factor in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: With his last victory almost three years ago against Luan Krasniqi, former World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster will trying to pick up the broken pieces of a once exciting career when he goes up against Danny Batchelder (25-5-1, 12 KOs) on Saturday night. Brewster (33-4, 29 KOs), known for having [...]

By David Lahr: At yesterday’s press conference, World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Samuel Peter (30-1, 23 KOs) had some bold words for former WBC champion Vitali Klitschko (35-2, 34 KOs), commenting ”I want to clear up one thing: I am the true heavyweight champion.” This was said in part because of Vitali’s champion emeritus status, [...]

By Manuel Perez: Earlier today, the mega-bout between Oscar De La Hoya (39-5, 30 KOs) and lightweight Manny Pacquiao (47-3-2, 35 KOs) was officially announced and will be taking place on December 6th in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a Mexican, I always wanted to see Pacquiao get his backside handed to him, but not like [...]

Great Britain’s Olympic boxing coach Terry Edwards told Setanta Sports News he was in a ‘no win’ situation however well his boxers performed in Beijing this summer. Edwards’ team of boxers were dogged by controversy before a single punch had been thrown. Frankie Gavin was unable to compete at the Games having failed to make [...]

By William Mackay: Heavyweight Lamon Brewster (33-4, 29 KOs) will be making his comeback on Saturday night against Danny Batchelder (25-5-1, 12 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round bout for the vacant NABA heavyweight title at the Cincinnati Gardens, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Brewster, now 35, a former World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion, hasn’t seen action in [...]

By Jim Dower: We’ve all seen it before, a fighter takes on someone a bit too good for him and takes a serious beating and is never the same again. In the case of super featherweight Manny Pacquiao, we may be seeing just that happening when he likely takes on Oscar De La Hoya on [...]

By Michael Lieberman: With Joe Calzaghe now showing little interest in getting in the ring with undefeated WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (34-0, 30 KOs) after his total destruction of Calzaghe’s fellow countryman Gary Lockett in a 3rd round TKO in June, Pavlik has now turned his attention to recent Calzaghe opponent Bernard Hopkins (48-5-1, [...]

By Chris Williams: Former two-time heavyweight champion John Ruiz (43-7-1, 29 KOs) and former World Boxing Association champion Nikolay Valuev (48-1, 34 KOs) go at for the vacant WBA heavyweight belt this Saturday night in a 12-round title bout at the Max Schmeling Halle, Prenzlauer Berg, in Berlin, Germany. The winner, unfortunately, has to fight [...]

By Jason Kim – Photo by Tom Casino/SHOWTIME – In today’s press conference at the Gallagher’s Steak House, New York, New York, former World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (35-2, 34 KOs) had this to say about current WBC heavyweight champion Samuel Peter, whom he fights on October 11th at the O2 World Arena, [...]

By Aaron Klein: The “Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya (39-5, 30 KOs) is expected to strike gold for the final time when he likely announces his decision whether or not he’ll be signing for to fight pound-for-pound boxing king Manny Pacquiao on December 6th in Las Vegas, Nevada. At this point, it’s either going [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In a move that’s likely destined for failure, former IBF/WBO heavyweight champion of the world Chris Byrd (40-5-1, 21 KOs) is apparently going to continue on with his boxing career despite his recent three losses in his last four fights. According to the The Flint Journal, Byrd, now a ripe 38 years-old, [...]

By Manuel Perez: Undefeated World Boxing Organization light flyweight Ivan Calderon (31-0, 6 KOs) fights a rematch with former WBO light flyweight champion Hugo Fidel Cazares (26-4-1, 19 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round bout on Saturday night at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The two have unfinished business after the 33 year-old [...]

By Eric Thomas: With the talks with Manny Pacquiao still going nowhere and stuck in a standoff, Oscar De La Hoya is reportedly looking at taking on WBO welterweight champion Paul Williams (34-1, 25 KOs) for De La Hoya’s final fight of his career on December 6th. However, it’s hard to take this boxing news [...]

MIDDLEWEIGHT – James DeGale vs. Emilio Correa-Bayeaux British middleweight James DeGale built up an early 6-1 lead in the first round over his Cuban opponent Emilio Correa-Bayeaux and then held onto the lead to eventually win 15-12. However, DeGale got sloppy-looking by the end of the 2nd round, and tried to run out the clock [...]

FEATHERWEIGHT Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Khedafi Djelkhir In perhaps the most impressive performance of all in the gold medal tournament, Ukrainian Vasyl Lomachenko overwhelmed his French opponent Khedafi Djelkhir with power shots, hurting him often and causing three standing eight counts in the 1st round. After the third standing eight count, the fight was stopped giving [...]

By Erik Schmidt: For the first time in ages, this year’s Olympics failed to unveil a large amount of potential future professional champions. In fact, it seems that in some of the cases due to crazy hand-held electronic scoring devices of the judges, the top fighter didn’t always make it into the finals of the [...]

By Nate Anderson: Undefeated Australian super featherweight prospect William Kickett (12-0, 5 KOs) defeated Argentinean Vicente Martin Rodriguez (21-2, 10 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous decision on Friday night at the Leagues Club, Wyong, in New South Wales, Australia. The final judges’ scores were 100-90, 99-91 and 99-91. However, the lopsided scores were slightly off [...]

By Jonathan Watkins: To become a renowned champion, you must fight your way to the top and then maintain the skills and consistency to stay there. Once accomplished you then have the luxury of sitting at the top of your division and being sought after by up and coming boxers. These fighters, aspiring to become [...]

By Eric Thomas: Featherweight Fernando Beltran Jr. (31-3-1, 18 KOs) defeated Takalani Ndlovu (28-5, 18 KOs) by a 12-round split decision on Friday night to win the vacant IBO featherweight title at the Sommet Center, in Nashville, Tennessee. The final judges’ scores were 115-112, 115-112 and 113-114. Beltran, who was coming off a 12-round lopsided [...]

By Manuel Perez: The fight between welterweight Irving Garcia (16-3-3, 8 KOs) and Hector Munoz (18-1-1, 11 KOs) was stopped in the 2nd round after Munoz sustained a nasty cut over his left eye, which appeared to come from a right uppercut from Garcia. The fight was stopped at 1:40 of the 2nd round by [...]