Archive for August, 2008

By Abbas Dadhiwala: After having watched Danny Williams last fight against Big John McDermott, I wasn’t at all surprised that Danny got the decision from the judges. Although it was a very close call, despite being on the end of very dubious refereeing and having been deducted three points, he somehow came through this – [...]

By Eric Thomas: Making his first appearance as a light middleweight, undefeated contender Joe Greene (20-0, 14 KOs) struggled badly with the hard-punching Jose Miguel Torres (20-4, 18 KOs), defeating him by a harder than expected 12-round unanimous decision to win the vacant NABA light middleweight title on Wednesday night at the Seminole Hard Rock [...]

By Eric Thomas: Light middleweight contender Joel Julio (34-1, 31 KOs) destroyed the tough Jose Varela (23-4, 16 KOs) in a 6th round TKO on Wednesday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Hollywood, Florida. Julio, 23, ranked number #4 in the IBF and WBC, #2 in the WBO and #5 in [...]

NEW YORK (Aug. 14, 2008) – The new World Boxing Council (WBC) Super Lightweight Champion Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley will defend his title for the first time against Edner “Cherry Bomb” Cherry on Saturday, Sept. 13, in the co-feature of the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast, which begins live at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the [...]

By Jonathan Watkins: On December 10th 2007, a bruised and beaten Mancunian lay motionless on the canvas of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. When Ricky Hatton squared up against Floyd Mayweather on that winter night, both fighters knew the long-term repercussions of a loss were going to be career changing. In the end it [...]

By Jim Dower: Going from a massive fight that would have likely brought in huge PPV dollar numbers, Oscar De La Hoya has suddenly had a lowering of expectations, turning his sights to WBC light middleweight champion Sergio Mora as his final opponent of his career on December 6th. The fight, however, isn’t a solid [...]

By Michael Lieberman: In an interview with Setanta Sports News, undefeated super middleweight Joe Calzaghe remarked that he plans on fighting one more time on November 8th against Roy Jones Jr, and then retire from the sport, saying “I’ve achieved everything I can in boxing.” The comment is more than mildly amusing considering that Jones [...]

By Manuel Perez: In what turned out to be a bitter pill for Golden Boy Promotions today, lightweight Manny Pacquiao walked away from an offer of 70-30 purse split with the “Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya, turning him down when he refused to budge in any way and come in at the 60-40 purse [...]

By Aaron Klein: With today’s bombshell announcement that Manny Pacquiao has pulled out of the negotiations for a fight with Oscar De La Hoya, turning down a 70-30 purse split, just who now should De La Hoya fight on December 6th? To be sure, Pacquiao still would probably be the best option, but De La [...]

By William Mackay: According to reports from fightnews, Manny Pacquiao has turned down an offer of a 70-30 split from Golden Boy Promotions for a potential December 6th fight with Oscar De La Hoya. Pacquiao wanted a 60-40 split, but De La Hoya’s Golden Boy management team where firm with the original 70-30 split. Instead [...]

By Abbas Dadhiwala: When Audley Harrison won the Olympic Heavyweight Gold Medal in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, he should have been a World Champion within 4 years, but that was not the case and what many believed the start a journey that would lead him to Unifying the Heavyweight Championship of the World just [...]

By Sean McDaniel: After taking a brutal beating at the hands of punching dynamo Antonio Margarito on July 26th, there are a great many questions from boxing fans about the future of former WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs), about whether he’ll ever recover from the savage beating he took from Margarito on [...]

By Abbas Dadhiwala: I think the notion that to succeed in boxing in this country you need to join Frank Warren may not be all correct but it would be a great help when you have the man inducted into boxing’s hall of fame by your side. If we take it back to before Frank [...]

By Aaron Klein: Usually what a fighter says is tuned out by boxing fans and the larger public the moment that they lose relevance, like for instance when they’re no longer successful in the ring. In the case of former middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins (48-5-1, 32 KOs), who has lost three out of his last [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s funny how a fight with Oscar De La Hoya has a way of adding a big boost to the career’s of certain boxers. This was never more apparent than in the case of former super featherweight Steve Forbes (33-6, 9 KOs) who will be getting a shot against the WBC welterweight [...]

By Michael Lieberman: Undefeated super middleweight Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) has made it no secret that he’d like to retire with his undefeated record intact, and with his boxing legacy unblemished with any ugly defeats that would mar his record. In the past several months, however, he’s been pursued steadily by unbeaten WBO/WBC middleweight [...]

By Manuel Perez: Felix Trinidad (42-3, 35 KOs) has always been one of my favorite fighters, a warrior that never gave an inch, even in losses to Winky Wright, Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins. After seeing Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs) twice take a knee against Antonio Margarito in their recent fight on July [...]

By Michael Lieberman: With the recent news of Ricky Hatton and his long-time Billy Graham going there separate ways, I don’t think for a second that this is going to fix Hatton’s many problems in his boxing career. For me, it seems like a cry for help, a desperate move on Hatton’s part to try [...]

By Manuel Perez: Using a body attack which unfortunately consisted of a high number of punches that strayed below the belt, super flyweight Jose Lopez (37-7-2, 31 KOs) stopped Oscar Andrade (36-34-2, 18 KOs) in the 7th round of a scheduled 10-round bout at Coliseo Antonio R. Barcelo, in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Lopez, 36, [...]

By Chris Williams: Big 6’8″ Vitali Klitschko (35-2, 34 KOs) will be coming out of his four-year retirement to try and recapture his WBC heavyweight title from Nigerian knockout artist Samuel Peter (30-1, 23 KOs) on October 11th, at the O2 World Arena, Kreuzberg, in Berlin, Germany. At this point, there’s a lot of speculation [...]

By Jim Dower: Former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev (48-1, 34 KOs) will be trying to recapture his title when he goes up against his old nemesis John Ruiz (43-7, 29 KOs) late on this month on August 30th, at the Max Schmeling Halle, Prenzlauer Berg, in Berlin, Germany. Valuev, 34, previously defeated Ruiz in [...]

By David Lahr: Looking for another big payday, undefeated WBO/WBC middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (34-0, 30 KOs) will be fighting former middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins (48-5, 32 KOs) on October 18th at Atlantic City, in New Jersey. Having recently defended his title with an impressive 3rd round stoppage of Gary Lockett in June, Pavlik is [...]

By Jason Kim: After watching former WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto get methodically taken apart by the Mexican Tornado Antonio Margarito recently, I wondered whether Cotto would stand a chance against an even bigger fighter like the 6’2″ WBO welterweight champion Paul Williams. If the question was asked before Cotto’s recent fight with Margarito, I’m [...]

By Eric Thomas: As the days draw nearer for what will likely be Oscar De La Hoya’s final fight of his boxing career on December 6th against Manny Pacquiao, De La Hoya has seemed to become a lightning rod for criticism among boxing fans on the internet. And to think, all it took was for [...]

By Tim Cavender: In an outcome that didn’t surprise me in the least, number#5 ranked IBF/WBO light heavyweight Tavoris Cloud (19-0, 18 KOs) took out former WBO light heavyweight champion Julio Gonzalez (41-6, 25 KOs) in the 10th round of a scheduled 12-round IBF title eliminator on Friday night at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, [...]

By Sean McDaniel: If there was ever a chance for unbeaten top middleweight contender John Duddy (25-0, 17 KOs) to succeed, at least temporarily, it’s his potential fight with current IBF light middleweight champion Verno Phillips (42-10-1, 21 KOs), who Duddy may be facing either on September 27th or October 11th. Duddy is moving down [...]

By Matt McGrain: When I realised that it was Muhammad Ali up there on the podium about to light the Olympic flame in 1996, my heart sank. The news of Ali’s condition at that time was mostly good – he was described as being “as happy as anyone with each day” amongst other things, but [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Undefeated WIBF/WBA world female flyweight champion Susi Kentikian (21-0, 16 KOs) will be facing perhaps her toughest opponent of her short career on August 29th when she takes on Hagar Finer (17-6-3, 4 KOs) in a scheduled 10-round title bout at the Burg-Waechter Castello, in Dusseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Kentikian, only 20, will [...]

By Tony Krebs: Just looking at the current state of boxing now with fighters like Kelly Pavlik facing 43 year-old former champion Bernard Hopkins rather than other more deserving middleweights, undefeated Joe Calzaghe avoiding his top super middleweight opponents to fight a 39 year-old Roy Jones Jr, and then for the kicker of them all, [...]

By Jim Dower: Newcomer to the heavyweight ranks David Haye (21-1, 20 KOs) has had no shortage of potential opponents since recently moving up in weight from the cruiserweight a couple of months ago. The latest heavyweight among many to call him out is none other than recent title challenger Tony Thompson (30-2, 18 KO’s), [...]