Archive for January, 2009

By William Mackay: “Sugar” Shane Mosley fought would many people could consider to be the best fight of his long 16-year career in battering World Boxing Association welterweight champion Antonio Margarito and stopping him in the 9th round. Mosley’s hands were like lightning proving to be much too fast for the ponderous Margarito to handle [...]

By Sean McDaniel: The fight that may have gone to Antonio Margarito, looks as if the new WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley is now sitting in the perfect position to land a bout with the winner of Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton on May 2nd. Mosley pulled off what many people thought impossible by knocking [...]

By Eric Thomas: After Shane Mosley pulled off a huge upset by stopping WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito in the 9th round on Saturday night, it’s suddenly re-energized Mosley’s career and brought him some much needed popularity that has been missing from his career for the past six years or so since he was first [...]

By Jason Kim: Antonio Margarito may have left more behind than he realizes in defeating Miguel Cotto last July in a 11th round TKO victory. Much has been said of Margarito’s incredible pain tolerance to be able to walk through ten rounds of devastating shots from Cotto, the type of punches that would have dropped [...]

By Chris Williams: Heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko (29-1, 7 KO’s) proved that he’s the best heavyweight in all of MMA by knocking out Andrei Arlovski in a 1st round KO last night at the Honda Center. It wasn’t easy, though, as Emelianenko struggled in the opening two minutes of the round and took a number of [...]

By Manuel Perez: WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito looked like a beaten fighter even before the first punch was thrown last night against Shane Mosley at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles. Sometimes a fighter leaves it all behind in the training camp. In Margarito’s case, I think that’s exactly what happened to him. He [...]

By Manuel Perez: Two-time International Boxing Federation featherweight champion Robert Guerrero (23-1-1, 16 KOs) was too much for journeyman Edel Ruiz (31-22-4, 22 KOs) on Saturday night, whom he defeated by a 1st round TKO on the undercard of the WBA welterweight championship bout between Shane Mosley and champion Antonio Margarito at the Staples Center, [...]

By Dave Lahr: Undefeated Russian middleweight Matt Korobov (3-0, 3 KOs) made short work of his opponent Roberto Florentino (3-4, 3 KOs), knocking him out in the 1st round on Saturday night at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Korobov, 26, a World amateur middleweight champion in 2005 and 2007 for Russia and also [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Cruiserweight contender Enad Licina (16-1, 10 KOs) stopped Colombian knockout artist Jose Luis Herrera (16-5, 16 KOs) in the 8th round of a scheduled 12-round bout on Saturday night to retain his IBF Inter-Continental cruiserweight title at the Erdgas Arena, Riesa, in Sachsen, Germany. Licina, 29, knocked Herrera down in the 8th [...]

By Jim Dower: Using his faster hands and short, hard punches, Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KOs) pulled off a tremendous upset tonight, stopping WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-6, 27 KOs) in the 9th round at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Mosley, 37, knocked Margarito down at the end of the 8th round [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Cruiserweight contender Marco Huck (24-1, 19 KOs) successfully defended his EBU (European) cruiserweight title tonight with a 3rd round TKO of Belgian challenger Geoffrey Battelo (18-1, 15 KOs) at the Erdgas Arena, in Riesa, Sachsen, Germany. Huck, 24, knocked Battelo down with a right uppercut in the 3rd round just as Battelo [...]

By Chris Williams: Not long from now, Shane Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) will step foot in the ring and attempt to take the WBA title from champion Antonio Margarito (37-5, 27 KOs) at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Mosley, 37, will be facing a stern task in having to deal with the younger, [...]

By Jim Dower: In an interview with The Sun, Joe Calzaghe gave 40-year-old Roy Jones Jr. (52-5, 38 KOs) a vote of confidence about his fading career, saying “Jones still has a lot left…I believe Jones has a bit of gas left in the tank and I wouldn’t be surprised to see him as a [...]

By Manuel Perez: Jesus Jimenez (21-5, 14 KOs) took out Salvador Montes (5-6, 2 KOs) in the 4th round of a scheduled 12-round bout on Saturday night to win the vacant WBC Latino flyweight title at the Foro Scotiabank, in Polanco, Distrito Federal, Mexico. Jimenez, 24, trapped Montes up against the ropes in the 4th [...]

By Nate Anderson: According to The Sun, Enzo Maccarinelli will be facing interim WBO cruiserweight champion Victor E Ramirez (14-1, 12 KOs) on March 14th on the undercard of Amir Khan vs. Marco Antonio Barrera for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title. Maccarinelli, 28, previously was going to face Jonathon Banks for the vacant WBO Cruiserweight [...]

By Manuel Perez: Coming off a narrow disappointing 12-round decision to WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto, former WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo (29-4, 14 KOs) told Boxing Talk interviewer Ray Campbell Jr. that he’s interested in a fight with Ricky Hatton if Ricky ends up not signing for his fight with Manny Pacquiao on May [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former heavyweight challenger David Tua (49-3-1, 42 KOs) is going to continue his lengthy comeback on June 6th against heavyweight Shane Cameron (22-1, 19 KOs) in a 12-round bout in Auckland, New Zealand. Unbelievable as it may seem, Tua, now 36, started his comeback in 2005 after a two year lay off [...]

By Manuel Perez: With the Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton looking as if it’s back on course (at least for now) for May 2nd, the big question is who will the winner choose to fight in the next fight? For Hatton, it’s an easy answer. He wants to gain revenge for his 10th round TKO [...]

January 26 marks the first day of the Lunar New Year — the beginning of Chinese New Year and World Super Flyweight Champion VIC “Raging Bull” DARCHINYAN is ready to celebrate – super fly style!

By William Mackay: Through a long 16 year professional boxing career, Shane Mosley has been fortunate enough not to have been knocked out. He’ll be incredibly lucky if that streak can somehow continue on Saturday night against WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito. The problem for Mosley is that he plans on going toe to toe [...]

By Jim Dower: IBF/WBC super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (31-1-1, 25 KOs) mixes it up against veteran Jorge Arce (51-4-1, 39 KOs) on February 7th at The Pond, in Anaheim, California. This is a tough fight to predict a winner of because Darchinyan – an all offense type fighter – has shown to be vulnerable [...]

Unbeaten welterweight prospect Mike Jones, of North Philadelphia, gets his stiffest test as a pro when he makes the first defense of his North American Boxing Association (NABA) title against Larry Mosley, of Los Angeles, CA, in the scheduled 10-round main event Friday evening, March 6, at the Legendary Blue Horizon, 1314 North Broad Street.

By Manuel Perez: Undefeated light middleweight contender John Duddy (25-0, 17 KOs) is finally returning back to the ring on February 21st to fight journeyman Matt Vanda (39-8, 22 KOs) in a scheduled 10-round bout at the Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York. Duddy, 29, will have been out of action for eight [...]

By Jason Kim: The May 2nd bout between Ricky Hatton and Manny Pacquiao looks like it’s set to go ahead after Manny agreed to the 52-48 purse split and signed & faxed the contract to Top Rank. The fight had previously been held back after Pacquiao was unhappy with the purse split and wanted a [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito weighed in at 145.8 for today’s weigh-in while challenger Shane Mosley came in at 147.2 and had to come back later to be reweighed after shedding the extra weight. In the second try, he came right in at 147. Mosley, 37, is facing a difficult task in [...]

By Dave Lahr: Joe Calzaghe could possibly be looking at fighting one more time against either Bernard Hopkins, Chad Dawson or Winky Wright at the Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. According to The Telegraph, Calzaghe has “dreams” of fighting at the Millennium Stadium, presumably because he wants to fight in front of a huge audience which would [...]

By Jim Dower: In the purely sickening saga of the negotiations between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton, Manny is now reportedly in agreement with the 52-48 purse split along with his lofty $12 million dollar guarantee for the fight. However, it’s now up to Hatton whether he wants to go ahead and take the fight. [...]

By Nate Anderson: The heavyweight division’s newest start is looking to get ahead in 2009 and wanting to move quickly with his budding pro career. At 6’8″ 250 pounds, Fury has the power of a young George Foreman and the movement of Wladimir Klitschko earlier in his career. Last week, Fury, 20, stopped German Marcel [...]

By Jason Kim: Quick to conduct some damage control, Manny Pacquiao had this to say about the failed negotiation process with Ricky Hatton: “I want to fight Ricky Hatton if the terms are right and fair. Now, I say to Ricky Hatton, king of the 140lb division, lets fight without the middlemen. You called me [...]

By Manuel Perez: Shane Mosley better find the fountain of youth by this Saturday night or else he’s going to end taking a beating from Antonio Margarito. Up until his last fight against Ricardo Mayorga, Mosley has been fortunate not to take a lot of punishment during his long 16-year pro career, but that may [...]