Archive for January, 2009

European Cruiserweight Champion Marco Huck (23-1, 18 KOs) is determined to get the new year off to a winning start as he defends his title against Geoffrey Battelo (18-0, 15 KOs) on Saturday night. “If you want to reach the top, you have to defeat the best fighters out there,” Huck said. “It will be [...]

By Sean McDaniel: After winning a his last fight by a controversial fashion, International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (23-0, 18 KOs) will be making his return on March 13th, defending his title against the IBF #10 contender Fulgencio Zuniga (22-3-1, 19 KOs) at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bute, 28, [...]

Lightweight boxer Jon Thaxton has described Amir Khan’s upcoming bout against seven time world champion Marco Antonio Barrera as “a fantastic bit of match making”. Khan takes on Barrera at Manchester’s MEN Arena on Saturday 14th March. But Thaxton questioned what Khan had done to get such a high profile opponent. Speaking to Steve Bunce [...]

WBC Super Middleweight champ Carl Froch has issued a missing persons appeal on behalf of former World middleweight champ, and the current mandatory challenger for his title Jermain Taylor. Froch believes that Taylor has gone into hiding as he looks for a way out of fighting the Cobra who was crowned WBC champ after a [...]

By Nate Anderson: A perturbed Michael Jennings (34-1, 16 KOs) had this to say about the media giving him few chances in his bout with Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs) on February 21st at the Madison Square Garden, in New York:

By Chris Williams: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye are still locked in a stalemate, with both stuck on a few issues which are preventing the fight from reaching a deal, according to Sky Sports. The two sides are at the contract part of the negotiations and are undergoing some friction as they [...]

By Dave Lahr: With Ricky Hatton walking away from a fight with Manny Pacquiao due to a disagreement over the purse split, where does Manny go from here? The Hatton fight was a perfect fight after Manny’s fight with De La Hoya, which netted Pacquiao a big payday. Manny would have received another big day [...]

By Jim Dower: In news that will probably be upsetting to Manny Pacquiao, Ricky Hatton has opted to move on to another fight instead of settling for less than a 50-50 split with Manny for their previously talked about fight on May 2nd. The apparently reached a sticking point in their negotiations after Pacquiao asked [...]

With the talk of a March bout on Showtime featuring former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor tearing through the boxing world, super middleweight contender Edison “Pantera” Miranda is making his case for a showdown between “Bad Intentions” and the self proclaimed baddest man at 168 pounds.

By Scott Gilfoid: I can’t tell you how happy I am. Finally, Ricky Hatton is standing on his hind legs and showing some backbone by getting ready to walk away from his May 2nd fight with Manny Pacquiao. I’m proud of him. He should have done it a long time ago as soon as Pacquiao [...]

Their first meeting in 2003 ended in a controversial draw. On Friday, February 27, nearly six years later, light heavyweight standouts Glen Johnson and Daniel Judah finally get the opportunity to settle the score when they headline ESPN2 Friday Night Fights from the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida.

HBO Sports rings in the new year with a red-hot welterweight championship showdown between two world-class performers on WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: ANTONIO MARGARITO VS. SHANE MOSLEY, presented live SATURDAY, JAN. 24 (10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT) from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, exclusively on HBO. The WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING team will be ringside for [...]

By Jason Kim: Having been nearly beaten senseless in his last fight in December against Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) needs to be extra careful when planning for his next opponent to ensure that the same fate doesn’t happen to him yet again. And while there’s been a lot of damage [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I think I speak for most people when I say that Ricky Hatton needs to summon what’s left of his dignity and tell Manny Pacquiao to forget about fighting him and move onto another opponent. I can’t believe Hatton is even wasting his time lowering himself to even consider accepting anything less [...]

By Chris Williams: With Vitali Klitschko now out of the way, tied up with a mandatory defense of his WBC heavyweight crown against Juan Carlos Gomez, this leaves David Haye available to IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko to fight him in his next bout, which should be taking place sometime in the coming months. My [...]

By Matt Stein: I don’t want to sound overly harsh about WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto’s performance against Luis Collazo on Saturday night, but I got to be frank, he looked positively terrible in there. If you don’t mind seeing unskilled brawlers fight, then I suppose Berto made the fight worth watching but not for [...]

By Jim Dower: Instead of watching IBF light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (27-0, 17 KOs) fight a rematch with Glen Johnson, who gave Dawson a tough fight in April 2008, we’ll be forced to watch Dawson once again fight Antonio Tarver which will be taking place on March 14th at the Palms Casino, in Las [...]

By Jim Dower: Undefeated light middleweight contender James Kirkland (24-0, 21 KOs) faces Joel Julio (34-2, 31 KOs) on March 7th at a still to be determined location in the U.S. Kirkland, 24, is one of the most exciting fighters in the light middleweight division, known for his two-way wars with his opponents. Not inclined [...]

The Virgin Islands are making a push to become a boxing powerhouse in the coming years, and to celebrate this monumental occasion, 340 Promotions, in association with Seminole Warriors Boxing, Sampson Lewkowicz, and Leslie Comissiong, is pleased to announce the “Class of 2008”, an event that will feature a series of world-class professional boxing matches [...]

By William Mackay: Though Shane Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) has recently said that he’d like to fight another four to five years, I think his time is about to come up on Saturday when he faces WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-5, 27 KOs) at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. A beating at [...]

By Erik Schmidt: In article from Per Ake Persson today at Eastsideboxing.com, Per states that World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (41-1, 31 KOs) has agreed to fight Mads Larsen. However, there’s nothing definite yet. If the fight does take place, it would likely occur in April. Larsen is also from Denmark, but [...]

Undefeated Argentinean knockout artist Marcos Rene “El Chino” Maidana, the WBA No. 1 contender, challenges WBA light welterweight champion Andreas Kotelnik for the title belt and worldwide respect February 7 on “The Champion Returns” card, featuring WBA heavyweight “Champion in Recess” Ruslan “White Tyson” Chagaev versus unbeaten challenger Carl David Drumond, live on pay-per-view in [...]

By Jason Kim: I really think Amir Khan is a great fighter and has loads of potential in boxing. But I question whether he has the chin to get the job done against former six-time champion Marco Antonio Barrera on March 14th at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, Lancashire. There’s a big difference from being [...]

By Chris Williams: On Saturday night, WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto fought a war against challenger Luis Collazo, grinding out a 12-unanimous decision in a fight that is already be considered as a candidate for a fight of the year. For Berto, it was his 2nd title defense of his WBC belt and easily the [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to the latest word in the news, Manny Pacquiao is reportedly not interested in taking the 52-48 purse split offer made from Ricky Hatton. At a recent press conference, Pacquiao said that he’s looking at a higher figure than the 52-48 purse split and might agree to a 55-45 split. It’s [...]

By Manuel Perez: Former two-time WBC lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo (57-9-1, 49 KOs) destroyed journeyman James Wayka (16-8, 8 KOs) in a 2nd round TKO on Saturday night at the Palenque del FEX, Mexicali, in Baja California, Mexico. Castillo, 35, knocked Wayka down with a left uppercut to the head followed quickly by a [...]

“The Dancing Destroyer” will be back at the North Sea on March 6th. Herbie Hide will return to the Kugelbake-Halle in Cuxhaven, Germany, for his WBC Final Eliminator against Matt Godfrey. In his last fight on November 18th, 2008, Hide won an unexpected hard fought unanimous decision over Polish journeyman Lukasz Rusiewicz.

By Dave Lahr: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, light heavyweight Roy Jones Jr. (52-5, 38 KOs) is looking to fight former super middleweight contender on March 21st at the Pensacola Civic Center in Pensacola, Florida. The choice of Sheika, 32, as an opponent like a bizarre choice for Jones given that Sheika hasn’t fought [...]

By Jim Dower: Featherweight prospect Gary Russell Jr. (1-0, 1 KOs) made a successful start to his pro career, defeating Antonio Reyes (3-3) by a third round TKO on Friday night at the Million Dollar Elm Casino, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Russell, 20, a two-time U.S National amateur champion and a 2008 Olympian, dropped a badly [...]

By Jim Dower: Middleweight project James McGirt Jr. (19-2-1, 9 KOs) suffered another setback in his developing pro career, losing a 10-round unanimous decision to the tough journeyman Angel Hernandez (29-7, 16 KOs) on Friday night at the Mallory Square, in Key West, Florida. The final judges’ scores were 96-94, 96-94 and 96-95. McGirt Jr. [...]