Archive for January, 2009

By Jason Kim: Since losing to Manny Pacquiao in a brutal eight-round beat down on December 6th, there have been various explanations as to the main reason that Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) lost in such a terribly manner. The excuses have ranged from De La Hoya’s diet, which was more or less [...]

By Dave Lahr: Count me in on one of those who see David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) making a huge mistake by fighting either of the Klitschko brothers at this point in Haye’s career. The experience or that thereof for Haye, 28, is something I’m troubled by most of all. I could care less about [...]

ARENA Box-Promotion has won the purse bid for the World Boxing Council cruiserweight Final Eliminator between Herbie Hide and Matt Godfrey. The fight will most probably take place in late March or early April. The winner of the elimination bout will face the winner of the WBC cruiserweight championship between Giacobe Fragomeni and Krystzof Wlodarczyk.

By Chris Williams: Talent, speed, and a brittle chin, World Boxing Council welterweight champion Andre Berto (23-0, 19 KOs) has all of them. The unvarnished truth about Berto is that he’s a talented fighter but one loaded with flaws, starting with his chin and ending with his limited 5’8″ size, small for a welterweight. Some [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Undefeated flyweight prospect Pal Bedak (2-0, 2 KOs) stopped Laurent Ucristinel Balmau (0-1) in the 3rd round of a scheduled four-round bout on Saturday night on the undercard of Karoly Balszay vs. Denis Inkin bout at the Bordelandhalle, Magdeburg, in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Bedak, 23, a 2004 Olympian for the Hungary amateur team, [...]

By Erik Schmidt: World Boxing Organization light heavyweight champion Zsolt Erdei (30-0, 17 KOs) won a 12-round unanimous decision over challenger Yuri Barashian (25-5, 17 KOs) in a non-title defense at the Bordelandhalle, Magdeburg, in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. The final judges’ scores were 116-111, 117-110 and 116-111. Erdei, in what was perhaps the toughest opponent to [...]

By Jim Dower: With Joe Greene (20-0, 14 KOs) suddenly developing a case of kidney stones and unable to meet interim WBC light middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (44-1-1, 24 KOs) on February 14th, it paves the way for WBA light middleweight champion Daniel Santos (32-3-1, 23 KOs) to step in and fight Martinez instead. As [...]

By Simon Hirst: In a fight for the WBO super middleweight title, unbeaten Russian champion Denis Inkin was dethroned by Hungarian challenger Karoly Balszay in a unanimous decision in what could be seen as a shock result in the super middleweight division. Inkin, who was making his first defence of his WBO title, stood toe [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KOs) faithfully defended his WBO super middleweight belt for 10 years, beating every mandatory challenger that was set in front of him and doing his part in creating a lasting legacy that you would think would put him in the boxing Hall of Fame. Yet while defending the [...]

By Chris Williams: In yesterday’s ESPN Friday Night Fights, Bernard Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 KOs) said that he’d like to fight rematches with either Joe Calzaghe or Jermain Taylor, preferring to fight Calzaghe. “I prefer a rematch with Joe Calzaghe. If not, you have Jermain Taylor and that’s business I have to take care of,” Hopkins [...]

By Manuel Perez: Unbeaten featherweight contender Yuriorkis Gamboa (13-0, 11 KOs) survived a 2nd round knockdown to comeback and stop opponent Roger Gonzalez (27-3, 18 KOs) in the 10th round on Friday night at the Buffalo Bill’s Star Arena, Primm, Nevada. Gamboa, 27, hurt Gonzalez with a right uppercut in the 10th round, hurting him [...]

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow could keep the Pavlik Nation from the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown this morning to purchase tickets to World Middleweight Champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK’S homecoming title defense against No. 1 contender Marco Antonio Rubio.

By Manuel Perez: In another bout involving a skilled but badly flawed former Cuban amateur star on Friday night, unbeaten heavyweight contender Odlanier Solis (13-0, 9 KOs) stopped American Kevin Burnett (13-2-1, 8 KOs) in the 8th round on Friday night at the Buffalo Bill’s Star Arena, Primm, Nevada. Solis, 28, the former heavyweight 2004 [...]

By Manuel Perez: Undefeated light middleweight prospect Erislandy Lara (3-0, 2 KOs) stopped a badly over-matched Rodrigo Aguiar (5-4, 3 KOs) in the 1st round of a scheduled four-round bout on Friday night at the Buffalo Bill’s Star Arena, in Primm, Nevada. Lara, 25, landed a nice left-right combination at the end of the 1st [...]

By Jim Dower: The question is no longer whether IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitchscko will be knocking David Haye out, it’s what round. With a history of a glass jaw, which wasn’t helped by Haye’s 5th round knockdown by Monte Barrett in November, Haye, 28, is little better than an inflated cruiserweight with neither the [...]

By Chris Williams: It’s sad to see when once great fighters stick around a little too long in the sport of boxing and end up taking a lot of punishment at the end of their careers. In most circumstances, fighters do it because they didn’t make enough money in their career. That’s what makes it [...]

By Eric Thomas: In an article from Ron Borges at Thesweetscience site, Freddie Roach, the trainer for WBC lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs), said that Manny wants a bout with Margarito, whom he thinks he can outbox. Roach further said that Pacquiao won’t ever be defending his WBC lightweight title and that if [...]

Bronx, NY – The year 2009 is finally here and if it is anything like 2008, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing is in for yet another extremely busy year in the boxing world. Whether it was exciting sold out shows, major signings, or watching our fighters climb the ladder in the world ratings, Star Boxing had [...]

By Adam Laiolo: Greatness isn’t always about how talented you are. Sometimes greatness is achieved just by doing the right things at the right time, and a lack of ability can be substituted for others traits such as determination and heart. Sometimes it just isn’t meant to be you, no matter how you strive and [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I got to say I’m positively sick of hearing about whether Joe Calzaghe has made up his mind or not about retiring from boxing. I was hoping that he would man up and show some courage and fight a live opponent for a change like Carl Froch, Chad Dawson or Jermain Taylor [...]

Wayne Elcock and Matthew Macklin will square off in the ‘Battle of Brum’ in the biggest Birmingham boxing derby in living memory at the Aston Arena on Saturday, 14th March. The fight Birmingham has been waiting for will become reality when Elcock makes the second defence of his British Middleweight Title against Mandatory Challenger Macklin, [...]

By Dave Lahr: On this weeks’ Bunce’s Boxing Hour show, it was learned that former WBO super featherweight champion Alex Arthur (26-2, 19 KOs) may be facing lightweight contender Amir Khan (19-1, 15 KOs) sometime in 2009. Both fighters are promoted by Frank Warren and are coming off of recent losses.

Integrated Sports will distribute “The Champion Returns” show, featuring World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Ruslan “White Tyson” Chagaev against unbeaten challenger Carl Davis Drumond, February 7th on pay-per-view in the United States live from Rostock, Germany. “The Champion Returns” card, presented by Universum Boxing-Promotion, will also feature on PPV the WBA light welterweight title fight [...]

By Jason Kim: In another instance of a fighter that probably needs to hang them up, former super bantamweight, featherweight and super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera (64-6, 43 KOs) is planning to return to the ring later this month for a 10-round bout against the unknown John Nolasco (17-4-4, 8 KOs) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, [...]

By Nate Anderson: In the latest news, Devon Alexander (17-0, 10 KOs) will fight Junior Witter (37-2-2, 22 KOs) for the interim World Boxing Council light welterweight title. No date has been set for this bout as of yet. This fight, which was made known on Steve Bunces’s Boxing Hour show earlier today, is the [...]

By Jim Dower: Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs) will be stepping back in the ring on February 21st against Michael Jennings (34-1, 16 KOs) in a 12-round bout for the vacant WBO title at Madison Square Garden, in New York. Jennings, 31, is getting a big opportunity in being pitted against a fighter as good [...]

By Dan Ambrose: IBF/WBA/WBC super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (31-1-1, 25 KOs) defends his titles against former light flyweight champion Jorge Arce (51-4-1, 39 KOs) on February 7th at The Pond, in Anaheim, California. In every which way you look at this fight, it seems like Arce, 29, has little chance at winning. Indeed, this [...]

By Manuel Perez: World Boxing Association featherweight Chris John (42-0-1, 22 KOs) will be defending his WBA title in a 12-round bout on February 28th against Rocky Juarez (28-4, 20 KOs) at the Toyota Center, in Houston, Texas. John, 29, is making a rare appearance out of his home country of Indonesia, is taking a [...]

By Dave Lahr: Former WBC lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo (56-9-1, 48 KOs), now fighting as a welterweight, will face James Wayka (16-7, 8 KOs) on January 17th in a scheduled 10-round bout at the Palenque del FEX, in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Castillo, 35, seems ill-suited for the welterweight division, both too small at [...]

By Manuel Perez: Former lightweight champion Juan Diaz (34-1, 17 KOs) will be making a step up in competition by facing Juan Manuel Marquez (49-4-1, 36 KOs) on February 28th at the Toyota Center, Houston, Texas. Diaz, 25, is looking to rack up his biggest win of his career against the 35-year-old Marquez, but in [...]