Archive for April, 2009

By Eric Thomas: According to the Dailymail.co.uk, heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) has apparently been warned by the British Boxing Board of Control about his t-shirt that he had made showing him holding the decapitated heads of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and his brother WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko.

By Sean McDaniel: As reported earlier today by boxing scribe Dan Rafael, Bernard Hopkins is looking at a possible fight with WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch in July. As the story goes, it seems that Froch’s promoter Mick Hennessy is also interested in his fighter taking on Hopkins, 44, probably knowing that if the [...]

By Matt Stein: This Saturday night, 30-year-old Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) finds himself in perhaps the biggest fight of his career in facing Filipino star Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas. This is a fight that due to Hatton’s age, and his own personal three fight time line [...]

By Michael Lieberman: We are now only two days away from the huge mega clash between Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs and Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs), and it’s looking more and more like Pacquiao is going to wipe the canvas with the limited Hatton and turn him into his 37th knockout victim. For me, [...]

By Dave Lahr: Well, you can add Edison Miranda (32-3, 28 KOs) to the long list of fighters that are interested in fighting WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch. Miranda is so interested, in fact, that he’s invited Froch to come watch his fight with Andre Ward next month on May 16th at the Oracle [...]

By Chris Williams: Supposedly there’s some problems between Ricky Hatton and his trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr., at least that’s what Yahoo writer Kevin Iole is reporting. Iole mentions something to the effect that there are rumors that Hatton isn’t getting along with his trainer Mayweather Sr. and is possibly looking at being trained by Freddie [...]

By Chris Williams: Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) takes his so called new style of fighting into this Saturday night’s bout with Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas. Hatton has said over and over again until he’s blue in the face that he’s a different fighter than he used to be in [...]

By Dave Lahr: With not a whole of options in front of him other than going after some tough fighters like Chad Dawson and Mikkel Kessler, Bernard Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 KOs) is apparently interested in fighting WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch. Dan Rafael of ESPN is reporting that he spoke to Golden Boy CEO [...]

By Jim Dower: Today on Steve Bunce’s Boxing Hour show, WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (25-0, 20 KOs) said that he’d be willing to fight World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (41-1, 31 KOs) next, even if it meant that Froch would have to travel all the way to Denmark in order [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins is picking Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) to beat Manny Pacquiao this Saturday night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hopkins, 44, had previously chosen Pacquiao to beat Hatton. However, Hopkins made an about face in a recent interview with Sky Sports, saying that if [...]

By Manuel Perez: According to Dan Rafael at ESPN, HBO is interested in putting together a match between International Boxing Federation light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson and 44-year-old Bernard Hopkins. It seems that HBO doesn’t have any interest in showing a bout between light heavyweight contender 40-year-old Glen Johnson and IBF cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek. [...]

By Michael Lieberman: There’s only three more days left before Ricky Hatton and Manny Pacquiao meet up in the ring on Saturday night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The closer we get to D-day, the more boxing fans and writers seem to be jumping off the Hatton ship and putting their money [...]

By Enrique Sanchez: Carl Froch has divided popular opinion and also many boxing fans and critics alike, with his calling-out of Welshman Joe Calzaghe recently after his sensational last-gasp TKO victory over Jermain ‘Bad Intentions’ Taylor at the weekend. But some disgruntled fans of unbeaten Calzaghe, feel that he is not qualified to call out [...]

By Chris Williams: Thus far, Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) has been badly beaten when he stepped it up against a prime opponent in Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a 10th round TKO loss in December 2007.

By Sean McDaniel: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (28-3-1, 17 KOs) gave it his all last Saturday night against WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (25-0, 20 KOs), but in the end, Taylor once again ran out of energy and was knocked out in the 12th. The question now is whether Taylor should retire [...]

By Eric Thomas: In an interview with the BBC Sport, Joe Calzaghe is choosing Ricky Hatton to beat Manny Pacquiao this Saturday at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, saying “It’s going to be a very tough fight for Ricky, but he’s got a better chance of beating Manny than Floyd Mayweather Jr.” It’s kind [...]

By Dave Lahr: Although listed as 6’3” 215, David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) looks positively tiny compared to the 6’7” 245 pound WBC/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (52-3, 46 KOs). The two will be fighting on June 20th, in the Veltins Arena, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Haye has been loud in promoting the fight, enjoying angering [...]

By Chris Williams: In looking back at World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s performance against Jermain Taylor last Saturday night, I’d have to say that Froch probably failed miserably in gaining any new American or British boxing fans despite his come from behind 12th round TKO win over Taylor. The performance was fatally [...]

By Manuel Perez: Just when I thought the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton 24/7 series couldn’t have gotten worse, I had to watch another dull installment, episode #3, which aired last Saturday night. It seemed that that the HBO film crew were to desperate for footage, they actually wasted time in filming Hatton, Mayweather Sr. and their [...]

By Jack Herbert: Approximately 11ET on May 2nd, Ricky Hatton and Manny Pacquiao will be facing each other in the centre of the ring in the MGM grand in Las Vegas in without doubt the most exciting fight of the year. Unfortunately in our sport of boxing, the sport I love so much the hype [...]

By Jim Dower: After watching World Boxing Association middleweight champion beat yet another weak opponent in Koji Sato by a 7th round stoppage victory last Saturday night in Germany, I’m now almost entirely fed up with Sturm as a fighter and I’m wanting him to lose his title so that we can get a middleweight [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I think it’s safe to say that WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch proved exactly nothing in beating Jermain Taylor in 12th round TKO with 14 seconds left in the fight. It’s funny how many of Froch’s fans were all over him after the fight, making it out as if Froch had [...]

By Jim Dower: The World Boxing Council has stripped unbeaten WBC light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (24-0, 11 KOs) for reportedly not facing his WBC number #1 ranked challenger Devon Alexander. However, Bradley, 25, sent in an e-mail earlier today to the WBC, telling them that he’s vacating the WBC title because the WBC was [...]

By Inder Sirha: With all do respects to the undefeated Carl Froch, who I have followed and watched his fights up and coming into the boxing world before his first test with Pascal, his surprising comeback victory over Jermaine Taylor just lacked a display of talent. I just truly believe if he were to fight [...]

By Manuel Perez: I’ve gone over all the variables on this Saturday night’s fight between Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) and Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and I can’t see how Hatton can lose this fight. Hatton has the size, power and boxing skills advantage in this [...]

By Eric Thomas: It was expected that former World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe wouldn’t be interested in fighting WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch, and now it’s academic after Calzaghe came publicly yesterday and said that he will not be coming out of retirement to fight Froch. For many people in the [...]

By Nate Anderson: I learned several things in watching welterweight Jamie Cox (11-0, 7 KOs) defeat former ‘Prizefighter’ Mark Lloyd (12-3, 3 KOs) by an 8th round stoppage on Friday night at the Civic Centre, in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. To start with, I don’t think Cox is nearly ready to fight Kell Brook. Cox, 22, [...]

By Jim Dower: Super middleweight contender Allan Green (28-1, 20 KOs) destroyed hard hitting Carlos De Leon Jr. (21-3-2, 14 KOs) in the 2nd round of a scheduled 10-round bout on the undercard of the World Boxing Council super middleweight title bout between champion Carl Froch vs. Jermain Taylor on Saturday night at the Foxwoods [...]

By Nate Anderson: British light middleweight Ryan Rhodes (42-4, 28 KOs) had an easy time beating a badly outclassed Hungarian journeyman Janos Petrovics (16-24, 8 KOs) by a 7th round stoppage on Saturday night at the Ulster Hall, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Rhodes, 32, knocked Petrovic down with a left to the body in the [...]

By Dave Lahr: Undefeated light welterweight contender Devon Alexander (18-0, 11 KOs) defeated Jesus Rodriguez (19-4, 5 KOs) by a 9th round TKO on Friday night on the undercard of the Cory Spinks vs. Latimore bout at the Scottrade Center, in Saint Louis, Missouri. Alexander, 22, knocked Rodriguez down with a right-left combination at the [...]