Archive for April, 2009

By Jim Slattengren: Being unusually gifted for gab, David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) has done quite a job of promoting his June 20th bout with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (52-3, 46 KOs). In fact, Haye, 28, may have done too good of a job as he’s awoken a sleeping giant in Wladimir and angered [...]

By Jason Kim: Although former lightweight champion Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) seems to think that his power will be the key for him on May 2nd against the speedy Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, I’m wondering whether Ricky has a plan B to use if things [...]

By Chris Williams: I found it amusing to listen to lightweight contender Amir Khan’s excuses that he made on Steve Bunce’s Boxing Hour program, saying that he didn’t want to fight Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KOs) at this point because “I’m not at my peak yet.” I thought I was going to lose my [...]

Photo: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME – By Matt Stein: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (24-0, 19 KOs) is running into former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (28-2-1, 17 KOs) at exactly wrong time in his career. On Saturday night at the Foxwoods Resort Casino, in Mashantucket, Connecticut,, Froch, 31, will be facing a re-energized Taylor who [...]

By Dave Lahr: British heavyweight David Haye continued his never ending attacks on IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko today in their press conference in New York, calling Wladimir a “B-level champion” and saying that no one will remember Wladimir 20 years from now except for being the opponent who was knocked out by Haye. As [...]

By Jim Dower: Unbeaten middleweight contender John Duddy (26-0, 17 KOs) will be returning to action tomorrow night against the light hitting journeyman Billy Lyell (18-7, 3 KOs) in a scheduled 10-round bout at the Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey. Duddy, 29, is staying busy while he waits for an eventual title shot against [...]

By Jim Dower: Fresh off a 7th round stoppage over journeyman Walid Smichet last weekend, super middleweight Peter Manfredo Jr. (32-6, 17 KOs) is hoping to get a shot at unbeaten middleweight contender John Duddy (26-0, 17 KOs) in the near future. If possible, Manfredo, 28, would like to fight two or three more times [...]

By Sam Gregory: The April 24 edition of ShoBox: The New Generation will feature Cory Spinks, 36-5 (11) reunited with his long time trainer Kevin Cunningham; together they will take on the IBF No. 6 ranked contender Deandre “The Bull” Latimore, 19-1 (16) for the vacant IBF Jr middleweight title at Scottrade Center in St [...]

By Manuel Perez: According to Elnuevodia, Felix Trinidad (42-3, 35 KOs)and Bernard Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 KOs) may be fighting a rematch in November this year. According to the article, Trinidad met with promoter Don King about making the revenge match against the 44-year-old Hopkins in November. King said “We are going to make the revenge [...]

By Chris Williams: I’ve gone over this fight every which way that I can, but in the end all I can see is Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) getting knocked out by Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) on May 2nd at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. I think that Hatton, 30, isn’t in [...]

By William Mackay: With the Wladimir Klitschko (52-3, 46 KOs) and David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) about two months away, I think this is as good a time as any to discuss whether Wladimir is hurting the sport of boxing by continuously dull title defenses of his IBF/WBO heavyweight titles. Since winning the title in [...]

By Eric Thomas: ITV will be showing the Jermain Taylor vs. Carl Froch WBC super middleweight title fight, albeit in a delayed broadcast on Sunday night. The bout will be shown on ITV4 at 8:30 PM on Sunday, making it less than 24 hours after the fight takes place. Hopefully, this satisfies some of the [...]

By Jim Dower: In an article from The Sun, Joe Calzaghe chimes in on what World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (24-0, 19 KOs) needs to do to become a super star, saying all he has to do is first beat Jermain Taylor this Saturday night in the United States, and then “then [...]

By Gary Burns: Amir Khan has been handed a shot at WBA junior welterweight champ Andreas Kotelnik this summer but the backlash on Khan has been quite phenomenal. Boxing fans around the world have been quick to jump on Khans back saying he is taking an easy route to becoming a world champion.

By Manuel Perez: Yesterday, the tickets for Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton’s fight on May 2nd sold out. However, it’s a bad sign that it took this long for the tickets to sell out because in previous PPV bouts with Oscar De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Hatton, the tickets sold [...]

By Gary Burns: As the world awaits the biggest fight of the year when pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao takes on junior Welterweight king Ricky Hatton, we should look at both men and why this is such a significant fight for boxing. Both pugilists are coming into the fight on the back of career [...]

By Jim Dower: According to the Latimes, Roy Jones Jr. (53-5, 39 knockouts) has a verbal agreement to fight former International Boxing Federation (IBF) super middleweight champion Jeff Lacy (25-2, 17 KOs) in July. The bout apparently will be taking place in Florida, where both of them currently live. Neither Jones nor Lacy have looked [...]

By Manuel Perez: Okay, I’ve now seen episode #2 of the Pacquiao-Hatton 24/7 HBO special and it’s got to be some of the most boring footage I’ve ever seen in my life. I thought the De La Hoya-Pacquiao 24/7 special was boring, but this one has got a special place all for itself. A lot [...]

By Adam Fillingham: Unbeaten Light middleweight contender James Kirkland has been arrested on a wepons charge. The 25 year old who is on probation for a 2003 armed robbery that cost him 2½ years of his career, was arrested during a traffic stop in his hometown of Austin, Texas, and booked Sunday afternoon. He was [...]

By William Mackay: Yesterday at the London press conference, a stung looking Wladimir Klitschko tried to retaliate against David Haye’s verbal barbs by saying that “He [Haye] Will Have a Pizza Face After 12 rounds,” meaning that Wladimir intends on jabbing Haye over and over again for 12 long rounds before the Ukrainian attempts for [...]

By Chris Williams: In going through many of David Haye’s top fights, I couldn’t help but notice that Haye relies about completely on his right hand to do most of his damage to his opponents. Haye rarely throws any jabs with his left hand and mostly lets it dangles down by his side, as if [...]

By Eric Thomas: International Boxing Federation light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (27-0, 17 KOs) has a forced rematch with his number #1 challenger Antonio Tarver on May 9th at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is a fight that Dawson wasn’t interested in taking due to the one-sided nature of [...]

By Michael Payne: Over the last week there has been a lot of speculation that because of the problems with a lack of TV deal in the UK, Carl Froch (24-0, 19 KOs) could quit the UK completely & ply his trade in the USA after his fight with Jermain Taylor (28-2-1, 17 KOs) on [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I kind of feel sorry for WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (24-0, 19 KOs). Here he is about to travel all the way from merry ole England to fight one of the better super middleweights in the World in Jermain Taylor (28-2-1, 17 KOs) in the United States, and his home [...]

By Dave Lahr: For the past couple of months former cruiserweight champion David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) has had his way with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (52-3, 46 KOs), taking advantage of his poor English skills as well his in ability to deal with any kind of minor trash talking. In the last week, [...]

By Erik Schmidt: According to European news correspondent Per Ake Persson, Alexander Povetkin won’t be fighting Alexander Dimitrenko for the vacant European Boxing Union heavyweight title. Apparently, there wasn’t a TV date before August 29, so now Dimitrenko is looking at facing the next highest rated fighter in the division which turns out to be [...]

By Adam Fillingham: With less than two weeks left until the light welterweight showdown between Ricky ‘The hitman’ Hatton and Manny ‘pacman’ Pacquiao at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, I wanted to take a look at the two fighters attributes. Power

By Eric Thomas: Right about now I imagine that IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko wishes he had never agreed to fight David Haye. In the press conference today in London, Haye unleashed a storm of insults towards Wladimir and once again getting under the Ukrainian’s skin by questioning his manhood like in last week’s press [...]

By Matt Stein: UFC Middleweight champion Anderson Silva (24-4, 14 KOs) put on a defensive clinic on Saturday night defeating his Brazilian challenger Thales Leites (14-2, 2 KOs) by an easy 5-round unanimous decision in Montreal, Canada. The scores were kind of odd with the judges’ scoring it 49-46, 48-47 and 50-46. How Leites could [...]

By Jim Slattengren: Ever since Paul Williams (37-1, 27 KOs) defeated Winky Wright by a one-sided 12-round decision a week ago, a lot of boxing fans are already predicting that Williams will win titles in the middleweight and super middleweight divisions before long. I’m not so sure, though. I think Williams is good enough to [...]