Archive for May, 2009

By Dave Lahr: Since the economy took a recent nosedive not too long ago it seems that the cable networks have been trying harder to get the most value for their dollar, refusing to show fighters that don’t entertain and give boxing fans their money’s worth.

By Nate Anderson: Heavyweight Tyson Fury (6-0, 6 KOs) put on an impressive punching display on Saturday night, stopping 6’7” Scott Belshaw in the 2nd round at the Colosseum, in Watford, Hertfordshire. In the process of beating Belshaw, Fury dropped him twice in the 1st round from powerful body shots.

By Manuel Perez: Although nothing has yet to be said about who Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent will be, you can bet that it won’t be dangerous fighters like Miguel Cotto or Shane Mosley. There’s no way that Bob Arum is going to let Pacquiao be out in with such risky fighters like these when there’s [...]

By Chris Williams: In looking at how David Haye has come across as supremely confident about being able to knockout a “boring” IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, I’m wondering what Haye’s behavior will be like if he’s beaten by Wladimir? I don’t know why but I get the sense that Haye is the type that [...]

By Jim Dower: WBA featherweight champion Chris John (42-0-1, 22 KOs) will be facing Rocky Juarez (28-4-1, 20 KOs) in a much needed rematch next month on June 27th. This time, the bout will take place on neutral territory at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Their previous fight in February 2009 ended up [...]

By Sean McDaniel: It’s disappointing how far middleweight Andy Lee’s star has faded since his 7th round stoppage loss to Brian Vera last year. In that fight, Lee had Vera hurt early in the fight but was unable to finish him off. Vera then stuck around and began to batter the tall, slender 6’2” Lee [...]

By Jason Kim: Recently, I was kind of stunned to see Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs) trying to argue his case as to why he should still be the number #1 pound-for-pound boxing star in the sport despite having been out of the sport for two years. Mayweather, 32, was coming at it from [...]

By Manuel Perez: I don’t care if we never see Manny Pacquiao face Shane Mosley, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Miguel Cotto if it means that these fighters have to meet Pacquiao at a catch weight. Forget that, if it was me I would tell Pacquiao I’d say no way, I’m not going to do it [...]

By Jim Slattengren: In Saturday night’s UFC 98 main event, undefeated Lyoto Machida (15-0) took out previously unbeaten Rashad Evans (18-1-1) in the 2nd round to capture the Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight title at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Machida, 30, who specializes in Karate, completely dominated Evans, 29, knocking him cold in the [...]

By Sam Gregory: On May 30th at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida former welterweight contender Kermit Cintron will make yet another attempt to set himself a place back in the rankings by taking on undefeated Jr middleweight challenger Alfredo Angulo.

By Eric Thomas: Former WBO heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster (35-4, 30 KOs) is slowly trying to work his way back into title contention after losing his World Boxing Organization heavyweight title two years ago in a close 12 round decision loss to Sergey Lyakhovich on April 1st, 2006. Next Saturday night on May 30th, Brewster, [...]

By William Mackay: Lately in the past week, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been taking credit for supposedly ruining Hatton as a fighter by knocking him out in the 10th round in their December 2007 bout. While Hatton did end up getting knocked out in the fight, it wasn’t anything close to being a particularly nasty [...]

By Manuel Perez: Up until now, Manny Pacquiao’s trainer has done a great job of making it seem as if it’s Floyd Mayweather Jr., who’s the one that will ultimately make it difficult for a future Pacquiao vs. Mayweather bout to take place.

By Jim Dower: Former WBC champion Junior Witter will be facing number #1 contender Devon Alexander for the vacant World Boxing Council light welterweight title on July 11th. The two sides have come to an agreement to fight for the vacant title that was recently stripped from champion Timothy Bradley on April 28th.

By Jason Kim: Since Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced that he was coming back and fighting Juan Manuel Marquez boxing fans have had to listen to Mayweather brag endlessly about how he’s still the number #1 star, and how he’ll never let a small man beat him. Yet Mayweather has no answers for why he didn’t [...]

By Dave Lahr: Undefeated heavyweight contender Chris Arreola (27-0, 24 KOs) has been a disappointment to some people who were originally impressed upon seeing a relatively slim 239 pound Arreola stop contender Chazz Witherspoon in the 3rd round last year in June 2008.

By Chris Williams: Heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) has once again claimed that he’ll be soon hanging up the boxing gloves, saying to News of the World that he plans on fighting four times – including two fights against the Klitschko brothers that Haye is confident that he’ll win – and then Haye will [...]

By Eric Thomas: Welterweight champion Shane Mosley was interviewed on Friday night fights by Brian Kenny, and Mosley didn’t seem happy with Floyd Mayweather’s excuses for not fighting him, saying “Floyd, quit running. Stop saying I’m not a pay per view attraction. I’ve been making money longer than you. That’s probably why you came back [...]

By Matt Stein: If Ricky Hatton plans on fighting only one more time before he retires, I’m really hoping he selects Amir Khan as his next opponent. All the other fighters that I can see Hatton being matched up at this point is rather dull and dreary, because Ricky is probably going to be put [...]

By Jason Kim: Super bantamweight Rafael Marquez (38-5, 34 KOs) stopped Jose Francisco Mendoza (21-3-2, 17 KOs) in the 3rd round tonight at the Arena Monterrey, in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Marquez, 34, landed a crushing right hand in the 3rd round that sent Mendoza down on the canvas. The fight was then stopped at 2:26 [...]

By Daniel Cann: The Commonwealth Middleweight Champion Harrow’s ‘Dazzling’ Darren Barker had to see off the challenge of worthy opponent Darren McDermott of Dudley the self-styled ‘Black Country Body Snatcher’ to secure a big match with British Middleweight Champion Matthew Macklin.

By Daniel Cann: The Tyson Fury road show continued as the 20 year old outspoken prospect showed maturity, professionalism and great sportsmanship in dispatching brave but limited opponent Scott Belshaw in two one-sided rounds.

By Daniel Cann: In an interesting middleweight competition on the undercard of the Barker v McDermott title fight, friends and sparring partners Bermondsey’s Matt Thirlwall fought George Hillyard in a scheduled ten rounder. 28 year old Thirlwall was hoping to secure a lucrative match with either the winner of the Commonwealth bout later that night [...]

By Jim Dower: Undefeated light middleweight prospect Erislandy Lara (6-0, 4 KOs) defeated 37-year-old journeyman Edwin Vazquez (22-14-2) by a 4th round knockout tonight at the Fontainbleau Hotel, in Miami Beach, Florida. Lara, 26, a former Cuban amateur star who defected, opened up with a storm of shots in the 4th to cause the referee [...]

By Jim Dower: Former two-time Cuban Olympic Gold Medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux (1-0, 1 KOs) stopped Juan Noriega (3-4) in the 3rd round. Rigondeaux, who twice won Olympic Gold Medals during his amateur career with Cuba, knocked Noriega once in the opening seconds of the 1st round and then went to pound Noriega unceasingly until the [...]

By Nate Anderson: Undefeated British heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury (6-0, 6 KOs) recorded his 6th straight knockout with a 2nd round TKO over Scott Belshaw (10-2, 7 KOs) on Saturday night at the Colosseum, in Watford, Hertfordshire. Fury, 20, dropped the badly over matched Belshaw twice in the 1st round with powerful body shots.

By Amilcar Barnett: Boxers, even world champion boxers don’t often travel from Mexico to London to announce fights taking place in Las Vegas, but that is precisely what Juan Manuel ‘Dinamita’ (Dinamite) Marquez, the world lightweight champion did this week to announce his upcoming fight with the recently un-retired Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather.

By Steven Pink: On the verge of challenging for his first world title in June Amir Khan finds himself standing at something of a stylistic crossroads. The carefree seventeen year old who captured the hearts of a nation at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the streaking prospect who raced to eighteen straight professional wins was [...]

By Nate Anderson: Undefeated light heavyweight Commonwealth champion Nathan Cleverly (16-0, 6 KOs) made short work of challenger Billy Boyle (12-2, 7 KOs) tonight, destroying him in a 2nd round knockout at the York Hall. Making his 3rd defense of his Commonwealth title Cleverly overwhelmed a badly overmatched Boyle with a flurry of power punches [...]

By Sam Gregory: In the main event Richard Gutierrez took on Antwone Smith in a scheduled 10 round bout in the welterweight division.