Archive for July, 2009

By Dave Lahr: Trainer Freddie Roach feels that his pupil WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) is “similar in many ways to a young Manny Pacquiao,” according to an article by writer Gareth Davies from the telegraph.co.uk. Roach points out that both Khan and Pacquiao have great speed, and mentions that Pacquiao [...]

By Chris Williams: With only two months to go before his fight with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (37-2, 36 KO’s), heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) has very little time to train for the fight and come up with the right strategy needed to get past the 6’7” Klitschko’s huge reach advantage. Haye, 28, [...]

By Sam Gregory: On Saturday August 1st, the brand-new, ‘The Show at Agua Caliente Casino, Resort and Spa’ in the desert community of Rancho Mirage, California will play host to an exciting twinbill of boxing featuring four of the most talented 140-pounders in the world on Showtime Championship Boxing. In the main event unbeaten Timothy [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Huge 6’9” Tyson Fury (7-0, 7 KO’s) will be taking a big step up on September 11th against John McDermott (25-5, 16 KO’s) in a scheduled bout for John’s BBBofC English heavyweight title at the National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace, in London. McDermott, 29, has lost his last two fights to Danny [...]

By William Mackay: World Boxing Council (WBC) super middleweight champion Carl Froch (25-0, 20 KO’s) will be facing a very confident opponent in former 2004 Olympic Bronze Medalist Andre Dirrell (18-0, 13 KO’s), who sees this fight as his “easiest fight.”

By Phil George: Floyd Mayweather Jr. could be underestimating Juan Manuel Marquez in his September 19th fight. Many people are writing off this durable Mexican fighter, making Mayweather the considerable favorite. Is this justifiable? Marquez has humbled Cuban Joel Casamayor and the “Baby Bull” Juan Diaz in his last two fights, which is proof enough [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Recently retired former WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) has a lot of sympathy for his former stable mate Enzo Maccarinelli (29-4, 22 KO’s) after watching Maccarinelli get destroyed in a 3rd round stoppage by Russian Denis Lebedev last weekend on the undercard of the Amir Khan vs. Andriy [...]

By Jason Kim: Unbeaten middleweight contender Daniel Jacobs (17-0, 15 KO’s) will be taking a major step up in competition by facing the crazy defensive wizard Ishe Smith (21-3, 9 KO’s) next month on August 22nd, in a 10-round bout at the Toyota Center, in Houston, Texas. Jacobs, 22, a former amateur star, has quickly [...]

By Manuel Perez: Even though Shane Mosley was willing to meet Manny Pacquiao at the lower catch weight of 140 compared to Miguel Cotto at 145, Pacquiao chose to fight Cotto instead. Mosley was willing to take a smaller revenue split as well, yet Pacquiao still chose to fight Cotto. So based on that, did [...]

By Nate Anderson: Former World Boxing Council (WBC) light welterweight champion Junior Witter (37-2-2, 22 KO’s) sees a fight with Amir Khan as being an easy one for him, predicting that he’d stop the 22-year-old Khan in the 3rd round when and if they ever fight each other, according to The Sun.

By Mike Burnell: Two of boxing’s supernovas are on a collision course creating the Perfect Storm…if things go “right.” Love them or hate them Pac v Mayweather would be a match of monumental, record setting proportions. What is right depends on who you favor. There is a chance of partial clearing by low pressure systems [...]

By Jason Kim: Former World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Samuel Peter (30-3, 23 KO’s) will be hoping to turn his sagging career around this Saturday night against journeyman Marcus McGee (22-16, 11 KO’s) in an eight round bout at the Grand Miyan, Nuevo Vallarta, in Nayarit, Mexico. Peter, 28, has lost his last two fights [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Thus far Amir Khan has yet to rehabilitate himself since losing a 1st round knockout at the hands of Breidis Prescott last September. Naturally, there hasn’t been a rematch with the Colombian Prescott, and I doubt there ever will. That would seem like the logical thing for Khan to do. It probably [...]

By Adam Fillingham: Scott Gilfoid will probably reply to this with a smug American article about if Tyson fought anybody from America, Fury would lose and lose badly. Lets say we stick him in the ring with American heavyweight sensation Orion Sistrunk (5-25-1, 1 KO’s). I would like to see the 34 year old Philadelphia [...]

By Liam Santiago: He has pretty much ruled out fighting Khan. He is very unlikely to ever get the chance to rematch Pacquiao or Mayweather. His punch resistance is on the slide, or has already disappeared. And the pounds are piling on and on for the Hitman. So, what are his choices? Fighting Khan? Fighting [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: With the potential fight against Ricky Hatton off the table after Ricky quashed those rumors by saying he wasn’t interested, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) has to find someone for his next opponent. Freddie Roach, Khan’s trainer, mentioned Erik Morales as a potential opponent a couple of weeks [...]

By Dave Lahr: The group 1 stage of the Showtime Super Six World Boxing Classic six-fighter tourney will start on October 17th, with WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (25-0, 20 KO’s) fighting challenger Andre Dirrell (18-0, 13 KO’s) in Nottingham, England. In a different location on the same date, former International Boxing Federation (IBF) [...]

By William Mackay: After an impressive 3rd round TKO defeat of Michal Lomax last Saturday night, British welterweight champion Kell Brook (20-0, 13 KO’s) is now aiming for former BBBofC welterweight champion Michael Jennings (35-2, 17 KO’s) next. A victory over the 31-year-old Jennings would be a good victory for Brook to add to his [...]

By Manuel Perez: Fresh off his 2nd round knockout over a badly shop worn Ricky Hatton in May, Manny Pacquiao decided to stay on course by selecting the battle scarred World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto to fight next on November 14th rather than risk fate by fighting Shane Mosley, the fighter perceived to [...]

By Chris Williams: Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) is being showered with praise since beating paper champion WBA light welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik last Saturday night by a 12 round unanimous decision at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester. Khan used his speed, movement and some good combinations to outclass the slower Kotelnik, who just looked [...]

By Nate Anderson: In spite of the fact that former World Boxing Organization cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (29-4, 22 KO’s) has taken out in three of his last four fights in the past year, he’s not ready to retire yet. Last Saturday night, Maccarinelli was stopped again, this time by Russian Denis Lebedev in a [...]

By Matt Stein: World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (37-2, 36 KO’s) is out to make David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) pay for his insults of him and his younger brother Wladimir Klitschko when Vitali faces Haye on September 12th in Frankfurt, Germany.

By Jason Kim: World Boxing Association light heavyweight champion Gabriel Campillo (18-2, 6 KOs) will be fighting undefeated contender Beibut Shumenov (8-0, 6 KOs) on August 15th at a still to be determined location in Kazakhstan. Shumenov, 25, fought for Kazakhstan in the 2004 Olympics, and has quickly risen up in the rankings since turning [...]

By William Mackay: Earlier today, Ricky Hatton took the air out of the possibility of him fighting World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan by saying “I don’t think I have to beat Amir to prove anything.” Although Hatton didn’t come right out and say so, his lack of interest in coming out and [...]

By Sean McDaniel: In what many boxing experts felt was going to be a closely contested fight between Commonwealth light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (17-0, 7 KO’s) and challenger Danny McIntosh (10-1, 4 KO’s) on Saturday night, turned out to be a huge mismatch with Cleverly knocking McIntosh down four times en route to stopping [...]

By Nate Anderson: Undefeated BBBofC British welterweight champion Kell Brook (20-0, 13 KO’s) defeated a badly over-matched Michael Lomax (15-2-1, 2 KO’s) by a 3rd round TKO in the 3rd round on Saturday night at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, England. Brook, 23, hurt Lomax with a hard left hand in the 3rd round and [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Middleweight contender Avtandil Khurtsidze (19-1-2, 12 KO’s) put on an impressive punching display in stopping Jamel Bahki (19-3-2, 5 KO’s) in a 5th round stoppage on Saturday night at the Sportpalace, in Odessa, Ukraine. Khurtsidze, 25, ranked number #4 in the World Boxing Association middleweight division, swarmed Bahki with punches from rounds [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: While it’s nice that Amir Khan’s chin was able to hold together long enough for him to beat World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik last weekend by a 12-round decision, let’s not get things twisted and make more out of what Khan accomplished that what he did. This was, after [...]

By Giancarlo Malinconico: Skybet.com is the first to list Manny Pacquiao as a 2-1 betting favorite over Miguel Cotto in their November 14 clash in Las Vegas. I will be the first to say, I am not stunned by the odds. Cotto will be the bigger man in this fight, but I think people tend [...]

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