Archive for July, 2009

By Chris Maylett: At least two things stand in the way of a potential meeting between Ricky Hatton and Amir Khan. Firstly Khan must over come WBA Champion Andreas Kotelnik on 18th July and Ricky Hatton must over come his demons and decide if he wants to finish his great career with a loss?

By Mike Burnell: Welterweight kingpin Manny Pacquiao. With power that belies his frame his has hacked a bloody swath through a proverbial jungle of opponents covering a 24 pound span and 9 weight classes. He has collected titles in 5 of those 9 divisions from ‘mainstream’ sanctioning bodies, 6 if you include the IBO Light [...]

Photo courtesy of Pavel Terekhov – By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news gossip, light heavyweight contender Roy Jones Jr. is reportedly interested in facing one of the Klitschko brothers in the near future. Jones, 40, has a fight against Jeff Lacy next month on August 15th, but after that it’s anyone’s guess [...]

By Jim Dower: Undefeated heavyweight contender Kevin Johnson (22-0-1, 9 KO’s) will be taking a risky fight against unbeaten former 2004 heavyweight Gold Medal winner Odlanier Solis (14-0, 10 KO’s) on August 15th at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Johnson, 29, is ranked number #4 in the WBA, #7 WBC [...]

By Jason Kim: World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (25-0, 20 KO’s) has an elective defense of his title coming up and instead of taking on one of the easier contenders in the WBC, which is pretty much what all champions do unfortunately, the 31-year-old Froch is shooting for a unification bout against [...]

By Adam Laiolo: World football has FIFA, Formula One Motorsports has the FIA, Basketball has FIBA all providing the order and management of their sports. From grass roots to the top, the athletes in their respective fields know that they can look up and know they’re taken care of. Boxing has Jose Sulaiman of WBC [...]

By Pedro Reyna: Boxing was once the #1 sport in America. Much has changed since those days. Many on this website have discussed why is it that boxing is falling while UFC (and other MMA leagues) are rising. There are several reasons why boxing is falling apart, however, the fans have every resource to make [...]

By Liam Santiago: Freddie Roach, trainer of Amir Khan (20-1, 15ko’s), has said that he would like to see Khan fight Erik Morales (48-6, 34ko’s) if he beats Kotelnik this month. This idea brings us back to when the Barrera fight was announced. Many similarities, only Morales is a step down in class from Barrera, [...]

Photo courtesy of Pavel Terekhov – By Eric Torres: As a true fan of boxing I have come to realize that we are indeed facing a crisis in the heavyweight division, which was at one point a staple in the sport. We have seen the balance of power in boxing shift to the welterweight division [...]

By Adam Laiolo: Our star is on the wane, whether we like it or not. Our sport is in grave danger of disappearing into obscurity. With UK firm Setanta going into administration, ESPN Wednesday Night Fights being pulled and rumors of HBO having trouble paying out for the biggest fights, boxing needs an injection of [...]

By Bal Kang: This was a great time for boxing in Panama; I can recall when I first watched some of Duran’s fights on video especially when he fought at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama in Panama City. Although most of these fights took place before I was even born, it was destiny, this was for [...]

By Dave Lahr: Perhaps it was fate that David Haye would move up from the cruiserweight division to fight Vitali Klitschko. After all, Haye got very little attention aside from the British press while briefly holding down three of the cruiserweight titles between 2007 and 2008.

By Dave Lahr: With Eddie Chambers decisive 12-round unanimous decision victory over number #1 ranked WBO heavyweight contender, Chambers solved the last piece of the puzzle for who will be IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s WBO mandatory challenger in early 2010. Klitschko, 33, now has Alexander Povetkin ahead of him later on this year for [...]

By Chris Williams: With only two weeks to go before his huge match-up against World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik on July 18th at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester, Amir Khan (20-1, 15 KO’s) predicts great things ahead of him if he can beat Kotelnik, and thinks that he can be the next [...]

By Pedro Reyna: A sports award event took place today and was aired on the spanish channel, Univision. The event was sponsored by Tecate and Univision. In the house, Oscar De La Hoya, Julio Cesar Chavez, and Roberto Duran were all present. Julio Cesar Chavez received a legendary award, while Roberto Duran received a similar [...]

By Erik Schmidt: In one of the worst decisions I’ve seen in quite some time, WIBF Women’s International Boxing Federation and Global Boxing Union Female super flyweight champion Alesia Graf (24-1, 9 KO’s) defeated American Terri Lynn Cruz (17-6-2, 8 KO’s) by a 10-round split decision on Saturday night at the Color Line Arena, in [...]

By Erik Schmidt: World Boxing Association/WIBF female flyweight champion Susi Kentikian (25-0, 16 KO’s) easily defended her titles on Saturday night beating yet another over-matched opponent in Argentinean opponent Carolina Marcela Gutierrez Gaite (15-2, 11 KO’s) by a lopsided 10-round unanimous decision at the Color Line Arena, in Hamburg, Germany. The final judges’ scores were [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) couldn’t have picked a better time for him to retire from the sport just when Showtime has started kicking the idea around for a super middleweight tournament for the division to determine who the best fighter is.

By Chris Williams Count me in as the lone voice of reason as far as heavyweight Eddie Chambers’ (35-1, 18 KO’s) 12-round majority decision victory over World Boxing Organization heavyweight contender Alexander Dimitrenko (29-1, 19 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Color Line Arena, in Hamburg, Germany. It’s good for Chambers to get the victory; [...]

By Manuel Perez: If Miguel Cotto wants to make the fight with Manny Pacquiao, he’s going to have to probably settle for a deal of 30 to 35% of the purse slit with Pacquiao taking 65 to 70%. Besides that, Cotto is also going to have likely agree to a catch weight of less than [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: With the latest news about Carl Froch taking part in the planned upcoming super middleweight tourney by Showtime, I don’t like Froch’s chances in the tournament for any of success. In fact, I see Froch getting beaten by every opponent that he’s put in there with aside from Jermain Taylor. Froch, 31, [...]

By Jason Kim: A number of super middleweights will be getting a huge chance to prove themselves in a prospective super middleweight tournament that Showtime, the U.S. cable network, is in the planning stages to get up involving the best fighters in the division such as Mikkel Kessler, Carl Froch, Arthur Abraham, Andre Ward, Jermain [...]

By William Mackay: Trainer Freddie Roach believes that Ricky Hatton will be looking to line up a fight with Amir Khan (20-1, 15 KO’s) next if Amir defeats World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik (31-2, 13 KO’s) in their July 18th fight, according to Sky Sports.

By Jim Dower: Former 2004 Russian Olympian Alexander Alekseev (18-1, 16 KO’s) defeated American journeyman Kendrick Releford (20-13-2, 10 KO’s) by a 3rd round TKO on Saturday night at the Color Line Arena, in Hamburg, Germany. The fight was stopped after the 3rd round due to a cut over the left eye of Releford, which [...]

By Giancarlo Malinconico: The media tends to praise “punchers” because they are in exciting fights and attract mainstream attention to the sport of boxing such as Mike Tyson did in his day. But many of these punchers are just the proverbial “flash in the pans,” or their star burns out very quickly. Moreover, most of [...]

By Erik Thomas: British heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) is saying that a fight against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is close and feels convinced that the fight will be signed and he be fighting the older Klitschko brother on September 12th. This is good news for fans of Haye, who will finally get [...]

By Jim Dower: Heavyweight Eddie Chambers (35-1, 18 KO’s) put himself into the driver’s seat for a shot at IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko with a 12-round unanimous decision over Alexander Dimitrenko (29-1, 19 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Color Line Arena, in Hamburg, Germany. Chambers came on after the 5th round dominating the [...]

By Steven Pink: It is the uniquely paradoxical nature of boxing that very often the sport’s most skilled practitioners draw the ire and criticism of fans as readily as garnering admiration. Boxing’s iconoclasts from Muhammad Ali to Floyd Mayweather are derided for their idiosyncratic approach to the sport as often as they draw plaudits for [...]

By David Lahr: According to the German Bild Daily, Vitali Klitschko and David Haye will be fighting on September 12th on HBO in one of the German cities of Gelsenkirchen, Frankfurt or Düsseldorf, all of which have large stadiums that will be able to accommodate crowds of up to 60,000 boxing fans. Haye, 28, missed [...]

By Nate Anderson: Making his fourth defense of his World Boxing Association (WBA) bantamweight title, Anselmo Moreno (26-1-1, 8 KO’s) defeated his French challenger Mahyar Monshipour (31-4-2, 21 KO’s) by a 12-round split decision on Saturday night at the Par des expositions, Poitiers, in Vienne, France. The final judges’ scores were 115-113 for Monshipour, 116-113 [...]