Archive for August, 2009

By Dave Lahr: On September 19th, I’m wondering which Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KO’s) will show up – sharp shooting welterweight or the painfully boring safety first runner. If history is any guide, we’ll be seeing Mayweather at his worse as he bores the pay-per-view audience to tears by avoiding any meaningful exchanges with [...]

By Liam Santiago: Like most British boxing fans, I have been totally disgraced to find one bout screened on British television over the last month or two. With Setanta going bust and ITV refusing to screen any more boxing ; we are in a tricky situation. What we do see usually is not free. However, [...]

By Manuel Perez: Nonito Donaire (22-1, 14 KO’s) is planning on moving up in weight after defeating Rafael Concepcion (13-4-1, 8 KO’s) on August 15th by a 12-round decision to capture the interim WBA World super flyweight title, according to the GMA News. Well, I wouldn’t advise Donaire to even consider moving up in weight [...]

By Steven Wain: Everyone saw last week when Lacy was destroyed by ring legend Roy Jones JR proving once again that Lacy can’t mix it with the big boys. The fight was so one sided, for 10 rounds Lacy just had his ass handed to him and got taught a boxing lesson from a boxing [...]

By Adam Fillingham: Ring legend Roy Jones Jr. put on a fanatical performance against a past his best Jeff Lacy last weekend. Jones pulled it out of the bag and for me won every round against the 32 year old. This is all well and good but where does he go from here. A fight [...]

By Nate Anderson: A slightly chunky looking Ricky Hatton met the great Muhammad Ali earlier today at Hatton’s gym in Manchester, England. There were swarms of fans of both Ali and Hatton that came over to witness the event and get a glimpse of Ali. As soon as the sixty-seven-year-old Ali emerged out of his [...]

By Chris Williams: It looks as if the loud talking British cruiserweight turned heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) has dodged a bullet after two time World Boxing Association heavyweight champion John Ruiz has reportedly agreed to step aside and let Haye go ahead and fight WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-1, 34 KO’s) on [...]

By Steven Wain: Fighting on the same bill as Clinton Woods VS Tavoris Cloud, will be former Ricky Hatton opponent Juan “Iron Twin” Urango (21-2-16 KO’s) who will take on hard hitting Randall “The Knock-Out King” Bailey (39-6-35 KO’s) for the International Boxing Federation light welterweight title.

By Chris Williams: If you’re like a lot of boxing fans, you’re wondering what is taking Ricky Hatton so long to make a decision about his career. It seems pretty cut and dried to me. He either wants to retire and walk away from countless millions or he decides to keep fighting and make big [...]

By Erik Schmidt: German promoter Ahmet Öner of Arena Box was shot earlier tonight in Germany by a still at large gunman, in Hamburg, Germany. Öner was shot in the thigh as he was trying to get into his automobile. There were two men who were hiding by his vehicle, and both took shots at [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Tomasz Adamek (38-1, 26 KO’s) and former heavyweight contender Andrew Golota (41-7-1, 33 KO) will be fighting on October 24th, in Lodz, Poland. The fight has no real relevance other than giving the two fighters a good payday.

By Jim Dower: Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KO’s) expressed concern with the speed of unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KO’s) in an conference call today, saying “Mayweather is coming with a lot of speed and that is always difficult to deal with.”

(Picture: SE) By Erik Schmidt: Number #2 ranked World Boxing Organization cruiserweight contender Marco Huck (25-1, 20 KOs) will be fighting WBO cruiserweight champion Victor Emilio Ramirez (15-1, 12 KOs) this Saturday night for the title at Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Huck, 24, will be fighting for a world title for [...]

By Tom Stokes: Freddy Roach gave a little insight into Manny Pacquiao’s (49-3, 37 KO’s) game plan for his super fight with Miguel Cotto (34-1, 27 KO’s), explaining that he wanted to keep Pacquiao moving in and out so he doesn’t take a lot of punishment from Cotto, but is that game plan going to [...]

By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. considers himself the number #1 fighter in boxing, even after two years away from the sport. He feels that he should still be considered tops despite not having thrown a punch in two years. It seems as if it doesn’t register with him that when a fighter has been [...]

By Manuel Perez: Heavyweight David Haye may find himself without an opponent on November 7th, according to the latest boxing news around the world. It seems that former two-time World Boxing Association heavyweight champion John Ruiz, the mandatory challenger to the WBA heavyweight crown, isn’t going to stand by idly and allow the WBA heavyweight [...]

By Dave Lahr: Welterweight contender Kell Brook (20-0, 13 KO’s) is interested in a fight with WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. First things first, however. Brook, 23, has a October 30th bout against Michael Jennings at the Echo Arena, in Liverpool.

By Steven Wain: On October 2nd at Bethnal Green’s York Hall the Prizefighter competition is once again on the bill featuring the heavyweights for a 3rd time. With one current British champion, three former British champions a gold medalist and 2 unbeaten boxers taking part, this could be the best Prizefighter yet. (For anyone who [...]

By Harlan Davies: The WBC Super-middle champion Carl Froch (25 wins 20 kos) is set lock horns with the unbeaten Andre Dirrell (18 wins 13 kos) on the 17th October in Froch’s hometown of Nottingham. The pre-fight hype and verbal sparring between the two has already commenced and the outcome remains wide open opinion-wise. Their [...]

By Eric Thomas: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions wants Juan Diaz to fight Ricky Hatton, according to the boxing news site Fight Hype. While Diaz, 25, was being interviewed after last Saturday night’s fight by Max Kellerman, De La Hoya whispered in Diaz’s ear, telling Diaz to mention Hatton’s name to Kellerman [...]

By Jim Dower: For what it’s worth, the August 1st bout between World Boxing Organization light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley and Nate Campbell has been ruled a no contest by the California State Athletic commission today. The ruling was the result of an injury that occurred to Campbell during a head clash with Bradley in [...]

By Eric Thomas: Never-mind that Juan Diaz (35-2, 17 KO’s) was given what many boxing fans consider to be a gift decision by the hometown judges over visiting Paulie Malingaggi last Saturday night, in Houston, Texas. What really concerns me is how shot Diaz looked as a fighter.

On The Ropes Boxing Radio will have an Exclusive Interview with Ring Magazine Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko talking about his career and whats next for him in the ring. On The Ropes will also be discussing the past weeks fight and all the boxing news and upcoming fights for next weekend.

By Chris Williams: On November 7th, former WBA/WBC/WBO cruiserweight champion David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) will be facing a fighter over 100 pounds heavier than him and almost one foot taller 7’0” World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-1, 34 KO’s) in Germany. By that time, Haye, 28, will have been out of the [...]

By Jim Dower: In a sign of how far Golden Boy Promotions is willing to go to try and make a buck of the September 19th fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Floyd Mayweather Jr., the CEO of Golden Boy, Richard Schaefer, said that the Marquez-Mayweather event will be shown in 170 movie theaters around [...]

By Bernard O’Neill: World amateur boxing chiefs AIBA have unveiled their first every official World rankings. The lists are compiled according to performances and points accumulated at ranking events, namely the Olympics, World Championships, World Youth Championships, Olympic Qualifiers and Confederation Championships.

By Chris Williams: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) needs an opponent for his next fight, which Khan would like to take place in the United States so that he could raise his image there. Khan needed look any further than former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi, whose stock has increased [...]

By Adam Wells: Maybe the best thing to come from this upcoming bout with Floyd Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez would be a defeat to Floyd Mayweather. No not to dent the huge ego and not for the glory of his opponent but for us fight fans to finally see the best of Pretty Boy. [...]

By Steven Wain: Jon “Jono” Thaxton (34-10-19 KO’s) will have his career on the line in a 12 round contest when he takes on Manchester’s John Murray (27-0-15 KO’s) for the vacant British lightweight title. The fight will take place on October 3rd at the Leisure Centre, Altrincham, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

By Sean McDaniel: According to the latest boxing news, Irish middleweight contenders Andy Lee and John Duddy could be fighting on November 28th in Ireland. Promoter Brian Peters is trying to make it happen and will be looking to make it a 50-50 deal between the two middleweights.