Archive for August, 2009

By Sean Campbell: Anyone who saw the Paulie Malignaggi/Juan Diaz fight enjoyed a good, close, competitive bout, with Paulie giving the best performance of his career. But what one of the judges saw was a good, competitive fight, but not a close one. Gale Van Hoy bizarrely scored the bout 118-110 in favour of Diaz. [...]

By Steven Wain: The following article is not a usual boxing article; this is my rant about boxing not being given enough coverage in Britain. In Britain very few boxing fights are actually aired on live TV compared to varies other countries.

By Dave Lahr: If anything was proved last night in Juan Diaz’s bitterly contested 12-round decision victory over Paulie Malignaggi, it’s that Ricky Hatton would probably have a great chance of beating Diaz if they were to fight. Diaz, 25, a fighter known for his high work rate, narrowly defeated Malignaggi by a narrow decision [...]

By Liam Santiago: Former Olympic Gold Medallist, Audley Harrison, has said on his official website that he wants to challenge fellow heavyweight, David Haye, to an all British show down. Harrison dared Haye to ‘send him into retirement’, although Harrison sounds very confident that he could be victorious. The pair used to be close friends [...]

By Liam Santiago: Haroon Khan, brother of World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan, was out classed on a huge margin in the first round of the Amateur European Championships. Khan lost the bout on points, 10-2, to Russian Radimar Abdurahmanov. Of course, it is too early to write the 18 year old Bolton [...]

By Matt Stein: Former World Boxing Council heavyweight champion of the world Oliver McCall (53-9, 37 KO’s) defeated Franklin Lawrence (12-2-2, 7 KO’s) by a 10-round unanimous decision on Friday night at the Orleans Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Tom Stokes: Defeat to Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4, 37 KO’s) is probably the last thing on Floyd Mayweathers (39-0, 25 KO’s) mind, but at some point it must have passed through, he’s going in against the pound for pound No2, a tough tested fighter, who’s looking to cause an upset, and Mayweather hasn’t really [...]

By Brock Kaiser: Let’s first get this out of the way: Paulie Malignaggi definitely won that fight. That said, the idea that poor judging or even overt bias is to blame for this miscarriage might be jumping to a premature, if not totally faulty conclusion. To be fair to all that hold this belief, false [...]

By Eric Hernandez: Here we go again another black eye for boxing, yesterday debacle between Paulie “magic man” Malignaggi might have just sent a few more fight fans to MMA. The fight itself was entertaining enough with Malignaggi reminding everyone of Hector Camacho and Juan Diaz playing the part of boom boom Mancini. The fight [...]

By Sam Gregory: Juan Diaz, coming off a ninth round stoppage loss in his last fight with Juan Manuel Marquez in February was back at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas last night for the third time in a row to face Paul Malignaggi in the main event of HBO’s Boxing After Dark triple-header.

By Giancarlo Malinconico: Boxing fans are very aware that sometimes the judges get it wrong. There was Lennox Lewis-Holyfield 1, Mayweather-Castillo 1 and many more. There is no worse of a feeling for a boxing fan than watching the judges rob a fighter of a rightfully deserving decision. And even worse is when this robbery [...]

By Brian Blackwell: HBO Boxing After Dark – Houston, TX [Toyota Center] Daniel Jacobs [17-0(15)] vs Ishe Smith [21-3(9)]

By Jason Kim: In a battle of fringe light welterweight contenders, Juan Diaz (35-2, 17 KO’s) defeated former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (26-3, 5 KO’s) by a controversial 12-round unanimous decision. However, Malignaggi appeared to win the fight by at least two rounds.

By Jason Kim: Robert Guerrero (25-1-1, 17 KOs) defeated Malcolm Klassen (24-5-2, 14 KOs) tonight to capture Klassen’s International Boxing Federation (IBF) super featherweight title at the Toyota Center, in Houston, Texas. The final judges’ scores were 117-111, 116-113, 116-112.

By Jason Kim: Middleweight contender Daniel Jacobs (18-0, 15 KO’s) defeated former star of The Contender reality boxing series Ishe Smith (21-4, 9 KO’s) tonight by a very questionable 10-round unanimous decision at the Toyota, Center, in Houston, Texas. The final judges’ scores were 96-93, 100-89 and 96-93. I personally had Smith winning the bout [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Light heavyweight Jürgen Brähmer (34-2, 28 KOs) defeated in over-matched, under-experienced Aleksy Kuziemski (17-1, 4 KOs) in an 11th round stoppage tonight to win the interim World Boxing Organization light heavyweight title at the Syma Sport & Leisure Center in Budapest, Hungary.

By Erik Schmidt: In a shocking upset super middleweight contender Robert Stieglitz (36-2, 22 KOs) stopped World Boxing Organization (WBO) super middleweight champion Karoly Balzsay (21-1, 15 KOs) in a 11th round stoppage in front of Balzsay’s home audience at the SYMA Sport & Leisure Center, in Budapest, Hungary.

By Dave Lahr: Few if any boxing fans knew that IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Kitschko (53-3, 47 KO’s) injured his left shoulder in his June 20th ninth round TKO victory over Ruslan Chagaev in Germany. And even fewer people had knowledge of Klitschko having surgery to repair the tendon in his left shoulder. The surgery [...]

By Tom Stokes: This occurred to me that if Miguel Cotto (34-1, 27, KO’s) beats Manny Pacquiao (49-3, 37 KO’s), then will he gain the top pound for pound spot, in my opinion this should not happen, I have a lot of respect for Cotto he’s a great fighter, but being pound for pound king [...]

By Liam Santiago: According to boxing sources, Paulie Malignaggi has tipped Cotto to knock out Manny Pacquiao when they meet on November 14th. The New York light welterweight master also predicted after the defeat, Pacquiao would be matched with Clottey, who he claimed would also easily knock him out.

By Steven Wain: On October 8th in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Martin Rogan (12-1-6 KO’s) will try to get revenge on the only man to beat him so far in his professional career, Sam Sexton (12-1-5 KO’s). They will battle it out for Sexton’s Commonwealth heavyweight title that he captured from Rogan in controversial fashion from [...]

By Steven Wain: On August 28th, 37 year old Clinton Woods (42-4-24 KO’s) will fight American Tavoris Cloud (19-0-18 KO’s) for the vacant IBF light heavyweight championship. This would be the third time Woods has fought in the United States. The first time Woods fought in the States was when he challenged American legend Roy [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: ESPN boxing analyst Teddy Atlas doesn’t appear to be too impressed with the fighting ability of Ricky Hatton, saying in an interview with David Tyler of Doghouse Boxing, “Hatton just doesn’t know how to fight, I hate to say that but obviously he didn’t learn from Mayweather how to fight.”

By Manuel Perez: It was pretty funny reading how Manny Pacquiao is favored 2-1 over WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto by gamblers. Obviously, the bettors probably don’t have clue one about boxing and are just throwing their money away by putting it on Pacquiao rather than Cotto.

By Dave Lahr: With WBO/WBC middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik’s cancellation of his October 3rd bout against Paul Williams (37-1, 27 KO’s), it puts Williams and his promoter Dan Goosen in a situation where they need to decide to either wait for Pavlik’s infected knuckle to heal properly for a possible fight in December or forget [...]

By Chris Williams: On September 19th, the Golden Boy Promotions card featuring Floyd Mayweather making his comeback against Juan Manuel Marquez will be matched against the UFC 103 event on the same night at the American Airlines Center, in Dallas, Texas. The two events will be competing for pay-per-view dollars from fans. At this point, [...]

By Brian Kenneth Blackwell: After re-watching the 1993 bout between Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins, as well as analyzing the two in recent matches, I believe it is evident that it would be a huge mistake for Bernard to take this fight. In no way am I downplaying any of Bernard’s accomplishments, or his [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Talented middleweight contender John Duddy (26-1, 17 KO’s) will be returning to the ring on October 10th against a still to be determined opponent at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Duddy, 30, is coming off a 10-round decision loss to Billy Lyell in April in a fight that Duddy was never really [...]

By Jim Dower: Unbeaten middleweight contender Daniel Jacobs (17-0, 15 KO’s) will be taking a big step up in competition on Saturday night against defensive specialist Ishe Smith (21-3, 9 KO’s) at the Toyota, Center, in Houston, Texas. Jacobs, 22, is looking to put together an impressive performance so he can continue to move up [...]

By Jason Kim: Former IBF/WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Diaz (34-2, 17 KO’s) will be moving up in weight to take on former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (26-2, 5 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Toyota Center, in Houston, Texas. Diaz, 25, will be fighting in front of his home crowd and [...]