Archive for August, 2009

By Brock Kaiser: There is a saying that sometimes the more things change, the more they actually stay the same. Race was once again ushered into the forefront in boxing this week as the United States Congress approved a resolution this past Wednesday urging a posthumous presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, who in 1908 shocked [...]

By Mike Burnell: I would absolutely love to contribute more often to this website; however it is challenging to find an interesting, plausible premise in today’s barren boxing landscape. This is why you see so many articles on the same topics from many of the same authors. I will do my best to maintain my [...]

By Trevor Weis: Manny Pacquiao is dead. The brawling aggressor has changed, evolved; he’s not the Filipino slugger that caught our attention—he’s become the Living Legend that captures our hearts, our respect, and speaks to us on some inexplicable level; he’s become something else completely… He has sprinted full-speed ahead since his humbling loss to [...]

By Jason Kim: WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO’s) needs to make a decision about whom he wants to fight next and get back in the ring and start fighting. It’s been seven months since Mosley defeated Antonio Margarito by a 9th round stoppage to win his WBA title, yet he’s still has [...]

By Manuel Perez: Just when I thought boxing couldn’t get any lower than it is, I get this news today about the World Boxing Council creating a new belt called the ‘WBC Diamond Championship” belt, one designed specifically for elite fighters in catch weight bouts. The timing of the creation of the belt appears comes [...]

By Liam Santiago: I was delighted to see Amir Khan crowned WBA champion last month. He proved any critics wrong and won very comfortably, however, he did show flaws and weaknesses that other fighters would have capitalised on. After the win, once again we heard Khan and his trainer claim they would ‘relish’ a fight [...]

By Jim Dower: Light middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (15-1, 12 KO’s) will be returning to action tonight against pressure fighter Gabriel Rosado (12-3, 7 KO’s) in a scheduled 10-round bout at the Buffalo Bill’s Star Arena, in Primm, Nevada. For the 26-year-old Angulo, he couldn’t have found a better opponent to get back on the [...]

By Liam Santiago: Since Joe Calzaghe hung up his gloves the super middleweight division is searching for its new top star and at the end of the Super Six tournament it will have one. Personally, I can’t see anyone touching the Cobra, Carl Froch. Froch is the type of fighter that keeps this sport alive; [...]

By Liam Santiago: Does Amir Khan really have the right to call out Ricky Hatton? What has he done to deserve the biggest payday he will ever get? Boxing is a sport where you work your way up, earning the right to mega fights. Ricky Hatton certainly did that but I can’t quite see where [...]

By Adam Fillingham: WBC and WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik is now short of opposition since the ‘super 6′ championship (which includes Mikkel Kessler, Carl Froch, Arthur Abraham, Jermain Taylor, Andre Ward and Andre Dirrell) has gone on without him.

By Eric Thomas: Famous boxing trainer Emanuel Steward has made no secret about his desire to train World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. Steward made it known that he would be open to training Cotto after hearing about Miguel falling out with his long time trainer. Steward said to Primera Hora, “If we can [...]

By Nate Anderson: It looks like now Matthew Hatton (37-4-1, 14 KO’s) will now be fighting 37-year-old Lovemore N’Dou (41-11-1, 31 KO’s) on September 12th instead of Zab Judah. Hatton, 28, the younger brother of Ricky Hatton, was poised to fight Judah recently.

By Erik Schmidt: Former International Boxing Federation (IBF) cruiserweight champion Vassily Jirov (37-3-1, 31 KO’s) will be making a comeback after two years out of boxing for a possible bout on September 17th in Woodland Hills, California. Jirov, 35, a former 1996 light heavyweight Olympic Gold Medalist for Kazakhstan, will be moving back down to [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Former World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster (35-4, 30 KO´s) will be making his fourth bout on his comeback trail against Nigerian Gbenga Oloukun (16-1, 10 KOs) on August 29th at the König Palast, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Brewster, 36, is trying to turn his career around and get back into title [...]

By Manuel Perez: In article from El Nuevo Dia, World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto said that nothing was ever mentioned about him having his WBO title on the line when he agreed to fight Manny Pacquiao. Cotto’s father said “This guy [the WBO president] is going to try to pimp his money anyway [...]

By Liam Santiago: The idea of two brothers preparing themselves for twelve rounds of battle, in which they should be prepared to go to extreme lengths and absorb all forms of pain, might seem rather absurd to your average man on the street or even your average boxing fan. But who else is their in [...]

By Eric Thomas: World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (37-2, 36 KO’s) will be defending his title on September 26th against unbeaten American Chris Arreola (27-0, 24 KO’s) at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles. This will be only Klitschko’s third bout since coming off a four-year retirement last year in October with [...]

By Giancarlo Malinconico: The most talked about event in professional sports is the Pacquiao/Cotto mega-fight on November 14 in Las Vegas. Miguel Cotto has already begun an early pre-training camp. And Freddie Roach is already studying film of Miguel Cotto’s last six fights in order to develop the game plan for his fighter’s training camp.

By Jim Dower: Earlier today, at approximately 5:15 PM, a second suspect by the name of Jquante Crews was arrested by the Atlanta police department and is being charged for the murder, including armed robbery, of boxing star Vernon Forrest on July 26th. Crews, 25, reportedly isn’t the suspect that shot Forrest, nor is the [...]

By Wayne Lord: I keep telling people that we need to see good guys fight each other. This not only develops them but also makes them more exciting to watch. I could care less about if a guy is 50-0 or 16-5. I need to see him in with someone who is at his level. [...]

By Liam Santiago: Hearing the news that the Super six tournament was being introduced to boxing was music to my ears. Six top super middleweights fighting the best opposition possible, with only one being crowned victorious. These six fighters are the type that keep boxing alive. No one is being ‘ducked’ and top fighters will [...]

By Liam Santiago: In recent times, boxing has seen many surprises and upsets in big fights across the globe. We witnesses Amir Khan get knocked out in fifty four seconds by an un-heard of boxer. We saw Manny Pacquiao score two knock downs before knocking Ricky Hatton out cold. And in not so recent times, [...]

By Giancarlo Malinconico: As reported by columnist Mark Vestor, WBO president Francisco Valcarcel told El Nuevo Dia that he believes the Cotto bout ought to have the WBO Title at stake: “With one or two pounds less, you are still inside the limit. We (The WBO) have the responsibility… that if a fight is going [...]

By Jason Kim: I realize this article will anger some and go over the heads of other boxing fans, but there’s some realities that need to be accepted. Boxing is slowly being eroded and diminished by more entertaining sports like the MMA, specifically UFC.

By Manuel Perez: I’m still wondering how Manny Pacquiao was suddenly pushed to the number #1 status in the World Boxing Organization welterweight division. It happened almost over night and it pushed Pacquiao over fighters like former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey. I know the WBO really wants WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto to have [...]

By Eric Thomas: Count me in as one of the many people who don’t want to see WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley fight Nate Campbell again. The fight ended up in controversy with Campbell sustaining a bad cut over his left eye from a head butt in the 3rd round last Saturday night. However, [...]

By Matt Stein: With only little time to go before the September 26th bout between WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (37-2, 36 KO’s) and Chris Arreola (27-0, 24 KO’s), the question is whether Arreola, 28, will have enough time to melt of the tonnage by the time the two giant heavyweights enter the ring in [...]

By William Mackay: The September 19th bout between Matthew Hatton and former light welterweight/welterweight champion Zab Judah could be in doubt because Judah, 31, wants the bout to be fought at light welterweight – his new weight class – rather than at welterweight.

By Jim Dower: In the latest boxing news, the Atlanta police department have arrested one of the suspects in the July 25th robbery and murder of former welterweight and light middleweight champion Vernon Forrest in Atlanta, Georgia. The police arrested 20-year-old Demario Ware, an Atlanta resident, and has charged him with the murder, robbery and [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I really like WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch as a fighter. He kind of reminds me of a throwback fighter from the 1940s. That said, I find it hard to see Froch getting out of the first round of the Super Six group I bouts starting on October 17th. Froch, 32, [...]