Archive for September, 2009

By Chris Williams: There’s no question that Ricky Hatton will in all likelihood be making a comeback at some point in time or another, but I wonder just how effective Hatton will be in the ring when he does finally decide to come back. Hatton looks mighty fat to me in the recent video and [...]

By Dave Lahr: Floyd Mayweather Jr. will have been out of boxing for two years by the time he steps in the ring against Juan Manuel Marquez on September 19th. Two years may not sound like a lot to a normal person, but in the sport of boxing, that’s almost a lifetime. Boxing is a [...]

By Manuel Perez: Mark my words, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) will not only beat Manny Pacquiao when they eventually meet up, but he will knock him out in the process. Yesterday, I showed the boxing world part of the sparring sessions – – between Khan and Pacquiao, the ones that [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (28-3-1, 17 KO’s) is planning on going back to the basics in working on his problematic conditioning issues by moving his training camp from Miami, Florida, to the sweltering hot Houston, Texas, where Taylor will be training at George Foreman’s boxing gym.

By William Mackay: Former World Boxing Council light welterweight champion Junior Witter (37-3-2, 22 KO’s) plans on continuing his floundering career by moving up to the welterweight division in hopes that he can find easier pickings at the higher weight class. The move reeks of desperation on Witter’s part, because even as a light welterweight, [...]

By Manuel Perez: With a ton of people crowing about how good the newly crowned World Boxing Organization super flyweight Marvin Sonsona (14-0, 12 KO’s) is, I thought this would be a good time for me to shed some light on my own thoughts about him after seeing his poor performance against Jose Lopez last [...]

By Jim Dower: With sadness Boxing News 24 has learned that former IBF light heavyweight champion Clinton Woods (42-5-1, 24 KO’s) has decided to hang up his gloves for good and retire from boxing as of today. Woods, 37, is officially ending his 15-year pro career, which includes an IBF light heavyweight world title and [...]

By Amar J Khan: Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, perhaps this decade’s most skillful fighters in their own right. We have Mayweather, who is furious the public have forgotten his sensational victory over a prime Oscar De La Hoya whilst going up to 154. Mayweather believes Pacquiao received great credit for his victories over Oscar [...]

By Gav Bridges: As November 7th looms ever closer, inevitably more and more of the pages within this forum will start to focus on the WBA Heavyweight title fight between “The Russian Giant” Nikolai Valuev and “The Hayemaker”, David Haye. Already there have been dismissive calls about the potential of Haye in this fight, and [...]

By Eoin Cooke: 2009 hasn’t been an enjoyable year for fight fans. Save for the fireworks of Marquez/Diaz, there has been little to excite the boxing public this year. Set aside that fight, and possibly Clottey/Cotto and 2009 has been mostly a tale of poor cards and cancellations. In February, HBO charged almost $50 for [...]

By Liam Santiago: According to promoter, Bob Arum, the Pacquiao camp offered Amir Khan the chance to fight Manny Pacquiao before the Miguel Cotto deal was signed. Arum told the Daily Telegraph that the offer was on the table for Khan but he turned it down. Khan now looks set to fight Dimitry Salita as [...]

By Jason Kim: I don’t know if my eyes are doing tricks on me or not, but Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KO’s) suddenly looks painfully slow to me when he’s throwing punches. I just finished watching HBO’s Mayweather-Marquez 24/7 pt. 2 and noticed how big and slow Marquez is starting to look.

By Chris Williams: I’m really curious which Floyd Mayweather Jr. will show up on September 19th against Juan Manuel Marquez. Will it be the exciting fighter from the past that liked to throw speedy combinations and take his opponents apart, or the dull safety first, pitty pat defensive fighter that we’ve seen in many of [...]

By Chris Williams: According to the latest boxing news, interim WBA light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (26-1, 25 KO’s) could be facing former World Boxing Organization light welterweight champion Kendall Holt (25-3, 13 KO’s) on November 28th, on HBO’s Boxing After Dark.

By William Mackay: It’s looking more and more that WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) will be facing Ukrainian born Dimitry Salita (30-0-1, 16 KO’s) in December in a fight that will probably take place in London, England. For boxing fans, this is probably not good news because fans had been hoping [...]

By Chris Williams: By the time that British heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) enters the ring against World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-1, 34 KO’s) on November 7th, for their fight in Germany, Haye will have been out of action for an entire year. In some ways, you can say it’s been [...]

By Jason Kim: Welterweight contender Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 KO’s) is confident about his chances to beat World Boxing Association welterweight champion Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO’s) and take his title away from him on December 26th at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California.

By Amar J Khan: I have been reading so many articles on how Miguel Cotto is going to destroy Manny Pacquiao, the number one ranked pound for pound king. What people seem to make referencing to is the heart and spirit of Cotto. Sorry, but that alone won’t win the fight and I don’t see [...]

By Dave Lahr: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (37-2, 36 KOs) will be making his second defense of his World Boxing Council title on September 26th, against one of the most aggressive and hardest punchers in the heavyweight division in the young 28-year-old Chris Arreola (27-0, 24 KO’s) at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, [...]

By Manuel Perez: The latest word that I’m hearing is that World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) dominated Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KO’s) in their sparring sessions at trainer Freddie Roach’s Wildcard Gym, in Los Angeles not too long ago.

By Liam Santiago: The bookies have Matthew Hatton as a massive underdog when he faces Lovemore N’Dou for the IBO title this Saturday. Hatton is a 4/1 underdog and rightly so. This bout should not be happening. Hatton is currently ranked 5th in the British rankings so many people are asking the question, why did [...]

By Shaun Campbell: Matthew Hatton will be stepping up in class once against to face the current IBO welterweight champion Lovemore N’dou on November 13th. The title bout was originally scheduled to take place on September 11th in South Africa, but Hatton’s team managed to secure the fight take place in Manchester in front of [...]

By Liam Santiago: There seems to be more and more boxing critics hyping the 19th September showdown between Marquez and Mayweather as a heart vs skill battle. Yes, Marquez has a massive amount of desire to win, he is a true warrior. And Mayweather does have amazing skill but he also has a huge heart. [...]

By Chris Williams: For a fighter that is considered to be the greatest fighter in boxing, Floyd Mayweather seems to really like to pick out small fighters to mix it up with. I know Mayweather seems himself as another Sugar Ray Robinson and all, but if I remember correctly, Robinson was about moving up in [...]

By Eric Thomas: Recently, Manny Pacquiao and his trainer Freddie Roach went head to head over where the training should take place for Pacquiao’s next bout against Miguel Cotto. Roach wanted the training to take place in Mexico, while Pacquiao preferred the same confines of the Philippines.

By Matt Flanagan: Say what you like about Carl Froch’s boxing skills and his style of fighting, nobody, least of all Dirrell himself, should be under any illusions that he has the biggest test of his career to date coming up when the 2 meet next month.

By William Mackay: In looking at the training of the two fighters on HBO’s Mayweather-Marquez 24/7 series, it looks as if Juan Manuel Marquez will be the more powerful fighter of the two on September 19th. However, the one drawback of Marquez putting on so much muscle is that he looks downright slow in the [...]

By William Mackay: 6’9″ heavyweight Tyson Fury (7-0, 7 KO’s) takes a major step up in class on Friday night when he faces big John McDermott (25-5, 16 KO’s) in a 10-round bout for the BBBofC heavyweight title at the Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, Essex. Fury, 21, has thus far had things pretty much easy having [...]

By Steven Wain: There have been many articles all over the web about whether or not the Klitschko brothers (Wladimir and Vitali) should fight each other to find out once and for all who really is the best Heavyweight at this time. Many of you may be getting sick of hearing this but they are [...]

By Nate Anderson: Commonwealth welterweight champion John O’Donnell (22-1, 10 KO’s) easily defeated Tom Glover (9-6-3) on Saturday night, breaking his nose and stopping him in the 6th round at the Colosseum, Watford, Hertfordshire. It was a case of O’Donnell, 23, of having too much height skill and being much too sharp for the slower, [...]