Archive for October, 2009

By Kevin Pasquale: Showtime’s Super 6 Tournament, which now some are calling the “Super 5”, with the obliteration of Jermain Taylor, is the perfect tournament, for the following reason, amongst many. Some of the best super-middleweight fighters in the world will get the chance to defeat the overly arrogant, eminently beatable Carl Froch. Exhibit A:

By William Mackay: Yesterday, the news broke that Ricky Hatton is contemplating making a comeback against Floyd Mayweather Jr., next year. Hatton says that he’d rather take on a tough opponent like Mayweather, who has a win over Hatton a couple of years ago. Hatton for some reason didn’t say that he wanted to get [...]

By Brinsley Bailey: In the past the Heavyweight division was considered by fans and critics alike to be the top draw in boxing. It sparkled with marvelous talent and its champions were real celebrities (recognizable to more than just your average boxing fan). However, over the last 15 years, this division has become a barren [...]

By Dave Lahr: WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev is counting on shutting up British challenger David Haye next month in his title defense on November 7th in Nuremberg, Germany. Haye has made it difficult for Valuev in the media with his taunting about the Russian’s looks and Valuev would like nothing better than to shut [...]

By Jason Kim: Last Saturday night’s 12th round knockout of Jermain Taylor didn’t surprise me in the least. I saw it coming as soon as they announced he was facing Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tournament on October 17th. I think it was a bad idea for Showtime to invite the 31-year-old Taylor to [...]

By Dave Lahr: Top heavyweight contender Eddie Chambers is confident about his next fight with WBC/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and is predicting a knockout win over him. Chambers won’t be facing Alexander Povetkin for the interim IBF heavyweight title, he says. Chambers would prefer to fight for the real title. Chambers has this to [...]

By Amar Jahangir: In The Hitman’s latest interview, he revealed a possible time frame to come back will be after Christmas or possible the New Year. What I liked about this interview is that he doesn’t want to come back and fight easy fighters like a certain Mayweather did. He doesn’t want a tune up [...]

By Manuel Perez: Although this is a decent fight, I’m not grateful for next month’s November 14th bout between Miguel Cotto and Manny Pacquiao. It’s being portrayed as being the best against the best, but I don’t see Cotto as being the best fighter in the welterweight division, so I’m not all impressed as I [...]

By Dennis Broadhurst: In the past two years Ricky Hatton has lost two fights, the two biggest fights of his career. Hatton has fought some decent fighters in his day, Castillo, Urango and Malignaggi. A lot of his opponents have been poor but that was not always his choice, tell me a fighter who has [...]

By Dave Lahr: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik’s finger is still infected with staph on his left hand, and because of that his December 5th bout with Paul Williams has once again been canceled, according to Dan Rafael. This is really bad news for both Williams and Pavlik because this is the 2nd time their [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former light welterweight and welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) is reportedly kicking around the idea of making a comeback against Floyd Mayweather Jr. next year, according to boxing news from the BBC. Hatton, who just recently turned 31 on October 6th, had this to say about it: “If I decide [...]

By Jordan Stoddart: Good day Boxing fans on both sides of the Atlantic and the millions watching worldwide! I thought it would be worth covering the most topical issues on this site, taking a lighter and fresher approach to some of the stuff floating about, maybe take a different angle to alienate the biased and [...]

By Dennis Broadhurst: With a lot of fights coming round the corner, the one most people want to see is Pacquiao-Cotto. It will be a great fight and I am not making any predictions on it because to be honest with you I do not know who will win. I think that they are both [...]

By Sander Rennurb Aznarrac Sr. Floyd Mayweather Jr. retired from boxing without fighting one of the most challenging probable opponents in WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. It was presumed that either he was afraid to fight Cotto and the others (Mosley, Margarito) or he wanted to call it quits having raked in millions from 2 [...]

By Nikolaj Ovesen: According to Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, Ricard Olsen who has been Kesslers trainer through most of his career, calls the fight against Andre Ward, the moral finale of the tournament. He was ringside at the super six premiers at Berlin and gave his thoughts on the Abraham/Taylor and Froch/Dirrell fights.

By Manuel Perez: Well, I knew it would happen sooner or later. Freddie Roach, the trainer of Manny Pacquiao, is now predicting that Pacquiao will knock out World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto next month on November 14th, at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Roach started out predicting a 12 round decision [...]

By Dave Lahr: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will be returning to action on December 12th against number #6 ranked WBC heavyweight contender Kevin Johnson (22-0-1, 9 KO’s) at the PostFinance Arena, in Berne, Switzerland. Klitschko, 38, is coming off an impressive 10th round stoppage of previously unbeaten heavyweight Chris Arreola on September 26th, at [...]

By Dennis Broadhurst: With the Haye-Valuev bout fast approaching there are mixed opinions on who will win. Will Haye’s chin give out or will it be strong enough to get in close and hurt the huge monster Valuev? Haye certainly has some advantages, power, speed and youth are the main ones, while Valuev has obvious [...]

By Nate Anderson: Making his first defense of his BBBofC English welterweight title, champion Adnan Amar (23-1, 7 KO’s) completely dominated Tom Glover (9-7-3), defeating him by a 5th round stoppage on the undercard of the Super Six tournament bout between WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch and challenger Andre Dirrell on Saturday night at [...]

By William Mackay: In an article at the BBC, previously undefeated super middleweight contender Andre Dirrell’s manager Gary Shaw admitted after the fight that Dirrell should have fought differently against WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch last Saturday night, commenting “we kept telling him [Dirrell] to box, but after watching him in rounds 10, 11 [...]

By Al Francis: I remember back in the summer of 2005, Bernard Hopkins was undisputed middleweight champion at age 40 and was about to make his 21st defence of the middleweight title. His opponent was the 26 year old Olympic medalist and fast rising professional prospect Jermain Taylor. The fight, promoted by Golden Boy Promotions [...]

By Dennis Broadhurst: This article has been written to highlight the amount of people in boxing who make clearly biased actions and judgments. Last week I was at a boxing gym getting a medical examination and to watch my coach in his first amateur fight.

By Al Francis: Showtime’s exciting and innovative super six series got off to a flying start this past Saturday. Two out of the three opening bouts were contested, a major championship was up for grabs, 23 rounds were completed and another one almost completed! Firstly Arthur Abraham scored a chilling final round knockout over Jermain [...]

By Dave Lahr: So far, the fighters that were predicted ahead of time to win have come out victorious in their fights this past weekend. In the case of Carl Froch, he won the fight with a high amount of controversy, but not matter. A win is a win, despite what some boxing fans might [...]

By Edd Watson: Before the super six started, all we heard from the Americans was how good their fighters were and how they had fought much better opposition and how they’d wipe the floor with the “poor” Europeans. Arthur “The King” Abraham outclassed Jermaine Taylor and made him look very old before eventually knocking him [...]

By Simon Hirst: On Saturday night, we started the Super Six Tournament of the super middleweight division with two mouth-watering bouts. From Germany, we had Arthur Abraham vs Jermain Taylor in a battle of the former middleweight champions. Before the fight started, I applaud Taylor for going over to Germany to fight Abraham, a place [...]

By Nikolaj Ovesen: Last night was the opening of the highly anticipated ´Super Six World Boxing Classic´ tournament. In the opening we saw two former Middleweight champions, Arthur Abraham and Jermain Taylor go up against each other, and we saw current Super Middleweight champion Carl Froch go up against Olympic bronze medalist Andre Dirrell. It [...]

By Jason Kim: Taking away the 12th round knockout from the equation in the Jermain Taylor vs. Arthur Abraham fight, who would have won the fight if it had gone to a decision? I know who I had winning the fight and it wasn’t Abraham. At the time of the stoppage, I had Taylor ahead [...]

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan will be facing his obligatory title defense on December 5th against challenger Dmitry Salita. As of now, most boxing experts are predicting that the talented Khan will get by Salita without too many problems as long as Salita doesn’t get lucky and clip Khan [...]

By Jason Kim: Never mind Jermain Taylor dropping out of the Super Six tournament. That’s not what’s really important. Should he retire from boxing to save himself from suffering any more knockouts? Taylor, 31, was knocked out on Saturday night by Arthur Abraham in the 12th round in their Super Six tourney bout held in [...]