Archive for October, 2009

By Manuel Perez: I see Manny Pacquiao getting the living daylights beaten out of him on November 14th by WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto in their fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas. Pacquiao may or may not have gone soft on us – we’ll find that out next month on November 14th – [...]

By Chris Williams: Despite precious little experience at the heavyweight level to speak of former cruiserweight champion David Haye isn’t the least worried about facing WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev next month on November 7th, he says. But then again, Haye would probably say the same thing if he were facing IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir [...]

By Jason Kim: After losing by a 12th round knockout to former International Boxing Federation middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s) on Saturday night with only six seconds to go in the bout, there are questions whether Jermain Taylor (28-4-1, 17 KO’s) will continue forward in the Super Six tournament. Taylor, 31, was viciously [...]

By Peter Howells: Last night, Showtime’s revolutionary super six super-middleweight tournament got going with two different bouts and two different fights. I’ll start with the bout from Berlin as fearsome IBF Middleweight Champion Arthur Abraham stepped up a weight to take on another former middleweight champion in American star, Jermain Taylor.

By Matt Flanagan: Carl Froch successfully defended his WBC title against Andre Dirrell tonight in their opening fight of the Super 6 tournament. After reading all the repetitive articles on this site, that clearly lacked any objectivity, I was hoping that Froch would knock out Dirrell just to shut him, and a few other people [...]

By Craig Martin: So the first two fights of the Super Six have come and gone. What have we learned? ‘King’ Arthur Abraham has really and truly laid the marker as a genuine winner, even at this early stage. Jermain Taylor, well, the question will no doubt be asked; what has he got left? Carl [...]

By Sam Gregory: In the second bout of the stage 1 Super Six tournament, undefeated WBC champion Carl Froch fought undefeated Andre Dirrell at the Trent FM Arena Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. Round 1 Dirrell came out strong fighting right handed going right to the body; Froch missed with the right hook. Dirrell showed his [...]

By Sam Gregory: Stage 1 of the Super Six tournament began tonight with Arthur Abraham’s 12th round knockout of Jermain Taylor at the 02 World Arena, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany. Abraham improved his unbeaten record to 31-0 with 25 KO’s while Taylor fell to 28-4, 3 of his 4 loses coming by way of KO. Abraham [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It looks like Jermain Taylor fell apart against Arthur Abraham tonight, wasting a golden opportunity to pick up an easy win against the limited Abraham. I don’t care if Abraham won. Taylor should have won the fight without any problems if he had fought smart and not traded shots with Abraham. I [...]

By Nate Anderson: BBBofC British super bantamweight champion Jason Booth (34-5, 14 KO’s) overcame a slow start on Friday night to first dominate and then get the stoppage win over challenger Michael Hunter (29-2-1, 13 KO’s) after he quit on his stool after the 5th round at the Seaburn Centre, Sunderland.

By Jim Dower: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor suffered a crushing defeat tonight against Arthur Abraham, losing by a 12th round knockout in their Super Six tournament fight in Berlin, Germany. Taylor, 31, who like in his fight against Carl Froch in April, wore down after the 6th round, had nothing left in the [...]

By William Mackay: 2008 super heavyweight Olympic Bronze Medalist for Great Britain David Price (2-0, 2 KO’s) took out German Liridon Memishi (0-1-1) in a 2nd round stoppage at the Seaburn Centre, Sunderland on Friday night. For the 26-year-old Price, it was his first fight in seven months since stopping David Ingleby in Price’s pro [...]

By William Mackay: Undefeated super middleweight prospect George Groves (6-0, 5 KO’s) extended his consecutive knockout string to five fights with a 4th round stoppage victory over Lithuanian Tadas Jonkus (4-5, 3 KO’s) on Friday night at the Seaburn Centre, Sunderland. The 21-year-old Groves cornered Jonkus a couple of times in the 4th round, battering [...]

By William Mackay: Undefeated light heavyweight contender Tony Jeffries (4-0, 3 KO’s) was less than impressive in beating journeyman Artem Solomko (10-18, 3 KO’s) by a six round decision last night at the Seaburn Centre, Sunderland. Referee Andrew Wright scored it 60-54 for Jeffries. The 2008 Olympic Bronze Medalist for England, Jeffries seemed to have [...]

By Al Francis: Golden Boy promotions was established in 2001, since then they have strived, and to some degree succeeded in becoming the world’s leading boxing promoter, but the way they have achieved this makes us wonder how can this be good for boxing long term.

By Sam Singh: There’s no doubt Filipino sensation Manny Pacquiao is a great fighter, but he is being seriously overrated from his wins over Oscar De La Hoya & Ricky Hatton. Somehow, I don’t think Stevie Forbes would’ve been as hyped up as Pacquiao if he had beaten De La Hoya in their fight.

By Chris Kelly: Local celebrity, The Mackem Mover, accompanied Sunderland’s Tony Jeffries to the ring last night for his decision win over Arten Solomko. It seems as though the mover could teach the Olympic Bronze medallist a thing or too, whilst obviously I’m not for one minute actually suggesting that the key to progression in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: If WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (42-1, 32 KO’s) has his way, he’ll be facing WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch in the finals of the Super Six tournament. However, Kessler may have to settle for either Andre Ward (20-13 KO’s) or Andre Dirrell, if Kessler even makes it that far. [...]

By Dave Lahr: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (28-3-1, 17 KO’s) came in well under the 168 pound limit at today’s weigh-in, in Berlin, Germany, coming in at a light 166 1/4 for tomorrow’s Super Six tournament bout against former International Boxing Federation middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (30-0, 24 KO’s). Abraham, 29, weighed in [...]

By Manuel Perez: It looks as if World Boxing Organization welterweight contender Manny Pacquiao has knocked down another one of his sparring partners, this one Shawn Porter, according to abs-cbn NEWS. But before you get all excited about it, Porter got up and tagged Pacquiao with a huge hook to the head, says trainer Freddie [...]

By Amar Jahangir: Surprise surprise, after running his mouth so much, unbeaten super middleweight contender Andre Dirrell (18-0, 13 KO’s) has come in over weight today’s weigh in. Andre Dirrell came in 4oz over limit for fight against World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (25-0, 20 KO’s); Dirrell has two hours to make [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former International Boxing Federation light welterweight and World Boxing Association welterweight champion Ricky Hatton has really gone out on a limb by picking WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) to beat his mandatory challenger Dmitriy Salita (30-0-1, 16 KO’s) on December 5th, at the Metro Radio Arena, in Newcastle, [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF/WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe thinks that World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch will beat American Andre Dirrell tomorrow night in Nottingham, according to a column from Calzaghe in the South Wales Argus. Calzaghe seems to be picking from his heart rather than his head, though, saying “The [...]

By Dave Lahr: After waiting two long years for a title shot against International Boxing Federation heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, Alexander Povetkin, the mandatory challenger to Klitschko’s title, will fight for the interim IBF title in January 2010.

By Steven Pink: So we have examined how the fighters rated number one in October 1989 from Heavyweight down to Middleweight might have fared against their modern day counterparts. The list has provoked debate and disagreement in equal measure but now it is time to cast our net a little wider and take in Light-Middleweight [...]

By Manuel Perez: World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto made it clear that he doesn’t care one bit if Floyd Mayweather decides to fight Manny Pacquiao instead of him after he [Cotto] gets through beating Pacquiao next month. “If Team Mayweather and Team Pacquiao want to fight, I don’t give a crap what they [...]

By Jim Dower: WBC female featherweight and WIBF Women’s International Boxing Federation featherweight champion Ina Menzer (25-0, 9 KO’s) defeated challenger Esther Schouten (24-6-1, 13 KO’s) by a 10-round majority decision on Saturday night to capture the vacant World Boxing Organization female featherweight title at the Stadthalle, Rostock, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

WIBF Women’s International Boxing Federation and WBA female flyweight champion Susi Kentikian (26-0, 16 KO’s) defeated Julia Sahin (20-1, 2 KO’s), handing Sahin her first loss on Saturday night in the process of picking up the vacant World Boxing Organization female flyweight title at the Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Making his pro debut, 2008 Olympic heavyweight Gold Medalist for Russia Rakhim Chakhkiev (1-0, 1 KO’s) defeated Bulgarian Tayar Mehmed (1-1) by a 2nd round of a scheduled four round bout on Saturday night at the Stadthalle, Rostock, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Chakhkiev, 26, now fighting as a cruiserweight, looked very impressive in the fight, showing [...]

By Jim Dower: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Denis Boytsov (26-0, 21 KO’s) looked bad in beating journeyman Jason Gavern (18-6-3, 8 KO’s) in a 7th round stoppage on Saturday night at the Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Boytsov, 23, knocked the 32-year-old Gavern down four times in the fight, along with a couple of standing eight counts [...]