Archive for October, 2009

By Jason Kim: Former International boxing Federation middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (30-0, 24 KO’s) will be going into this Saturday night’s Super Six bout against Jermain Taylor still undefeated and facing probably the toughest opponent of his career. At 29, it’s hard to believe that Abraham has had so few opponents during his career and [...]

By Manuel Perez: Manny Pacquiao is thinking he’s going to be fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr. sometime next year, but I think World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto may end up giving Pacquiao a bad beating and mess up his chance for a mega fight with Mayweather. Cotto, 28, will be facing Pacquiao on November [...]

By Chris Williams: I wonder if Floyd Mayweather Jr. would stay in boxing for long if he had to fight the best welterweights in a tournament similar to Showtime’s Super Six tourney instead of being able to pick and choose fighters from the lower weight classes to cherry pick from. How would Mayweather hold up [...]

By William Mackay: With former cruiserweight champion David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s), he knocks out almost everyone that he faces. Fighters aren’t able to make it through a full bout with him without being stopped. Only in two cases has Haye been in a fight in which he wasn’t able to stop his opponent, and [...]

By Jim Dower: In his first fight since being defeated in a lopsided eight round decision in April 2009, middleweight contender John Duddy (27-1, 17 KO’s) returned to the ring on Saturday night to defeat Jorge “Michi” Munoz (21-3, 13 KO’s) by a 10 round unanimous decision on the undercard of the World Boxing Organization [...]

On the Ropes Boxing Radio interviews WBC Super middleweight champion Carl “the Cobra” Froch & former #1 rated Heavyweight Baby Joe Mesi on the show today at 6 PM ET. OTR Boxing Radio will also be discussing the past week in boxing, with all the fights, news and upcomiing boxing events.

By Chris Williams: It’s sad to see how former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor’s once promising boxing career has gone down hill all of a sudden. It seems like only yesterday when Taylor was considered to be the best middleweight in the division, beating the likes of Bernard Hopkins, Kassim Ouma and Cory Spinks. Look [...]

By Chris Williams: Have we seen the last of Floyd Mayweather Jr. fighting within one division, fighting for the welterweight crown and taking on all comers? It seems to me that Mayweather’s days of fighting opponents from his own weight class are here and gone. That’s something that I really find disappointing about Mayweather. I [...]

By Manuel Perez: Manny Pacquiao has been largely lionized in the past year by the boxing public since beating Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton. It’s sad that boxing fans have been so gullible as to be influenced by two pretty much empty wins as these when crowing Pacquiao as the top fighter in [...]

By Dave Lahr: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Odlanier Solis (15-0, 11 KO’s) only needed two short rounds to take care of former heavyweight contender now turned journeyman Monte Barrett (34-8, 20 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York. Solis, 29, a 2004 Olympic heavyweight Gold Medalist from Cuba, dropped [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler has the bad luck of facing American Andre Ward in his first fight in the Super Six tournament next month on November 21st, at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, California. It’s a really tough match-up for the 30-year-old Kessler, coming at a bad time [...]

By Liam Santiago: If Matthew Hatton was a betting man, and he seriously believed he has some kind of chance of becoming a world champion on November 13th, I imagine he would be inclined to put a few quid on himself beating Lovemore N’Dou, with the odd for him to win at 9/4. Recently an [...]

By Dennis Broadhurst: This article will provide a detailed look into perhaps the ultimate boxing match, Ali vs Tyson. Ali was at his best in 1966 when he beat fighters Cleveland Williams and Brian London. Against Williams, Ali won by TKO in round 3, Williams was put to the canvas several times and was in [...]

By Liam Santiago: Although the rematch between old veterans Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones is receiving plenty of positive hype, it also has its critics. The two American legends, who have a combined age of 84 are due to fight sometime in early 2010. One man who is not in the slightest bit interested is [...]

By Shaun Campbell: In the second edition of Battle of the Legends, we take a look at a fight that has been talked about for years. Arguably the two greatest heavyweight champions of all time. Muhammad “the greatest” Ali vs “Iron” Mike Tyson. Setting – MGM Grand, the world awaits to see the battle of [...]

By Dennis Broadhurst: Back in the days when boxing had only eight weight classes there was much more hunger. Fighters used to train so much harder to make the weights and that made them hungry. Today has boxers such as Manny Pacquiao who go up and down in weight so often that you cannot keep [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In the latest presser from undefeated Andre Dirrell (18-0, 13 KO’s) today, he sent a searing line drive right down WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s throat, saying “I’m going to punch holes in that gasbag [Froch].” Oh boy, I wonder what old Froch is going to say about that. He’s probably [...]

By Al Francis: Long gone are the days when only one fighter could stand above all others in a given weight class and call himself the legitimate world champion, today boxing is littered with belt holders claiming to be ‘world champion’. Typically there are four major bodies we recognize as genuine world titles, the WBC, [...]

By Manuel Perez: Well, it looks like boxing fans are going to have to suffer through another one of HBO’s 24/7 series with Manny Pacquiao, his trainer Freddie Roach and their entourage of helpers or whatever you want to call them. The series, Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7, starts officially on October 24th and will go all the [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Next weeks on Saturday night, WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch will be facing a fighter in Andre Dirrell who will wreck his world and ruin Froch’s perfect record in the first fight of the Super Six tournament in Nottingham, England. Froch might as well have a bull’s-eye painted to his head [...]

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-1, 34 KO’s) had less than complimentary words to say about his November 7th challenger David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s), commenting “He’s [Haye] one more idiot in this world, and just a stepping stone for me,” according to The Mirror.

By Liam Santiago: The light welterweight division is arguably the hottest division in boxing right now. With names such as Amir Khan and Nate Campbell moving up from lightweight and young talent bursting onto the scene such as Devon Alexander, the division is jam packed with talent. Yet, how many of these big names are [...]

By Manuel Perez: In a shocking upset, number #6 rated World Boxing Council super featherweight contender Juan Carlos Salgado (21-0, 15 KO’s) took out previously unbeaten WBC super featherweight champion Jorge Linares (27-1, 18 KO’s) in a 1st round TKO on Saturday night to capture Linares’ title at the Yoyogi #2 Gymnasium, in Tokyo, Japan.

By Nate Anderson: For those boxing fans who see light heavyweight Nathan Cleverly (18-0, 8 KO’s) as the second coming of Joe Calzaghe, they may need to hold off a bit on their expectations about him because he seems far from realizing the talent that Calzaghe formerly possessed, at least as of now.

By William Mackay: I know Ricky Hatton would never probably fight his younger brother Matthew Hatton, but then again you never know. It seems reasonable to consider, since the Klitschko brothers are often asked whether they’ll ever fight. People don’t seem to understand why the Klitschko brothers don’t go ahead and fight, considering it would [...]

By Eric Thomas: We very likely could be seeing a rematch between Juan Diaz and Paulie Malignaggi on December 12th, according to the latest boxing news. Contracts have reportedly been sent out for the fight. The bout will either take place in Las Vegas or Chicago, not in Diaz’s home town of Houston, Texas, where [...]

By Kevin Pasquale: Jermain Taylor is a study in frustration. As has been documented since his earlier days, his offensive skills are formidable. His athleticism is most times superior to his opponents. The malice and force he puts behind his punches is fierce, and his left jab, at times, can be amongst the best in [...]

By Chris Williams: Supposedly, boxing fans wanted to see former IBF light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (28-0, 17 KOs) fight a rematch with 40-year-old Glen Johnson (49-12-2, 33 KOs) next month, but I’m not one of them. I don’t see the point of it. By the time that Dawson, 27, faces Johnson next month on [...]

By Dave Lahr: Former 2004 Olympic heavyweight Gold Medalist Odlanier Solis (14-0, 10 KO’s) just keeps getting bigger and bigger. At today’s weigh-in, the 29-year-old former Cuban amateur boxing star weighed in a portly 271, an all time high for him for his scheduled 10 round bout against former heavyweight contender Monte Barrett.

By Erik Schmidt: On Saturday night, World Boxing Council/WIBF woman’s featherweight champion Ina Menzer (24-0, 9 KOs) will be fighting a rematch against Esther Schouten (24-5-1, 13 KOs) at the Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Also on the card will be WBA/WIBF flyweight champion Susi Kentikian vs. Julia Sahin, unbeaten heavyweight contender Denis Boytsov (25-0, 20 [...]