Archive for November, 2009

By William Mackay: Heavyweight Commonwealth champion Sam Sexton (13-1, 6 KO’s) defeated former Commonwealth champion Martin Rogan (12-2, 6 KO’s) on Friday night with a retirement at the end of the 6th round at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Rogan, 38, looked old and tired at the end of the 6th round, after [...]

By Liam Santiago: Amir Khan is still blubbering complete rubbish about World Boxing Council champion Carl Froch. Khan’s latest childish stunt was in an interview on the Amir Khan fans website. Khan called Froch ”unprofessional” and he claimed Froch’s win over Dirrell was a ”hometown decision”. The Bolton man said, ”He needs to take the [...]

By Peter Wells: Chad Dawson who today is scheduled to fight Glen Johnson is already mentioning future opponents, including Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jr and Jean Pascal. It usually is a bad idea to look past your next opponent, but is Chad really that confident of winning he’s already suggesting other opponents. I do believe [...]

By Liam Santiago: For what it’s worth Freddie Roach has announced his own personal pound for pound rankings. I also am about to announce mine. Surprise, surprise, guess who makes it into Roach’s list, Amir Khan. I have a lot of respect for Roach but thank God he has no say in any official rankings [...]

By Glen Anglin: The upcoming Andre Ward – Mikkel Kessler Super Middleweight match looks to hold great promise for an exciting test of two top boxers. Both men are technically proficient and well trained. Kessler owns a title belt, and Ward is undefeated. Both are excellent offensive and defensive fighters. They have contrasting styles (which [...]

By Alan Dawson: The fanfaronade spat by David Haye, 29, throughout the build-up to his WBA challenge on champion heavyweight Nikolai Valuev, 36, has directly affected the mindset of fans in Haye’s home country.

By Scott Gilfoid: On Saturday night, I’m afraid that David Haye and his inflated ego are going to be grounded by the big seven foot Russian WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev when they get it on in Nuremburg, Germany. Haye may have the speed and power advantage in this fight, but he’s two very important [...]

By Sean McDaniel: British heavyweight David Haye came in at a svelte 218 pounds for his title match against WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev on Saturday night at the Arena Nürnberger Versicherung, Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Bayern, Germany. In terms of past fights during Valuev’s boxing career, he’s always very well against heavyweights that have come in [...]

By Chris Kelly: There can be no denial of the utter ridiculousness of the current state that boxing is in. With a vast and confusing barrage of boxers claiming to be the best in their respective weight divisions each holding or having at some point held one or more titles each claiming to be the [...]

By Jamie Hooper: Mike Tyson once again showed his appreciation of boxers gone by, with a very thoughtful visit to Merthyr Tydfil to lay flowers at the statute of the Matchstick Man Johnny Owen. Mike was mobbed by the locals as he walked through the shopping centre to the location of the statue. There was [...]

By William Mackay: A chunky looking Ricky Hatton added his own two cents to who things will win Saturday night’s contest between World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev (50-1, 34 KO’s) and challenger David Haye by picking the 29-year-old Haye to win the fight by knock out.

By Jason Kim: David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) weighed in at a light 218 pounds at today’s weigh-in at the Marcado Shopping Centre in Nuremberg, Germany. This is around the ballpark figure that many boxing insiders thought that Haye would come in for this fight. Haye has said that he didn’t want to gain a [...]

By Peter Wells: It will be over 1 year since Shane Mosley last fought on January 30th where he meets unbeaten WBC Welterweight champion Andre Berto 25-0(19KO’s) in Las Vegas. After plenty of fights being made and cancelled for Mosley, after arranging to fight with Joshua Clottey on Boxing Day. I’m sure it would have [...]

By Trevor Weis – Milwaukee, WI – By nature, humans are brash and outspoken, boldly predicting what looms ahead with confident conviction. But time tends to clean the lens: hindsight provides 20/20 vision. And with that in mind, I thought back to the eager anticipation, the unwavering predictions from Manny Pacquiao’s last two mega-fights–”contests” which [...]

By Kwame Cinquez: On a deeper analysis of the data available, I cannot help but feel we need to re-address the standing of “The Hitman.” Ricky Hatton, the former WBC champion. Whilst being a most likeable person, his talent as an actual boxer must come into serious questioning, and not just off the back of [...]

By Kwame Cinquez: I place a scenario in front of you, quite a ridiculous one I’m sure you would agree. Imagine Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal (No1 + 2 in the WTP Rankings) refusing to face an opponent in a ranked tournament, instead playing a more lucrative exhibition match against an opponent of clearly inferior [...]

By David Berry: With just nine days separating the world from the fight of the year, experts and fans alike have heated up the “Firepower” debate to its boiling point. You’ve heard the arguments – Cotto is stronger; Pacquiao is faster. Pacquiao is a 2-1 favorite; Cotto is a reputed odds-beater. Naturally, if you’re a [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (26-3, 5 KO’s) and former IBF/WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Diaz (35-2, 17 KO’s) will be fighting a rematch on December 12th at the UIC Pavilion 525 S Racine Ave , in Chicago, Illinois. The last fight took place in Diaz’s home city of [...]

By William Mackay: David Haye might as pack it in with his never ending insults of World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev. Haye’s comments haven’t stirred Valuev to life, and the big 7-foot Russian doesn’t appear angry or in the mood to go out and destroy Haye next Saturday night in Nuremburg, Germany. Haye, [...]

By Manuel Perez: World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto isn’t phased by all the dire predictions that Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach has been saying pertaining to their November 14th fight.

By Chris Williams: With the recent rumors about HBO sports possibly putting together a four-man light welterweight tournament involving Amir Khan, Devon Alexander, Marcos Maidana and Victor Ortiz, I think the tournament won’t have the same effect as Showtime’s Super Six tournament because there simply isn’t enough participants in the tourney to make it interesting.

By Scott Gilfoid: World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (42-1, 32 KO’s) is a good fighter there’s no question about that, but he might be too basic to beat top rated American challenger Andre Ward (20-0, 13 KO’s) in their Super Six bout on November 21st, at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, California. [...]

By William Mackay: Former David Haye opponent, Monte Barrett, is picking World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev to beat British heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) this Saturday night in their title fight in Nuremburg, Germany, according to Boxing News. Barrett, 38, has fought both Haye and Valuev, and has been stopped by both [...]

By Peter Wells: This is it now we are just over a week away from Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto, everything is on the line for both fighters here, Pacquiao, his legacy, now that he takes on his biggest test of his career, and as for Cotto there’s his pride, how will he handle defeat [...]

By Kwame Cinquez: David Haye, the former cruiserweight champion, has referred to his opponent as a ‘Beast’, ‘Freak’, ‘The ugliest thing I have ever seen’, posed with cardboard cut-outs of the fighter then to decapitate the cardboard replica. Whilst all this has been done in the Muhammad Ali style of pre-fight hype (Trash talk), one [...]

By Sean McDaniel: David Haye (22-1, 21 KO’s) is convinced that he’s going to score a knockout over WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev on Saturday night in Nuremburg, Germany. If Haye is just joshing, he sure could have fooled me. By listening to Haye, he makes it sound as if this is going to be [...]

By Manuel Perez: Manny Pacquiao will be trying to make boxing history on November 14th by winning seven world titles in seven different weight divisions when he steps in the ring with WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cotto, 29, will have his World Boxing Organization title on [...]

By Jason Kim: This Saturday night former International Boxing Federation light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (28-0, 17 KO’s) will be facing 40-year-old Glen Johnson (49-12-2, 33 KO’s) in a fight for the interim World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight title at the XL Center, in Hartford, Connecticut.

By William Mackay: A bout between lightweight Breidis Prescott and super featherweight contender Kevin Mitchell is reportedly being set up but no date as of yet, according to the latest boxing news. This would figure to be a very tough fight for the brawling 5’8” Mitchell, because he’s shown to be very hittable in his [...]

By John Dimeck: On Saturday night when the bell rings to start the heavyweight title fight between champion Valuev of Russia and challenger Haye of Great Britain there is only one thing for certain: No-one really, truly knows what will transpire. Making predictions is every sports fan’s right, and boxing prognosticators enjoy dissecting the possibles, [...]