Archive for November, 2009

By Liam Fitzgerald: Providing that they come through their respective fights next Wednesday unscathed, we will be witnessing a rematch between Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr early in 2010. Their first bout took place amazingly 16 years ago but both men are completely different fighters now and have been through a lot since then. [...]

By Adam Fillingham: Now there is nothing worse that watching a boxing fight with more holding, than punches being thrown. It makes for a boring night in and is especially bad if you have paid for the fight. So fighters if your reading. Hold off on all the hugging.

By Scott Gilfoid: Recently, in seeing a portly Ricky Hatton take part in a professional wrestling competition, I thought to myself that Hatton will never be able to get back down in weight enough where he’ll be an effective fighter. Hatton looked to be close to 200 pounds in his wrestling bout, with three chins [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Well, it looks like David Haye’s backing out of fights against Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko has upset Wladimir Klitschko enough where he didn’t even want to mention Haye’s name in an interview today with Sky Sports News. Gosh, I never thought it would get to the point where Wladimir wouldn’t want to [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Since putting on a masterful performance against World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch last month in their Super Six tournament competition in Nottingham, England, the world has been on fire with the prospects of seeing the talented Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) in action again. Dirrell, 27, who looks like [...]

By Steve Lewis: Previously, I had written about the common post-Pacquiao fight phenomenon called “Monday Morning Quarterbacking.” There is also another sister effect to Monday Morning Quarterbacking. It has been part of our landscape since time immemorial. It is what is referred to by the newer generation as “player hating,” which is often defined as [...]

By Chris Williams: It looks as if IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s patience for talking about World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye has run out. In an interview today with Sky Sports News, Klitschko, 33, had this to say to the interviewer when the subject of Haye was brought up:

By Jason Edrei Calub Santos: Everywhere I go, everybody or at least two people are arguing or talking about the most likely upcoming fight between the two most dominant fighter in boxing, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Every boxing fan out there is asking for it, as said before “a fight of this magnitude” [...]

by Daniel Ciminera: In my mind, boxing as lost a lot of it’s excitement and romance of late. The event that prompted this article is that of the Khan v Salita undercard. Firstly, the fighters on the undercard are at a disadvantage as Khan is not a big-name fighter yet, and what’s more, not many [...]

By Davey Jackson: “Roy Jones ain’t fit to carry my gym bag. I don’t like him. I don’t like nobody…” so spoke James Toney prior to their 1994 super middleweight bout. Roy Jones Junior was dressed for the ball. Black bow tie and tuxedo jacket. Jones casually and confidently made his ring entrance with the [...]

By Frank Car: The highly anticipated bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Many Pacquiao will happen, why? Well because, the answer is right there, it’s “highly anticipated.” Wait, let me reword that, it has EXTREMELY high anticipation. Wait, one more time, it is perhaps the most anticipated bout between two boxers in recent memory. Both [...]

By Saad Farooqi: Like always, I do not intend nor will I take anything from Manny Pacquiao. He’s singlehandedly led boxing into the next level with excitement and character like only once-in-a-generation superstars can do. While Pretty Boy Floyd merely emulates the arrogant, loud-mouthed banter that Ali practically invented, Pacman brings a humble, straight-forward and [...]

By Al Francis: For me, there are five key questions surrounding the proposed mega fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. It’s the biggest fight that could be made and to say it could be the most anticipated fight of the decade is not false hype. In my last article, I admitted defeat regarding my [...]

By Adam Fillingham: I have written a few articles on this website. Some controversial, some not so. But I intensely read the articles posted on this website and in recent times the main discussion is around the ‘mega’ fight between Manny ‘Pac-Man’ Pacquiao and Floyd ‘money’ Mayweather.

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s pretty much academic now that the United States will be winning the overall Super Six tournament. Not only will we have the ultimate winner with either Andre Ward or Andre Dirrell taking the honors, but our fighters will score higher than the other European fighters in the Super Six tourney. Ward’s [...]

By Mark Fletcher: I was left a little bewildered the other day after British magazine ‘BoxingNews’ (Not to be confused with boxingnews24.com). Inside the magazine there was a column stating that the World Boxing Council were hoping to stop fathers from working in the corners of their sons, what puzzled me more was a statement [...]

By Liam Santiago: Dmitry Salita wants to follow in the footsteps of Breidis Prescott by knocking Amir Khan out when they meet in Newcastle on December 5th. There is a huge blue print on how to knock Khan down as it has been done on more than a couple of occasions. Is Salita a power [...]

By Liam Santiago: Legendary boxing trainer and expert Floyd Mayweather Snr has now had time to analyze the Pacquiao/Cotto fight in more detail and, like myself and many other boxing experts, he is not impressed with Pacquiao. Pacquiao can not fight someone who goes back (like Mayweather), he doesn’t move his head and he rarely [...]

By Liam Santiago: I am sick and tired of hearing people saying Andre Dirrell beat Carl Froch. It is really starting to boil my kettle. Recently Dirrell’s trainer or advisor or whatever has claimed Froch was beaten. Amir Khan has also stated his thoughts on a ‘hometown decision’. Bo**ocks! Froch beat him clearly. On my [...]

By Liam Santiago: Thank you Nate Campbell. Finally, someone with some sense. Manny Pacquiao has really been boiling my kettle lately with his wins over fighter’s who were either shot, weight drained, or shot and weight drained. However, I am certainly not alone in my thinking, lightweight legend Nate Campbell sides with me. Speaking to [...]

By Steve Lewis: After Manny Pacquiao’s dominant performance against top welterweight, Miguel Cotto, to capture a championship in a record-breaking 7th weight class, numerous Pacquiao skeptics became “converts.” Or at least, they were willing to finally give some due credit. Of course, you will never win them all completely because there will always be the [...]

By Chris Williams: Mikkel Kessler looked nothing like a champion in his loss to Andre Ward in an 11th round technical decision last weekend in their Super Six tournament bout . Kessler, 30, lost his World Boxing Association super middleweight title in a bout in which he was totally dominated by the young 25-year-old Ward. [...]

By Liam Brindle: I honestly believe that too many people (including myself) have seriously underestimated Manny ‘Pac-Man’ Pacquiao. Every fight he has had in the past 12 months there seems to have been hundreds of people doubting the little Filipino. Whether it is on sites like this one, Forums, Boxing pundits, Fellow fighters and even [...]

By Derrick Villanueva: I recently wrote an article entitled 5 Reasons Why You Should Bet on Pacquiao. I think it’s only fair to write a similar article for “Money.” “Money” has Great Defense – I’ve never seen a better defensive fighter than Mayweather. Never. Maybe Ali in his early career, but that’s about it. “Money” [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I got a few chuckles reading the latest boxing news quotes on Amir Khan at The Guardian where Khan says “What happened to me against [Breidis] Prescott didn’t make Prescott a better fighter than me. It was a little mistake I made.” A little mistake? Yeah, I guess you could call being [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Ever since British cruiserweight turned heavyweight David Haye captured the World Boxing Association on November 7th with a boring 12 round decision over Nikolay Valuev, I’ve been hearing how Haye is the heavyweight that the boxing world has been waiting for since Mike Tyson called it quits on his career. Unfortunately, I [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Former World Boxing Organization light heavyweight champion Zsolt Erdei (31-0, 17 KO’s) defeated 40-year-old WBC cruiserweight champion Giacobbe Fragomeni (26-2-1, 10 KO’s) by a 12 round majority decision on Saturday night to capture the WBC title at the Sparkassen Arena, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The final judges’ scores were 115-113, 114-114 and 115-113. [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s starting to boil my kettle reading how some boxing fans are questioning the new World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Andre Ward’s impressive 11th round technical decision win over Mikkel Kessler last weekend in the Super Six tournament bout in Oakland, California.

By Jorge Lugo: On January 30th, 2010 Andre Berto will take on Shane Mosley in what is a unification bout for the World Boxing Council and WBA welterweight titles. Mosley, the WBA champion is a boxing legend who is recognized for his fast and heavy handed punches. Berto, the WBC champion is known to be [...]

By Harold Tackie: I have seen a lot of rubbish articles regarding the possible fight between two fighters regarded as pound-4-pound the best in the world. Some be Floyd Mayweather Jr. will get hammered because all he does is run; others believe World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will get hammered because he is [...]