Archive for November, 2009

By Scott Gilfoid: Every fighter has to get old sooner or later. Usually they get out of the sport of boxing long before the start to age, because most fighters tend to have short careers. Tomorrow night, WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler will be feeling the effects of father time when he takes on [...]

By Steven Wain: Ok before I start let me congratulate both fighters on an absolutely fantastic performance, right from the first bell all the way to the last there was amazing action for any boxing fan. Both boxers took and gave punishment and in my eyes both of them are winners.

By Scott Gilfoid: World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch was sounding a little bit cocky in today’s Super Six tourney press release in talking about recently beaten Americans Andre Dirrell and Jermain Taylor, commenting “The Yank’s aren’t having the best of times so far. I felt for Jermain Taylor getting stopped in the [...]

By Jorge Lugo: Beyond other forms of competition such as basketball, baseball, football, etc. Boxing is truly one of the only sanctuaries where a fighter speaks for himself. The question? Simple. You want respect? You want legacy? You go and get it. In what is an explanation of boxing in it’s most simplistic form, Ivan [...]

By Joseph Torres: With the imminent mega-fight of all mega-fights looming between Manny Pacquaio and Floyd Mayweather Jr., Shane Mosley takes on a less competitive and lucrative fight with World Boxing Council title holder, Andre Berto. But is Shane really on the outside looking in?

By Mark Phillips: After millions watched in awe at Manny Pacquiao’s destructive TKO over Miguel Cotto on November 14th where Pacquiao claimed a record breaking seven world titles in seven different weight divisions, it seems as though boxing has finally been fully resurrected, standing proud in light of its most exciting weight class, with a [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe had a few thoughts on the dull bout between WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev and British heavyweight David Haye, saying in the Southwalesargus “I don’t think you can really blame Haye [for the boring fight] for that. Valuev is absolutely awful, a poor [...]

by Daniel Ciminera: So the fight is upon us, fight 3 of the super six tournament. Mikkel Kessler, the World Boxing Association champion, versus the relatively inexperienced American prospect, Andre Ward. As the old saying goes, “styles make fights”, and this is no exception.

By Charles Barrett: Love him or Hate him it’s hard to deny, that David Haye brings much needed excitement To a tired heavyweight division, and rather than knock him at every opportunity we should hope he is able to stick around for while, because where he goes excitement follows. In no particular order here are [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: 44-year-old Bernard Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 KO’s) is reportedly interested in facing World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye next year if the bout can be made. For this to happen, Hopkins will have to beat his next opponent Enrique Ornelas, who Hopkins will be facing on December 2nd.

by Davey Jackson: Welcome to the Philippines. A conglomerate of over 7000 islands off the coast of Pacific Asia, made up of numerous cultures and ethnicity’s. The technologically superior Spanish conquerors of the 16th/17th century arrived and over the course of a few hundred years, would be troubled by the peoples of these lands. From [...]

By Dewi Powell: My previous article described Cotto-Pacquiao as a fight that is the pinnacle of the welterweight decade; I worded it carefully because I knew the winner of that fight against Mayweather would be the pinnacle of the welterweight era! However, most people seem to have already predicted that Mayweather-Pacquiao has an absolute certain [...]

By Adam Fillingham: Kell Brook the current British welterweight champion won his British title out right, after his third defence on July the 18Th, in sensational style against the tough Prizefighter winner Michael Lomax. Since then, Kell has been touted as one of Britain’s biggest boxing prospects and matched up to the highly thought of, [...]

By Jorge Lugo: It seems I have become a marked man on BoxingNews! All Floyd Mayweather Jr. followers have bashed me in regards to my most recent article stating “Floyd Mayweather Jr. is overrated, period!” Now fortunately for me, I couldn’t care less what the next man thinks.

By Liam Fitzgerald: After Manny Pacquiao’s stunning demolition of Miguel Cotto on Saturday night we are surely now set up for the ultimate showdown: Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather. There’s no point denying that these two fighters are in a class of their own and the p4p number one spot cannot be truly held by [...]

By Steven Wain: On tomorrow’s (20th November 2009) Friday fight night bin man Rendall Munroe will put his EBU (European) super bantamweight title on the line; the fight will also be the final eliminator for the chance to fight for the WBC super bantamweight world title. Munroe will fight against Italian opponent Simone Maludrottu in [...]

By Peter Wells: As the year of 2009 draws to a close with only 6 fighting weeks remaining, and only a few big fights to draw a close to a controversial and exciting year. It is now time to start to look ahead to 2010, fights are being made and whispers are spreading around, but [...]

By Kevin Park: You know what’s the most annoying thing about World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquaio? His one-sided biased fan base. I hate many of Pacquiao’s fans for their arrogance and ignorance, seriously. Many of the anti-Mayweather fans who claim he is over-rated, the majority are annoying Pacman fans. There is an excuse [...]

By Zachary M. Johnson: One drinks his own urine, and the other drinks entirely too much Guinness. Both are on the wrong side of thirty. Both are coming off of losses to megastars Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. And they both still think they are main event fighters, apparently, as evidenced by Richard Schaefer’s [...]

By Will Cruz: From the months leading up to the mega fight between the Pacman and Fearless Miguel Cotto up until fight night, I was as excited as everyone for these two to get in the ring. I followed both camps closely, watched every interview, training video and 2 hours of HBO’s 24/7.

By Joel Nepomuceno: In light of Saturday night’s total annihilation of Miguel Cotto, Pacquiao laid claim to being the only boxer to have seven titles in seven divisions. The past few days as the high of his dominance comes to a calm, skeptics naturally question if Manny Pacquiao really is a once in a lifetime [...]

By Jack Beynon: Now, I will never hide the fact that I am a Kessler fan. However, I am also not blinded by my support. So I figured, in light of recent articles, that I should submit my own, more objective, opinion to the site. Kessler vs. Ward; admittedly, before the Super Six competition came [...]

By Ibrar Arshaid: I recently read a post by a fellow writer Jorge Lugo headlined ‘Floyd Mayweather is overrated’. I read the article and read all the responses and I honestly was in shock that so many people actually think that Mayweather is overrated. The responses were just ridiculous, ‘Floyd has never fought anyone in [...]

By Manuel Perez: I thought the catch weight bouts for Manny Pacquiao were done and finished with his fight with World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto last weekend, but I guess I’m wrong. Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach, in an article with Philstar, said “ Maybe we can do Marquez one more time and give [...]

By William Mackay: Amir Khan, the WBA light welterweight champion, doesn’t see himself fighting World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao in the future because of how long it will take for him to get up to Pacquiao’s level. In an interview at the Sportinglife, Khan said “But as for fighting him in the future, [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news, Fight Hype is reporting that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is looking at fighting several different opponents if a fight with Manny Pacquiao can’t be made. The opponents are as follows: Matthew Hatton, Dimitriy Salita and Carlos Quintana. This is somewhat shocking news, because the boxing world has [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch is counting on WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler beating Andre Ward this Saturday night in their Super Six bout in Oakland, California. Froch, 32, has selfish reasons for wanting Kessler to win the fight, namely because Froch wants a shot at winning Kessler’s [...]

By Rowell Anthony Maghirang: There is no denying that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has got boxing skills. He probably has the best defensive style in the game. On the other hand, we have the Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, who nobody, in the right state of mind, can deny has got one of the most powerful offensive weaponry [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Kevin Johnson (22-0-1, 9 KO’s) had a few choice words to say about the new World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye in an open letter from Johnson to Haye, saying “I have to say that your fight with Nikolay [Valuev] was the worst fight that I ever witnessed [...]

By Liam Santiago: Floyd Mayweather Snr has hinted again that he believes that World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao might be using steroids. Speaking to the New York Post, Mayweather stated that given the circumstances he would not like his son to fight Pacquiao. He said, ”I have my own personal reasons. I don’t [...]