Archive for December, 2009

By Dave Lahr: World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Kitschko (38-2, 37 KO’s) will be returning to action this Saturday night in a title defense against unbeaten American Kevin Johnson (22-0-1, 9 KO’s) at the PostFinance Arena, in Berne, Switzerland. It’s only been three months since the 38-year-old Klitschko last fought and with that kind [...]

By William Mackay: Based on his past fights, I’m not expecting to see World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan facing a tough opponent in the future. Khan has been handled with kid gloves since his brutal 1st round knockout loss last year against Breidis Prescott. Khan has rebounded from that loss, albeit against [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Recently knocked out Ricky Hatton isn’t looking to be fighting World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan as of yet, according to The Guardian. However, if Hatton does come back, Khan won’t be the next fighter he goes after.

By Dave Lahr: For those who saw Chris Arreola (28-1, 25 KO’s) defeat an undersized Brian Minto in a 4th round stoppage last Saturday night at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, they couldn’t have been too impressed with what they saw in Arreola. After talking about spending more time in training after a 10th [...]

By Peter Wells: Now after 1 fight each Ali Funeka leads the way, but there are more fight to come they are: Ali Funeka vs Michael Katsidis Funeka will be in high hopes after beating Mitchell, and Katsidis should be well recovered after losing to Joan Guzman. Ali should struggle at times to get Katsidis [...]

By Peter Wells: Don’t worry, I’m not going to become obsessed with the Super Six, but for my next articles I will be talking about a Super Six tournament in these weight divisions: Lightweight, Light Welterweight, Welterweight, Middleweight, Light Heavyweight, Cruiserweight and Heavyweight.

By William Mackay: Last Saturday night, World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan took out Dmitriy Salita in a 1st round knockout at the Metro Arena, in Newcastle. The win appears to have created a minor Khan craze and made boxing fans from all regions view Khan as being the new world wild star [...]

By William Mackay: British amateur prospects James DeGale, Frankie Gavin and Billy Joe Saunders were all successful on Saturday night on the undercard of the World Boxing Association title match between Amir Khan and Dmitry Salita, at the Metro Arena, in Newcastle.

By Eamon McDonald: I will start off this article by saying I am not writing a report on either fight, I am merely going to be suggesting future opponents for last night’s winners: Paul Williams and Amir Khan. What a victory by Khan, Salita obviously isn’t a very good opponent but for him to get [...]

Photo credit: Naoki Fukuda – By Sam Gregory: In the main event at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on December 5th Paul Williams and Sergio Martinez fought a 12 round non-title bout in the middleweight division that will surely be a candidate for “fight of the year”. This fight was non-stop action from the opening [...]

By Peter Wells: After Amir Khan’s fantastic 1st round stoppage of Dmitriy Salita has now opened the doors to a new world of fights. I expected Amir to stop Salita after 7 rounds, not 1, and that was a spectacular display of power and speed, absolutely breath taking. I can say that Khan’s move up [...]

By Peter Wells: After three great wars, Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez will step into the ring for the fourth time against each other, in what is promised to be the best yet. It will be a night to remember and is near enough impossible to call. Whatever happens in their other fights has nothing [...]

By Liam Santiago: Let me get one thing very straight. Dmitriy Salita is one of the weakest light welterweight fighter’s I have ever seen in my entire life. That includes all journeymen, not just champions and challengers. I was in hysterics listening to the sky pundits Glen McCory and Jonny Nelson hyping Salita like he [...]

By Peter Wells: Last night Kevin Mitchell rose up from Super Featherweight to take on the man who only last year, knocked out Amir Khan in under a minute. Breidis Prescott was beaten last night for sure, but it was far from an easy ride for Kevin. In this fight I was expecting Mitchell to [...]

By Sam Gregory: In the co-main event on HBO boxing from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, Chris Arreola scored his twenty-fifth knockout against the very game Brian Minto in the heavyweight division. From the opening bell it was clear to see that Arreola was the bigger stronger man. In the first round Arreola mixed up [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: First let me start off by saying that the decision given to Kevin Mitchell (30-0, 22 KO’s) was one of the most undeserving that I’ve ever seen since I started following boxing many years ago. No way did I see Mitchell winning this fight, not with the running he did against the [...]

By Charles Barrett: 74 seconds was all it took for Amir Khan to send Dmitriy Sialita back to New York Probably never to be heard of again I didn’t for one second think Sialita had the tools to dethrone Khan but equally I didn’t foresee quite such an overwhelming victory.

By Klaas Mabetlela: Julio Cesar Chavez and Marvin Hagler got me into boxing and when I reflect into the career of JC Superstar, I understand exactly why. It will help some of the younger boxing fans to look into careers of these all-time greats to enhance their understanding of boxing. Younger fans tend to underestimate [...]

By Eric Thomas: Unbeaten welterweight contender/prospect Saul Alvarez (30-0-1, 22 KOs) defeated Lanardo Tyner (21-3, 13 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision tonight at the el Meson de los Deportes in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico. Despite not having faced anyone of note in the welterweight division, the slow of hand and foot Alvarez is currently [...]

By Jim Dower: World Boxing Organization interim light middleweight champion Paul Williams (38-1, 27 KOs) defeated WBC light middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (44-2-2, 24 KOs) by a 12 round majority decision at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Martinez knocked Williams down in the 1st round, but Williams repaid the favor by knocking [...]

By Sean McDaniel: European Boxing Union middleweight champion Matthew Macklin (26-2, 18 KO’s) easily defeated Rafael Sosa Pintos (34-5, 13 KO’s) by a 10 round decision on Saturday night at the National Stadium, in Dublin, Ireland. Referee Emile Tiedt scored the bout 99-88 in Macklin’s favor. Macklin, 27, knocked Pintos down four separate times in [...]

By Jim Dower: Heavyweight Chris Arreola (28-1, 27 KOs) looked good tonight in destroying heavyweight contender Brian Minto (34-3, 21 KO’s) in a 4th round stoppage tonight at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Arreola, 28, dropped Minto twice in the 4th round with huge shots to the head. After the 2nd knockdown, [...]

By Jim Dower: Heavyweight contender Tony Thompson (33-2, 20 KO’s) was too much for fringe contender Chazz Witherspoon (26-1, 18 KOs) tonight, stopping him in the 9th round at the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Thompson, 38, battered Witherspoon with right hooks and straight lefts until the fight was stopped at 2:13 with Witherspoon [...]

By Erik Schmidt: In a stay busy fight, heavyweight contender Alexander Povetkin (18-0, 13 KO’s) defeated Leo Nolan (27-2, 10 KOs) by a 3rd round stoppage on the undercard of the WBO cruiserweight bout between champion Marco Huck and interim champion Ola Afolabi on Saturday night at Arena, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Povetkin, 30, outworked the [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Making his first defense of his World Boxing Organization cruiserweight title, champion Marco Huck (27-1, 20 KO’s) defeated WBO interim champion Ola Afolabi (14-2, 6 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision at the Arena, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The final judges’ scores were 115-113, 115-113 and 116-112. Huck, only 25, outworked Afolabi [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Carlos Quintana (27-2, 21 KOs) got up off the deck in the 2nd round to stop journeyman Jesse Feliciano (15-8-3, 9 KOs) tonight on the undercard of the Paul Williams vs. Sergio Martinez bout at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The fight was [...]

By Richie Doyle: As a young gambling boxing fan I find myself gob smacked at what I witnessed Saturday night in Newcastle my bets consisted of two sizable bets one on Breidis Prescott to KO the smaller Kevin Mitchell and the other was on Dmitry Salita to beat an overrated Amir Khan and by god [...]

By Peter Wells: Some people may not know who I’m talking about, but Andrade is a very good and young talent with a bright future. If you disagree then that’s fine, I’ve watched a couple of his fights and I’ve been very impressed. The southpaw Light Middleweight started off with an amazing 2nd round stoppage [...]

By Peter Wells: After only just over a week since this fight was in the making, already I have heard so many people talking about this fight. It makes me even more excited when people predict what will happen, and the more you think about it, the quicker you want it to come. This fight [...]

By Amar Jahangir: The words of Freddy ‘The Master’ Roach just minutes ago after Khan produced an amazing display of speed, power and intelligence. I hope Khan goes for Ricky Hatton next, I honestly think people do not understand how talented Khan is, at only 22 he was world champ. He is the quickest boxer [...]