Archive for December, 2010

By Dave Lahr: If you bother to look at Shane Mosley’s last two fights, you’ll probably have noticed that his conditioning has horrible. He’s looked tire and even slightly flabby in his 12 round draw with Sergio Mora. But you never know if Mosley might be able to find the conditioning that enabled him to [...]

By Sean McDaniel: The latest news on the big mega fight between IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is that everything is taken care except for the venue and the fight date. Since those are seemingly smaller items compared to things like the purse split, it’s looking we’re going to [...]

Pugilistic Promotions’ “Badia Spices Friday Night Fights” returns with a stellar night of boxing on January 14th at the Magic City Casino featuring what promises to be a war between two unbeaten light heavyweight prospects.

Calgary, AB – Teofista Boxing is proud to announce its first promotion of 2011 which will see two of the fastest rising stars in Canadian boxing showcased in an exciting night of boxing live from the beautiful Chinese Cultural Centre in Calgary, Canada on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011.

by Francisco Hernandez: Future boxing writers will not remember Manny Pacquiao for any boxing greatness, because time will give them the perspective to realize how ordinary he really is. Of course today’s main stream media gives Pacquiao all kinds of accolades, how he is so nice, and his accomplishments in government, etc, but they are [...]

By Chris Williams: Just think boxing fans could have been given a treat of watching Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez for a third fight, boxing fans will have to settle for seeing Pacquiao beat up on 39-year-old Shane Mosley on May 7th. This is so sad for the fans of the sport, this looking [...]

By Chris Williams: A fight that belongs in the main event on May 7th instead of on the undercard is the rematch between World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Humberto Soto (54-7-2, 32 KO’s) and challenger Urbano Antillon (28-2, 20 KO’s), who will be fighting on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: ESPN writer Dan Rafael is strongly in favor of WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan facing his former conqueror Breidis Prescott in a long awaited rematch next year in Khan’s next fight in April instead of Lamont Peterson. Khan’s fans are totally against him fighting Prescott and want him to stay a [...]

By William Mackay: Even if WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) is carefully matched in 2011, I can still see him getting beaten twice before the year is up. I think his recent “win” over Marcos Maidana took something out of him, making him more perceptible to getting hurt in the future [...]

By Chris Williams: WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KO’s) would like nothing better than to get a fight against WBA junior middleweight title holder Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s). The only problem is that Martinez doesn’t fight for Top Rank like Cotto, and Cotto’s promoter Bob Arum likes to keep his fights in [...]

By Dan Ambrose: 20-year-year-old Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) and his management are kidding themselves if they want this kid to stay at welterweight and fight for the WBA welterweight paper title against little known Vyacheslav Senchenko next year. It’s a waste of a time to have Alvarez, now the WBC Silver junior middleweight champion, [...]

VERONA, NY (December 31, 2010)—Former World Boxing Council (WBC) Caribbean champion, Manuel Quezada will attempt to win back that crown when he takes on Mike Mollo in the twelve round main event on Saturday night, January 29th at the beautiful Turning Stone Resort and Casino.

By Allen Hmiel: Manny Pacquiao seems to be walking on water and glorified by the boxing public as a great fighter. He isn’t. Pacquiao through management and astute match-ups coupled with the great training abilities of his trainer Freddie Roach has been given easy winnable fights over old battered and way past their prime fighters [...]

By Chris Williams: 40ish Shane Mosley probably won’t stand much of a chance against the younger Manny Pacquiao if he blindly tries to slug with him the way that Pacquiao’s recent victims Miguel Cotto, Joshua Clottey and Antonio Margarito fave foolishly attempted to do in losing efforts against the Filipino fighter. Mosley, 5’9″, says he [...]

By William Mackay: I think HBO would really help themselves if they pushed to have Argentinian knockout artist Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) face the winner of the Timothy Bradley vs. Devon Alexander bout instead of WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan. Think of it it like this way: By having Maidana fight Bradley or [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) has a tough task ahead of him in his fight next month on January 29th against World Boxing Organization (WBO) light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s) when they battle it out at the Silverdome, in Pontiac, Michigan. This isn’t going to [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Rather than step it up and face one of the top welterweights or light welterweight champions, it’s looking like WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (52-5-1, 38 KO’s) will be taking on 34-year-old three-time world champion Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) on April 16th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, [...]

Nathan Cleverly has revealed his New Year’s resolution – to fight in Wales for the first time in more than three years. The Interim World Boxing Organization (WBO) World Light-Heavyweight champion has won his title, as well as the British, Commonwealth and European crowns, on the road.

By Allen Hmiel: Carl Froch coming off a stunning lopsided easy victory over the deflated and overrated Arthur Abraham is in position to continue his winning ways. Glen Johnson should be tailor made for the British Cobra Froch in their upcoming match-up. The total and complete domination and destruction of the once highly thought of [...]

NEW YORK (December 30, 2010) – Top-rated female super-bantamweight contender Alicia “Slick” Ashley of Brooklyn, NY will face the aggressive Crystal Hoy in the intriguing eight round main event of Maureen Shea’s Pandora Promotions in association with Global Boxing Promotions’ “Brooklyn Explosion” on Thursday, January 13th at the Masonic Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

By Jason Kim: Former six division world champion Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KO’s) doesn’t plan on making a comeback, according to news from Dan Rafael on his twitter. Responding to rumors that the 37-year-old De La Hoya was considering making a comeback, Rafael says he asked De La Hoya if it were true [...]

By Dave Lahr: Manny Pacquiao, with the help of his legions of fans. was able to beat out WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez for Fighter of the Year for 2010 in the Ring Fan Poll. The final results were Pacquiao 71%, Martinez 24%. Juan Manuel Lopez 2%, Fernando Montiel 2% and Giovanii Segura 1%. It’s [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: Nonito Donaire may be regretting having finally decided to sign the fight with Fernando Montiel. When Fernando Montiel fought champion Hozumi Hasegawa, the Japanese press considered this to be one of the most important fights in Japanese boxing history, if Hasegawa was victorious against Montiel, Hasegawa they said would be considered the [...]

Totowa, NJ – Kathy Duva, Main Events CEO, announced their promotional firm won the purse bid held at International Boxing Federation (IBF) headquarters in East Orange, NJ, Thursday. The bid was for the right to hold the IBF’s junior welterweight title fight between Zab Judah of Brooklyn, NY and Las Vegas, and South Africa’s Kaizer [...]

By Chris Williams: This is supposed to be a mere tune-up bout for WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) when he takes on Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) on March 12th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, but when you’ve taken as much punishment as Cotto has during the past [...]

By Jim Dower: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan and his handlers are looking for someone for him to fight in his next bout in April of next year. Thus far, light welterweight contender Lamont Peterson’s name has been floated by Khan as someone he could be facing in this fight.

By Chris Williams: 39-year-old Shane Mosley realizes that WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is going to be coming to knock him out on May 7th in their fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm (34-2-1, 14 KO’s) will continue to milk his World Boxing Association title by taking on Ronald Hearns (26-1, 20 KO’s) on February 19th at the Porsche Arena, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

By Gerardo Granados: I guess a fight between these two would not be a good match because of their styles, can you imagine both of them countering all night long? That would not be very exiting to watch, although if they had good motivation to win, that fight might have been very tactical and one [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to an inside source, the mega fight between IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBA heavyweight title holder David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) will likely take place on April 30th or in May.