Archive for December, 2010

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten heavyweight Tyson Fury (13-0, 9 KO’s) is looking for an opponent for his next fight in the near year for February. Although no one has been selected at this time, a good choice for the 6’9″ Fury would be unbeaten heavyweight contender Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s), who doesn’t have a [...]

By Chris Williams: Nonito Donaire (25-1, 17 KO’s) is good at dishing out punishment with left hooks and right hands to the head, but he’s a lot different fighter when he starts getting hit hard. This was the case when he took on Rafael Concepcion in August 2009. Concepcion figured out how to batter Donaire [...]

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao had the chance to pick among three opponents – two of them I would consider worthy and the third a real poor choice. So of the three fighters who does Pacquiao choose? He picks the poor one in 39-yer-old Shane Mosley.

By Jim Amato: He was a three time holder of the flyweight title. He was a major player in the flyweight division for a almost fifteen years. His record reads like a who’s who of the best flyweights of that era. He was Thailand’s Chartchai Chionoi.

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has tipped his hand by saying he wants to fight IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko rather than his brother WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. Frankly, I smell a rat and I don’t like it.

By Dan Ambrose: It looks pretty clear that WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KO’s) isn’t going to luck out and get a big money fight with a current two-division world champion Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather Jr. As such, Martinez needs to go after a unification bout against unbeaten World Boxing Organization (WBO) [...]

By Chris Williams: Since capturing the World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title last year against Miguel Cotto, Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs) has defended the title once against Joshua Clottey in March of this year. On May 7th, Pacquiao will defend the title for a second time against 39-year-old Shane Mosley, who isn’t currently ranked [...]

By Jason Kim: Like a lot of boxing fans, I’m not too thrilled at Manny Pacquiao’s choice of opponent for his next fight on May 7th. I think Shane Mosley has had a great career, but when picking opponents to face Pacquiao, ideally they should at least be winning their recent fights you would think. [...]

Ashley “Treasure” Theophane, the current IBO International welterweight champion believes his shot at the British light welterweight title is now 3 years overdue. The globetrotting Londoner who has been training in America for the past 5 years sparring the likes of world champions Joan Guzman, Yuri Foreman, Elio Rojas and Paul Malignaggi will finally get [...]

By Dave Lahr: WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KO’s) has my vote for fighter of the year in 2010 for his wins over Kelly Pavlik and Paul Williams. Those performances were something special in that Martinez, 35, made two good fighters look bad in easy wins for Martinez. There are some boxing fans [...]

Boxing results – Stedelijke Sporthalle, Izegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium: Jackson Osei Bonsu DQ 2 Luiz Augusto Dos Santos

Boxing results from the Super Arena, Saitama, Saitama, Japan: Daiki Kameda SD 12 Silvio Olteanu WBA World flyweight title Koki Kameda UD 12 Alexander Munoz vacant WBA World bantamweight title Tomoki Kameda KO 3 Pichitchai Twins Gym

By Scott Gilfoid: One of Amir Khan’s victims, Dmitri Salita (32-1-1, 17 KO’s), says he wants to fight Ricky Hatton of all people, and he wants to fight him in Israel. This is kind of amusing. Salita, 28, was for some reason ranked at the number #1 position last year by the World Boxing Association [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s sad when fighters have hopeless pipe dreams that have basically zero chance of ever happening in this lifetime. WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is a classic case of one of those pipe dream wishing fighters with his latest dream of himself, Amir Khan and Carl Froch all unifying titles in 2011. [...]

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) is denying that he’s been taking performance enhancing drugs to assist him in his career. This is in response to some rumors that have been circulating around about him. In an article at the dailystar.co.uk, Khan said “It is hurtful. I am drug [...]

By Robert Dean: Timothy Bradley and Devon Alexander are both great for the sport of boxing. They don’t shy away from tough competition and real matchups that the fans are interested to follow and watch. Too often boxing has contests where one overwhelming favorite wants an easy win against an underdog looking for a payday.

By Dan Ambrose: Promoter Bob Arum has dug up 39-year-old relic Shane Mosley for Manny Pacquiao to fight on May 7th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is one of the few last named fighters that Arum can dig up for Pacquiao. There’s really not too many other fighters that boxing fans [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Down on his luck former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (31-2, 25 Ko’s) is reportedly kicking around the idea of fighting a tune-up bout in February against a still to be determined opponent to get his confidence up and regain his form before facing unbeaten Andre Ward (23-0, 13 KO’s) in the [...]

By Chris Williams: Former IBF flyweight champion Nonito Donaire (25-1, 17 KO’s) has the tough task of facing the hard punching WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (44-2-2, 34 KO’s) on February 19th at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Up until this fight, Donaire, 28, has been accustomed to being the [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham’s days of destroying over-matched sub par middleweight division are long over. Now, Abraham is laboring at the super middleweight division and doing a poor job of it against the better athletes and the more talented opposition. Thus far, Abraham has lost two of his three fights [...]

By Dave Lahr: IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) was supposed to be fighting unbeaten Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) recently, but Wladimir suddenly came up late the week of the fight complaining of a abdominal injury. At first I figured that no way Wladimir would ever consider ducking someone like Chisora, but [...]

By Dave Lahr: I didn’t acknowledge Manny Pacquiao’s last fight against Antonio Margarito as being for any kind of title since the fight was held at a catch weight of 150 pounds against a fighter that had only fought once at junior middleweight in the past six years prior to the Pacquiao bout. The WBC [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I have bad news for British boxing fans. Some of their biggest heros, Amir Khan, Carl Froch and David Haye, are very likely going to lose in 2011 and take major beatings in the process. It’s part of boxing for a fighters to get whipped but these guys are long overdue. Khan [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: For 2011 we can forget about Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley; everyone already knows the outcome of that fight. Pacquiao is simply going to give the aged and rickety Mosley a beat down. This is a fight which outcome was decided the day it was made by Bob Arum. This fight is [...]

By Dan Ambrose: 39-year-old Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s) will be getting his biggest payday of his career against Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KO’s) on May 7th. Picked because of his resume rather than what he’s done recently, Mosley is going to make a minimum of $5 million for the Pacquiao bout and possibly even [...]

By Gerardo Granados: There was an authentic Circus around the selection of Congressman Manny Pacquiao´s next opponent, too much names considered but only one choice, the obvious one. Fans around the world had different opinions but at the end there was no surprise and money was the primal factor to determine who would be the [...]

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) says he’s 85% sure he’ll be fighting IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) next, perhaps in April or May according to news from Sky Sports. Haye is trying to negotiate a fight with Wladimir Klitschko for early 2011 so [...]

By Jason Kim: Unbeaten WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s) will be making his move for the number one position in the light welterweight division by taking on WBC light welterweight title holder Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) on January 29th at the Silverdome, in Pontiac, Michigan. For the 27-year-old Bradley, this [...]

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum is 100% convinced that 39-year-old Shane Mosley is the best possible opponent for Pacquiao compared to the young unbeaten, blistering fast and powerful Andre Berto and Mexican warrior Juan Manuel Marquez. Mosley hasn’t won a fight in almost two whole years, and Arum wants boxing fans to [...]

By Eric Thomas: If WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) can get by his next fight against former two division world champion 37-year-old Ricard Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s), Cotto will be facing Antonio Margarito in a rematch during the Summer months. Cotto, 30, was beaten up badly and stopped by Margarito two [...]