Archive for December, 2010

By Dan Ambrose: The Klitschko brothers, who share three of the four heavyweight titles, made a joint statement recently to the German news organization the Bild, saying “We promise that in 2011 the fight against [WBA heavyweight champion David] Haye will come. We want this fight at all costs. He may choose against which of [...]

By John F McKenna (McJack): In 1941 Joe Louis defended his title 7 times, including his classic match against the great Light Heavyweight Champion Billy Conn (Joe Louis vs Billy Conn – You Tube). The “Pittsburgh Kid” was as slick a boxer as their ever was and was ahead of the judges scorecards going into [...]

By John F McKenna (McJack): Joseph Louis was born in Lafayette, Alabama, the 7th of 8 children to a dirt poor sharecropper. When Joe was 12 years old his family moved to Detroit in search of opportunity. Joe became interested in boxing at a young age. He would use the money that his mother gave [...]

By Rod Bautista: What has dominated discussion on this site is the scheduled fight between Sugar Shane Mosley and Manny Pacquiao. Everyone has opined about the quality of this bout questioning the reasoning behind this. To look at the reasoning for this bout you must look at the big picture. Unfortunately no matter how you [...]

By Chris Williams: I think Shane Mosley is a terrible choice of an opponent for Manny Pacquiao, and it only makes me think that Bob Arum and Pacquiao are tuned out from what the casual boxing fans want to see as an opponent for Manny.

A Special Christmas Greeting from WBC Middleweight Champion and 2010 Fighter of the Year, Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez Sincerely Boxing Friends:

By William Mackay: World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight champion Amir Khan doesn’t appear to be interested in fighting undefeated Kell Brook. Khan needs an opponent for his next fight in April in the UK.

By Juan dela Cruz: Pacquiao haters see only those fights where Manny fought a couple of fighters that were previously been defeated by Floyd, thus making them say Manny is fighting Floyd’s leftovers. But they never see three boxers whom Floyd is scared of and were demolished by Pac, Cotto, Clottey and Margarito.

By William Mackay: I think I speak for pretty much everyone here when I say that the next opponent for WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) should be knockout article Breidis Prescott rather than the light punching no chance Lamont Peterson.

By Dave Lahr: Why is Manny Pacquiao suddenly fighting all of Floyd Mayweather’s leftovers? First it was Ricky Hatton after Mayweather had beaten the taste out of his mouth in 2007, and now it’s Shane Mosley, who Mayweather easily beat this year by a horribly one-sided fight. Doesn’t Bob Arum have any other ideas for [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KO’s) wants to fight World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-0, 21 KO’s) next. Cintron and Berto both have the same promoter, so you would think the fight would be easy to put together. However, Cintron thinks that Berto is purposely being [...]

By Jim Dower: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) will be facing yet another over-matched mediocre challenger, this one the fat 260+ pound unbeaten Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) in his next title defense next year. Solis, 30, recently defeated 40-year-old Ray Austin by a 10th round disqualification on December 17th. Solis looked [...]

By Jason Kim: The proposed cruiserweight tournament could take place in 2011 but instead of having six participants, it’s possibly going to be only four, according Dan Rafael of ESPN. The fighters that will possibly be taking part in the tournament are Steve Cunningham, Marco Huck, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk, Guillermo Jones or Steve Herelius. The cruiserweight [...]

By Chris Williams: It looks like Manny Pacquiao is going to give Bob Arum and trainer Freddie Roach in trying to build up Shane Mosley in the eyes of boxing fans so that people will see his May 7th fight against the 39-year-old Mosley as a competitive one rather than the slaughter that it appears [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: Top fight of the year 2010 is Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Michael Katsidis. This fight was all action from start to finish, no lull in the action, every second of the fight packed with adrenalin, both fighters in top physical shape, both fighters with an equal chance of winning the fight, Katsidis [...]

By Dan Ambrose: The Klitschko brothers made a statement in the German news publication at the BILD, saying “We promise that in 2011 the fight against [David] Haye will come. We want this fight at all costs. he can choose which of us he wants to step into the ring against to lose his world [...]

By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news, WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (30-0, 27 KO’s) will be fighting in April next year against inexperienced super bantamweight Teon Kennedy (16-0, 7 KO’s) in what amounts to be little more than a stay busy fight for Lopez. It’s not a particularly interested fight, as [...]

By Jason Kim: Manny Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum has been skillfully matching him against old beatable fighters, ones that have been beaten up and less known fighters from his Top Rank stable in the past couple of years. Now he’s matched up Pacquiao with a fighter that pretty much the entire boxing world thinks is [...]

By Terry Arthur: After a successful amateur career including a bronze at the world amateur championships. Carl Froch turned pro in march 2002. He then went on to capture the English super middleweight belt in 2003 and the British and commonwealth belts in 2004. These belts took him up the rankings and earned him the [...]

By Tommaso Nappo: Fresh off his spectacular win over Paul Williams the obvious question for Sergio in the new year is who is next. To say the list of contenders for the Middleweight title is underwhelming would be an enormous understatement. Even though Martinez is 35yrs of age with this current crop of challengers he [...]

LONDON (December 24th, 2010) – The two weight Commonwealth champion Craig Watson has issued a warning to his rival John O’Donnell ahead of their British Welterweight title battle at Wembley Arena on Saturday 5th February 2011 “I’m gunning for him, so he better be ready.”

WBC World Boxing Cares Chairperson Jill Diamond wrote about the charitable organization’s most recent visit: On Saturday, December 18, WBC World Boxing Cares came out to support Carley Nieves, goddaughter of referee Benjy Esteves, for the Blood and Bone Marrow Drive at Christ the King High School in Queens, New York. Carley is going through [...]

GREELEY, COLORADO, (December 24, 2010) World class professional boxing will hit Greeley, Colorado for the first time in over twenty years as TKO Boxing Promotions in association with Ghost Town Promotions brings its nationally acclaimed HOMETOWN HEROES TO WORLD CHAMPIONS boxing series to the Island Grove Park Exhibit Hall on Saturday, January 8th.

LONDON (December XX, 2010) – Ashley “Treasure” Theophane, the current International Boxing Organization (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, [...]

London (December 24th 2010). John O’Donnell, the British / Irish welterweight prodigy is hoping that 2011 is going to be the year that he finally fulfills his lifelong dream and wins the British title. “It’s been a dream of mine from the day I started boxing to win the Lonsdale belt” said O’Donnell.

By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten British super middleweight champion James DeGale (9-0, 7 KO’s) was recently bumped up a top 10 position by the World Boxing Organization. For DeGale, a 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist, this puts him within reach of a world title shot against WBO super middleweight champion Roberto Stieglitz. However, DeGale is interested in [...]

While many people are out buying last minute Christmas gifts, undefeated junior middleweight sensation Vanes Martirosyan (28-0 17 KOs) is busy training hard at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, California. “I had been out of the gym for a little while but I returned last week and it feels great,” said the Armenian prospect.

By Jason Kim: It’s looking like WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is going to be facing 37-year-old former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga on March 12th in a pay per view fight.

By Leonard Hart: One week after Manny Pacquiao won a 154 pound belt by way of a total destruction of Antonio Margarito, one Sergio Martinez knocked out the much feared Paul Williams in the 2nd round. Martinez had just given up the belt that the Pacquiao-Margarito bout was for.

By Francisco Hernandez: Bantamweight Abner Mares is favored to win Showtime’s four-man-single elimination bantamweight tournament. Abner has already won his first fight in the tournament by taking a split decision from Vic Darchinyan.