Archive for December, 2010

By Tommaso Nappo: The worst kept secret in boxing is that Shane Mosley will be Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent probably on May 7, 2011. As a result of him getting the fight it has caused a split between Mosley and Golden Boy Promotions (GBP), with both sides claiming a lack of loyalty.

By Dan Ambrose: 45-year-old Bernard Hopkins has been complaining long and hard about his 12 round majority draw he received in his bout last weekend against World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal, in Quebec, Canada. Hopkins thinks he should have won the fight, and even goes so far to say that he [...]

By Bradley Hastings: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch looks well on the way to securing his place in the Super Six World Boxing Classic Tournament later next year following his impressive victory over former middleweight champion Arthur Abraham. Following his close defeat to the talented Mikkel Kessler, many pundits had Abraham as the favourite [...]

By Allen Hmiel: Ever since Ray Mancini beat a brave Korean Duk Koo Kim to a sad death in 1982 the Boxing organizations started the process to go from 15 rounds to 12 rounds. By 1988 all Championship fights were 12 rounders. Did Championship Boxing Organizations make the correct decision? Or should all the Championship [...]

By Allen Hmiel: Reputations take a life time to build but only a second to destroy and Shane Mosley seemed to let everything flush away with his lack luster effort against Mayweather. Mosley gave up just to last the twelve rounds and escape still standing up and considering it a moral victory for himself.

By Dan Ambrose: Former two-division world champion Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KO’s) plans on fighting next on April 16th in his home country of Poland in Spodek, Katowice, according to news from fightnews.com. Adamek is currently ranked #1 World Boxing Organization, #3 IBF, # WBC, #10 IBF, and is hoping to get a title shot [...]

By Bradley Hastings: Despite many boxing fans accusing David Haye and his manager Adam Booth of ducking both of the Klitschkos, Adam Booth has today released a statement saying he has offered the Klitschko camp a full 50:50 split of the entire pot, even though the Haye camp know the UK revenue is much more [...]

By Mark Hepplestall: Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye are almost certain to make a real legacy for themselves, today sky sports news showed a breaking news report that Haye and Booth are willing to put all of the money from American TV, and British PPV into a 50 – 50 split with Wladimir Klitschko. Wladimir [...]

By Allen Hmiel: Amir Khan seemingly a golden child of boxing the English Muslim under the direction of the legendary Freddie Roach is on a collision course with destiny. Or is he? Could Amir Khan be one of the most overhyped boxers of the modern age? Ko’d violently by a very average Prescott has left [...]

By Jim Dower: Shane Mosley’s adviser James Prince is set to meet with Manny Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum today on Tuesday to finalise a deal for a bout on May 7th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Los Angeles Times are porting that the meeting will be occuring today for what will [...]

By Sean McDaniel WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is saying that his younger brother IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is ready to go after World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye next, according to both Sportinglife.co.uk, and Golzka paper. It’s nice to know that Wladimir is interested in facing Haye, but it doesn’t really have [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: New British super middleweight champion James DeGale (9-0, 7 KO’s) plans on going after one of the super middleweight champions next year next year in 2011. DeGale, 24, destroyed a badly over-matched Paul Smith in a 9th round stoppage on December 11th to capture the BBBofC super middleweight title. In that fight, [...]

By James McFarlane: So, the major fights of the year from a British point of view are all in the books. It is fair to say 2010 is year that has been packed with a fair bit of drama, controversy, success, delight and progress. Very rarely has there been a dull moment and in this [...]

By William Mackay: Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) looked anything like a fighter that belongs with a major title belt around his waist when he was reduced to a pile of spaghetti on the canvas against Breidis Prescott in a 1st round knockout loss two years ago. Khan came out fast, got staggered with a [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: The class of the Super Six tournament WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (23-1, 13 KO’s) is going to show no mercy in finishing off a badly beaten and discouraged Arthur Abraham (31-2, 25 KO’s) in their semi-finals Super Six tournament bout. I don’t even see this as being a competitive fight, [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It pains me to say this but WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) is going to take a royal beating in his next Super Six tournament semi-final bout against 41-year-old Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) next year. With this loss, Froch is going to be drummed out of the [...]

New British champion James DeGale wants to become a world champion next year. The 24-year-old’s grand plan has always been to challenge at the highest level in 2012. But his one-sided demolition of Paul Smith has persuaded him that he can move up even quicker.

By Chris Williams: World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) could be facing former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) next, according to the latest boxing news. Mayorga, now 37-years-old and noticeably fat around the midsection, is one of three possible opponents that are being considered for [...]

By Jason Kim: With Emanuel Steward working his corner, unbeaten Tyson Fury (13-0, 9 KO’s) showed visible improvement last Saturday night in defeating journeyman Zack Page (21-33-2, 7 KO’s) by an eight round unanimous decision at the Pepsi Coliseum, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada/ Fury, 6’9″, towered over the 6’0″ Page and was able to keep [...]

By Chris Williams: When they finally come out an announce that 39-year-old Shane Mosley is Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent I’m going to have a good laugh. This is starting to become so predictable in picking out opponents for Pacquiao. I’m still baffled that Antonio Margarito was selected as Pacquiao’s last opponent. I would have never [...]

By Jason Kim: Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 KO’s) will return to action on January 22nd against 38-year-old Sherman Williams (34-11-2, 19 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout at The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Incredibly, the asking price for this pay-per-view bout will be $29.95. That number is kind of [...]

By Jason Kim: Former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (28-4, 6 KO’s) has probably seen the last days of him being a serious threat to anyone at light welterweight and it’s difficult to imagine that he’ll be anymore than just a name now that he’s moved up to welterweight where his lack of power [...]

By Chris Williams: It appears that Manny Pacquiao and his promoter Bob Arum will select fading 39-year-old Shane Mosley to fight next in what will likely be the equivalent of a stay busy fight for Pacquiao while he waits and hopes for a bout against Floyd Mayweather Jr. next year.

By Daniel Tagg: From the recent fights last weekend, I have noticed that World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (26-1-1, 16 KO’s) has somewhat of an stamina problem and this has nearly cost him his title against 45-year-old Bernard Hopkins. With the way that Pascal looked in this fight, his luck won’t [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) is likely to ignore the reported huge offer made by Frank Warren to fight unbeaten welterweight contender Kell Brook (23-0, 16 KO’s) and instead Khan will likely take on light welterweight contender Lamont Peterson (28-1-1, 14 KO’s) for his next fight in April [...]

By Leo Gutierez: Riverside has another new professional boxer to keep an eye on; he is a 5’9″ Featherweight with tremendous skills and poise beyond the years of such a young fighter. His name is Daniel Franco and if his name sounds familiar it’s because he is the younger brother of undefeated Riverside prospect Michael [...]

By William Mackay: Former Amir Khan conqueror Breidis Prescott (23-2, 19 KO’s) is waiting to see if Khan will fight him next in April nezt year in the UK. For fans who don’t remember Prescott, he was the fighter who annihilated Khan in one round with a serious of brutal hooks in their fight in [...]

By Eric Thomas: In the latest boxing news, IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) is reportedly mentioning #1 ranked World Boxing Organization heavyweight challenger Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KO’s) as his possible next opponent rather than WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s). Klitschko, 34, is currently healing up from an abdominal [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Bernard Hopkins (51-5-2, 32 KO’s) failed at beating WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (26-1-1, 16 KO’s) last Saturday night in a fight that Hopkins was knocked down twice in and had to rally just to turn it into a majority draw. Since the World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman has decided [...]

(COLORADO SPRING, COLO.) After four weeks of matches in the World Series of Boxing (WSB), a pair of Matador lightweights headline the individual standings for WSB Americas boxers, standing atop the WSB individual rankings with identical 2-0 records one-third of the way through the inaugural WSB season.