Archive for January, 2011

By Allen Hmiel: Enough is enough. Has the WBA(not even sure what it stands for anymore) just given up and decided to let David Haye destroy any image the WBA might have left as a legitimate Boxing organization.

By Chris Williams: It doesn’t really matter to me that Bob Arum has decided to move Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto and however many of his Top Rank stable fighters to CBS/Showtime away from HBO. The last time I checked, Pacquiao is still facing 39-year-old Shane Mosley and that is still an awful fight in my [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Instead of facing his number #1 ranked contender Terdsak Janaeng or the dangers Roberto Guerrero, World Boxing Organization (WBO) super featherweight champion Ricky Burns (30-2, 7 KO’s) is dipping down into the number 10 spot to face the inexperienced Ghanaian Joseph Laryea (14-4, 11 KO’s) on March 12th at the Braehead Arena, [...]

VERONA, NY (January 23, 2011)—Due to an injury to Mike Mollo, There is a brand new main event on Saturday January 29, 2011 at The Turning Stone Casino and Resort in Verona, New York as former U.S. Olympian Jason Estrada will take on Franklin Lawrence in a ten round battle for the World Boxing Council [...]

By Sean McDaniel: In a recent intevrview, Adam Booth, the manager/trainer for WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s), explains why he wants Haye to fight 38-year-old Jean Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO’s) next instead of WBA heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) . Booth feels that Vitali might lose to Solis in [...]

SCOTT QUIGG has spent £4000 of his own money in order to spend three weeks training at . The World Boxing Association (WBA) intercontinental super-bantamweight is currently enjoying his second trip to the Los Angeles gym that also house the world’s top fighter Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan.

By Kevin Wrigley: Only 2-3 years ago the 147 pound division was stacked form top to bottom with excellent boxers. Historically it has been one of boxing’s stronger divisions (especially at the start of the 1980’s). Floyd Mayweather Jr was at the top of the pile then there were excellent fighters such as Antonio Margarito, [...]

By Daniel Ciminera: Speaking to Tavoris Cloud today, he indicated he’d be fighting “real soon, possibly March/April”, though didn’t give much away with regards to who, naming Chad Dawson, Jean Pascal, Bernard Hopkns, Beibut Shumenov, and Jurgen Brahmer as possible candidates. Which is basically the top 5 ranked guys without him and Nathan Cleverly included. [...]

By Allen Hmiel: Super Soft Sugar Shane Mosley (46-6-1) once a champion is now just an aging almost 40 year old pug looking for a nice check. In his last 14 fights, going back 9 years, Soft Shane is 6-6- with 1 draw and 1 NC and 11 of those fights went the full distance. [...]

By Lewis Croft: This Saturday at the Silverdome, Michigan we will witness the eagerly awaited Light-Welterweight unification bout between Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s) and Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) . Both WBC and WBO titles will be on the line to help decide who is the best 140 lb in the world. Awaiting the [...]

On Saturday night London based Dutch Cruiserweight prospect Mitchell Balker got the first UK win under his belt, after beating Battersea’s fighting fireman Nick ‘The Ox’ Okoth, at the Graham Earl promoted ‘Capital Punishment’ event at York Hall in Bethnal Green.

By By Kevin Wrigley: This is part 2 of a 5 part series designed to look at great title runs from past champions who held a major title and did not lose it for a significant period of length. They must have held on to that specific title (and can add more titles to there [...]

Michael Banbula has more fights under his belt than six of the other contenders in the line-up for Prizefighter Light-Heavyweights II on January 29 – experience that the Pole believes will see him claim the title.

STEPHEN FOSTER JR is hoping big fight opponent Ermano Fegatilli isn’t as clever in the ring as he is outside of the ropes. The Belgian is arguably the cleverest boxer in the world, having attained a Masters in Economics with the highest honours at Liege University in 2007.

By Jason Kim: Unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) is probably facing the best opponent of his eight year pro career this Saturday night against 26-year-old Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO’s) at the Estadio Banorte, Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Chavez, 24, has effectively been filling in for not having much of an [...]

By Chris Williams: Rather than stepping up and finally facing Juan Manuel Lopez after all these years, WBA Super World/IBF featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (19-0, 15 KO’s) will be taking on WBA interim super featherweight champion Jorge Solis (40-2-2, 29 KO’s) on March 26th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This isn’t [...]

By Dan Ambrose: It sure looked to me like 48-year-old Evander Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 KO’s) quit last Saturday night after the 3rd round against Sherman Williams (34-11-2, 19 KO’s) after getting badly hurt from a series of looping fight hands and left hooks by Williams. Holyfield ended up getting a small cut over his left [...]

By William Mackay: Keeping with his recent tradition of matching WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 3 KO’s) against older heavyweights between 36 to 39, Adam Booth, the trainer/manage for Haye, is saying that he’s interested in matching Haye against 38-year-old Jean Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO’s), For Booth and Haye, it’s a winnable fight [...]

By William Mackay: If 39-year-old Ronald “Winky” Wright (51-5-1, 25 KO’s) is 75% of what he used to be in his prime, he’s going to badly school middleweight contender Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KO’s) when they meet up on April 9th in their 10 round bout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Macklin, [...]

By Dave Lahr: I don’t like Shane Mosley’s chances against Manny Pacquiao on May 7th. I don’t think much of Pacquiao as a fighter, but he is good enough to beat up on the 40ish Mosley, I’ll give him that. Bob Arum is really looking out for his number #1 cash cow Pacquiao by putting [...]

By Dave Lahr: If you look at Nonito Donaire’s fight with Rafael Concepcion in 2009, you’ll see Donaire showing signs of pain on his face frequently when Concepcion was landing body and head shots against him in the fight. It looked almost like Concepcion was a school bully beating up on a skinny new kid. [...]

By Dave Lahr: Unbeaten British heavyweight Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) knows what he has to do in his fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) on April 30th in Mannheim, Germany. Chisora knows that Wladimir has a glass jaw and that he falls apart mentally if you pressure him a lot. [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) is coming into the January 29th bout against WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s) licking his wounds from his disappointing performance against Andry Koteknik in August of last year. Alexander may have got the win and put the performance behind [...]

By Michael Lieberman: Once beaten middleweight contender Andy Lee (24-1, 18 KO’s) may end up wishing John Duddy hadn’t suddenly retired recently, because Lee will now be facing #12 WBO middleweight contender Craig McEwan (19-0, 10 KO’s) in a 10 round bout on the undercard of the Sergio Martinez vs. Sergiy Dzinziruk bout on March [...]

By Chris William: Now that Bob Arum has moved his fighter Manny Pacquiao over to CBS/Showtime away from HBO, you have to wonder whether Showtime will stand up on their hind legs and say something if Arum continues to match Pacquiao against weak and/or old and faded fighters in the future on their network without [...]

By Chris Williams: With Bob Arum signing a deal with CBS/Showtime, it could mean that many of Arum’s fighters will now be fighting on Showtime instead of HBO. Recently, HBO decided to pass on one of Arum’s biggest cash cows, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto,w ho Arum wanted to put him in with 37-year-old [...]

By Chris Williams: In a real no brainer, the Boxing Writers Association of American voted to give WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KO’s) the “Fighter of the Year” for 2010 instead of Manny Pacquiao. It was pretty simple decision to make considering that Martinez picked up impressive wins over Kelly Pavlik, the WBC/WBO [...]

By Jason Kim: If unbeaten middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) gets by Billy Lyell (22-8, 4 KO’s) on January 29th in their fight in Culiacan, Mexico and then if Chavez Jr. beats the recently promoted WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik in a fight that could take place in May, Chavez may [...]

By Dan Ambrose: It’s a good thing that 48-year-old Evander Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 KO’s) decided to pull out of his fight against 38-year-old Sherman Williams (34-11-2, 19 KO’s) due a cut on Saturday night at the The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Holyfield wouldn’t have survived the 4th round, because he was getting badly [...]

Heavyweight contender, and former world title challenger, Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson improved to (24-1-1, 10KO’s) dominating 7’1″, 300 lb. Julius “Towering Inferno” Long (15-15, 13KO’s) over eight rounds on the undercard of Saturday night’s Pay Per View “Redemption In America: The Journey Begins Now” card, headlined by Evander Holyfield (43-10-2, 28KO’s) defending his WBF Heavyweight Title [...]