Archive for May, 2011

By Chris Williams: For curious fans wanting to know about whether the November fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao will have Olympic style testing for performance enhancing drugs (PEDS), the answer is no. According to Ricardo Lois at examiner.com, there won’t be any extra testing for Peds by the Nevada Athletic Commission.

By Sean McDaniel: Some boxing fans had hoped that they had seen the last of 39-year-old former Olympic Gold Medalist for Britain Audley Harrison when he was humiliated in a 3rd round TKO loss to WBA heavyweight champion David Haye last November, a fight in which Harrison only offered up one meager punch. However, Harrison [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s hard to believe it but WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) says he’s going to box 42-year-old slugger Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) rather than slugging with him on June 4th in their Super Six tournament semifinals bout at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. If [...]

By William Mackay: It’s been three long years since knockout artist Breidis Prescott (24-2, 19 KO’s) easily destroyed Amir Khan in a 1st round knockout defeat in 2008. Prescott made it look easy. It was like he was picking on a small child on that night on September 6, 2008. Prescott staggered Khan with a [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former British super middleweight champion James DeGale fought well enough to win against challenger George Groves last week but came up short when Groves won the fight by a narrow and controversial 12 round majority decision. DeGale looked superb in the second half of the fight but fought the wrong fight in [...]

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan and his former strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza appear to have patched up their differences and are once again working together. Khan said this on his twitter page: “Me and Alex Ariza are working together. We continue the work on Monday 6AM start.” The two [...]

By Chris Williams: Former IBF lightweight champion David Diaz is reportedly asking for too much money to face WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez for a proposed July 16th tune-up fight for the soon to be 38-year-old Marquez. This is a fight that Marquez feels he needs to get ready for a bout against Manny [...]

Los Angeles, CA (May 29) – Newly crowned WBC/USNBC lightweight champion John Molina, Jr. claimed his title yesterday in a dominant performance against Mexico’s Alejandro Rodriguez. By use of his crafty right jab Molina, Jr. was able to bring down Rodriguez once in the last ten seconds of the first round and three times in [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah isn’t happy with the deal he’s been offered to fight WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan for July 23. Judah wants a 50-50 split of the purse, which sounds more than reasonable given that he’s more popular than Khan and easily more popular than WBC/WBO light [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Unhappy with some of the comments that WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) recently made about him being “easy work,” Dirrell fired back on his twitter page saying Froch is haunted about their previous fight. Froch won a very questionable 12 round split decision over Dirrell back in 2009.

By Mike Gamm: In the Super-Six semi-finals on June 4th, Carl the (Cobra) Froch (27- 1- 20KO’s) is scheduled to fight the 42 year old veteran Glen Johnson (51- 14- 2- 35KO’s). Froch will be defending his (World Boxing Council) Super middleweight title in the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.

By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Robert Helenius (15-0, 10 KO’s) will be facing former World Boxing Organization (WBO) heavyweight champion Siarhei Liakhovich (25-3, 16 KO’s) in a scheduled 12 round bout on July 16th in Berlin, Germany.

Now that negotiations between World Boxing Association (WBA) Light Welterweight Champion Amir Khan and potential opponents WBC Junior Welterweight Champion Timothy Bradley and IBF Super Lightweight Champion Zab Judah have broken down, Colombian power puncher Breidis “The Khanqueror” Prescott (24-2, 19 KOs) wants Khan to make good on his promise to face him in a [...]

Caramelito Promotions with its promoter Markus Lammi arranged its third professional boxing show during this year late on Saturday evening 28.5. at Kankaanpää Finland. The fight card contained 4 professional boxing matches and the main event was an 8-round scheduled clash for vacant Baltic Boxing Union (BBU) heavyweight title.

By Mark Young: Amir Khan has tabled a 60-40 split offer to IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah, I have previously written two articles explaining why this fight was not going to happen, putting it down to the fact that Khan doesn’t want this fight. This offer vindicates the sentiment in my earlier articles.

By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro: Last Friday I was lucky enough to sit down and have a chat with the highly likable WBO Super Featherweight Champion of the World Ricky Burns, who is set to defend his title for the third time against Nicky Cook at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on the 16th July.

By Dan Ambrose: The many years of careful match-making in which Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) has been guided through a sea of almost exclusively B and C level fighters will be put to a test this Saturday night on June 4th against WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (30-0, 10 KO’s) at the [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32 KO’s) faces Mehdi Bouadia (22-3, 10 KO’s) this coming Saturday on June 4th in what’s supposed to be a tune-up fight for Kessler to get some of the rust off after taking an entire year off from boxing when Kessler pulled out of [...]

By Dan Ambrose: As ESPN2 analyst Teddy Atlas pointed out, Jean Pascal fought in only brief spurts against 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins, letting the older fighter control the pace and rest when he wanted to. Atlas sees this as one of the main reasons why Hopkins was able to beat Pascal in their rematch on May [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Rather than sitting it out until his big money fight against Manny Pacquiao in November, Juan Manuel Marquez (52-5-1, 38 KO’s) is insisting on a tune-up fight against former IBF lightweight champion David Diaz (36-3-1, 17 KO’s) on July 16th to help get ready for Pacquiao. In part, one of the reasons [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: I’ve studied many of challenger Ryan Rhodes’ fights in the past three years and I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s going to get beaten like an old rug on June 18th when he steps up a couple of levels to face WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (31-0-1, 26 KO’s) at [...]

By William Mackey: What seems to make no sense to me is why if WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan was willing to concede to a 50-50 purse split with WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley, who isn’t a big draw and who doesn’t bring in big ratings when his fights appear on HBO, then [...]

By Chris Williams: WBA/WBC lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (52-5-1, 38 KO’s), who fights at 135 pounds, says he tried to get his November fight against Manny Pacquiao to take place at 143 rather than the 144 pound catchweight that they finally agreed upon but they said no. Marquez knew better than to have Pacquiao [...]

By Jim Dower: Former WBC featherweight/WBA super featherweight champion Jorge Linares (31-1. 19 KO’s) defeated Adrian Verdugo(18-5-1, 15 KO’s) by a 7th round TKO on Saturday night at the Centro de Convenciones, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Linares, now a lightweight, blasted Verdugo with some hard shots causing the referee to step and halt the bout. For [...]

By William Mackay: Ireland’s Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) suddenly has huge dreams about who he wants to fight in his next bout after getting beat and blowing his chance in a title shot against WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan on April 16th. McCloskey did pretty much zero in the fight other than throwing [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former IBF/WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (30-1, 17 KO’s) is finally getting a crack at 46-year-old WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32 KO’s), as the two fighters are reportedly close to having a fight put together between them. ESPN is reporting that Gary Shaw, the promoter for Dawson, met [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): The most remarkable thing about Willard was his gameness at continually getting up when all hope of victory was gone. The bell mercifully sounded ending the first round. In the pandemonium Dempsey thought the fight was over and hurriedly exited the ring in an effort to avoid the crowd which [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Sam Langford who fought Harry Wills eighteen times in his career was asked how Wills would do against Dempsey. Langford said in the June 5, 1922 Atlanta Constitution that if they ever fought his money would be on Dempsey. “He is the greatest fighter I have ever seen. He hits [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): On July 4, 1919 in Toledo, Ohio in one hundred and ten degree heat a legend was born. In probably the most savage beating any fighter every received since the days of bare knuckle fighting ended, twenty four year old Jack Dempsey 6’1, 187 lbs, destroyed thirty seven year old [...]

By Jason Kim: Light welterweight contenders Victor Cayo (26-1, 18 KO’s) will be facing Lamont Peterson (28-1, 14 KO’s) in an IBF light welterweight title eliminator bout on July 23. The fight is long overdue and it will be nice to get this bout out of the way. Peterson has had rotten luck in the [...]