Archive for December, 2011

By Scott Gilfoid: This Saturday night, SHOWTIME will be televising one of their best cards of the entire year when super talented Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) stages his long awaited comeback against Darryl Cunningham (24-2, 10 KO’s) in 10 rounds of action at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon, California.

By Chris Williams: ESPN writer Dan Rafael believes that WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, was never really interested in matching his cash cow fighter Pacquiao up with unbeaten WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the recent 90-day jail sentence that Mayweather received gave Arum the excuse not to [...]

By Chris Williams: ESPN analyst and trainer Teddy Atlas doesn’t see World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao opting to take a fourth fight with Juan Manuel Marquez after going life and death with him in a questionable 12 round decision win last month. Atlas saw some mental/or physical erosion in Pacquiao’s game and [...]

SPRINGFIELD, MO (DECEMBER 26, 2011)–Tom Morris and FM promotions is glad to team up with Danger boy events/BJ Flores and Don King Productions for two important fights on January 28th. This event will take place at the Shrine Mosque in Springfield Missouri and is starting to turn into a very entertaining night of fighting. Five [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) wants to face Mikkel Kessler in 2012 to prove to boxing fans that his win over him two years ago was a legitimate victory. Ward also states that he’s serious about wanting IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute to prove himself by beating [...]

By Jim Dower: WBA World light heavyweight champion Beibut Shumenov (12-1, 8 KO’s) is hopeful that he can some unification bouts in 2012 against some of the other light heavyweight champions like World Boxing Organization (WBO) champ Nathan Cleverly. However, it’s unknown whether Shumenov will get what he’s looking for in that area.

By Sean McDaniel: As of now, the prospective dates for the two-fights between IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24 KO’s) and Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s) are April 2012 in Montreal, Canada for the first fight, and then the second fight occurring in August 2012 in Nottingham, England. These are the two dates [...]

By William Mackay: WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (23-0, 11 KO’s) isn’t expected to face a very serious threat in his next fight on February 25th in Wales. However, once this fight is out of the way, Cleverly wants to up his competition by facing 47-year-old Bernard Hopkins in the summer and then finish [...]

By Allen Fox: 24-year-old Amir Khan may be about the only exciting fighter that’s left in boxing in four years from now when Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will have either retired or deteriorated enough to the point where they’re no longer relevant.

By Dan Ambrose: Right about I wouldn’t mind so much to see another mismatch between IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KOs) and former WBA heavyweight belt holder David Haye because the alternatives for Wladimir in 2012 are going downhill rapidly in my estimations.

By Chris Williams: The World Boxing Council reportedly won’t be stripping welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. while he’s in jail for 90 days starting in January 6th in Clark County for a domestic abuse charge.

By Sean McDaniel: IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24 KO’s) and former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s) are negotiating a two fight deal for 2012 that will see each fighter fighting in the other guy’s home city.

By Chris Williams: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson is in the running for a fight against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao for early 2012.

By Chris Williams: If Manny Pacquiao’s loyal fans think that Floyd Mayweather’s 90 day jail sentence in early 2012 will hurt him as a fighter I think they’re going to be sadly mistaken when he comes out after serving his 90 days in excellent physical shape with his mind right and ready to resume his [...]

By Allen Fox: On January 18th, the IBF and WBA will make a determination on Golden Boy Promotion’s appeal on the behalf of former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan, who believes he was judged unfairly and treated unfairly by the judges and the referee in Khan’s 12 round split decision loss to Lamont Peterson [...]

By Dan Ambrose: If there was ever a case where Top Rank promoter Bob Arum should be looking to protect one of his golden geese it’s with this fight where his fighter Juan Manuel Lopez (31-1, 28 KO’s) will be trying to avenge an 8th round TKO loss to Orlando Salido (37-11-2, 25 KO’s) from [...]

By Allen Fox: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (22-0, 18 KO’s) makes his first defense of his title on February 25th against unbeaten #2 ranked contender Eloy Perez (23-0-2, 7 KO’s) at the Scottrade Center in Saint Louis, Missouri.

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito (38-8, 27 KO’s) isn’t ready to retire after losing a 10th round stoppage loss to WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto recently, and feels that he’s still got a few big fights left him before he hangs up the gloves.

By Dan Ambrose: Former World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight champion Sergio Martinez is reportedly livid that he can’t get important fights put together with Top Rank fighters Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Manny Pacquiao, and Miguel Cotto no matter how hard he tries to put the fights together.

By Eric Thomas: Former two time WBO welterweight champion Paul Williams (40-2, 27 KO’s) needs to put in a good performance on February 18th against Nobuhiro ishida (24-6-2, 9 KO’s) to try and make up for his performance against Cuban Irislandy Lara in his questionable 12 round majority decision win over him last July.

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins was recently asked who the best boxer is in the sport and Hopkins responded on his twitter saying “Andre Ward is the best boxer.”

By Jim Dower: The World Boxing Association (WBA) will be making a determination about whether to approve a fight contract between their WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (23-0, 16 KO’s) and his unranked opponent WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25 KO’s) for a fight that is currently scheduled for February 25th at the Porsche [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): If everything goes as planned World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) will have the opportunity to silence former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) once and for all.

By Chris Williams: Nonito Donaire (27-1, 18 KO’s) moves up in weight on February 4th to fight former World Boxing Organization (WBO) super bantamweight champion Wilfredo Vazquez (21-1, 18 KO’s) for the vacant World Boxing Organization super bantamweight title.

By Scott Gilfoid: Former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe never got the chance to fight WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward because Calzaghe retired just when Ward was starting to make his presence felt in the division.

By Dan Ambrose: With WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s recent 10th round stoppage win over Antonio Margarito, which drew a reported 600,000 pay per view buys on HBO, Cotto has cemented himself as boxing’s third best PPV performance behind Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

By Chris Williams: For the third time, Juan Manuel Marquez fought Manny Pacquiao and for the third time Marquez failed to get the decision victory. So what did you expect?

By Scott Gilfoid: I’ve now seen the Amir Khan vs. Lamont Peterson for the second time, and I STILL think Khan deserved to lose the fight by a 12 round decision to Peterson.

By William Mackay: It’s now been five months since former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) last fought and was schooled by IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in a one-sided 12 round decision loss last July.

By Dan Ambrose: It appears that soon to be 47-year-old WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32 KO’s) will be fighting Chad Dawson (30-1, 17 KO’s) in a rematch after all.