Archive for December, 2011

By Allen Fox: Golden Boy Promotions needs to make some adjustments when matching their hoped to be star former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan in future fights.

By Jason Kim: Former heavyweight contender Ike Ibeabuchi (20-0, 15 KO’s) will have his next parole date on May 1, 2012, after having previously been denied parole on three separate occasions in August 2004, August 2007 and February 2009 for the charge of attempted sexual assault.

by Simo Masondo: When it became public knowledge that Floyd Mayweather Jnr is going to jail the boxing world reacted predictably. All articles were highlighting what a bad year 2011 was for boxing in general and for Floyd Mayweather Jnr specifically.

By Dan Ambrose: The defamation case brought by WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao against Floyd Mayweather Jr. won’t be delayed by Mayweather’s 90 day jail term and will move ahead according to the latest news.

By Dan Ambrose: The last time Andre Berto (28-1, 22 KO’s) and Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) met up last April, both Ortiz and Berto hit the canvas two times a piece and it was a pretty close affair until Berto ran out of gas in the second half of the fight. However, this time [...]

By Jim Dower: It’s been two long years since former WBC/wBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (28-4-1, 17 KO’s) last fought and there are still of questions that need to be answered about the 33-year-old Taylor’s ability to take a hard shot. The idea is for him not to take punishment, but Taylor is going to [...]

By Allen Fox: WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) has been given a free pass against the middleweight division’s best fighter in Sergio Martinez by the World Boxing Council, who after receiving a request from the 25-year-old Chavez Jr. on Friday to take a voluntary defense against Marco Antonio Rubio (53-5-1, [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Recently Carl Froch made a pretty astute evaluation of Andre Ward’s style of fighting saying that he saw his style as being boring to watch, and he felt that would hinder Ward’s ability to become a huge star in the future. When I first heard Froch say this about Ward, my initial [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Junior middleweight contender James Kirkland (30-1, 27 KO’s) is matched against a tough opponent in Carlos Molina (19-4-2, 6 KO’s) next month on January 28th at the Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas. Kirkland, 27, is riding high right now after stopping well respected junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo in the 7th round [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Marcos Maidana (31-2, 28 KO’s) moves up in weight to face former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (22-1, 13 KO’s) in a fight in the welterweight division on February 25th in Alexander’s home city at the Scottrade Center in Saint Louis, Missouri. Alexander must be like the spider to the fly, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido (37-11-2, 25 KO’s) and Juan Manuel Lopez (31-1, 28 KO’s) will finally be getting back in the ring for a rematch next year on March 31st on Showtime for a fight that will be taking place in Lopez’s home country of Puerto Rico.

By Eric Thomas: It’s looking now like Lamont Peterson (30-1-1, 15 KO’s) will be the lucky fighter to get a fight against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao in April or May 2012. Peterson, 27, has risen to the top of the field after an impressive win over IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan earlier this [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Tomasz Adamek (44-2 28 KO’s) plans on returning to the ring in March next year as he tries to reload for another heavyweight title shot in 2012. Adamek, 35, was stopped in the 10th round by WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko last September in a fight that took place in Adamek’s home [...]

By Sean McDaniel: James DeGale’s previously scheduled January 27th fight against little known Spaniard Jose Maria Guerrero has reportedly been canceled and a better opponent is being looked by DeGale’s promoter for early 2012. This won’t hurt DeGale any, though, as no one had even the slightest interest in seeing DeGale take a backwards step [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Most people don’t have a clue why WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) combed through the 2nd tier ranks to pick out B level fighter Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) to fight on February 18th instead of a more deserving top tier fighter on winning run and with some size [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): There is no question that World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) is one of the elite fighters in boxing. And while the term great fighter is grossly overused when Floyd retires he will unquestionably rank as one of the great fighters of his generation.

By Scott Gilfoid: It may be upsetting to IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0 24 KO’s) and his promoter that he’s not being given an automatic fight against the Super Six tournament winner WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s), but you can understand why the fights’ not taking place if you [...]

Responding to news of a supposed showdown between WBA Champion Alexander Povetkin and WBO Cruiserweight Champion Marco Huck scheduled for February 25, Greg Cohen, promoter of former unified heavyweight champion and current World Boxing Association (WBA) #1 contender and mandatory challenger Hasim Rahman, wishes to remind representatives of Povetkin and Huck (and anyone else who [...]

By Sean McDaniel: If you’re Sergio Martinez and you’ve wanted to get a fight against WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. since he picked up the paper WBC title earlier this year, then you’re probably not too happy to hear that the World Boxing Council has given Chavez Jr. permission to circumvent Martinez and [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) marches into his fight on December 31st buoyed with confidence in knowing that he’s about to accomplish big things in 2012. But first off, Dirrell must take care of his tune-up opponent Darryl Cunningham (24-2, 10 KO’s) in their Showtime televised fight.

By Chris Williams: While it seems to some that Manny Pacquiao’s recent case of chronic leg cramps re a sign of Pacquiao showing his age, Balco founder Victor Conte differs on that opinion. He sees it as a case of Pacquiao having depleted some of his valuable minerals in his body from hi strenuous workouts [...]

By Jim Dower: WBA World featherweight champion Celestino Caballero (35-4, 23 KO’s) has a tough first title defense against Japan’s Satoshi Hasono (21-1, 15 KO’s) on December 31st at the Bunka Gym in Yokohama, Japan. Caballero, 35, recently defeated Jonathan Victor Barros by a 12 round unanimous decision last October, and is already prepared to [...]

By Dan Ambrose: IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24 KO’s) has reportedly reserved a stadium in Montreal for August 11th and is hoping to fight either Mikkel Kessler or 47-year-old Bernard Hopkins over there. No word about his talked about two-fight deal with former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch.

By Sean McDaniel: James DeGale (11-1, 8 KO’s) recently struggled in beating EBU super middleweight champion Piotr Wilczewski by a 12 round majority decision in his last outing in October. DeGale got the win, which nice, but he didn’t look good and was overpowered for most of the fight by the light hitting Wilczewski.

(Notice Khan’s left arm holding Zab Judah’s head down while he gets ready to hit him with a right hand to the nads for a knockout blow. Good form, eh?) By Scott Gilfoid: In reading some of the things Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer said about his fighter Amir Khan’s shoving of his opponent [...]

By Eric Thomas: After winning titles in the flyweight and bantamweight divisions, Nonito Donaire (27-1, 18 KO’s) will be moving up in weight to take on former WBO super bantamweight champion Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (21-1-1, 18 KO’s) in what Donaire hopes to be an easy fight on February 4th at the Alamodome in San Antonio, [...]

By Jim Dower: I’ve seen at least a dozen of the fights of unbeaten light heavyweight contender Ismayl Sillakh (17-0, 14 KO’) and I can see he’s a good fighter but he’s not in the class of someone like Chad Dawson and I doubt that he’ll ever get that good. But the 26-year-old Sillakh, who [...]

Next year’s major boxing highlight has been arranged: World Boxing Organization (WBO) cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25 KOs) will challenge the WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (23-0, 16 KOs) in Stuttgart’s Porsche-Arena on February 25, 2012. Both rivals have now struck an agreement.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): For his own good former WBA/IBF light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-2, 18 KO’s) needs to move on from his controversial loss to new WBA/IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (30-1-1, 15 KO’s). The reality is that even some of Amir’s staunchest supporters think that it would be best for [...]

By William Mackay: Lamont Peterson doesn’t see Amir Khan’s appeal to the IBF and WBA having any positive results in having the fight overturned. Peterson points out that Khan was fouling him continuously with pushing and grabbing his head and pulling it down. Peterson doesn’t see how the IBF and WBA will be able to [...]