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By Chris Williams: After watching last night’s HBO Pacquiao/Bradley 24/7 episode 1, it seems pretty clear that the fight is lacking someone to play the villain. Both Pacquiao and Bradley are playing good guys with Pacquiao toting the bible and preaching to a small audience of followers. And Bradley also playing the good with him [...]

By Eric Thomas: The light welterweight clash between Lucas Matthysse (30-2, 28 KO’s) and former WBC lightweight champion Humberto Soto (58-7-2, 34 KO’s) is still set to take place in the co-main event on the undercard of Victor Ortiz’s next fight on June 23rd at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The bout is [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions is reportedly going to be announcing Victor Ortiz’s replacement opponent for June 23rd in the next two days. They have an opponent they’re currently negotiating with right now but they won’t say who he is until they make the announcement.

By Jason Kim: IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (57-3, 50 Ko’s) is doing what he has to do to keep a hold of all of his belts by taking on one mandatory challenger after another. That’s the problem with holding down so many titles.

By Sean McDaniel: Dereck Chisora has done a decent job against giant heavyweights Robert Helenius and Vitali Klitschko recently, although he lost both of those fights. Chisora fought well against both fighters. He’s kind of made a name for himself from those two fights alone.

By Eric Thomas: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (38-2, 33 KO’s) will be facing Scott Sigmon (22-3, 12 KO’s) in a 10 round bout on June 8th at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. This will be the second tune-up fight for the 30-year-old Pavlik, who is trying to get [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Mikkel Kessler survived a big scare against Allan Green after getting badly hurt by a nice right hand to the chin in the 1st round and getting dropped. But Green stopped punching as soon as he started and let Kessler off the hook after the knockdown. Green posed little threat for the [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: David Price captured the vacant British heavyweight title last Saturday night against Sam Sexton in a 4th round TKO victory in Aintree. Price knocked a reluctant Sexton down three times in getting the stoppage.

Colombian slugger Breidis “The Khanqueror” Prescott (25-4, 20 KOs) says he’ll gladly step in and rumble with Victor Ortiz, now that Ortiz is in search of a substitute opponent on June 23 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

By William Mackay: Floyd Mayweather Sr. wants to see his son Floyd Jr. take on and beat Amir Khan in the near future, because Floyd Sr. sees that as an appealing fight for his son to take. Mayweather Sr. doesn’t see it as a competitive fight, as he sees his on taking Khan apart. But [...]

By Chris Williams: Undefeated Tim Bradley (28-0, 12 KO’s) let boxing fans know last night on Pacquiao/Bradley 24/7 episode 1 that he’s ready to kick Pacquiao off his throne and take over as the best fighter at welterweight when the two square off on June 9th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Jason Kim: Former heavyweight title challenger Odlanier Solis (18-1, 12 KO’s) looked really rusty and more than a little overweight in his 12 round unanimous decision win over Konstantin Airich (23-5-2, 16 KO’s) on Saturday night at the Pharr Convention Center in Pharr, Texas. Solis won by the scores of 118-110, 119-109 and 119-109.

By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s) is still blabbering about having a hometown advantage against IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (30-0, 24 KO’s) for their fight this Saturday night at the Nottingham Arena in Nottingham, UK. Froch has made up his mind that by fighting at home [...]

By William Mackay: IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson’s positive drug results that showed synthetic testosterone in his blood has left Amir Khan in a precarious situation where he might actually end up having to face someone even better than Peterson in Devon Alexander (23-1, 13 KO’s).

By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (32-0, 20 KO’s) will be taking an easy 10 round bout against little known 33-year-old Ryan Davis (24-9-3, 9 KO’s) on June 16th on the undercard of the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Andy Lee clash at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas.

By Scott Gilfoid: Last night unbeaten heavyweight prospect David Price (13-0, 11 KO’s) defeated Sam Sexton (15-3, 6 KO’s) by a 4th round TKO in Aintree. This was yet another one of the 28-year-old Price’s over-matched opponents from the 3rd tier that he’s been padding his record with.

By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KO’s) hasn’t stopped training for his June 23rd previously scheduled fight date at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC Silver light heavyweight champion Mikkel Kessler’s promoter wants him to face the winner of the May 26th fight between IBF champ Lucian Bute and Carl Froch after Kessler got up off the canvas to defeat Allan Green last Saturday night. But Kessler needs to wait in line behind WBA super middleweight [...]

Blog Talk Radio’s, “The Pugilist KOrner” is proud to present a special “Carl Froch/Lucian Bute Fight Preview” episode tonight at 9:00 PM EST. Pugilist KOrner link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wcsteelerfan/2012/05/21/weekend-wrap

By Chris Williams: I got a kick out of listening to Manny Pacquiao make excuses for his poor performance against Juan Manuel Marquez last November during last night’s Pacquiao/Bradley 24/7 episode on HBO. Pacquiao said “I saw Marquez, he’s bigger than me, so I’m surprised of his body, you know,. I’m just underestimating him. It’s [...]

(Photo: Wende) By William Mackay: Newly crowned WBC Silver light heavyweight champion Mikkel Kessler’s stay at light heavyweight might be short after scoring a 4th round knockout victory over former Super Six contestant Allan Green last Saturday night in Copenhagen, Denmark. Kallie Sauerland, Kessler’s promoter, is interested in Kessler taking on the May 26th winner [...]

Mikkel Kessler (45-2, 34 KOs) celebrated a spectacular debut at light heavyweight on Saturday night in Copenhagen when he knocked out Allan Green (31-4, 21 KOs) in the fourth round. Fighting in front of 15,000 wild fans at PARKEN Stadium, the Viking Warrior landed a huge left hook that sent his American opponent down and [...]

2004 Olympic gold medalist Odlanier Solis (18-1) won a wide unanimous decision to dethrone IBF intercontinental champion Konstantin Airich (23-6-2, IBF#12 / WBO#11) in front of 2,500 fans at Pharr Convention Center in Pharr (Texas).

By Scott Gilfoid: David Price (13-0, 11 KO’s) picked up the British heavyweight title he was so badly craving with a 4th round TKO win over Sam Sexton (15-3, 6 KO’s) tonight in Aintree, but I’m not about to call it an impressive performance by Price because he looked beatable to the extreme.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): For a fight that will not be sanctioned by either the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) or the World Boxing Council (WBC) the bout between former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) and Derick Chisora (15-3, 9 KO’s) is certainly drawing a huge amount of interest in [...]

(Photo: S. Yamada / ARENA) By Jim Dower: A flabby 267 pound former heavyweight contender Odlanier Solis (18-1, 12 KO’s) returned to the ring tonight after 14 months out of the ring to defeat Russian Konstantin Airich (23-6-2, 17 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision at the Convention Center in Pharr, Texas. The final [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Mikkel Kessler really lucked out tonight in that he was facing someone who didn’t have the killer instinct after Kessler was knocked down in the 1st round by a right to the head followed by a left to the body by Allan Green.

By William Mackay: Undefeated heavyweight David Price (13-0, 11 KO’s) blasted out the shorter, weaker Sam Sexton (15-3, 6 KO’s) in the 4th round tonight to win the vacant British heavyweight title in Aintree. Price put Sexton down a total of three times before the fight was eventually stopped in the 4th.

By William Mackay: Mikkel Kessler (45-2, 34 KO’s) had to get up off the deck from a 1st round knockdown to come back and stop American Allan Green (31-4, 21 KO’s) by a 4th round KO on Saturday night to win the vacant WBC Silver light heavyweight title at the Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark.

By Sean McDaniel: Big 6’8″ David Price (13-0, 11 KO’s) stayed unbeaten and captured the vacant British heavyweight title with an impressive 4th round TKO victory over Sam Sexton (15-3, 6 KO’s) at the Aintree Equestrian Centre, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.