By Simon Hirst:
Joe Calzaghe vs Chad Dawson
First of all, people who have read my article may know I am a British fan, yet I choose skill over nationality and try to be as unbiased in my articles as I can. I would prefer to stick to facts more than opinion, but as it’s an article, I like to get my point across. Now I would want this fight to happen purely because Dawson is up there in the light heavyweights who Calzaghe hasn’t beaten. Personally I think the division is one of the most boring and least competitive divisions, so I can’t blame Dawson for having very little on his record that we can shout about.
By Jim Dower: World Boxing Association (WBA) Super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (41-1, 31 KOs) is complaining that many of the top fighters in the middleweight to the light heavyweight division aren’t interested in fighting him, specifically mentioning Joe Calzaghe, Winky Wright, Kelly Pavlik, Chad Dawson, Jermain Taylor and Bernard Hopkins. Kessler has reportedly challenged each of these fighters, yet none of them are willing to accept his challenge and give him a fight.
By Adam Laiolo: Its always the same story, you are unproven until you’ve fought in America. America may be where the money is, but it is certainly not where the talent is. I’ve never believed the thought that American fighters are the best in the sport. They’re not even second. America’s supposed dominance comes from two things – PPV numbers and Population numbers.
By Manuel Perez: Nearly two weeks ago, Kelly Pavlik (34-1, 30 KOs), who was then undefeated and considered by many to be one of the top fighters in all of boxing, was trounced by Bernard Hopkins in one of the most one-sided fights between top fighters in some time. The outcome stripped away the aura of invincibility from Pavlik while at the same time appearing to strip away many of his legions of fans in the process. Without a place to turn their attention, many of Pavlik’s fans – judging from the ring talk on internet boxing forums – have turned their attention to Mikkel Kessler (41-1, 31 KOs), the WBA super middleweight champion who comes from Denmark. 
By Chris Williams: I think we saw the fighter that can ultimately put Bernard Hopkins out of his misery last Saturday night when super middleweight Mikkel Kessler (41-1, 31 KOs) destroyed Danilo Haussler in a 3rd round TKO in Oldenburg, Germany. This wouldn’t a case of Hopkins picking on a middleweight fighter like Kelly Pavlik, who at the end of the day, was just too small for the light heavyweight Hopkins. Kessler has the size at 168, the boxing skills, the movement and the speed to easily handle Hopkins and retire him from the sport. 
By Erik Schmidt: Making his first defense of his WBA super middleweight title, champion Mikkel Kessler (41-1, 31 KOs) easily stopped his number #1 mandatory challenger Danilo Haussler (29-4-1, 7 KOs) in the 3rd round of scheduled 12-round bout on Saturday night at the Weser-Ems-Halle, in Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany. Kessler, 29, landed a three punch combination in the third round, ending with a hard left hand that put Haussler down on the canvas. He rolled over and tried to get up but was quickly counted out by referee Stanley Christodoulou at 1:08 of the 3rd. 
By Erik Schmidt: WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (40-1, 30 KOs) will be making his first title defense of his World Boxing Association title on Saturday night against German Danilo Haussler (29-3-1, 7 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round bout at the Weser-Ems-Halle, in Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany. Kessler, 29, would have preferred not to have had to face Haussler, 33, his mandatory challenger at all, as the fight has failed to interest most boxing fan other than mostly die hard Kessler fans. Kessler would have liked to have fought someone like Carl Froch, or even Kelly Pavlik, before he was recently defeated by Bernard Hopkins, rather than the very beatable Haussler. 
Bernard Hopkins told Steve Bunce’s Boxing Hour that he will not consider Chad Dawson as an opponent and believes the winner out of Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jr will change their mind about not fighting him.
By William MacKay: WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (40-1, 30 KOs) got a bit of bad news yesterday, when the WBA denied his team’s protest to withdraw Danilo Haussler (29-3-1, 7 KOs) as his mandatory challenger because it would be a gross mismatch. Granted, it was a long shot, at best, for Kessler’s team to win such an appeal for this was an usual appeal to be sure, and if it had been granted, one could imagine more of these types of appeals occurring in the future, used by fighters trying to get of facing either a very dangerous or, in the case of Haussler, a fighter with few boxing skills and not well known to most fans.