By Dan Ambrose: The Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley (28-0, 12 KO’s) fight is expected to be officially announced on Wednesday once promoter Bob Arum finalizes the deal with Bradley’s manager. The fights’ going to be taking place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 9th and Bradley will be moving up in weight to challenge for Pacquiao’s World Boxing Organization title. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jason Kim: Lou Dibella, the promoter for WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (48-2-2, 27 KO’s), expects WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and his promoter Bob Arum to immediately start negotiations with them after Martinez first takes care of Matthew Macklin on March 17th at Madison Square Garden in New York. Read the rest of this entry »

(Photo credit: Naoka Fakuda) By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated #1 WBC ranked junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (32-0, 20 KO’s) could finally be getting a big fight after seven years of beating 2nd and 3rd tier opposition to build up a hugely inflated record of 32-0.

The 25-year-old Martirosyan has a good chance of either facing the winner of the March 24th clash between James Kirkland (30-1, 27 KO’s) vs. Carlos Molina (19-4-2, 6 KO’s) or take on IBF junior middleweight champion Cornelius Bundradge (31-4, 18 KO’s). Read the rest of this entry »

By Allen Fox: WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez gave his two cents about the prospects of WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto and junior middleweight contender Antonio Margarito stepping up in weight to fight WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in the near future, and Martinez said this on his twitter page: “181 pounds is too much for Cotto or Margarito, that did less than 154 in their last fights.” Read the rest of this entry »

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) will be taking on British heavyweight Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) in less than two weeks in Munich, Germany with Vitali’s WBC title belt on the line. Read the rest of this entry »

By Chris Williams: WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and fellow Top Rank fighter Timothy Bradley have reportedly agreed to fight on June 9th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to RingTV. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jason Kim: In an interview with Boxing Channel after Saturday’s night loss to WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KO’s), the beaten Marco Antonio Rubio was asked if Chavez Jr. is afraid to fight his WBC ordered challenger former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and Rubio answered “It’s obvious. Chavez Jr. will fight Antonio Margarito instead.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Allan Fox: Former International Boxing Federation (IBF) middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (33-3, 27 KO’s) will be making a quick ring return on March 31st against an opponent to be named later at the Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Read the rest of this entry »

By Babatis Banda: After Manny walked away yet again from his biggest pay cheque, Floyd had to settle for Cotto as his nemesis on May 5. For now, there is no single justification for us to discuss why the Floyd versus Manny bout failed again. All we can say is that, let it happen when it happens, and we have just to move on. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jason Kim: WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has made some strides in improvement since trainer Freddie Roach took over his training in 2010. Since then, Chavez Jr. has beaten John Duddy, Billy Lyell, Sebastian Zbik, Peter Manfredo Jr. and Marco Antonio Rubio. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (23-0, 11 KO’s) will be making his third defense of his title on February 25th against #10 World Boxing Organization ranked contender Tommy Karpency (21-2-1, 14 KO’s), who was only recently in the past couple of weeks pushed to the No.10 spot by the WBO. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) will be defending his title against the UK’s finest heavyweight Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) on February 18th in Munich, Germany. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dan Ambrose: In appraising the progress that WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has made in the past year under the watchful eye of trainer Freddie Roach, I think Chavez’s promoter Bob Arum needs to wait a lot longer than the end of the year before he finally matched Chavez Jr. against the middleweight division’s best fighter Sergio Martinez. Read the rest of this entry »