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 »

By Chris Williams: Bob Arum of Top Rank will probably move ahead and match his fighters WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KO’s) and Antonio Margarito (38-8, 27 KO’s) up against each other next April or May in order to maximize profit for his guys. Chavez Jr. would have an even bigger weight advantage over Margarito than he did against Marco Antonio Rubio last Saturday night and that should be enough for Chavez Jr. to get a fairly easy win. Read the rest of this entry »

By Eric Thomas: In a little less than two weeks, #1 WBC ranked heavyweight contender Chris Arreola (34-2, 29 KO’s) will be facing little known #11 World Boxing Council ranked contender Eric Molina (18-1, 14 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout on SHOWTIME at the American Bank Centre, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Read the rest of this entry »

By William Mackay: With former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz’s February 11th HBO fight with Andre Berto falling through due to Berto’s ruptured left biceps muscle, Ortiz is looking someone else to fight in the near future and he seems to have set his sights on former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan, WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez or former two-time welterweight champion Antonio Margarito. Read the rest of this entry »

By John F. McKenna (McJack): “He can run but he can’t hide.” It is a quote that has been used numerous times and even President Bush incorporated the quote into one of his speeches a few years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

By John F. McKenna (McJack): If it was possible Schemeling, who was not a Nazi, was under even more pressure than Louis. The return fight finally took place on June 22, 1938. Adolph Hitler placed a call to “Herr Max” while he was in his dressing room. Read the rest of this entry »

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Louis, because of his temperament, just like baseball great Jackie Robinson over a decade later, had no trouble living by the “Commandments” set out for him. Read the rest of this entry »

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Joe Louis’ accomplishments in the boxing ring are well known and the fact that he is considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest heavyweights of all time is undisputed. Louis was born on May 13, 1914 in rural Chambers County, Alabama. Read the rest of this entry »

By Allan Fox: WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. may have tainted his own victory over Marco Antonio Rubio by failing to stick around and take the mandatory urine test after the fight to test for performance enhancing drugs. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: Lightweight Kevin Mitchell (32-1, 24 KO’s) faces Felix Lora (14-8-5, 8 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout this Friday night at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, UK. Read the rest of this entry »

By Chris Williams: I think we just saw the upper ceiling to Nonito Donaire’s ability to move up in weight and still dominate in his performance last night against Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. Read the rest of this entry »

(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Jason Kim: In looking at some of WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr’s last three fights in which he’s made weight at 160 and then rehydrated to near or above 180lbs, it seems clear that boxing badly needs rehydration rules and/or to have the weigh-ins changed to the day of the fight rather than the day before fight.

We’ve seen Chavez Jr. weigh in at 185, 179 and 181 for his last three fights to where he’s had big weight advantages over his opponents. Having a fighter that can rehydrate to put on massive amounts of weight the way that Chavez Jr. and some other fighters do, it’s just makes the point of a weigh-in seem kid of meaningless. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: British super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg (24-0, 17 KO’s) may decide on forgoing a fight against Rendall Munroe or Carl Frampton in order to fight Jamie Arthur (18-6, 4 KO’s) again so that Quigg, 23, can try and improve upon his performance last Saturday night in stopping the 32-year-old Arthur in the 8th round at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton, Lancashire, UK. Read the rest of this entry »