By Tim Walsh: World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye feels that unbeaten lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (31-0, 23 KO’s) will win one of the lightweight titles in 2010. In an article at ESPN, the 29-year-old Haye says “Kevin Mitchell will win a world title this year. I think Mitchell could beat anyone in the world at his weight right now. I wasn’t sure he had what it takes, but against [Breidis] Prescott he showed world class skills and timing against a dangerous opponent. He’s [Mitchell] got it and it’s the right time for him.” I don’t know that I agree with Haye’s assessment of Mitchell’s chances at winning a title or his skills for that matter. Read the rest of this entry »

By Sean McDaniel: Freddie Roach is predicting a knockout win for his fighter World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao against Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 KO’s) for their March 13th fight at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium. In an article at GMA News, Roach says “A knockout in the 9th is likely.” Pacquiao has the right opponent for him to get a knockout. Clottey, 32, is someone that likes to hang on the ropes, and doesn’t throw a lot of punches. In other words, Clottey is like a heavy bag with gloves. Pacquiao should be able to beat this guy unless Clottey suddenly develops stamina, a work rate and ability to not lay on the ropes. Read the rest of this entry »

Hear from experts and the fighters as they discuss The Event. Pacquiao vs. Clottey takes place Sat., March 13 live on pay-per-view.

Team Pacquiao discusses his fight against Miguel Cotto and his strengths. Pacquiao vs. Clottey takes place Sat., March 13 live on pay-per-view. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jim Dower: Former International Boxing Federation/WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (29-0, 17 KO’s) and Jean Pascal (25-1, 16 KO’s) have agreed to fight on August 14th, in a fight that will be shown on HBO at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The August 14th date is two months later than people thought that fight would take place. Previously, it was believed that Dawson and Pascal would fight on June 19th. However, according to Ringtv, Pascal’s recently surgically repaired right shoulder needs more time to recover. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum thinks the Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey fight is going to be a tougher fight than Pacquiao’s 12th round TKO win over Miguel Cotto last November. In an article at Philstar, Arum says “This fight is going to be harder than the Cotto fight. Why” Because Clottey is more durable than Cotto.” It’s unclear whether Arum really means this or is just saying this to drum up boxing fan interest in purchasing the fight on pay-per-view or buying tickets to watch it in the huge Dallas Cowboy Stadium. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: Things were going badly for World Boxing Council super middleweight champion Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KO’s) in his last fight against the gifted Andre Dirrell, so bad that after struggling to land anything at all against the mercurial Dirrell, Froch turned the fight physical in the 5th round with a bone jarring body slam of Dirrell. From the 5th round until the 11th, Froch roughed Dirrell repeatedly without any points being taken off by the referee. In a strange twist of fate, it was Dirrell who ended up being the one that had points taken away by the referee for excessive clinching. Read the rest of this entry »

By Chris Williams: Former WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) has been confirmed for a fight against World Boxing Association light middleweight champion Yuri Foreman (28-0, 8 KO
s) on June 5th at the Yankee Stadium, New York, New York. The stadium, which is normally used to house the New York Yankees baseball team, will be retrofitted to fit “between 30,000 and 35,000 fans,” according to news from CBS Sports. This is perhaps an ambitious number for a fight that matches Cotto, a fighter who was recently beaten to a pulp by Manny Pacquiao in his last fight in November. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell (18-1, 13 KO’s) enters his March 27th stage 2 Super Six bout tied for last place in the scoring with Mikkel Kessler and Allan Green with zero points. Dirrell, 26, will be facing the tournament leader Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s), who has three points after knocking out his stage 1 opponent Jermain Taylor in the 12th round in October. Dirrell will be looking to reverse course and pick up a win and move create a tie with Abraham by knocking him out in their fight at the Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit, Michigan. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (23-1, 21 KO’s) is determined to put in an impressive performance in his first defense of his WBA title belt on April 3rd, against two-time heavyweight champion John Ruiz (44-8-1, 30 KO’s) at the M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, Lancashire. The 29-year-old Haye won the WBA belt in November with a 12 round majority decision over champion Nikolay Valuev in Germany. Haye did just enough to squeak by with the decision in a safety first fight that Haye threw very power punches in. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jason Kim: Former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 KO’s) outlined his fight strategy that he plans on using against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao on March 13th. In article at Reuters, Clottey, 32, says “We all know Manny Pacquiao. When he comes, he starts throwing. I’m just ready. My body can take it. When he [Pacquiao] throws on my, I will block him and then confuse him. He’ll throw 30, and I’ll throw four. The four will connect. The 30, I’ll block most. I will wear him down for sure.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Peter Wells: This Saturday 6th March at Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut two fighters in the most highly competitive division of them all will meet in a WBC/IBF showdown. Devon Alexander the new World Boxing Council Light Welterweight champion of the world comes into the bout undefeated in just 19 pro fights, recently defeating British boxer Junior Witter. At 23, Alexander The Great from St Louis stands 5’7” with a 71” reach. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dennis Broadhurst: In looking at David Haye and lokoing at the Klitschkos I think that Haye can beat them both. Haye is an extremely fast and powerful heavyweight with good footwork and decent head movement. Haye has the offensive abilities to take out anyone but can also be taken out himself because of a rather weak chin.

Haye vs Vitali: Vitali looked good in his fight against Arreola who he dominated and dismantled and while Arreola had power he had extremely poor movement. Read the rest of this entry »

Tune in for the Mosley-Mayweather Press Conference 3/4 @ 1pm PST:

Going/Austria (March 4, 2010) – Wladimir Klitschko (53-3, 47 KOs), of Kiev (Ukraine) and Hamburg (Germany), participated yesterday in a media work out in his training camp in Austria. He discussed his upcoming WBO, International Boxing Federation and IBO heavyweight title defense against WBO-No. 1-ranked mandatory challenger Eddie Chambers (35-1, 18 KOs), of Philadelphia.

The eagerly anticipated heavyweight championship will take place on Saturday, March 20, at ESPRIT arena Düsseldorf, Germany. Read the rest of this entry »

By William Mackay: Former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s) says he wants a rematch with Ricky Hatton, who defeated Malignaggi by an 11th round stoppage in November 2008. The loss, a bitter one for Malignaggi, has stuck to his craw, because he felt that the one-sided fight shouldn’t have been stopped. But regardless of whether it was stopped or not, Malignaggi would have still lost the fight because he was well behind in the fight at the time of the stoppage and needed a knockout to win. Read the rest of this entry »

By Sean McDaniel: Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) was recently chosen to replace Jermain Taylor in the Super Six tournament, and for Green’s first fight he has the bad luck of being matched against unbeaten Andre Ward (21-, 13 KO’s). That’s not good news, because Ward is coming off a huge upset of World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler in November. Many people had earlier picked Kessler to win the Super Six tournament. However, with the ease with which Ward defeated Kessler, it now has people thinking that Ward will win the Super Six. Read the rest of this entry »

Tonight, boxing champ Manny Pacquiao appeared on late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” revealing his aspirations to run for public office, his thoughts on fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr., and how he’s preparing mentally for his upcoming fight against Joshua Clottey. Pacquiao concluded his late-night interview by serenading the live studio audience with a rendition of the love song, “Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Dave Lahr: In case people haven’t noticed, there’s a little over a week to go before the Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey fight and everyone is talking about the May 1st fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley. If it wasn’t so sad it would be hilarious. The Mayweather fight won’t be taking place for months, yet it’s all that’s being talked about. I know there’s a lesson in here somewhere. The Mayweather vs. Mosley fight is a true super fight, whereas the Pacquiao-Clottey is just a mismatch any way you look it. Read the rest of this entry »

By Gary E G: No I’m not trying to contradict myself, I would just like to respond to some comments that were left on an article I wrote yesterday. Some commentators seemed to believe that I thought Mayweather was overlooking Mosley and only had his mind on a Pacquiao super bout. Others believed that Mayweather would be praying Pacquiao would be defeated because he is scared to face him. This misses the point of what i was trying to say. Read the rest of this entry »

By Sean McDaniel: Undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. has some words of advice to Ricky Hatton, telling him “This is a young man’s game,” according to news from the Daily Express. “He [Hatton] will have to train a lot harder to get back into the shape he was and he has got to ask himself a lot of questions.” Hatton, 31, hasn’t fought since May when he was cruelly taken out in the 2nd round by Manny Pacquiao and knocked cold in the process. Read the rest of this entry »

by Daniel Ciminera: News this evening, in a move which may not be much of a shock to some people, 41 year old James “Lights Out” Toney (72/6/3), has signed a “multi-fight” contract with the UFC.

Toney, who won world titles at 5 different weights in the boxing ring and has been revered as a technically brilliant, future hall of fame boxer for many years, has been looking for a couple of years to get into mixed martial arts and had previously had talks with “Strikeforce”, a competitor of UFC. However, Toney went to UFC president Dana White insisting that the fights being offered to him were beneath him, telling White, “I have a lot of pride and I’d never do anything to embarrass myself. I’m a fighter. I want to fight. Don’t ever underestimate me.” Read the rest of this entry »