By Joss Goosman:

The Prime Division-
The heavyweight division is the arena where past kings of the ring were ordained. Where the strongest and the biggest of men were pitted against each other, much like the gladiators of the past. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: Promoter Dennis Hobson doesn’t see the March 17th fight between unbeaten welterweight contender Kell Brook (26-0, 18 KO’s) and former EBU welterweight champion Matthew Hatton (42-5-2, 16 KO’s) as being a particularly competitive match-up due to the wide talent gap between Brook and the arguably much less talented 30-year-old Hatton. Hobson sees this fight as a mismatch, and just a money fight but not a competitive match-up. Read the rest of this entry »

By Sean McDaniel: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn revealed on Sky Ringside the other night that he’s in deep talks with WBO middleweight champion Dmitriy Pirog’s management in setting up a clash between Hearn’s fighter middleweight contender Darren Barker (23-1, 14 KO’s) and Pirog (19-0, 15 KO’s) for a fight that would take place on HBO. I think it would be a good fight for both guys. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten British super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg (23-0, 16 KO’s) defends his title on Saturday night against challenger Jamie Arthur (18-5, 4 KO’s) at the Reebok stadium, Bolton, Lanchashire, UK. Also on the card will be Rendall Munroe (23-2, 9 KO’s) facing Jose Saez (21-12-6, 11 KO’s) in an eight round stay busy fight. Read the rest of this entry »

By William Mackay: Amir Khan’s father’s one week ultimatum for Lamont Peterson to make a decision whether he’ll give Amir a rematch looks as it’s not produced the desired results in bringing Peterson back to the bargaining table for a rematch. Read the rest of this entry »

By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. was willing to give WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao a piece of the action by letting him get a big $40 million payday against him for a fight on May 5th, but Pacquiao got greedy and didn’t want to accept the huge $40 million offer that Mayweather offered him. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: As I predicted earlier, the World Boxing Organization has responded and given challenger Tommy Karpency (21-2-1, 14 KO’s) a ranking in the top 15 for his February 25th fight against WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (23-0, 10 KO’s) at the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales, UK. Read the rest of this entry »

By Chris Williams: I got to say that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is a breath of fresh air for Floyd Mayweather Jr. compared to his recent frustrated dealings with Manny Pacquiao. Cotto didn’t cry for a new outdoor arena to be built before he’d agree to fight, didn’t insist on a 50-50 purse split, and didn’t ask for some kind of catchweight. Read the rest of this entry »

By William Mackay: Fringe light heavyweight contender Isaac Chilemba (18-1-1, 9 KO’s) battles the hard hitting 31-year-old Edison Miranda (35-6, 30 KO’s) on Friday Night Fights in a scheduled 10 round bout at the Texas Station Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: Now that Ricky Burns (33-2, 9 KO’s) has been appointed as the WBO lightweight champion courtesy of the World Boxing Organization, who voted him in as champion recently, Burns has got to defend his gift strap against Paulus Moses (28-1, 19 KO’s) in his first defense of his strap on March 10th at the Braehead Arena, in Glasgow, Scotland. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo: Adrian Hernandez – By Chris Williams: It looks like former two-division world champion Nonito Donaire (27-1, 18 KO’s) may ultimately fight WBA World super bantamweight champion Guillermo “The Jackal” Rigondeaux (9-0, 7 KO’s) after all, as Donaire and Rigondeaux’s promoter, Bob Arum, told RingTV that Donaire will get to Rigondeaux if Donaire gets by Vazquez Jr., Jorge Arce and Toshiaki Nishioka. Read the rest of this entry »

By Chris Williams: Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellberbe explained why Floyd Mayweather Jr. agreed to fight WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto at the full 154 lbs instead of a catchweight that Manny Pacquiao previously used to beat Cotto with, saying o Mlive.com “He [Mayweather] didn’t want to fight him [Cotto] at a catchweight, he wanted to fight at the weight [154lbs]. Sometimes, you don’t get full credit when you fight at a catchweight. Floyd wanted to make sure Miguel was comfortable.” Read the rest of this entry »

Photo credit: Alma Montiel – By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is incredibly happy with the amount of tickets sold for Saturday’s bout between WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) and challenger Marco Antonio Rubio (53-5-1, 46 KO’s) at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas.

Chavez-Rubio will be the feature bout on the HBO televised bout, and Nonito Donaire vs. Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. will be the co-feature in a fight for the vacant WBO super bantamweight title. Arum says that 10,000 tickets have sold for the fight, according to Dan Rafael, and he expects 13,000 to be sold by Saturday night. That’s a respectable number for a card like this as none of the fighters involved are at the super star level as of yet. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dan Ambrose: Not satisfied with the original diagnosis he received about him needing surgery to repair his ruptured left biceps, former IBF/WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto went and got a second opinion from a different doctor who advised Berto to try rehabilitation for 8-12 weeks rather than surgery, according to RingTV. Read the rest of this entry »

By John F. McKenna (McJack): It goes with out saying that the back and forth bickering between the camps of undefeated World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) and Filipino icon WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) has become nauseating and in effect has accomplished nothing. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jason Kim: I’m not precisely sure what WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto received for his fight against Manny Pacquiao three years ago, but I seriously doubt it’s as much as Cotto stands to make in his May 5th fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dan Ambrose: Roger Mayweather, the uncle and trainer for WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., doesn’t see WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto as any kind of threat to Mayweather Jr. in their upcoming May 5th fight in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to news from the examiner.com. Read the rest of this entry »