By Gary E G: The one and only controversial win in Floyd Mayweather’s 40 fight unbeaten career was his bout against Jose Luis Castillo in 2002. Many who saw the fight thought that Castillo was robbed and the few minutes leading up to the official announcement is the only time I have seen Mayweather look truly worried in a boxing ring. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dave Lahr: Manny Pacquiao is in for a big surprise on Saturday night when he attempts to go on the attack against former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey. Pacquiao is used to having his way against a recent rag tag variety of beaten up and aging fighters but on March 13th, Pacquiao is going to find that he can’t penetrate through Clottey’s impregnable clamshell defense. I’ve seen Clottey in action in many of his fights, and it’s almost impossible to get shots through Clottey’s high guard and land anywhere to his head. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight contender Eddie Chambers is incredibly confident about his chances against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko for March 20th. Confidence is a good thing to have, but Chambers sounds almost deluded with his self belief going into this fight. In article by Bernard Fernandez of Philly.com, Chambers says “Beating Klitschko isn’t about me getting lucky…It’s never easy being the best at what you do.” Wow! I never realized how cocky Chambers is. And the thing is, he looks damn average in every fight I’ve seen him. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: You’ve heard the saying “speed kills”? Well, in this case it won’t kill, but will make former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham one miserable human being on March 27th, at the Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit, Michigan. The talented Andre Dirrell, the fastest fighter in the Super Six tournament, is going to unleash his speed on Abraham beat the stuffing out of him on Showtime. Abraham hasn’t yet experienced what it feels like to lose yet, but he’s going to get to know it really well on the 27th, because I see Abraham eating a lot of leather on that night and experiencing a lot of pain. Read the rest of this entry »

By Alexander Fugate: First, I would like to apologize to everyone, as I was mistaken in an earlier article stating ticket sales for the May 1 mega-fight. It has since been brought to my attention that Stubhub.com allows fans to sell tickets to other fans. It appears (to me at least) to be a legal form of scalping online. Stubhub, from my current understanding doesn’t directly sell tickets to events, but simply allows people with tickets to events to sell them. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dave Lahr: Trainer Freddie Roach is wary of his fighter Manny Pacquiao getting hit with head butts and uppercuts from challenger Joshua Clottey, and to prevent from Pacquiao getting hit with either, Roach says he’s going to have Pacquiao fight from the outside. In an article at TVNZ, Roach says “Sometimes he [Clottey] uses his head. If you fall into the pocket with him, his best punch is an uppercut and his second best punch is a head butt. So we’re not going to go in there. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jim Dower: The knock on IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is that he’s a boring, safety first fighter who lacks heart. Some people think Wladimir does just enough to win his fights, and because of that believe, many boxing fans have lost interest in watching Wladimir fight. This hasn’t been lost on HBO, who now rarely shows any of Klitschko’s fights anymore. That’s hard to imagine for a heavyweight who has dominated the heavyweight division for the most part for the past five years. Read the rest of this entry »

By William Mackay: For a number of boxing experts, they’re under the impression that WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch will be able to stop Mikkel Kessler at some point in their Super Six fight on April 24th. Some of them see the punishment that Kessler took in losing to Andre Ward in his last fight in November as evidence that Kessler is starting to slip as a fighter and is vulnerable to being stopped by Froch. That may or may not be true, but the one thing that we do know is that Froch doesn’t have the same boxing skills as Kessler. Read the rest of this entry »

By Alexander Fugate: Tickets for the May 1st mega-fight between Floyd Maywather Jr. and Shane Mosley went on sale today, Tuesday March 9 at 1 pm EST. Ticket sales were limited to 10 per person and a limit of 2 per person for the cheapest seats available. Its been estimated that the MGM Grand will seat 17,000 for this fight and tickets are flying off the hook. Read the rest of this entry »

By Eric Thomas: As of the last count, there have been a total of 41,000 tickets sold for the March 13th fight between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum expects another 4000 tickets to be sold by the end of the week, which would bring the ticket numbers to 45,000, a sellout for the 80,000 seat stadium. The stadium seats can be reconfigured to fit any number up to the total seats available. Read the rest of this entry »

By David Lahr: After failing at putting together a fight against 7-foot former World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev, WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO’s) has decided to take on number #13 ranked WBC heavyweight contender Albert Sosnowski (45-2-1, 27 KO’s) on May 29th, at the Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. This is the same arena that Vitali’s younger brother IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko successfully defended his two titles in last year in June, stopping Ruslan Chagaev in the 9th round in front of 61,000 fans. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: There are legions of Ricky Hatton fans who really enjoy his fights and feel that he deserves to be considered as an all time great in the sport of boxing. But I’m not so sure about that. While I think Hatton is or was certainly a good fighter during his prime years, I don’t know that he was ever a great fighter. I think mostly that Hatton was a popular fighter in England, who had an entire country behind him much in the same way that Pacquiao has the entire Philippines behind him every time he fights. I don’t see any greatness in any of Hatton’s fights, and more importantly I see a lot of fighters that Hatton for some reason never fought. Read the rest of this entry »

By Chris Williams: Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 KO’s) is counting on Manny Pacquiao to be throwing a lot of punches when he fights him on Saturday night at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium. Clottey is ready for anything that Pacquiao will be bringing to the ring, and he won’t be catching Clottey off guard if he tries to obliterate him with a massive amount of punches in the early rounds of the fight. In an article at the Press Enterprise, Clottey said “He [Pacquiao] throws a lot of punches to people when he sees an opening. He won’t see the openings with me.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan will be holding a press conference in London on Friday along with Paulie Malignaggi to announce their May 15th bout at the Madison Square Garden, New York, New York. This will be the 23-year-old Khan’s debut fight, and he wants to make a favorable impression on the American public by beating the 29-year-old Malignaggi. The Khan-Malignaggi fight will be shown on HBO, which will allow millions of boxing fans a chance to see Khan fight for the first time. If he fails to impress in this fight, then he has a lot of work to do to pick up fans in the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: Both Klitschko brothers want to fight World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (23-1, 21 KO’s). If the 29-year-old Haye has a preference, you can bet it would probably be IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (53-3, 47 KO’s), and the reason is because his chin is the weaker of the two brothers. Vital, now 38, wants to be the one that faces Haye first, saying “For him [Wladimir] it is personal, but for me I want the title. My brother already has two but I have to clear it with him. I really hope he listens to his older brother.” Haye has a fight coming up next month on April 3rd against John Ruiz. Read the rest of this entry »

By Peter Wells: Saturday night Devon Alexander unified the WBC and IBF 140lb titles in an enthralling 8th round stoppage victory of Colombian tough man, Juan Urango. Both fighters were in superb condition, but the quicker fighter from St Louis was too much for the plodding Urango.

Juan tried to get back into the fight by brawling, but Alexander was always in and out of range when he wanted to be. Read the rest of this entry »

By Peter Wells: After the breaking news that Ricky Hatton had said he was retiring from the sport, I have just found out the full details of what has gone on. On the weekend just gone Ricky Hatton told some of his mates at a pub in Tenerife that he was ready to hang up the gloves for good. His family are now trying to clear up what has been said and what Ricky’s decision is. Read the rest of this entry »

By Shaun Campbell: Reports late last night surfaced that according to friends, Ricky Hatton has decided against his proposed comeback to the ring. The Hitman who has not fought since his dramatic loss to Manny Pacquiao last May, was planning one last go to end his career on a win. But now it seems that Hatton has performed a U-turn on his decision and called off any plans for fighting again this summer. Read the rest of this entry »

By Brinsley Bailey: Vitali Klitschko (39-2) will defend his World Boxing Council heavyweight title against London-based Pole Albert Sosnowski (45-2-1) on May 29 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Klitschko had looked set to face former WBA champion Nikolay Valuev but, when negotiations broke down, European champion Sosnowski swiftly stepped in as a replacement. Read the rest of this entry »

By Rasheed Catapang: To hear him talk, he’s the best there is at what he does – the greatest boxer ever to lace up gloves. According to him, he’s the King of the Hill and inside the ring, his preferred temple and shrine, a boxing god.

Outside of his family and a few elite sycophants, almost all are heretics if Floyd Mayweather is to be believed. By his standard, even Sugar Ray Robinson – the closest thing the modern world has to a boxing god – is far behind him in Boxing’s Valhalla. Read the rest of this entry »

By Esteban Garduno: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says he thinks that this Saturday’s fight between World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and challenger Joshua Clottey will do as well as the Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto bought in terms of pay per view buys, according to an interview of Arum at Boxing Talk. The Pacquiao-Cotto fight sold 1.25 million pay per view buys, which a good portion of it was driven by fan interest in seeing Cotto fight. Arum says that at the least, he sees the Pacquiao vs. Clottey fight doing no worse than 900,000 to 1 million PPV buys. Read the rest of this entry »