By Dan Ambrose: Former International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KO’s) will finally be getting back in the ring after a year off from boxing when he fights on July 16th against a still to be determined opponent. The 31-year-old Cintron hasn’t fought since his 4th round technical decision loss to Paul Williams last year in May in a fight which Cintron flew out of the ring after tripping over one of Williams’ legs. Read the rest of this entry »

By William Mackay: Sky Sports had decided to move the April 16 fight between WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) and Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) from pay-per-view to Sky Sports 3, a move that could reduce Khan’s previously hefty payday from £1.25 million pounds to around £250,000. Boy, that’s got to hurt. The card, which was rather skimpy and lacking in talent from the start, was recently beefed up a bit with the addition of Tyson Fury and Rendall Munroe. Read the rest of this entry »

By Sean McDaniel: Next weeks’ bout between WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) and Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) will be shown on Sky Sports 3 rather than pay-per-view. This comes after the news that heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury’s bout with Hasim Rahman is off the card. The Fury-Rahman fight was one of the best fights on the entire card, perhaps even better than the Khan-McCloskey bout. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jason Kim: Boxing fans may be seeing a future star in the making with unbeaten middleweight contender David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KO’s), who gets to show off his power this Friday night against Marco Antonio Rubio at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dan Ambrose: Dan Rafael is reporting that the Klitschkos have finally decided which brother is fighting WBA heavyweight champion David Haye on June 25th or July 2nd, and which brother gets Tomasz Adamek later on in the year in Poland. Barring any kind of injury, Wladimir will be the one facing Haye next, while Vitali will take on Adamek in a fight that will possibly take place in September. Read the rest of this entry »

By Edgar Solorzano: On April 9th, two brave warriors will step in the square-circle to battle and try to win a bloody war that will open a big door in the sport of boxing. Argentine’s Marcos “El Chino” Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) failed to conquer Britain’s Amir Khan and lost the fight by unanimous last December at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nev. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dan Ambrose: If you’ve got money to burn this Saturday night you might want to purchase the pay-per-view card between heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KO’s) and 37-year-old journeyman Kevin McBride (35-8-1, 29 KO’s). Read the rest of this entry »

By William Mackay: In looking at some of the less than stellar opposition that WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) has faced in the three years that he’s been fighting as a heavyweight, I think he could have been a much more popular fighter than he is now around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

By Chris Williams: According to Abs-cbn news, Alex Ariza, the strength and conditioning coach for Manny Pacquiao, is looking to add more muscle bulk for the Filipino’s Ma 7th bout against fading 39-year-old Shane Mosley in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ariza reportedly wants to make Pacquiao’s muscles more dense, which he feels will act as a cushion for the shots from Mosley. Read the rest of this entry »

By Stephen Terry: Many boxing fans will be wondering if the Australian Michael Katsidis (27-3, 22 KO`s) will choose to retire if he loses this Saturday night when he clash’s with Robert Geurrero (28-1-1, 18 KO`s) for the interim WBA/WBO lightweight titles at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read the rest of this entry »

By Adam Fillingham:

Last Weekend

European lightweight champion John Murray under whelmed fans last weekend with a unanimous decision victotry over Spaniard Karim El Ouazghari. Throughout the fight Murray’s work looked very forced and the Mancunian appeared fairly fatigued by round two. Read the rest of this entry »

By Scott Gilfoid: I knew it was too good to be true. Dan Rafael is reporting that Hasim Rahman’s adviser is saying that it’s 95% certain that Rahman won’t be fighting unbeaten Tyson Fury next week on the Amir Khan vs. Paul McCloskey undercard at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, England. Read the rest of this entry »

By Eric Thomas: 42-year-old Roy Jones Jr. (54-7, 40 KO’s) has looked like an old statue in stepping it up against quality fighters in the past three years, losing to the likes of Joe Calzaghe, Danny Green and Bernard Hopkins. Jones has now lost his last two fights, and is going to be facing #1 ranked WBO cruiserweight contender Denis Lebedev (21-1, 16 KO’s) next month on May 22nd at the Sport Complex Krylatskoe, in Moscow, Russia. Read the rest of this entry »

By Chris Williams: Rather taking on Yuriorkis Gamboa, WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (30-0, 27 KO’s) will be facing Gamboa’s leftovers in Orlando Salido (34-11-2, 22 KOs) on April 16th at the Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dan Ambrose: The last thing that former IBF light welterweight champion Paul Malignaggi (28-4, 6 KO’s) is lose to 5’5” Jose Miguel Cotto (32-2-1, 24 KO’s) this Saturday night in their fight on the undercard of the Marcos Maidana vs. Erik Morales card at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read the rest of this entry »