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By Ryan Wardle: On November 17 Johnathon Banks walked into the ring looking to many as a stepping stone for heavyweight prospect Seth Mitchell. However, Banks floored Mitchell three times in the second round en route to a second round TKO victory. The two fighters will square off again on the undercard of Adrien Broner vs. Gavin Rees on February 16th in Atlantic City, New Jersey to see if that victory was a fluke.

Both fighters have experience against competition with limited backgrounds. Banks only loss was to Tomasz Adamek who was easily his toughest opponent, a former champion at both light heavyweight and cruiserweight. Adamek won after dropping Banks and then landing a flurry of punches to earn an eighth round stoppage.

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By Rusty Nat: Being a British writer I probably tend to show more interest in the little known British fighters as well as the big names of the sport.

Today for me was a sad day to hear that Kieran Farrell has been forced to retire from the sport due to severe brain damage.

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by Bill Mitchell: Friday night fights broadcast their season debut last night live on ESPN from The Magic City Casino in Miami, Fl. The main event featured two undefeated junior lightweight contenders Rances Barthelemy (17-0, 11 KOs) and Arash Usmanee (20-0,10 KOs). And here’s where the controversy ensues.

Barthelemy , a tall, technically correct left-hander who fights conventional was expected to be Cuba’s next professional star after winning three impressive victories last year. He was the expected favorite. However undefeated Afghanistan-born Canadian resident Arash Usmanee, a tough stalker with power and brawling skills had a different mindset. In a pre-fight interview he said “I am an aggressor with good technique, and this coming Friday you’ll see a great fight.”

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By Jason Kim: Two high quality fighters Richard Abril (17-3-1, 8 KO’s) and Sharif Bogere (23-0, 15 KO’s) will go at it for the vacant WBA lightweight title on March 2nd in the United States. The venue still isn’t decided yet but it will shortly. This is the WBA strap that previously belonged to Brandon Rios. However, Rios failed to make weight and was stripped of the title. Rios has since moved u to light welterweight, leaving the WBA title available to Abril and Bogere.

Abril hasn’t fought since losing to Rios last year in April by a 12 round split decision. Abril fought remarkably well and you can say that he did well enough to deserve the win but two of the judges saw it differently. Abril hasn’t done anything since then and that’s unfortunate because he’ll have been out of the ring for 11 months by the time he does eventually fight Bogere.

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By Tom Drury: This article is going to concentrate on boxing promoters and how they are affecting the sport of boxing. Boxing is on the rise again and we have had the pleasure of witnessing some great fights in 2012. 2013 is also looking good with Floyd Mayweather Jr back in the ring in May, a possible fifth match-up between Manny Paquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez and many of the young prospects set to make a breakthrough.

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By Allan Fox: #1 WBA, #8 WBO, Richard Abril (17-3-1, 8 KO’s) will be facing off against unbeaten #2 WBO, #3 WBA, Sharif Bogere (23-0, 15 KO’s) for the vacant WBA World lightweight title on March 2nd on Showtime in a venue still to be determined. This could be a potentially great fight because the 30-year-old Abril should arguably still be undefeated at this point in his career because all three of his defeats involved him losing by a controversial split decision.

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By Robert Dean: There’s a lot of injustice in this world, and it always infuriates people. When you think of the most memorable moment of this year’s NFL season, it has to be the end-zone play in the Seattle-Green Bay game, that cost all the replacement refs their jobs. Even people who don’t watch football were talking about it the next day. This was all because the NFL was too cheap to hire good referees. Without superb refereeing, the results of the sport lose their legitimacy.

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By LLCoolP: “Speed kills” will be a familiar phrase to any fan of boxing, whether that be as a participant, coach or avid fan. We hear it all the way up from the local amateur coach to Freddie Roach and we hear it regularly. Freddie Roach has often been quoted on his initial conversations with Alex Ariza when the latter joined team Pacquiao in 2008 as the boxers strength and conditioning coach saying “Don’t F**k up his speed!!!”

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