By Dan Ambrose: World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight champion Orlando Salido (35-11-2, 23 KO’s) has decided to take an easy stay busy tune-up fight against non-top 15 ranked Mike Oliver (24-2, 8 KO’s) on July 23 at the Centro de Usos Multiples, Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico. Salido, 30, wanted to be able to defend his title in his home country of Mexico before fighting a rematch against former WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez in November in a fight that will be taking place in Lopez’s home country of Puerto Rico.
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Mike Tyson Enshrined in Boxing Hall of Fame
By John F. McKenna (McJack): A new and gentler “Iron” Mike Tyson was enshrined into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on June 12, 2011 along with Mexican legend Julio Cesar Chavez, Russian born Australian Kostya Tszyu, Mexican trainer Ignacio “Nacho” Beristain, referee Joe Cortez and Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone for his “Rocky” movies. Threatening weather could not keep thousands of boxing fans from attending the event.
Price: Haye only needs to land one big punch to hurt Wladimir and take him out
By William Mackay: Unbeaten heavyweight prospect David Price (10-0, 8 KO’s) faces Tom Dallas (15-0, 11 KO’s) tonight in a 10 round bout in a British heavyweight title eliminator bout at the Olympia, Liverpool, England. Price, 27, has been sparring with WBA heavyweight champion David Haye and feels that he’s seen improvement in Haye’s game, as well as improvement in his own.
Who or What is Killing Boxing?
By Christopher Young: I had a lot of time to think about this and was wondering what happened to the sweet science? I mean lately we had some good fights but when you ask an average citizen who is the world heavyweight champion the normal answer I get is, “I don’t know?” When Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson were champions the average citizen who did not follow boxing knew the answer to this. Why can’t we go back to those days? What happened?
The continuing legacy of the old school
By Kasim Aslam: Over the past year boxing has gone through a difficult patch. Will David Haye fight the Klitschko’s? Will Floyd Mayweather fight Manny Pacquiao? And is this boxer taking performance enhancing drugs? These topics have figured prominently throughout the year and to some degree bore a lot of fight fans. However I would like to bring a positive atmosphere with this article and celebrate the careers of a handful of boxers who still remain on top of their game even though they are at the latter stages of their career.
Boxing in the Hallway and the YouTube boxing community
By Mark Young: Boxing is a great sport, two guys pitching their all against each other in front of a baying crowd, the sport of pugilism as old as the hills, a sport that harks back to the days of gladiators fighting it out in front of the baying bloodthirsty mob.
Why is performance enhancement drugs talk becoming more common in pro Boxing?
By Gerardo Granados: Not only in professional Boxing but in all professional or amateur sports this has been occurring and it is not enough reason to look the other way and wait until some one do something to solve it. We all know that an athlete will reach his peak and then his physical performance will decline due to his age, injuries or due the high work rate of competition and will naturally diminish his physical ability.
Omar Chavez stops Genaro Trazancos, looks terrible
By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten welterweight prospect Omar Chavez (26-0-1, 19 KO’s) has his work cut out for him if he ever wants to be anything close to what his famous father Julio Cesar Chavez was as a fighter. Omar looked nothing short of terrible in beating journeyman Genaro Trazancos (22-15-1, 13 KO’s) by a 4th round TKO last Saturday night at the Palenque del FEX, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico.
Seventy Years since Jake “The Raging Bull” LaMotta’s pro-debut – has anyone boasted a better chin since?
By Jack Dutton:
A look back at the toughest chins in boxing history.
Jake LaMotta. Raised on the streets of the Bronx, New York. Murderer, rapist, thief. A fighter shrouded in controversy decades before the likes of Mike Tyson hit the screen. But his work inside the squared circle was nothing less than awe-inspiring. In a total of 103 fights, the ‘Raging Bull’ tasted the canvas only once, in his last few months of professional fighting, at the hands of Danny Nardico.
Haye: I’m not going to allow Wladimir to grab me
