By Wayne Lloyd: Boxing is undoubtedly the greatest sport on the planet. Think about it…what other sport in the world can provide you with the excitement, the drama or the debate? In most sports such as football or soccer… dependent on where you are from…the greatest football teams of the time will play each other at least twice a season year after year.
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Hit but not miss
By Chris McHugh: It’s coming upto the time when Rob McCracken has to break certain boxers’ hearts naming his final squad for the 2012 London Olympics, as he cuts down his provisional team to the final few. However, it’s not the end of the road for the guys who don’t make the team.
Maidana doesn’t think Morales can fight at the same level he once did
By William Mackay: In what could be the best fighter in the light welterweight division, Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) will be facing former three division world champion Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) on Saturday night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two fighters will be battling for the interim WBA light welterweight title. Maidana, 27, lost his last fight against WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan last December, but in losing the fight he appeared to be the better fighter as he dominated the last three rounds and had Khan badly hurt and soaking up punishment during the last nine minutes of action.
Boxers need a pension plan 401k or Something
By Robert Elmore: Fighters put the time in to prepare for a fight mentally and physically. They put their families aside as well as their life on the line every time they step in that squared ring. Sometimes the end result can be deadly. They suffer brain damage, external and internal injuries and for what? Our entertainment. The way I see it; boxing needs some type of system that can help fighters with medical bills and issue checks once they hang up the gloves. It’s only fair. Where would they get the means to start this? Let’s start with the promoters.
Berto: Ortiz is very limited
By Dan Ambrose: WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-0, 21 KO’s) had less than complimentary things to say about his April 16th scheduled opponent light welterweight contender Victor Ortiz (28-2-2, 22 KO’s) at Thursday’s teleconference to publicize their fight at the Foxwoods Resort Casino, in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
The perfect combination
By Hernan Cortez: One fact has remained true in boxing since it conception. Boxers make boxing, and these athletes are what we fixate most of our attention to analyzing. However, there has been a variable sometimes overlooked by critics and fans alike, the trainer.
Championship Rounds: History may have been written differently
By Chris Young: Almost 23 years ago ended an era when the last 15 round bout was fought. Jorge Paez defeated Calvin Grove for the IBF featherweight title on August 4, 1988. Championship rounds use to be between 13-15 rounds. A lot of our historic battles went to the championship rounds, like Holmes/Norton, Holyfield/Qawi I, and Duran/Leonard I. They gave it their all.
Godfather of boxing
By Chris Young: I just finished listening to Floyd Mayweather’s recent interview on ESPN 1000 in which Mayweather said that Manny Pacquiao is fighting his scraps.
Records can mean little
By Tom David Drury: I follow the international boxing scene closely and yet again a Mexican fighter has seemingly come from nowhere to establish himself on the world stage, Cristian Esquivel was not known to me, although showing he could fight when defeating South Africa’s towering Tshifhiwa Munyai on 7/8/2010 to win the WBC’s silver bantam title (yet another belt).
The machine that is Cuban boxing
By Tom David Drury: It is widely known that Cubans are obsessed with amateur boxing, and for many years wiped the floor with all-comers (and especially the U.S) at successive Olympic games. But apart from the great Teofilo Stevenson (probably the best boxer to never turn Professional ) and Felix Savon, both of whom won three successive Olympic heavyweight gold’s, I’d be surprised if any of us have any real knowledge of Cuban fighting history.