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By Dan Ambrose: World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight champion Orlando Salido (35-11-2, 23 KO’s) will be making his first defense of his belt against super bantamweight fringe contender Kenchi Yamaguchi (17-1-2, 4 KO’s) on July 23 at the Centro de Usos Multiples, Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico.

By David Kassell: When people argue that boxing is a dying sport I always find about 100 different reasons to prove them wrong. A lot of people have gotten on the MMA bandwagon and no disrespect to Mixed Martial Arts (I am a fan of the sport as well), but the fact is that boxing still generates more revenue and draws better television audiences than MMA.

By Cliff Bayres: Fighters from two different worlds decide to fight in my backyard. An Iraqi born boxer and a Ghanian decide to lace it up for the vacant IBF International light welterweight title. All their work and toil have led them to a title fight in a suburb outside of Chicago.

By Chris Williams: You really want to give Mark Melligen (21-3, 14 KO’s) a chance to develop more because he can punch a little bit, but after seeing him get destroyed by a very average Sebastian Andres Lujan last week in a 9th round TKO loss on July 1st, I think his promoter Bob Arum needs to cut his losses and head in a different direction. At 25, Melligen is probably as fast as he’s ever going to be and he’s really lacking in that department.

By Sean McDaniel: Promoter Frank Warren thinks that former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye shouldn’t wait until October 13th for him to retire and instead should do it now. Warren doesn’t see a direction that Haye could go in for his career if he were to continue to fight.

By Simon Hirst: Over the last few decades, boxers have started boxing less and less when they reach world level. As a guess, I would predict most titles are defended 2-3 times a year. As a boxing fan, I would like to see fighters fight more than this a year. I will admit that it is not always possible, due to sanctioning bodies and promoters, but there are examples of when fighters will beat someone and it will be months before there next fight is scheduled.

By Gerardo Granados: A lot of times we disagree with the decision of the fight judges, some times we get to see some absurd scoring. There have been times that the judges were looking at different fights at the same time, one can score 120-108 and the other judge score the same fight a draw, most of the times the scores are closer but one judge will see a fighter win and the other judge will see the other fighter win.

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.

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.

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.