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By Dan Ambrose: I think Bob Arum is wasting his time putting WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao back in for a fight against Miguel Cotto, and I don’t think boxing fans have the slightest interest in seeing Pacquiao matched up against Antonio Margarito. This reminds me a lot of how Arum put Pacquiao in with Joshua Clottey in his fight and it ended up not doing so well on pay per view.

By Sean McDaniel: EBU welterweight champion Matthew Hatton (39-4-2, 15 KO’s) defends his European Boxing Union title against former WBA welterweight champion Yuriy Nuzhnenko (30-1-1, 14 KO’s) on Friday night at the Bolton Arena, Bolton, Lancashire. Hatton, 29, isn’t so enamored with just keeping ahold on his EBU title. He wants a lot more than that, namely a title shot against WBA welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko.

By Sam Gregory: On Saturday July 31st TKO Boxing Promotions presents “The Battle of York 5” at Sovereign Bank Stadium in York, Pennsylvania.

York’s own hometown favorite and undefeated Carney “Beeper” Bowman 14-0 with 6 KO’s will be featured in the main event when he takes on Tyrell “Da Show Shocka” Samuel 14-4 with 6 KO’s of Baltimore in a scheduled 10 round bout in the super featherweight division.

By Boxing-Boy: Samson Tor Baumad, aka Samson Sor Siriporn, the first boxer in the world who has captured the world champion (WBC female world light flyweight title) while still a prisoner in 2007, is scheduled to fight against 19-year old Chinese boxer Liu Da Lin, in her first defence WIBA world min flyweight champion in July 28, 2010.

By Sean Mcdaniel: Undefeated Tyson Fury (10-0, 8 KO’s) has a lot on the line in his June 25th rematch against Big John McDermott (25-6, 16 KO’s) at the Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, Essex. Not only will the 22-year-old Fury be fighting for the vacant British heavyweight title, but he’ll also have his boxing career on the line for the fight. In an article at the Dailystar.co.uk, Fury has this to say about his fight against McDermott: “If I’m any good I will beat McDermott, sparring or no sparring. If I lose to McDermott I will pack my gloves up and get a job. I don’t want to box at a lower level – what’s the point? It’s make-or-break for me. If I can’t get past John McDermott, I can’t go beyond domestic level.”

By Jim Dower: Former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KO’s) wants no part of a third fight against Antonio Margarito, who Cintron has already been stopped by in the five years. It was thought that with WBC junior middleweight champion Sergio Martinez vacating his title, Margarito, ranked #2 and Cintron, ranked #3, would face off for the vacant WBC belt. However, according to Readingeagle.com, Cintron has no interest in fighting Margarito yet again. Cintron, speaking about Margarito’s team, said “They can kiss my a–.”

By Dave Lahr: For what it’s worth, Ring Magazine has installed Manny Pacquiao as number #1 pound for pound fighter in the world. Incredibly, they have unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. as number #2 instead of the number #1 position. That seems kind of crazy since Mayweather is unbeaten and pretty much established himself as the number #1 fighter in all of boxing with his dominating win over Shane Mosley in May. That win should have cemented Mayweather’s status as number #1, in my view.

By Chris Williams: For me, it’s not a question of whether or not WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (21-0, 13 KO’s) will beat Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s), it’s a question of how he’ll beat him when the two fighters mix it up in their Super Six tournament fight at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, California. My thoughts were that Ward was the fighter to beat going into the Super Six tournament and he’s pretty much proven me right as he totally dominated Mikkel Kessler last time out, beating him by an 11 round technical decision last November.

By Sean McDaniel: Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) has been out action ever since he was stopped in the 2nd round last year in May by Manny Pacquiao. Since that time, Hatton hasn’t been able to get himself back on the horse to make a comeback. Hatton has ballooned up in weight and looks nothing like his former self. He talks about needing to get the hunger or the itch before he’s ready to stage a comeback. Currently, Hatton is 31, but he turns 32 in October and the longer he waits the more likely he’ll be too old or too fat to be able to successfully make a comeback.

By William Mackay: Recently, promoter Gary Shaw brought up the idea of a light welterweight tournament matching the best fighters in the division such as Amir Khan, Timothy Bradley, Devon Alexander and Marcos Maidana. It sounds like a win-win situation for all the fighters involved, right? Well, there’s one problem with that. Khan, the WBA light welterweight champion, reportedly doesn’t want to fight in the tournament and is looking to fight the winner of the Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Juan Diaz fight on July 31st.