Enzo Maccarinelli

Maccarinelli Returns to The Ring In June

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maccarinelli8674455.jpgBy Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (28-2, 21 KOs) looks to return to the ring on June 28th against a still to be determined opponent. In his last fight, Maccarinelli, 27, suffered an embarrassing 2nd round TKO to David Haye at the O2 Arena, in Greenwich, London. To be sure, there’s no shame in losing to a fighter of Haye’s caliber, especially when you fight a faulty game plan going into the fight. However, the manner in which Maccarinelli lost – an utter blowout – no doubt let him feeling less than pleased with his performance on that night against Haye. It’s as if all Maccarinelli’s studious planning went completely out the window at the first sight of aggression from Haye in the first round of the fight.

Obviously, with a brutal knockout like the one that Maccarinelli experienced against Haye in which he took some very heavy shots to that head, he’ll likely want to take it easy in his first fight coming off the knockout. Indeed, instead of seeing Maccarinelli take on a top ten opponent like many of his fans would like to see him go up against, it would seem like the wiser choice for him would be a soft opponent, preferably one with next to zero power. Maccarinelli has said that he want to take on a top fighter, not wanting to go in against a soft opponent that he would feel no challenge in beating.

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Has Maccarinelli Been Exposed?

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mac46353.jpgBy Christofer Ferris: After watching former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (28-2, 21 KOs) get blasted out in two vicious rounds by David Haye last Saturday night, I came to the conclusion that Maccarinelli was not only a poor champion but also not a particularly good fighter as well. Based on what I saw of him against Haye, he looks no better than top 10 in the cruiserweight division, no better than that. He fought almost foolishly as he went directly at Haye, who has a reputation for being incredibly dangerous in the early rounds of his fights.

It’s unclear whether Maccarinelli felt that he had enough power to get to Haye before he unloaded one of his big right hands on him or whether he was sacrficing himself in some wild suicidal attack. Whatever it was, Maccarinelli didn’t look in any way shape or form against Haye. I’d seen a few of Maccarinelli’s other bouts, ones against Wayne Braithwaite, Mohamed Azzaoui and Bobby Gunn, bouts in which Maccarinelli looked like a decent fighter. However, in each one of those fights, Maccarinelli looked more like a slugger without much defense than a truly skilled fighter.

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Maccarinelli’s loss was only the start for Enzo Calzaghe

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By Nick Kelly: Saturday night saw Enzo Maccarinelli defeated by David Haye and whilst the loss was crushing for Maccarinelli, it might have been the other Enzo in the corner looking just as worried.

Last Saturday was the first of four bouts over the coming months in which Enzo Calzaghe’s reputation at one of the best trainers in the world is put to the test.

Heralded by both the BBC and the Ring Magazine as the trainer of the year for 2007, 2008 will determine whether he can measure up to the level of Floyd Mayweather senior, Emmanuel Steward and Freddie Roach.

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Haye Wants A Piece Of Wladimir Klitschko

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haye4764634.jpgBy Jim Slattengren: As WBA/WBC cruiserweight champion David Haye prepares for this Saturday’s bout against WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (28-1, 21 KOs) at the O2 Arena (Millenium Dome), Greenwich, in London, United Kingdom, Haye is making it clear that he not only wants to move up to to the heavyweight division after his match with Maccarinelli, but that he also feels that he’ll beat WBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, who is considered to be the premier heavyweight in the division by many fans and sports writers alike. In a recent interview, Haye, 27, had this to say about Klitschko’s recent fight with Sultan Ibragimov:

“Watching it, I was ashamed to be a boxer…you had a big guy of 6ft 6in, who was afraid to throw a jab at a little guy…I can’t wait to go up and knock that bum out.”

Obviously, Haye was less than impressed with Klitschko’s performance, as was many other fans who were confused why Wladimir looked so timid against the relative light-hitting Ibragimov. Haye could be only talking, trying to create press for himself by making bold statements in the press by saying he could beat what people consider to be the best heavyweight.

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Enzo Calzaghe: “If David Haye goes 12 rounds, he will never fight again”

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By Dan Ambrose: The father of Joe Calzaghe, Enzo, has recently come out with a stern warning to WBA/WBC cruiserweight champion David Haye, letting him know that his career may be in jeopardy if his upcoming March 8th bout against WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli goes 12-rounds. Haye, a knockout artist accustomed to ending his bouts early, has struggled with his stamina in fights against Carl Thompson, who stopped Haye in the 5th round after he punched himself out in their September 2004 bout, and against Giacobbe Fragomeni, a fight in which Haye took an awful amount of punishment as he tired out after the 6th round in November 2006.

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Haye Predicts Knockout Over Maccarinelli

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In today’s boxing news around the horn, WBC/WBA cruiserweight champ David Haye (20-1, 19KOs) hopes to be able to repeat former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis’ knockout performance against over-matched Michael Grant in 2000, in which Lewis scored a sweet 2nd round KO. Haye, 27, hopes that he can stop Maccarinelli in similar fashion, quickly taking him out with big right hands. Apparently, Haye feels that Maccarinelli isn’t a legitimate fighter, but rather one that has been out together by his promoter.

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Haye: “I can’t see it going past four or five rounds”

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haye533354.jpgIn the latest boxing news, World Boxing Association/World Boxing Council cruiserweight champion David Haye (20-1, 19 KOs) came out firing again in an interview with South London Press, saying about World Boxing Organization cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (28-1, 21 KOs) “I can’t see it going past four or five rounds. The only way it will is if he gets a chin transplant from Marvin Hagler – and I don’t think he’s got time to do that in the next couple of months. There’s no way I can see him getting past the early rounds.”

Haye, 27, who won the WBA & WBC cruiserweight titles in an impressive 7th round TKO of champion Jean-Marc Mormeck on November 2007, is making no secret that he plans on going right at Maccarinelli in the opening rounds to try and immediately take him out. Haye’s strategy comes to no surprise to anyone, since Haye fights that way every time, putting everything he’s got into a quick knockout within the first couple of rounds. It’s been an effective style so far in Haye’s career, but it doesn’t always work, like in his fight with former British great Carl Thompson, who calmly took every thing that Haye could dish out in the first four rounds, and then stopped him in the fifth round when he had exhausted himself from having expended too much energy.

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Maccarinelli vs. Haye On March 8th

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haye464345565.jpgWorld Boxing Association/World Boxing Council cruiserweight champion David Haye (20-1, 19 KOs) has had a change of mind, today announcing that he will indeed decide to take on World Boxing Organization cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (28-1, 21 KOs) for a unification bout on March 8th in the UK. Both Haye and Maccarinelli are knockout punchers, the type that often end their bouts in the first several rounds. Of the two, Maccarinelli has the better overall boxing skills, with the ability to box or punch depending on the circumstances in the bout. Whereas with Haye, he exclusively goes for quick knockouts every time out, ignoring important things like pacing himself and concentrating on defense.

He paid for his lack of defense and pacing in his bout with 40 year-old ex-cruiserweight champion Carl Thompson, who rallied to defeat Haye by 5th round TKO in September 2004. In that fight, Haye had pretty much had his way with Thompson, battering viciously around the ring for the first four rounds of the fight. However, when the 5th round came around, Thompson unloaded with a handful of punches to stop the physically exhausted Haye, who by that time could barely stand up. Not much has changed since then, as Haye continues to pour it on against all of his opponents, but lucky for him, the vast majority of them have been sub par fighters.

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Maccarinelli stops Azzaoui in 4th round KO!

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enzo444.jpgWorld Boxing Organization cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (28-1, 21 KOs) destroyed previously unbeaten challenger Mohamed Azzaoui (22-1, 8 KOs) in the 4th round on the undercard of the Calzaghe – Kessler fight at the Millennium Stadium, in Cardiff, Wales. In the fourth round, the six foot four inch Maccarinelli landed a crushing body shot to the left hip of Azzaoui, sending him crashing to the canvas in a ball of pain. Though he tried to get up, Azzaoui was in far too much pain to get to his knees and was thus counted out at 0:58 of the fourth round by referee Dave Parris.

In the first round, Maccarinelli mostly jabbed, using his long reach and fast hands to keep Azzaoui bottled up on the outside where he was unable to get within range. However, Maccarinelli got a little sloppy at one point and came charging forward, flailing his hands and was hit with a perfect left counter by Azzaoui. From that point forward, Maccarinelli was much more careful, content to win the round with his jab.

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