By William Mackay: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. fired off a salvo at Ricky Hatton and his assistant trainer Lee Beard for Ricky’s 2nd round KO loss to Manny Pacquiao on May 2nd at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather Sr. hasn’t conversed with Hatton, 30, since the loss and appears that he never will at this point. Mayweather Sr. says that the problems in the Hatton camp were due to assistant trainer Beard conducting boxing training sessions with Hatton without Mayweather Sr. being present for the training.
Boxing News
Rogan vs. Sexton This Friday; Shumenov Wants Erdei or Garay – News
By Nate Anderson: 38-year-old Commonwealth heavyweight champion Martin Rogan (12-0, 6 KOs) will be making his first defense of his title on Friday night against former Prizefighter contestant Sam Sexton (11-1, 4 KOs) at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Could Dawson Beat Kessler and Froch?
By Sean McDaniel: With undefeated IBF light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (28-0, 17 KOs) talking about moving down to the super middleweight division to look for some big fights, I’m now wondering just how well the 26-year-old Dawson would do against World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (41-1, 31 KOs) and WBC title holder Carl Froch.
Why Does Pacquiao Fight So Many Old and Shot Fighters?
By Manuel Perez: I don’t know what it is with Manny Pacquiao, but it seems like he’s been a beacon for old and shot fighters in the past few years and I wonder why Pacquiao seems to be selecting a lot of those types. Pacquiao started with Erik Morales, who was totally shot by the time that Pacquiao fought him for a third time. Pacquiao then went and fought a 2nd fight with Marco Antonio Barrera in 2007. Why would Pacquiao need to fight Barrera again when Pacquiao had already beaten him by an 11th round TKO in 2003?
Could the Hatton That Stopped Tszyu Have Beaten Pacquiao?
By Sean McDaniel: Many moons ago in 2005, Ricky Hatton pulled off arguably his biggest win of his boxing career in stopping light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu in the 11th round in Manchester. In that fight, Hatton was in his prime, a nonstop punching machine with a sturdy chin and grappling skills second to none. At the start of the fight, Hatton was all over the 36-year-old Tszyu, smothering him, not giving the Russian champion any room to get off his punches.
News – Dawson Wants Bout With Calzaghe
By Jim Dower: International Boxing Federation light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson reportedly wants a fight with Joe Calzaghe next, according to The Sun Dawson, 26, defeated former IBF light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver on Saturday night by a 12-round unanimous decision in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight, although a little more competitive than the first bout in October 2008, was still mostly a one-sided mismatch with Dawson fairly easily beating the older, slower 40-year-old Tarver.
Hatton to Be Trained By Roach?
By William Mackay: According to the latest boxing news rumors, Ricky Hatton may possibly be looking at changing head trainers, adding the great Freddie Roach as his new head trainer. If so, it looks as if Floyd Mayweather Sr., who trained Hatton for two bouts – Paulie Malignaggi and Manny Pacquiao –, may be on the way out of Hatton’s camp. Mayweather Sr. is said to have had problems with competing for training time with Hatton and wasn’t too happy about the arrangement.
News – Witter Still Wants Bout With Hatton
By Jim Slattengren: Former World Boxing Council light welterweight champion Junior Witter (37-2-2, 22 KOs) still wants a bout with Ricky Hatton, despite Ricky being blown out of the water by Manny Pacquiao last Saturday night in Las Vegas, Nevada. Witter, now 35, is ranked #2 in the WBC light welterweight division, and is trying to get back his WBC belt that he lost in a 12-round split decision to current WBC champion Timothy Bradley in May 2008.
Pacquiao is Going to Be Reaching His Limits Real Soon
By Manuel Perez: Since moving up from super featherweight in June 2008 to capture the World Boxing Council lightweight title with a 9th round stoppage over David Diaz, Manny Pacquiao has been put in with bigger and more powerful fighters in Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton. Thus far, Pacquiao has been able to continue being successful, beating both De La Hoya and most recently Hatton by stoppages. However, I think that Pacquiao is pretty much reaching the limits of what he’s capable of achieving by beating the talented by flawed De La Hoya and Hatton.
Did Calzaghe Duck Dawson?
By Scott Gilfoid: In looking at Joe Calzaghe’s recent retirement from boxing, it seems rather odd that he chose the time that he did to hang up the gloves. At the time that Calzaghe retired, he said that he had accomplished all there was in boxing and there were no more appealing fights for him. In selecting fighters like Peter Manfredo Jr., Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr, it looks as if Calzaghe was doing a little bit of cherry picking in his last years of the sport.