By Daniel Ciminera: With a long and busy year of boxing ahead of us, I thought I would make some predictions for the most talked about fights that lay ahead of us. I’ll start with round two of the super six world boxing classic, as this tournament continues to excite me as it is a fresh idea and has a no nonsense best fight the best approach.
Dirrell v Abraham
By Scott Gilfoid: The Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) vacate watch has started, as promoter Frank Warren has corroborated the news that Khan has been ordered by the World Boxing Organization to defend his title next against WBA interim light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (27-1, 26 KO’s). This probably isn’t the kind of news that Khan was hoping to get, since Maidana is one of the biggest punchers in the light welterweight division with killer strength and true one-punch power.
By Shaun Campbell: Now that the curtain has been pulled down over a sensational year for boxing in 2009, attention now turns to possible fights within the coming year. In 2009 Britain crowned new world champions, but unfortunately lost one as well. Amir Khan realized his potential by winning the World Boxing Association light-welterweight crown in a 12 round battle with Andreas Kotelnik. David Haye took on a massive task in challenging the biggest heavyweight champion in history.
By Dennis Broadhurst: As the new year has come, the British fans are looking forward to what should be a good year of boxing for us. We have some good fighters around now in Carl Froch, Amir Khan, David Haye and Ricky Hatton who should be making a comeback next year. In 2009 three of these men had a good year and one a disaster.
By William Mackay: 2009 was an exciting year for British boxing with David Haye capturing the WBA heavyweight title with a win over 7-foot Nikolay Valuev, WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch defeating American Andre Dirrell in the Super Six tournament, and Amir Khan winning the WBA light welterweight title with a 12 round decision over Andriy Kotelnik. These were all good wins for the British fighters, and it helped bring British boxing back to the forefront. But with this success, we must look forward to 2010 to see if these fighters will be able to continue with their recent success.
By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan has the unfortunate luck to have a mandatory defense coming up next against the hard hitting Marcos Maidana. The thought here is that this is a great fight for Khan to show his talent to American audiences in the U.S. However, the big question is whether Khan will opt to fight Maidana – and risk being knocked flat like Amir was against Breidis Prescott in Khan’s 1st round knockout loss in September 2008, or will Khan choose to defend the title.
By William Mackay: World Boxing Association interim light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (27-1, 26 KO’s) is gunning for a fight with WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan, according to news from Boxing Scene. Maidana, 26, was previously looking at a fight against WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander in March, in a fight that would have likely been shown on HBO. However, Maidana instead is looking to get a fight with Khan. The WBA, Rick Reeno says, ordered that the winner of Khan’s December 5th bout against Dmitriy Salita would have to face Maidana, the interim champion, next.
By Peter Wells: Despite what other writers are saying mainly Liam Santiago, Khan is willing to fight Marcos Maidana next year. The an article by the Telegraph, Amir Khan said that he is willing to fight, Marcos Maidana, Juan Manuel Marquez and Victor Ortiz. Personally I wouldn’t like to see Ricky fight again, being a big Hatton fan I’d prefer he not take the rick. Marquez isn’t a particularly good option for Khan, ever since Marquez lost to Mayweather, everybody thinks Marquez is washed up and a fighter like Khan could finish him off.