There’s Still Hope! After a quiet 2005 on the world heavyweight boxing front, what can we look forward to in the new year both domestically and internationally? The retirement of former WBC kingpin Vitali Klitschko for some people meant the division would fall into an even bigger state of depression …

June 4th was undoubtedly the biggest and most momentous day in a British Boxing Ring in 2005, maybe in many years. On that night, Ricky Hatton, in a show of heart, courage, willpower, guts and tenacity, bludgeoned his way to the IBF junior welterweight crown, ripping the title from long …

Well, after the postponement yet again of Klitschko v Rahman (ive lost count now) the next big action we have to look forward to happens a week on Saturday at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon. Newly crowned WBC 140 pound champion Floyd Mayweather Jnr dips his toes into the …

Don’t Miss This Cracking Sports Network Fight Card Live on ITV4 Sky Channel 136 Starting at 10 pm Click for larger image© Tom Casino/Showtime On a night when its should have been a Super Middleweight Unification between Joe Calzaghe and Jeff Lacy we get a bout that potentially could be …

Click for larger image© Simon ShawSaddoboxing.com If you ever needed proof that boxing is one of the strangest and most bizarre sports in the world then this fight would be the clincher.Look at the facts: on a card celebrating Frank Warren’s twenty five years in the business, he finally secures …

This is hopefully a warm-up defense before the big one against Jeff Lacy. Famous last words eh? Certainly in Joe’s case. Since winning the WBO title in 1997, the Welshman through one reason or another has seen chance after chance for a big match-up slip through his fingers. For instance, …

In my previous article documenting the coming season, I focused on the fights happening at world level but; what of the British scene? If you just include the four main belts, we currently have five world champions: Johnny Nelson, Clinton Woods, Joe Calzaghe, Ricky Hatton and Scott Harrison. So what …

Traditionally the boxing season kicks in again when September approaches. Big bouts are made as well as new stars so what can we expect in the coming months? In the heavyweight division it seems that finally WBC king Vitali Klitschko is back and ready to defend against Hasim Rahman on …

With a unification bout between WBO super middleweight king Joe Calzaghe and his IBF counterpart Jeff Lacy looking likely, we take a look back at one of Joe Calzaghe’s most impressive defences which took place 5 years ago this month. Calzaghe, a former ABA champion from Wales, was unbeaten in …

Let’s look back to the year 2000. Ferocious Fernando Vargas was arguably the number 1 man in the 154 pound Division. His main rival was fellow Olympian David Reid. Both men seemed to be on a collision course. Reid was unbeaten as a professional and was WBA Champion, Vargas was …

This bout between Ring Magazine’s third and fifth ranked heavyweights provides so many questions. Can Hasim Rahman produce the form that shocked the heavyweight landscape four years ago? Can he build on a recent career best performance against Kali Meehan? Is Rahman ready to show some run of consistency? There …

This is very likely Reid’s last chance at the big time. Can he grasp it? I for one think he has a really good chance. Lacy, in his nineteen professional wins, has certainly looked the part. He is a big puncher with fifteen knockouts to his name. He also has …