Lloyd Honeyghan vs. Marlon Starling Following Shane Mosley’s welterweight win over Luis Collazo this past weekend, it brought to my mind another welterweight battle that took place this month in 1989. The 147 pound division at that time was one of the strongest of all weight classes. Lloyd Honeyghan of Bermondsey, London was perceived as…
Click for larger image This Saturday night, Manchester’s Ricky Hatton makes his Las Vegas debut when he tries to annex his old IBF Junior Welterweight Championship from unbeaten Colombian, Juan Urango. Come fight night, Hatton will be stepping into the ring following eight months of inactivity, the longest of his professional career. Unbeaten in 41…
A year on from Audley Harrison’s first professional defeat against Danny Williams, the 2000 Olympic Super Heavyweight Gold Medallist returns to London’s Excel Arena to battle toughman Matt Skelton for the Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship. Many people, myself included, are surprised that this matchup is taking place. On December 10, 2005 Harrison was humbled in a…
This Saturday night, the Thomas and Mack Centre in Las Vegas hosts the third showdown between warriors Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales at super featherweight. The big unknown coming into this fight is how much does Morales actually have left? During his last contest against Pacquiao this past January, “El Terrible” boxed well enough before…
Click for larger image © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing The legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City will play host to the first title defence of IBF Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko this Saturday night on HBO. Klitschko is coming off a masterful performance in Germany against the difficult Chris Byrd back in April…
The dream year of Argentinean Carlos Baldomir continues this Saturday evening at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas when he defends his WBC Welterweight Championship against pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. Cast your mind back to January. In what was seen by many as a routine defence by Zab Judah before an April…
Seven months after the biggest win of his career, Joe Calzaghe returns to the MEN Arena in Manchester, England this Saturday night to make the 19th defence of his World Super Middleweight title against relative unknown Sakio Bika. Unbeaten in 41 bouts, a unified world champion and former ABA Champion, Joe has done it all…
Rosemont’s All State Arena plays host this Saturday to the 2nd defence of Nikolai Valuev’s WBA World Heavyweight Championship. In the opposite corner on the Don King promotion will be fringe contender Monte Barrett. Much has been made of Valuev’s size and he has unfairly in the past been looked on as a figure of…
In a rematch of their closely contested bout in May, Marco Antonio Barrera and Rocky Juarez renew hostilities for the WBC Super Featherweight Championship this Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada on a Golden Boy Promotion with HBO televising the card as a live action PPV broadcast. In a professional career spanning…
In a bout good enough to be a main event in its own right Jorge Barrios defends his WBO Super Featherweight crown against Joan Guzman on the same bill as Barrera v. Juarez II this Saturday. This is a fight that only true boxing fans can appreciate; a trade fight, if you will. We all…
An exciting weekend of World Championship action kicks off on Friday evening when Junior Witter takes on Demarcus Corley for the vacant WBC Light Welterweight Title on a Hennessy Sports promotion at London’s Alexandra Palace. For Witter, this is his chance to shine. With only one defeat in a 36 fight career, which occurred in…
In a interesting matchup this Saturday evening, former heavyweight champion Oliver McCall takes on Darroll Wilson in a battle of the veterans in the world famous Louisville Gardens in Kentucky on a Warriors/Chris Webb shared promotion. McCall, now aged 40, is unbeaten in his last seven bouts and has an overall record of 47-8 with…