This Saturday James “Lights Out” Toney, 69-4-2 (43), challenges Hasim “Rock” Rahman, 41-5-1 (33) for the WBC Heavyweight Championship of the world at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Given the current state of the heavyweight division since the departure of Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis, Toney – Rahman is the most exciting bout in the…
Tonight, Juan Manuel Marquez 44-2-1 (33), a major player in the featherweight division, will lace up his gloves to fight for a world title. No, he is not fighting Pacquio, Barrera, or Morales as boxing fans would like to see; but rather lesser known WBA Featherweight Champion, Chris John, 36-0-1 (20), in Indonesia. Is this…
This Saturday sees Miguel Cotto return to the ring to defend his WBO Junior Welterweight crown against challenger Gianluca Branco on a Top Rank promotion televised by HBO. This marks the fifth occasion that the WBO titlist has put his belt at risk but by the time Cotto had won his fifteenth fight as a…
On Saturday, Shane Mosley, 41-4 (34), will battle Fernando Vargas, 26-2 (22), at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada in a WBA Junior Middleweight title elimination bout on HBO pay per view. Many boxing insiders are picking Mosley to easily outbox Vargas, and win a unanimous decision victory. Why? These so called boxing…
Those of us who are true followers of boxing understand the difference between a skilled fighter and an unskilled one. Boxing technique is not merely throwing punches as hard as possible, but rather punch combinations, stances, head movement, defense, stamina, etc., all coordinated by intelligence. If a fighter has great punching power and technique to…