Fight Previews
Nonito Donaire is looking to defend his WBO super bantam belt and take Jeffrey Mathebula’s IBF belt, at the Home Depot Centre this Saturday night. Donaire has looked very impressive in his movements through the weights from flyweight, super flyweight, bantam and super bantam, winning titles in all four divisions, notably making himself only the…
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, 45-0-1 (31), makes the makes the third defence of his WBC middleweight title against 28-year-old southpaw challenger Andy Lee, 28-1-0 with 20 KO’s, tonight at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, TX. Chavez Jr will always be in the quite considerable sized shadow of his father, former three weight world champion…
Tomorrow, Manny Pacquiao faces off against Timothy ‘Desert Storm’ Bradley for the WBO welterweight belt. Pacquiao has dominated nearly everyone who he has fought since losing to Erik Morales for the first time back in early 2005, all apart from Juan Manuel Marquez. Although there are not many comparables between Marquez and Bradley, they offer…
© Lawrence Lustig In a matchup that could be a fight of the year candidate when 2012 draws to a close, hometown hero Carl Froch challenges the Canadian based Romanian Lucian Bute for his IBF Super Middleweight title at the Capital FM Arena in Nottingham this Saturday night. For Froch, the challenger, hometown hero is…
Carl Froch – Lucian Bute facing off for Bute’s IBF Super middleweight title in Nottingham, England, this Saturday night is a fight that had to happen for the 168 pound weight class. With Bute absent from the Super Six tournament, but worldwide known as the second or third best in the168 pound weight class, he…
© Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions The biggest boxing night of the year takes place tonight in Las Vegas when Floyd Mayweather Jnr puts his unbeaten record on the line by facing Puerto Rican superstar Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Cotto at 31 is no stranger to the big fight occasion. A…
© Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions People say ‘This fight should have happened five years ago’. I retort ‘The Cotto of five years ago is not the same Cotto that will be facing Mayweather this evening’. The Cotto of five years ago was an undefeated monster at welterweight; he was giving solid, talented fighters hard…
The stage is set tonight at Messehalle in Erfurt, Germany as Marco Huck returns from a trip to heavyweight to put his WBO cruiserweight crown up for grabs against former opponent Ola Afolabi. Huck, 34-2 (25), is less than three months removed from very nearly unseating WBA heavyweight champ Alexander Povetkin, bossing the Russian around…
Tonight, the rematch between ‘Bad’ Chad Dawson and ‘The Executioner’ Bernard Hopkins takes place at the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City. Their first fight, back in October of last year, ended in controversy when, in the second round, Dawson effectively shoved Hopkins to the canvas, resulting in an injury to his left shoulder. The fight was…
The Grand Oasis Resort in Cancun, Mexico hosts a big night of fights this evening with two world titles on the line. Big punching featherweight Jhonny Gonzalez, 51-7 (45), meets Elio Rojas, 23-1 (14), in what should turn out to be a barnburner for as long as it lasts. A former WBO bantamweight champ, Gonzalez…
Tonight, the Don Haskins Convention Center in El Paso, TX will host a double world title fight bill featuring Abner Mares and Anselmo Moreno. Mares, 23-0-1 (13), heads up to super bantam following his two-bout reign as IBF bantam champ and will be facing seasoned campaigner Eric Morel, 46-2 (23), for the vacant WBC 122…
© Tom Hogan – Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions Danny ‘Swift’ Garcia has the biggest test of his career tonight in facing off against the modern day legend that is Erik ‘El Terrible’ Morales. Garcia, 22-0-0 with 14 KO’s, has been brought along steadily since turning pro back in 2007, and he has recently started…