This week, we attempt to do what few people throughout the boxing industry find an easy task by any means: to predict a winner between Mexican legend Erik Morales and Filipino sensation Manny Pacquiao. Determining an eventual winner may be difficult, but understanding the probable nature . of the fight itself certainly is not. The…
Belfast’s King’s Hall was alive last night as Eamonn Magee came back from career ending injury to defend his WBU welterweight crown against a reluctant Allan Vester. With the full-throated backing of his fans, Northern Ireland’s finest fighter dominated Danish import Vester via a brutal three round rubout. Initially, Magee experienced ring-rust as his powerful…
The fight between Erik Morales and Manny Pacquiao this Saturday in Las Vegas is a super-fight of epic proportions. Outside of a fluke ending (like a massive cut stopping the fight in the early rounds), there is no conceivable way that this bout could fail to be one of the most action packed fights of…
Don King controlled the heavyweight championship at this time. The champions were the WBC’s Frank Bruno, the WBA’s Bruce Seldon and the IBF title was to be contested later in the year by Michael Moorer and Axel Schultz. Bruno was making the first defense of his WBC title. He had won the title six months…
On occasion, I will go through a phase where I find the act of engaging my brain and writing an opinion piece a chore, when I should be relishing the opportunity to vent my many frustrations to you poor readers. That coupled with other extenuating circumstances has led to a brief period of inactivity with…
This was a battle between two undefeated British heavyweights. Lennox Lewis was 14-0 with 13 KO’s having defeated Jean Maurice Chanet in six rounds in his last fight. Mason was the British champion for the last two years and had an impressive 35-0 record with 32 KOS. The bout was seen by many in the…
WBC Cruiserweight Champion Wayne Braithwaite got in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day during a visit to an Irish pub Thursday in New York City. Braithwaite says he will leave WBA Cruiserweight Champion Jean-Marc Mormeck green with envy after they collide in their eagerly awaited world title unification bout Saturday, April 2 on SHOWTIME (11…
From our reporter Richard Eberline on site in Belfast, Ireland. The exuberant feeling on the streets that is St. Patrick’s Day in Belfast, Northern Ireland has been somewhat dampened today by the sobering news that the scheduled contest between WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe and former IBO titlist Brian Magee is now off. Universum…
Click for larger image© Action Images British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion Carl Froch has sensationally offered to step in on just a days notice to fight Brian Magee at the Kings Hall in Belfast tomorrow night. Northern Ireland’s Magee was due to have challenged WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe on the event, but…
I have just received word from Ireland that Joe Calzaghe has been pulled out of his scheduled fight with Brian Magee that was set to take place at the King’s Hall in Belfast. Promoter Frank Warren took Calzaghe out of the fight when it was discovered that the WBO were not going to sanction the…
“I’m one of the biggest, the fastest, strongest and most efficient fighters in the business right now. Calvin Brock is young and strong and he’s ready to do what he’s gotta do; it’s just a completely different level I’m on.â€-Jameel McCline. After enduring a turbulent spell of fights being proposed and then swiftly evaporating, Jameel…
Who was the best welterweight of the last twenty-five years? Below is my take on a mythical tournament between who I think were the eight best fighters at welterweight. The numbers in the brackets indicate the fighter’s record at welterweight from 1980. Note that it is the achievements at welterweight which I am looking at…