So far this year we’ve seen the first of the big fights between a super champion and challenger ending in victory for the champion, in this case Bernard Hopkins decisioning Howard Eastman in Los Angels last weekend. I never watched the fight because I always felt it was going to be a one horse race….
British promoter Barry Hearn has caused a stir in regard to the big Scottish clash between Alex Arthur and Craig Docherty. Hearn’s request that the fight be pushed back from March 18 to April 9 did not sit well with Sports Network, the company backing Arthur. Initial rumblings surrounding the fight were that the entire…
Amir Khan held a press conference today in England discussing the status of his boxing career. Khan insisted that despite a barrage of press reports hinting at his imminent turn to the professional ranks of the sport, he will remain in the amateurs for the foreseeable future. However, Khan did not deny that his family…
Undefeated British and Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion Matt Skelton has won all sixteen of his contests since turning pro in 2002 and the fearsome 250lb brawler looks forward to adding another trophy to his collection on Friday night as he meets Argentine strongman Fabio Moli for the vacant WBU crown. Moli has prepared for this difficult…
Legendary former light heavyweight champion Dariusz Michalczewski showed up highly motivated, agile and with excellent reflexes on Tuesday afternoon at a public workout in a big VW car market in Hamburg. While snow was falling outside in the cold city in the north of Germany, a large crowd of journalists, camera teams, photographers and fans…
Since the retirement of Lennox Lewis, the “clinically dead†heavyweight division has been in search of a much-needed star to resuscitate the worst division in boxing. Let’s begin by looking at all the champions. In the WBA, John Ruiz reigns supreme. Now I am not going to knock the “Quiet Man’s†hustle, he gets the…
Britain’s amateur lightweight star Amir Khan has pulled out of his latest bout, a move that fuels rumors that he is set to turn professional very soon. Khan is set to hold a press conference in England later today, however it is not known precisely what will be discussed, only that an announcement of his…
Two-time world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. was fined and ordered to perform community service but given no jail time on Wednesday in connection with a barroom fight. Mayweather entered a no-contest plea on Feb. 7 to a charge of misdemeanor assault and battery. Such a plea is not an admission of guilt but is…
Former kickboxing star Matt Skelton has thoroughly terrorized the heavyweight set in Britain, winning the British and Commonwealth championships despite having only been participating in professional boxing since August of 2002. Julius Francis, Michael Sprott, Michael Holden, Keith Long and Jacklord Jacobs have all fallen to the six-foot-three, 250-pound nightmare in gloves. Now Skelton has…
Question: Julio, you have wanted to fight Jose Luis Castillo for a long time. You finally got a shot at a world title in your last fight, won it and then gave it up voluntarily so you could get this fight with Castillo. Tell us about that and how training is going? Diaz: This is…
Injured heavyweight Joe Mesi’s bid to lift his suspension is on hold for at least another month while Nevada boxing officials await additional medical records. Keith Kizer, Nevada’s chief deputy attorney general, said the boxer’s father and manager, Jack Mesi, agreed this week to submit the records regarding Joe Mesi’s brain injury. But Kizer said…
The death of Jimmy Young at the age of fifty-six was a sobering piece of information for most of us who grew up watching the great heavyweights of the 1970’s. I have written articles on Ali, Shavers, Lyle, Quarry, Ellis, etc…but never Jimmy Young. Why? Well that is a very good question that oddly enough…