This Saturday May 8th, 2010 Antonio Margarito will fight against Roberto Garcia. The fight will be held at a really famous Fair that takes place in Aguas Calientes, Mexico during this weekend. The fight will be televised on Pay-per-View. Read the rest of this entry »

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This fight was pending to take place since the last defeat of Hopkins by Jones back in 1993. Hopkins has this fight against Jones at Las Vegas Nevada this last Saturday April, 3rd, 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

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Roy Jones Jr. is going to fight against Bernard Hopkins this April 3rd, 2010 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino located at Las Vegas� Nevada. HBO pay per View is going to offer the fight at 11:00 PM ET. Read the rest of this entry »

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Two of the World’s best Welterweights will step into the ring on Saturday, June 13th when Puerto Rican superstar Miguel Cotto will fight against Joshua Clottey. The main fight will be televised on ESPN.
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In ten days, on December 8th, an excellent year of boxing will end with perhaps the biggest event of the year. Many boxing fans have been concerned that MMA was beginning to gain more popularity then boxing, hence boxing will become obsolete. But, after an amazing year where PPV records broke all-time records, boxing fans can breathe early. This fight here should be a hit from Las Vegas, where it is taking place, to all the way across the Atlantic in England, home of Ricky Hatton. This fight features two fighters with a combined record of 81-0 with 55 knockouts. What more can we ask for as boxing fans.

Floyd Mayweather Jr (38-0 24 KO�s) has already had a major fight this year against PPV king Oscar De La Hoya, winning a split decision. While he made more money in that fight then he will versus Ricky Hatton (43-0 31 KO�s) you can make a solid argument that this fight has more significance. While De La Hoya was still considered a top-notch opponent he had lost two out of his last four fights before his decision loss to Mayweather. The Hatton fight will feature two fighters in their absolute prime and will also set the pace for the rest of the welterweight division for years to come. There are many great fights for the winner of this fight. In fact, there are many solid fights for the loser of this match as well, that�s how stacked the division is. If Mayweather wins though, he may not choose to accept anymore fights. He has suffered from hand injuries ever since his amateur days, and recently he has been experience shoulder and elbow pains. These pains can be expected from a person who has been in a ring since barely after he learned to walk.

One of Mayweather�s downfalls, when asking his detractors, is his resume. He does have a few good wins on his resume, but against opponents who were either past their prime, or not yet in it. His closest fights date back to a pair of 2002 fights against Jose Luis Castillo. Both fights were highly competitive, with many feeling Castillo won the first match up. Mayweather has also fought, and beat decidedly former champions and championship challengers DeMarcus Corley, Arturo Gatti, Sharmba Mitchell, and Zab Judah, and Carlos Baldomir. Mayweather�s resume, when looked at a subjective point of view doesn�t look that bad. In fact, it�s the ease of which he has dispatched these opponents that has been the most impressive thing. However, a Ricky Hatton on his resume is more impressive then any of those opponents, including De La Hoya.

While Mayweather is known for keeping in shape 365 days a year, Hatton has become equally as famous for blowing up in weight between fights. When Hatton is back in his native Manchester he likes being one of the �boys.� What that means is he enjoys going to the pubs, drinking multiple pints, and playing darts. He also enjoys his fast food. While that isn�t exactly a recipe for success, it does allow Hatton time to relax between fights, and that�s just fine with his handlers. Unlike Mayweather, Hatton does have a legitimate all time great fighter on his resume. Kosta Tszyu came into the Hatton fight undefeated in his last eight years. Tszyu is considered to be among the top welterweights of all-time, but that didn�t stop Hatton from keeping Tszyu from entering the 12th round of their match-up. However, in Hatton�s only other fight at 147 he struggled to beat the underrated Luis Collazo, being rocked in the final round. While this fight is being held at 147, Mayweather�s natural weight isn�t 147 either, so any apparently size advantage could actually go towards Hatton. Since the Collazo fight, Hatton has fought twice, including a fourth round destruction of the same fighter that gave Mayweather trouble so many years ago, Castillo. To be fair to Mayweather, Castillo was probably more past it when he fought Hatton, but to be able to knock out Castillo the way he did, a shot to the liver, is impressive anyway you slice it. Castillo�s best work came in between the Mayweather and Hatton defeats, so it�s hard to say where his prime even started.

Hatton is about a 2-1 underdog, which is probably just about right. Although the fight is in Las Vegas, it is expected that Hatton will actually have more fans in attendance. Hatton has made jokes concerning Mayweather�s drawing power, but it is true Mayweather has turned many fans against him, making it seem that they go to see him lose as opposed to cheering him on. Mayweather is the best boxer in the world today, a thought shared by many. Hatton isn�t known for his boxing skill, but will come forward the entire fight, and is a relentless body puncher. Fights of this magnitude generally fail to live up to expectations, but this one has all the makings to live up to expectations and more.

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Three years ago Wladimir Klitschko (48-3 43 KO�s) took on a fighter that seemed to most to be little more than a warm-up and a confidence building for the Ukrainian fighter who goes by Dr. Steelhammer. After all, Lamon Brewster (33-0 29 KO�s) had troubles in the past with the same types of fighters Klitschko routinely dispatches of in just a couple of rounds. Many boxing experts said Brewster only had one chance of winning this fight, and that was a �punchers chance.� �Punchers Chance� is a term that is thrown around fairly easily in the fight game to describe the chances of a considerable underdog, and that fighter with the �punchers chance� hardly ever comes up on top. The same can�t be said for Brewster, who took advantage of his opportunity by knocking Klitschko out at the end of the 5^th round.

Many rumors have swirled around this defeat for Klitschko, ranging from high blood sugar, to poison. It�s true that Klitschko did seem unusually tired for only the 5^th round of the fight, and did appear to fall on the canvas more from exhaustion then anything Brewster had to offer. But, Brewster did land some heavy shots in the 5^th round, that probably had something to do with it.

Brewster should be commended for the amount of punishment he took from Klitschko in the first four rounds. Klitschko landed at will on the heavyweight out of Vero Beach, Florida. But Brewster should a great chin, one that allowed him to come out still standing on the other side of Klitschko�s attacks.

Since their fight on April 10^th 2004, each fighters career has taken a much different path. Klitschko has gone undefeated in six fights, and that should be noted because many experts predicted he would never be the same after the Brewster loss. Just three fights before the Brewster loss, in the early Spring on 2003 Klitschko shockingly lost to Corrie Sanders. Sanders was a fighter who had already been in part-time retirement to pursue a golf career. After setbacks like that, it�s easy to see why one time believers had their doubts.

Fast forward to 2004, and Klitschko has seemed like the fighter most always thought he was capable of. He�s defeated then undefeated knockout artist Sam Peter, Chris Byrd, for the second time, and undefeated prospect Calvin Brock. Most recently, 4 months ago, he defeated spoiler Ray Austin in a mismatch. In the Byrd fight he won the IBF heavyweight title, and is now considered to be the number one rated heavyweight in the world.

Brewster on the other hand hasn�t been quite as successful. In his first fight after the Klitschko upset he took unheralded Australian heavyweight Kali Meehan. Surprisingly Brewster had to fight tooth and nail, and appeared to be out on his feet a couple of times, just to earn a split decision. Many ringsiders thought Meehan deserved the victory. Meehan proved to be a fluke, when just a few months later he was knocked out by former Lennox Lewis conqueror Hasim Rahman. Brewster bounced back beautifully though when he defeated Andrew Golota in Chicago in front of a packed house of Golota fans in just one round on May 21^st 2005. The victory was impressive, but Golota has been known to choke up before, and his face heading into the ring bore the expression of a man who wasn�t ready to fight. Just four months later Brewster traveled to Germany to take on Luan Krasniqi. In a back and forth fight, that saw Krasniqi leading on the scorecards going into the 8^th, Brewster ended matters by his own fists. He first knocked Krasniqi down in the eighth round, and followed that up with a barrage in the 9^th.

In his last outing, which will be 15 months prior to his July fight, Brewster would lose to Sergui Lyahkovich in a fight of the year candidate by unanimous decision. To his credit, Brewster fought nearly the entire fight with a detached retina and still forced Lyahkovich to take a knee in the 7^th. Lyahkovich would go on to lose his next fight in dramatic fashion when Shannon Briggs knocked him out, and out of the ring, with seconds remaining in the fight.

The questions to this fight are just as fun to answer as the fight itself is going to be. Will Brewster be able to bounce back after over a year away from the ring, and a serious eye injury? Will Klitschko be able to shake the memory of being defeated by the foe standing across the ring from him? The bookies think so, and they have instilled Klitschko as over a 3 to 1 favorite. The brutal nature of Brewster�s last handful of fights probably helped added to their decision.

The Summer of exciting fights continues on July 7^th in Germany!

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�Super� Zab Judah (34-4 25 KO�s) has been anything but super as of late. He is winless in his last three outings which started with him losing the status of welterweight champion to Carlos Baldomir in what was supposed to be a warm-up for a Floyd Mayweather fight. After losing the decision to Baldomir the powers that be in boxing still found a way for the Mayweather fight to come off. Of course in that fight, Judah nearly started a riot after hitting Mayweather low in the ninth round. It was not his first in the ring altercation. In November of 2001 he gave referee Jay Nady a choke hold because he thought Nady had stopped the fight prematurely after Tszyu had knocked him to the canvas.

In his last outing against Ruben Galvan, the fight ended basically before it started when the two fighters collided heads and left Galvan a bloody mess. Even the easiest of opponents are starting to be a chore for Judah. So, if this is the case, why are so many people giving him a chance against the undefeated Miguel Cotto (29-0 24 KO�s)?

Cotto has not fought great competition, but the way he has defeated them has been in stellar, bone crushing fashion. Since he won the vacant WBO Light Welterweight title in September of 2004 he has knocked out, or caused his opponents� corner to throw in the towel, in every fight but one. His last handful of fights has told the most about him.

In June of 2006 he defeated Paul Malignaggi in which Malignaggi showed great heart, but in the end the firepower of Cotto was too much and he lost a fairly lopsided 12 round decision. In his second to last fight he forced the corner of Carlos Quintana to stop the match after five one-sided rounds. Quintana was coming off the best win of his life, a 12 round decision over hot prospect Joel Julio. Quintana is a skilled and slick southpaw boxer who would probably give most other welterweights trouble. Not Cotto.

So, with all these impressive wins there are still people who call Cotto one dimensional. His body attack has been called the best in the game, and has put more than one opponent on his knee gasping for a small breath of fresh air. He is a straight forward fighter who will take a punch to get punched, but up until this point his punches have had much more effect. If he is a one dimensional fighter, then it is a very good dimension.

People think Judah might be able to expose Cotto because Cotto has been shook up before. DeMarcus Corley in February of 2005 and Ricardo Torres in September of that same year both had Cotto hurt. A potential reason for this is that Cotto was still fighting at the 140 pound limit, and was having a very hard time making that weight so he was potentially coming into the ring weaker than he should have been. Plus, Cotto showed he had heart by not faltering the first time he got hit, and came back to win those fights by knockout.

But, as far as it seems Zab Judah has declined, he is on a much higher skill level than Corley and Torres. Even though Judah lost to Mayweather, he hung in there for over half the fight, and lost by only a round or two. Most people believe that if Judah gets Cotto hurt then Judah will not let him off the hook like the other two. Judah probably also has a speed advantage that could give him shots to the head while Cotto digs to the body. The opinion here is that the longer the fight goes the more it goes to Cotto�s favor due to that bodywork. Judah will have to stay focused, and we all know that alone is chore most people do not want to see him undertake. He will have to realize that it could be a dirty fight, because sometimes body shots turn into unintentional low blows, and Judah can�t lose his cool. Because of these reasons, and the fact that he has not won a fight since 2005 is why Judah is about a 3 to 1 underdog.

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Shannon Briggs (48-4-1 42 KO�s) has definitely had a roller coaster kind of career. As a young up and coming knockout specialist of a heavyweight boxer, he was unexpectedly TKO�ed by Darroll Wilson, just as he was moving up the top ten list. But, just five fights later, he reached the ultimate peak, as he defeated then heavyweight champion of the world, George Foreman. You can say what you want about that fight as far as questionable decisions are concerned, but the truth remains that Briggs went into that fight as a big underdog and did enough in the eyes of the judges to walk away with a majority decision, and the heavyweight championship. The roller coaster came tumbling down though in his very next fight when he was defeated by future hall of famer Lennox Lewis in five very exciting rounds of boxing. Briggs has Lewis hurt in the first two rounds, but Lewis then found his groove, and sent the champion tumbling to the canvas a few times before the referee waved off the fight.

A draw with Francois Botha, and an unexpected loss to Sedrick Field seemed to put a crashing halt to the career of Briggs. But, then as he had done so many times, he started the ride back up to the top. He Ko�ed four fighters before taking on his first real test in Jameel McCline. McCline defeated Briggs, but it showed that Briggs may have enough for one last chance.

Briggs took full advantage of that shot, and with a new management team, and trainers, he once again regained the world championship in one of the most exciting fashions ever. Down on the scorecards heading into the final round of his WBO championship fight with Sergui Lyahkovich, he rallied to knockout the champion with just two seconds remaining in the contest.

It�s that above experience that would seem to put him at a huge advantage coming into his title defense against Sultan Ibragimov (20-0-1 17 KO�s). Ibragimov, as noted, has only fought 21 times. It�s not necessarily a given that the fighter with more experience will win, but in this case you have to look at who they�ve fought and how they�ve faired. Briggs has hung in with top fighters like Foreman, Ray Mercer, Lennox Lewis, and most recently Lyahkovich. Ibragimov�s toughest fight was against Ray Austin, the same Ray Austin who was just blown out in two rounds against Wladimir Klitschko.

Austin is a fighter who has served as Briggs� sparring partner, not exactly the type of fighter you want to have problems with heading into a championship fight. Ibragimov walked away with a draw in that match, after being knocked down in the tenth round. True, Ibragimov was able to knockdown Austin two times prior to the tenth, but he was unable to hurt him enough to finish him when he had the chance. In his most recent outing he knocked out the woefully out of shape Javier Mora in one round. Mora is usually rugged, but decided to come out and slug it out with Ibragimov. The fight was over before it started.

One of Briggs� major weaknesses is his stamina. As he has moved up the rankings he has also moved up in weight. The muscle has appeared to force him to lose energy quicker, and being a life long asthmatic, that doesn�t fair well. But, he was able to last 12 rounds moving at a lumbering pace against Lyahkovich, and chances are he won�t need to go half that against Ibragimov.

If Ibragimov chooses to come out fighting fast against Briggs, the counter punching of Briggs will come into effect. Briggs, despite maybe losing some speed do to size and age, is still one of the quickest fighters in the game. Many of his KO�s have been due to punching a guy while they were in the process of trying to get to him. Also, the height advantage, nearly four inches in favor of Briggs, will come into play because of the subsequent reach advantage it will give me. The way to beat Briggs, as McCline showed is to try to outbox him. That is not something that Ibragimov has in his game plan. He likes to get inside and try to knockout blow. While that provides a lot of excitement for the fans on TV and the fans at ringside it also could possibly provide a short night for the challenger.

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Jermain �Bad Intentions� Taylor (26-0-1 17 KO�s) will defend his middleweight championship for the fourth time when he takes on challenger Cory �Next Generation� Spinks (36-3 11 KO�s) this Saturday. The fight will take place at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee, just a short ride away from Taylor�s hometown of Little Rock Arkansas. The hometown atmosphere will obviously be a big advantage for the champion, but that�s just where the advantages start.

Taylor will hold at least a four inch height advantage and at least a four each reach advantage. Taylor is also the natural middleweight while this will be Spinks first fight at that weight. In fact Spinks has only fought twice at the 154 limit. There is no more daunting task then fighting the champion at your first fight at the highest weight of your career. Spinks� best work came in the 147 pound division, where he captured the linear welterweight championship when he defeated Ricardo Mayorga in August of 2004. Spinks defended that title twice, before losing to Zab Judah by 9^th round TKO in February of 2005.

His two fights at the 154 pounds were so-so. In July of last year he defeated the tough Roman Karmazin by a majority decision. Spinks, 29, seemed to tire down the stretch, and looked out on his feet as the final bell rang. Many ringsiders thought Karmazin deserved the win, but others thought the work Spinks did early in the fight was enough to earn the victory. His other fight at 154 was against Rodney Jones. Jones had been clamoring for a big fight for a long time, but came up flat against Spinks, losing every round on two scorecards, and winning only one on the other. Winning those two fights have left some wondering why he deserves a shot at the middleweight title, but Spinks hopes to take advantage of the opportunity.

Something Taylor has been accused of is taking advantage of lighter fighters. Since Taylor has been in the limelight he�s only fought one legitimate middleweight. It helps that middleweight was one of the best ever in Bernard Hopkins, but the fact remains he is fighting smaller sized opponents. As his tenure as middleweight champion he has fought Winky Wright and Kassim Ouma, not including the Hopkins rematch. Wright and Ouma have both done their best work at 154 pounds. That didn�t stop Wright from nearly upsetting the champion last June. Wright got hit more then he ever did before, but so did Taylor. The fight ended in an unsatisfying draw, which saw Wright leave the ring, and refuse a rematch because he thought he won the first fight. Ouma didn�t have a much success, falling behind early on the scorecards, despite throwing a large amount of punches.

Everything says to pick Taylor in this one, including the bookmakers who have Taylor at nearly a 6 to 1 favorite. Fighters have risen to the occasion before, and recent history will tell us that weight advantages don�t always equate to victory. For example, Bernard Hopkins moved up to 175 pounds to beat champion Antonio Tarver after losing to Taylor. More recently Floyd Mayweather Jr. moved up to 154 pounds and beat Oscar De La Hoya.

The under card also provides a nice fight with the winner potentially getting a middleweight title shot from the victor of the main event. Edison �Pantera� Miranda (28-1 24 KO�s) takes on Kelly �The Ghost� Pavlik (30-0 27 KO�s) in the co-feature. Miranda has drawn quite a following for his brawling skills and has beat Allan Green, a solid contender. Before that Miranda lost a decision to Arthur Abraham in a fight that say Abraham suffer a broken jaw. Many feel that the German crowd and officials helped determine the outcome of that fight, and that it could have been stopped when Abraham suffered a broken jaw in the fifth round.

Pavlik has in impressive record as well and has been on a tear of late, knocking out his last seven opponents. This fight has the potential of stealing the show, as both fighters have KO power and it is the first real test for both. Miranda is currently the slight favorite.

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