A fight has been made by the world boxing council between the top and second top ranked fighters, Andre Berto (top with 21-0, and 18 knock outs ), Miguel Rodriguez (second top with 29-2, and 23 knockouts). To fill the welterweight title vacancy that was made when Floyd Mayweather retired. The two were scheduled to fight on the 21 June as a part of (read more…)

The Mayweather-De La Hoya rematch on the 20 September was cancelled when Mayweather announced his retirement. The effects of this fight cancellation means that De La Hoya will only be fighting once more before retiring himself. De La Hoya has apparently given up his September date and will now have his final fight on (read more…)

Pacquiao paused ,as though it was news to him, when he was told of the betting odds for his David Diaz fight on the 28 June. Pacquiao was given -365 favourite to beat the world boxing council lightweight champion at Mandalay Bay.

On the other side, Diaz was given a +285, meaning that a £100 would pay out £285, whereas you would have to pay up (read more…)

After Palvik disposed of the Welshman on Saturday Night in Atlantic city, it seems that a fight between Calzaghe and Kelly Palvik is very likely. Palvik’s promoter Bob Arum and Frank Warren have started negotiations about a fight between the two aimed to make a fight on the 18th October, with Wales, Atlantic City, New York, and Las Vegas all possible sites for this fight. Although Warren said (read more…)

After turning down the fight with De La Hoya, one of Hatton’s nest opponents could be the superstar Manny Paciquiao. Pacquiao has stated before that he wants to challenge Hatton if he moves up and beats (read more…)

It seems Ricky Hatton will not be fighting Oscar De La Hoya. De La Hoya was going to fight Mayweather before his retirement announcement, the fight was set for the 20 September. From this rumours started about Hatton taking Mayweather’s place in the fight, but Ray Hatton (Ricky Hatton’s father and manager) has said that his son needed more time to prepare (read more…)

With the retirement of Mayweather, Ricky Hatton has moved into a position for a superfight with De La Hoya later in the year. Hatton is due to fight Pauile Malignaggi in November, and could change course and fight the American, with the opportunity to generate huge pay-per-view sales (read more…)

The current World Boxing Association Welterweight champion, Miguel Cotto, received a visit from the world famous multi millionaire fashion designer, Marc Ecko.

Ecko visited Miguel Cotto in his gym, the Bairoa Gym in Caguas, Puerto Rico, and for two hours Ecko and Cotto (read more…)

David Haye, the man that wants to be the first british heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis, has turned down a fight with Matt Skelton, and said that he would “rather retire from boxing”, than work with Frank Warren again.
Warren offered £600000 to Haye for a fight in the autumn with the 40 year old commonwealth champion Skelton. The cruiser weight king called the offer “derisory”. And stated scorned Warren saying (read more…)

Many boxing fans have already written off Gary Lockett’s chances of beating Kelly Pavlik when the pair fight in New Jersey this Saturday.

However, Lockett claims this is just the motivation he needs in order to topple Pavlik and win the middleweight crown.

Gary Lockett said (read more…)