By Robert Westwood, Posted June 29th, 2008 Comments (7) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews

Following on from the news that Manny Pacquiao is the new WBC lightweight champion after beating David Diaz by KO in the 9th round, this is the full round by round review of the pacquiao vs diaz fight (read more…)
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By Boxing Daily, Posted June 29th, 2008 Comments (6) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews

Manny Pacquiao has beaten David Diaz by a KO in the 9th round to win the WBC lightweight crown. As the current pound for pound boxing king, Manny Pacquiao was the favourite to win this fight from and he certainly impressed the crowd straight from the start showing off fast hard punches and excellent boxing skills (read more…)
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By Boxing Daily, Posted June 22nd, 2008 Comments (41) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews, General News

Knock down after knock down. In the first round of this fight the former British super featherweight champion was knocked to the canvas. As he was celebrating his birthday, Gomez did not give in and got up again to come back (read more…)
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By Robert Westwood, Posted June 21st, 2008 Comments (1) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews

The so far undefeated Amir Khan is still undefeated, he was knocked down though, and it looked as though Gomez was going to win after a deadly left hook in the opening sequence of the second round. Amir Khan managed to (read more…)
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By Joe Stevens, Posted June 8th, 2008 Comments (0) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews

In his first defence of the WBO and WBC world middleweight titles, Kelly Pavlik demolished underdog Gary Lockett in under three rounds in Atlantic City, NJ, USA.
The two boxers were clearly in different classes as it was all one way traffic from the up and coming American star, Kelly Pavlik (read more…)
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By James Russell, Posted May 30th, 2008 Comments (2) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews

Anthony Mundine has admitted that he needs to win high profile fights to make a name for himself in the boxing world.
Mundine defended his WBA super middleweight title successfully against Sam Soliman at Vodafone Arena on Wednesday night. Mundine won via a unanimous points decision as the judges scored the bout: 116-112, 116-112, 117-112.
Although the Mundine camp said that he won the fight with ease, the Soliman camp was very disappointed at the result, claiming (read more…)
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By Robert Westwood, Posted May 17th, 2008 Comments (0) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews

Former heavyweight boxing champion Chris Byrd had to lose forty pounds to fight against Shaun George in a light heavyweight bout in Las Vegas.
Bryd looked slow, sluggish and physically drained as he came into the ring at just 174lbs (read more…)
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By James Russell, Posted May 13th, 2008 Comments (0) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews

We have long said that more quality boxing needs to be shown on terrestrial TV in order to create more boxing fans and make boxing the popular sport that it once was.
Although ITV are doing a bit to help this cause, there are only going half way (read more…)
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By James Russell, Posted May 4th, 2008 Comments (3) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews
Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya won a unanimous points victory over Steve Forbes in a bout that many have said is simply a warm up for a Floyd Mayweather - Oscar De La Hoya fight in September.

Two of the boxing judges gave De La Hoya the fight by 119 points to 109 with the other giving him the verdict 120-108.
What did you think of Oscar De La Hoya? Was Oscar De La Hoya at his best in this fight?
Oscar De La Hoya said (read more…)
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By Boxing Daily, Posted April 20th, 2008 Comments (9) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews

Joe Calzaghe maintained his undefeated status, winning a majority decision against Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins. Well it looks as if this executioner’s blade is getting blunt in his old age…What are your thoughts on the fight?
In the earlier rounds it was all Hopkins. Straight away Bernard Hopkins floored Calzaghe (read more…)
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