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…)

David Diaz may be the underdog by a fairly large margin for his upcoming fight with Manny Pacquiao, but that didn’t stop the boxing champion charming 500 Pacquiao boxing fans in California!

The boxing fans were obviously their to watch Pacquiao train later in the day, but they were nonetheless impressed by Diaz (read more…)

This Saturday the World Middleweight Champion Kelly Pavlik is defending his title against Gary Lockett, but the up and coming boxer is already looking past this fight to bigger things.

Apparently, talks are already under way for Kelly Pavlik to fight Joe Calzaghe in November so Kelly Pavlik is viewing Lockett as a warm up before the real fight against the undefeated Calzaghe (read more…)

Ricky Hatton beat Juan Lazcano last weekend, but his former promoter Frank Warren thinks that enough is enough for the Hitman.

Warren claims that Hatton hasn’t had a good fight since Kostya Tszyu three years ago (Warren excludes the Castillo fight) and in his boxing column in “The Sun” he goes on to say (read more…)

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…)

Over his career, and indeed over most boxing careers, Manny Pacquiao has mainly had to face right handed opponents.

However Pacman will need to make some changes when he faces Diaz, another left hander.

But Manny Pacquiao’s boxing coach, Freddie Roach, is (read more…)

Even though 55,000 fans will be out to watch Ricky Hatton fight Juan Lazcano in Manchester, Juan Lazcano’s coach, Ronnie Shields, still thinks that his fighter will come out victorious.

What Shields says should be taken seriously. Not only is he a former two-time world light welterweight title challenger himself, but as a boxing coach he has worked with names such as (read more…)

Miguel Cotto, the WBA welterweight champion and Antonio ‘The Tijuana Tornado’ Margarito, the IBF welterweight champion, were both confident at a press conference yesterday.

The excitement is already building for (read more…)

Young British boxing prospect Amir Khan has said he is willing to move to the USA in order to team up with a first rate boxing coach.

Khan split with his old coach Oliver Harrison last month and the 21 year old is apparently looking for a long term replacement (read more…)