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…)

Amir Khan has been attacking his former trainer in the build up towards defending his Commonwealth lightweight championship. After it was reported that Gomez had started false rumours about (read more…)

Amir Khan will be defending his commonwealth lightweight championship this coming Saturday at the 10000 seater sell out Indoor Arena in Birmingham. Khan’s current and temporary trainer has given Khan a warning not to get into a brawl with Gomez (read more…)

30-year-old Gomez is challenging Amir Khan for his commonwealth title.

“People have been saying I’m finished for the last 10 years,” said Gomez.

“But a big fight like this is what I need, I will shock everybody (read more…)

Amir Khan will appear on ITV for the last time next Saturday and will be fighting Michael Gomez, the fourth challenger for his commonwealth title.

There is talk of a very short encounter, so a reminder not to blink! At 30 Gomez can still pack a punch but his (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…)

The young British boxing prospect Amir Khan, added another win to his record last night taking it to 16-0 with 12 knock outs.

Amir Khan beat Gairy St. Clair over 12 rounds to retain his commonwealth title at the ExCel Arena in London. Despite Amir Khan’s eagerness to fight for a world title, his promoter Frank Warren is wisely holding Khan back for a while to make sure that he is ready for a world title challenge when he eventually takes one on.

After the fight, Amir Khan said (read more…)

British boxer Carl Froch is preparing to be the first boxer to stop the hardy Russian fighter Sergey Tatevosyan when the pair meet tonight.

Froch is the British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion and he is hoping to increase his world title credentials when he fights Tatevosyan at the Nottingham Arena.

Unbeaten 29 year old Froch said: “There is nobody left on the domestic scene who wants to know me now so it is all about moving on a world title shot.

“We have a plan and this opponent has been selected with the future in mind.”

Froch denied a fight for the European boxing title but he is looking to make the most out of this non-title bout.

A career best KO came for Tatevosyan against Dane Rudy Markussen in October and he then went on to go the distance with Lucien Bute in Montreal, who was a possible future opponent for Froch.

Froch added: “Tatevosyan is a difficult, well-schooled fighter who can punch a bit.

“This is the type of fight where I can really cement my status with the various sanctioning bodies for a world title eliminator.”

Froch is no ranked at number 5 by the IBF and he comes in third place in the WBC and WBO rankings so he thinks he is close to reaching his potential and getting a world title.

“I’ve always been a late developer and I am just coming into my peak now,” said Froch

“I feel physically stronger and tactically and technically I am still working on stuff and learning.”

Carl Froch beat Tony Dodson in November to retain his British and Commonwealth titles but he says that Wales’ WBO champion Joe Calzaghe is the man he really wants to meet.

“I’m high up in the rankings but Calzaghe is the one I’m interested in,” he added.

Calzaghe, defends his WBO crown against America’s Peter Manfredo in Cardiff on 7 April.

Froch may get a shot at Calzaghe in the future, but for now I think that he has a fair bit still to prove. If he could win say the European title as well and/or beat a couple of high class American boxers, then this would raise his profile enough to warrant a fight with Calzaghe. If you haven’t got a big profile then you wont get big fights and that is why Peter Manfredo has got this fight with Joe Calzaghe. It is not because of what he has achieved in boxing, he has achieved very little, it is because of his celebrity status and well known profile which was helped largely by the TV show “The Contender”.

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The British crusierweight boxer John Keeton was knocked out in the second round of his commonwealth title fight against Troy Ross in Montreal, Canada.

Keeton of Sheffield was brought down with a left hook within 2 minutes of the round by the Canadian fighter.

Although Keeton won the British title only last month, he said that he ought to have used more defensive and conservative tactics.

“The plan was to box for three rounds and keep on the outside of the jab, but I got excited,” said the 34-year-old Keeton.

“We backed in my corner and I thought I’d have a go at planting one on him, but I threw a couple of rocks too many and he landed first.”

John Keeton is set to defend his British title against his old rival Mark Hobson in Manchester next month.

Despite losing his British, European and Commonwealth titles to Michael Hunter in 2005 and his defeat to current European champ Bernard Dunne last year, Esham Pickering still hopes he will get a world boxing title ahead of his clash with Marc Callaghan for the vacant British super bantamweight belt in Norwich on Friday (read more…)