By Joe Stevens, Posted June 16th, 2008 Comments (2) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews

Calzaghe has said that his future goal is targeted firmly on the former four-weight champion Roy Jones and not Pavlik, the world middle weight champion.
“There is some talk about me fighting Kelly (and) a lot of people would love to see it,” Calzaghe said. “However, at this point in time I think it’s unlikely to happen.
“Talks are ongoing about me facing (read more…)
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By Robert Westwood, Posted June 13th, 2008 Comments (1) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews

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…)
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By Robert Westwood, Posted June 9th, 2008 Comments (1) Topic: Boxing News, General News

For the third time, Floyd “Money” Mayweather has decided to call it quits, and ended his career. The welterweight weight champion and pound-for-pound king has made retirement vows before. But is apparently now genuine about it. The big money fight with De La Hoya is no longer on (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 Robert Westwood, Posted June 1st, 2008 Comments (3) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews

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…)
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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 Joe Stevens, Posted May 14th, 2008 Comments (23) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews

It looks as though we are probably going to see Roy Jones Jr as the next opponent for undefeated world super middleweight champion, Joe Calzaghe.
Whilst Roy Jones is no where near as good as he was at his prime, he still put in an impressive display against Felix Trinidad and so could provide a challenge for Joe Calzaghe.
I think the key thing (read more…)
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By Robert Westwood, Posted May 14th, 2008 Comments (2) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews

With no real challenges left for Kelly Pavlik at the middleweight level, it was obvious he was going to have to move up to super middleweight in order to get a decent fight.
Kelly Pavlik is set to fight Lockett but after that where should he go?
Many boxing fans want to see a Kelly Pavlik – Joe Calzaghe fight (read more…)
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By Joe Stevens, Posted May 2nd, 2008 Comments (1) Topic: Boxers
We haven’t done a list of who we consider as the top pound for pound boxers in a while, so here’s the update.

Feel free to agree or disagree, and please post any comments you have on the list at the bottom of the article (read more…)
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By Joe Stevens, Posted April 28th, 2008 Comments (0) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews
Joe Calzaghe wants to break a record set by Muhammad Ali, probably the greatest name in boxing history.

After his win against Bernard Hopkins, Joe Calzaghe is looking to fight Roy Jones in Cardiff and attempt to beat the record set by Ali (read more…)
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