By James Russell, Posted June 18th, 2008 Comments (4) Topic: Boxers, Boxing News, General News

David Haye has been named the new Muhammed Ali of boxing. The new saviour of the heavyweight division has been signed by Golden Boy promotions in the USA. Richard Schaefer, the powerful chief executive has said that he has got a future superstar by signing this contract (read more…)
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By Joe Stevens, Posted April 28th, 2008 Comments (1) 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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By Robert Westwood, Posted April 23rd, 2008 Comments (6) Topic: Boxers

Joe Calzaghe has done very well to remain undefeated all this time and indeed he did well to go over to Las Vegas and beat Bernard Hopkins.
However there is talk of Joe Calzaghe being the great boxer ever….
Um… No!
Sorry guys but you can’t even begin to make those comparisons (read more…)
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By Boxing Daily, Posted February 9th, 2008 Comments (20) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews

Hopkins and Calzaghe face off in Las Vegas this April but as part of the all important pre fight hype, the pair were throwing insults at each other recently in Leicester Square, London.
Hopkins is famous for saying, “I’ll never let a white boy beat me” when he (read more…)
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By Boxing Daily, Posted August 15th, 2007 Comments (6) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews
Thanks to Michael Jordan, every sports star seem to want to make a “comeback”. Actually I think this stems back to Muhammad Ali who made the original “greatest comeback”.

But the fact is that Ali didn’t intentionally retire, he was forced to stop boxing. Show offs like Mayweather come out with utter rubbish about retirement so they can claim that they are making some magnificent comeback. This are fakes. Just retire when you want to retire, but don’t announce that you are going to retire just to raise PPV sales because its annoying boxing fans like myself!
This “comeback” by Roy Jones Junior and Felix Trinidad is (read more…)
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By Boxing Daily, Posted March 6th, 2007 Comments (0) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews
IBF heavyweight mandatory challenger, Ray “Rainman” Austin, is in Germany for his fight with Klitschko, the champion, on Saturday.

Are you looking forward to this fight? I can’t really say that I am getting too excited… (read more…)
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By Boxing Daily, Posted February 16th, 2007 Comments (4) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews

Young British boxing prospect, Amir Khan, hopes that an impressive victory over Mohammed Medjadi at Wembley Arena on Saturday will significantly increase he chance of getting a boxing fight in the USA later this year (read more…)
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By Boxing Daily, Posted February 15th, 2007 Comments (2) Topic: Boxers

Manny Pacquiao has been voted as the fighter of the year by the Boxing Writers Association of America and his trainer, Freddie Roach, was named trainer of the year (read more…)
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By Boxing Daily, Posted February 14th, 2007 Comments (1) Topic: Boxing
One of the greatest pictures in boxing is Muhammad Ali on the floor after being knocked out by Smokin’ Joe Frazier’s infamous left hook.

The Hook is a fairly difficult punch to learn but it can be extremely effective (read more…)
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By Boxing Daily, Posted February 13th, 2007 Comments (13) Topic: Boxers
Personally I think that the man is a boxing legend, but every time I bring his name up in a conversation (usually with people who know very little about boxing) they give me a strange look for admiring him and they usually say something like “that thing is an animal”.

WHY? (read more…)
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