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…)

The trainer Freddie Roach has added an interesting new twist to the story of the Filipino Manny Pacquiao by saying that Golden Boy Promotions might want to put up Oscar De La Hoya in stead of Ricky Hatton, also handled by the Golden Boy promotions. “To be honest with you I think Manny can beat Oscar”. Also that Pacquiao’s speed would be too much for “an old man”, like De La Hoya (read more…)

A fight has been made by the world boxing council between the top and second top ranked fighters, Andre Berto (top with 21-0, and 18 knock outs ), Miguel Rodriguez (second top with 29-2, and 23 knockouts). To fill the welterweight title vacancy that was made when Floyd Mayweather retired. The two were scheduled to fight on the 21 June as a part of (read more…)

The Mayweather-De La Hoya rematch on the 20 September was cancelled when Mayweather announced his retirement. The effects of this fight cancellation means that De La Hoya will only be fighting once more before retiring himself. De La Hoya has apparently given up his September date and will now have his final fight on (read more…)

After turning down the fight with De La Hoya, one of Hatton’s nest opponents could be the superstar Manny Paciquiao. Pacquiao has stated before that he wants to challenge Hatton if he moves up and beats (read more…)

It seems Ricky Hatton will not be fighting Oscar De La Hoya. De La Hoya was going to fight Mayweather before his retirement announcement, the fight was set for the 20 September. From this rumours started about Hatton taking Mayweather’s place in the fight, but Ray Hatton (Ricky Hatton’s father and manager) has said that his son needed more time to prepare (read more…)

With the retirement of Mayweather, Ricky Hatton has moved into a position for a superfight with De La Hoya later in the year. Hatton is due to fight Pauile Malignaggi in November, and could change course and fight the American, with the opportunity to generate huge pay-per-view sales (read more…)

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…)

Pound of pound boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr has announced that he is retiring from boxing.

Mayweather is stepping down undefeated, after winning all of his 39 fights, and therefore his last fight was against Rick Hatton when he retained his WBC welterweight title.

Floyd Mayweather said (read more…)

The current World Boxing Association Welterweight champion, Miguel Cotto, received a visit from the world famous multi millionaire fashion designer, Marc Ecko.

Ecko visited Miguel Cotto in his gym, the Bairoa Gym in Caguas, Puerto Rico, and for two hours Ecko and Cotto (read more…)