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 Joe Stevens, Posted May 31st, 2008 Comments (1) Topic: Boxing News, General News

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…)
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By Joe Stevens, Posted May 21st, 2008 Comments (0) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews

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…)
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By Joe Stevens, Posted May 18th, 2008 Comments (0) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews

A massive fifty five thousand boxing fans are going to be in the City of Manchester Stadium for the great Ricky Hatton’s comeback fight against Juan Lazcano.
Its really good to see a high profile boxer like Hatton rewarding his fans by making tickets for this fight relatively cheap (they cost less than a Manchester City football ticket). It is this attitude that is making Hitman Hatton a hero, up with the likes of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno in the hearts of British boxing fans.
Hatton is going to fight (read more…)
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By James Russell, Posted May 13th, 2008 Comments (0) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Reviews

We have long said that more quality boxing needs to be shown on terrestrial TV in order to create more boxing fans and make boxing the popular sport that it once was.
Although ITV are doing a bit to help this cause, there are only going half way (read more…)
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By Robert Westwood, Posted May 11th, 2008 Comments (0) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews

After his victory over Junior Witter, American boxer Timothy Bradley wants to face another British welterweight, but one of a much higher calibre.
In an interview after the fight, Bradley said (read more…)
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By James Russell, Posted May 11th, 2008 Comments (0) Topic: Boxing News, Fight Previews
Junior Witter has lost his title to a mandatory challenger, Timothy Bradley.

Witter had talked of fighting Ricky Hatton, but it doesn’t look like this will happen now!
Well, maybe there is still a chance at glory, but Witter will have to start over after being sent to the canvas by Bradley and (read more…)
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By Joe Stevens, Posted May 2nd, 2008 Comments (2) 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 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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