Explore Boxing247 coverage published in 2009.
by James Slater - Over the Christmas holidays, news broke of how former linear and WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs's recent 1st-round comeback win over journeyman Marcus McGee was changed to a…
by James Slater - Ultra-exciting puncher Juan Manuel Lopez will have his featherweight debut on January 23rd, as he challenges WBO 126-pound ruler Steven Luevano. The bomber who blasted out around 20…
by James Slater - 36-year-old Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez is pencilled in to fight again on May 1st, in Las Vegas (according to BoxRec), but there is much uncertainty about who…
By Per Ake Persson: Will it be former WBA champ Manny Siaca, Jr, who will replace Edison Miranda as opponent for WBO supermiddle king Robert Stieglitz January 9 in Magdeburg? Well, at…
by James Slater - The decade is just one day away from coming to an end, and on web sites and in publications everywhere, boxing writers have been giving their choice or…
by James Slater- It's always fun making predictions, even if they turn out to have been utterly wrong. With the sport of boxing, it seems everyone has an opinion as to who…
by James Slater - While some fans may well groan when they read how yet another DVD, movie, documentary or book on Muhammad Ali has been released, the new DVD "Facing Ali"…
Hot prospect for 2010 Kell Brook will face tough Eastern European opposition on February 13 in an eliminator for the WBO World Welterweight title currently held by pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao. The…
By Paul Strauss - There has been a not so subtle carefully orchestrated shift in emphasis concerning the current mess in boxing. The predominant question seems to rest with whether urinalysis is…
By Brandon Desmond - Paying close attention to the developing negotiations between Boxing’s two best and brightest superstars, I was surprised to learn that the principle terms to the contract were agreed…
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