Month: November 2009

By Dave Cacciatore – How many times have you heard someone utter the line, ‘the heavyweight division is wide open these days?’ This is complete nonsense lacking any correlation with … Read more

by Stuart Young – Everyone generally considers the 1970’s as the golden age of Heavyweight boxing, with fighters like Muhammad Ali, ‘Smokin’ Joe Frazier, ‘Big’ George Foreman, Ken Norton, Larry … Read more

by James Slater – On Saturday, December 12th in Switzerland, reigning WBC heavyweight king Vitali Klitschko will meet the unbeaten Kevin Johnson in a fight most fans seem to think … Read more

by Andrew Hall: First off, let me start by saying that I personally think the referee did a horrible thing in their first fight. International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion … Read more

by Geoffrey Ciani – This week’s forty-ninth edition of On the Ropes featured exclusive interviews with Oleg Maskaev, Kevin Johnson, and Holly Holm. Highlighting this episode was the very interesting … Read more

WBA interim flyweight champion Luis Concepcion (19-1, 14 KOs) made quick work of his opponent tonight, taking out Roberto Leyva (26-10-1, 21 KO’s) in the 4th round at the Arena … Read more

by James Slater – As has been reported previously, IBF cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek’s next fight will take place at heavyweight. Successful in his heavyweight debut when he stopped fellow … Read more

By Vivek Wallace – This week’s ‘Call Em Out Fridays’ segment shines the spotlight on one of the most physically gifted fighters in the history of the sport, arguably the … Read more

IFBA lightweight champion Chevelle Hallback has a thirty-five fight record and has fought boxing veterans such as Bonnie Canino, Lucia Rijker and Layla McCarter. Among those thirty-five names are Melissa … Read more

by James Slater, photo by Tom Casino – Mexican hard man Librado Andrade has made it quite clear he will start his second fight with IBF super-middleweight ruler Lucian Bute … Read more