Month: August 2011

By Tony Nobbs: Smooth Panamanian 135 pounder Ameth Diaz caused a mild upset, scoring a five round knockout of home country hope Leonardo Zappavigna in Melbourne, Victoria on Friday night. … Read more

by Jorge Alarcon-Swaby: Boxing is Mexico’s most successful sport, having produced over 100 world champions and 12 Olympic gold medalists. Of all those great fighters there is one man that … Read more

by James Slater: All boxers are courageous. The very fact that they have the stuff needed to climb into the ring and fight proves as much, but sometimes a boxer … Read more

By James Slater: Mere hours after reading on the web site of Ring Magazine that “regular” WBC middleweight champ Julio Cesar Chavez Junior would NOT be taking a voluntary defence … Read more

By Paul Strauss: Tim Coleman and Vernon Paris, junior welterweights, exchanged insults and fired punches at each other prior to their Friday Night Fight bout at the Chumash Casino in … Read more

By Ted Sares: A ‘cutie’ to me is a guy who has such subtle, and often brilliant, boxing skills that most people who watch him do not even realize it…It’s … Read more

LOS ANGELES, August 5 – Later this month, two of boxing’s brightest young stars, Marcos “El Chino” Maidana and Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero will face off for the World Boxing … Read more

By James Slater: As surely all fans know (hardcore fans anyway), light-middleweight contenders Delvin Rodriguez and Pawel Wolak recently gave us a genuine FOTY candidate on ESPN Friday Night Fights. … Read more

By James Slater – Now that IBF super-middleweight king Lucian Bute is in the hunt for a new November challenger thanks to Kelly Pavlik’s decision to pull out of the … Read more

By James Slater – New “regular” WBC middleweight champ Julio Cesar Chavez Junior was contemplating taking an optional defence of his belt on September 24th, but it now looks like … Read more