By Jim Price: Trainer Freddie Roach is once again picking his fighter WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao by a knockout win in his next fight on June 9th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao faces unbeaten Tim Bradley, and Roach believes he’s put together an ironclad plan for success for Pacquiao. However, Roach also thought he had the perfect plan for […]
By Marcus Richardson: The International Boxing Federation ordered a 168 pound eliminator bout between Adonis Stevenson and Edwin Rodriguez. However, Rodriguez likely won’t take the fight according to Dan Rafael. Instead of Rodriguez, the 34-year-old Stevenson is going to get someone much further down in the food chain because most of the top 10 contenders are already scheduled with other […]
By Boxing Girl – The latest boxing rankings will be release any day now, and we at ESB would like to give the fans the opportunity to share their views on who they believe should be ranked where. So far ESB has provided the most accurate ranking when it comes to a fighter’s real position as was proven with it’s […]
HATTON PROMOTIONS ‘Road To Glory’ bill is close to a sell-out more than two weeks before it takes places. There are no more ringside tickets available for the show, the last few being sold just 24 hours after it was announced that VIP tickets had gone. Hatton Promotions CEO Ricky Hatton is confident that all 4,300 tickets will be shifted […]
By Marcus Richardson: IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) is hoping to get Mikkel Kessler (45-2, 34 KO’s) to agree to come to Nottingham to fight him at the City Ground where Froch feels the fight will draw as many as 40,000 fans later on this year. Froch lost to Kessler in April of 2010 in the […]