ESPN’s Friday Night Fights has provided some solid sleeper fights and this Friday it added to its catalogue when 126 pound fighters Antonio Escalante met Miguel ‘Micky’ Roman in El Paso, Texas.

Even before the fight started it promised to be a good encounter as the two 24 year olds had history. They both grew up in the same barrio in Juarez, Mexico and in their youth came to blows following …

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Well we wondered how long it would take following a relatively quiet start to promo of the Mosley/Mayweather fight but true to form, Floyd Mayweather has started the trash talking!

The two face off on May 1st following a break down in negotiations between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao but little has been heard since the fight was made official early this month …

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15 years ago today London was buzzing. Just coming out of winter there was a heat in the streets that could only be generated by a big event. That event was the super middleweight bout between Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan.

Anyone who was anyone would be in the London Arena that night to see an aging Benn defend against the favourite McClellan but by the 26th when everyone had cleared …

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Last January Mexican welterweight champion Antonio Margarito was caught committing the most heinous of crimes when he was found with a plaster of paris like substance in his hand wraps.

Pleading his innocence and feigning ignorance he stated he did not know they were there but he fooled nobody with his story and the California State Athletic Commission duly banned the disgraced champion for a year.

This Tuesday …

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“No disrespect to David Haye, but no-one is talking about David Haye,”. These are the words of the 2000 super-heavyweight Olympic champion, Audley Harrison.

The 38-year-old says he wants to fight either one of the Klitschko brothers if he can dethrone European heavyweight champion Albert Sosnowski. To me this comes across as a little bit ambitious to say the least. Harrison has …

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Former super middleweight and light heavyweight world champion Joe Calzaghe has ruled out a return to the ring.

Calzaghe’s name had been mentioned as a potential opponent for a number of fighters including WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch, light heavyweight star Chad Dawson and the winner of the ‘Super Six’ tournament but the undefeated Welshman has vetoed an notion of a …

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Nicolino Locche is easily one of the most under rated boxers ever.

Fighting as a light welterweight, the Sardinian Argentine picked up a world title in 1968 by beat Paul Takeshi Fuji in Tokyo but it was the manner in which he did this that made the victory all the more remarkable.

Before Roberto Duran’s ‘No Mas’ in 1980, Fuji retired at the end of the 9th round because of exhaustion and …

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Former super middleweight and light heavyweight champion Joe Calzaghe has reignited his war of words with WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch with a cutting dismissal of his domestic rival.

It is no secret that there is no love lost between the two and they have regularly gone back to back in the media. Recently the two called somewhat of a truce …

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Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier and Barrera and Morales.

All names that go hand in hand having been dancing partners in some of boxing’s greatest series but where these men went to war 3 times, Israel Vasquez and Rafael Vasquez are looking to trump them with an epic 4th fight.

Whilst many will consider the Gatti/Ward fights the greatest ever, Vasquez/Marquez will have something to say about …

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People love boxing because unlike team sports once you climb into the ring, there is no hiding. You have nobody to blame for losing except yourself in most cases and your strengths and weakness become glaringly obvious under the bright lights.

That’s where trainers come into it. Their job is to ensure you are best prepared once you get into the ring.

Freddie Roach has been credited with turning

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