It’s been 34 years since boxers stepped into the squared circle in Yankee Stadium. It took a brand new stadium, a Puerto Rican with a heavy New York fan-base (there is a solid Puerto Rican population in NY, and Cotto holds many of his fights in Madison Square Garden), and, of course, a Belarusian transported to [...]

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The good under card has become somewhat of a lost art in recent years. One of the best and most exciting parts of big fights is watching; 1) great matches (with oftentimes lesser caliber fighters) sure to excite or 2) up and coming prospects face off on the under card. It prepares you for future fighters that [...]

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This Saturday is a personal fight for me. Miguel Cotto is my favourite fighter and for my 21st birthday present I was lucky enough to fly to New York and watch his fight with Joshua Clottey. I have found it hard to watch what is a perceived slide in Cotto’s career with the losses to [...]

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Andre Berto has shelved plans to move down to junior welterweight as he has ‘unfinished business’ at welterweight. Berto had been linked with a move down to get into the thick of the action at 140 pounds but speaking on his personal Twitter page the WBC welterweight champion said, iam gonna clean up the unfinished [...]

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Joe Calzaghe has rubbished rumours that he is set to return to the ring and take on Bernard Hopkins this year. Rumours have been rife that the former super middleweight and light heavyweight world champion would return to the ring despite retiring last year and Golden Boy’s Richard Schaefer had reportedly been trying to talk [...]

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You will often hear boxing fans talking about how “belts don’t matter.” Most logical people would say…well why not? A fair question, and the WBO (World Boxing Organization) recently gave me a chance to respond to this issue and also to go on a little bit of rant, an opportunity I now take with relish. The World Boxing Organization [...]

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Fresh off his battering of Paulie Malignaggi last month, the wheels are in motion to get Amir Khan back into the ring already. Khan had wanted to fight Marcos Maidana, the mandatory challenger to his WBA junior welterweight title, but Maidana is still suffering with a back injury so Joel Casamayor is being explored as [...]

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Middleweight champion of the world Sergio ‘Maravilla’ Martinez has been stripped of his WBO title according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. Martinez who picked up The Ring, WBC and WBO titles when he defeated Kelly Pavlik in April also holds a WBC title at 154 pounds and the WBO wanted a decision as to what [...]

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I’m very anxious to see both of the main fights on the Cotto/Foreman card this weekend. Some time ago I wrote an article about the rising 154 pound division and some of the fighters that are climbing the ladder and Joe Greene was one of the guys that I mentioned. He has a tendency to [...]

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