Written By: Armando Paz There is nothing shocking about the recent video that surfaced with Mayweather using racial epithets against Pacquiao and Asians.   The sport of boxing for over a century has been notorious in using race to promote fights.   Boxing injected the race issue even back to the bareknuckle days where caucasian fighters would fight black slaves to prove supremacy. ...
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 Written By:  Armando Paz  There is always a point in any professional athlete’s career where they must answer questions to both themselves and critics.   For a professional team sometimes the question is :can they win the big game on the road?  Sometimes the question is simply can you play under pressure and handle adversity?  In boxing, the...
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By Ben Davies It was meant to be the year boxing returned as a premier sport. Boxing, the sport that promises so much was to once again occupy our minds and be presented to us all over the media with all the valour, excitement and intrigue that fight fans dream of. Everyone was meant...
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By Ben Davies Saturday August 28th 2010, surely the day a living boxing legend’s career came to an abrupt and undignified end. The overweight forlorn figure that Toney cut, represented the fish out of water that he was – and looked – as was easily beaten and submitted by MMA legend Randy Couture in...
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    Written By: Armando Paz     The Coliseo Mario Quijote Morales in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico was treated to one of the best fights of this year. The Light Flyweight division is not exactly a well publicized or known division but the battle between Giovanni Segura now (25-1-1) and Ivan Calderon now (34-1-1) proved that the size of...
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        It was expected to be an easy win by Marcos Rene Maidana a young powerful fighter against an old veteran like Demarcus “Chop Chop” Corley. But after dominating the fight early on it was the younger Maidana who seem to punch himself out and the older Corley who looked fresher.  Corley a fighter that wobbled...
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Written By:  Armando Paz There was not much suspense or drama in the UFC 118 event that put Randy Couture a former UFC light heavyweight and heavyweight champion against James “lights out” Toney a former boxing multi-divisional  champion in  Boston.  It was widely believed that Couture who is well disciplined in the arts of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Greco-Roman...
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Written By: Jasveer Singh Gill Ever since fighting was turned into sport and then formatted into different types of combat the debate has raged – who would win between the boxer and wrestler? It does not stop with those two martial arts either. You have muay thai vs ju jitsu, karate vs kung fu...
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Written By:  Armando Paz The state of Texas has a long standing reputation of being tough on crime.  The state has executed more inmates on death row from 1976 until now, than the next 6 states combined.  The lonestar state is known for traditional values and being “no nonsense” with crime. Yet the Texas State Athletic Commission has...
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Written by: Cain Bradley The Light middleweight division is currently packed with big names and big fights that people want to see. However switch the clock back three or four years and it wasn’t even a shadow of the division it once was. But there was a few stand-out fighters. One of these stand-out...
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Written by: Jasveer Singh Gill Having stormed the heavyweight division, the last thing we expected a year after becoming world champion is to read David Haye may fight Audley Harrison. To his credit David Haye responded exactly how we would have hoped, tweeting “Shut the fcuk up, Fraudley. If somehow we ever do fight,...
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                                                                     Written By:  Armando Paz   The boxing world must wonder what was Lucian Bute’s motive for sitting ringside for the Pascal-Dawson fight?   It appeared that the winner of Pascal-Dawson would be the next opponent for Bute after his fight with Jesse Brinkley (35-5 22 KO’s) this October 15 in Montreal.  With the victory...
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Written By:  Armando Paz The controversey surrounding the Pacquiao-Margarito fight has manifested into another Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions war of words.   Oscar De La Hoya both a former fighter and top promoter has made his feelings known about his opinion on Antonio Margarito.  After the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) denied Margarito’s boxing...
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Written By: Armando Paz If you look the final judges score cards of 117-111, 118-110, and 118-111 than it would seem that Tomasz Adamek (42-1 27 KO’s) won an easy decision over Michael Grant (46-4 34 KO’s) at the Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey.  But those scores are only on paper and fail to recreate the fact...
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In a pretty much one sided affair, Marco Huck now (30-1 23 KO’s) dominated Matt Godfrey (20-2 10 KO’s) and finished him off with a 5th round TKO in the Messehalle, Erfut, Thuringen, Germany.   Most of the fight saw Huck walk down Godfrey and pressure him while trying to land overhand rights.  Godfrey landed a...
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Written By: Jamie Hooper I generally don’t tell people this, but I have followed Audley Harrisons professional career since the Sydney Olympics ten years ago. It’s a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, we all have them, for example I have ‘ Aba’s Greatest Hits’ on my ipod – I don’t tell anyone...
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Written By: Armando Paz The two promoters Don King for Devon Alexander (21-0 13 KO’s) and Gary Shaw for Timothy Bradley (26-0 11 KO’s) have agreed to a 50-50 split in a Light Welterweight unification match that would unify the WBC, IBF, and WBO titles.  No potential date or exact figures were released by either Shaw or...
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Written By:  Armando Paz If someone would ask me besides David Haye who would you like to see fight a Klitschko?  My answer would be Polish fighter Tomasz Adamek (41-1 27 KO’s).    Adamek is coming off an impressive win over Chris Areolla this last April.   Adamek is both a former Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion and his hope...
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Written By: Armando Paz It was thought that the major issue in preventing a Pacquiao-Margarito showdown was the fact that suspended fighter Margarito would have trouble obtaining a proper boxing license in the states.  Of course, if they failed to get that license they would think about fighting abroad in places like Dubai or...
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Written By: Armando Paz The recent shake up in the Light Heavyweight division due to the events in Montreal have opened up the division to many prospects.   Before Dawson losing to Pascal, he was perceived as the king of the division and was going to unite all the titles.  Nathan Cleverly (19-0 13 KO’s) who...
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