Archive for January 2009

Ricky Hatton is confident he can topple the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter Manny Pacquiao when the pair meet in Las Vegas later this year. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Victor Ortiz’s case against Top Rank could affect how future boxing stars are brought along. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Thiago Silva has a dilemma. Win the crowd when he fights Lyoto Machida this Saturday night in the UFC 94 co-feature, and he could lose the match against perhaps the most technically sound fighter in the game today. Fight a patient fight and he takes away precisely what has brought him [...]

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – 30. It’s a number dreaded by the adult adolescent, the signal that it’s time to grow up. No longer can you blame things on the folly of youth and expect a shake of the head, a simple admonishment, and the freedom to go back to business as usual. That’s for us. [...]

Scott LeDoux once went blow for blow and toe to toe with several heavyweight greats during a resilient, if unspectacular, career in the ring in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Last summer, this 6-foot-2, now-250-pound former boxer realized he could no longer button his shirt. “I thought it was arthritis in my shoulder,” LeDoux [...]

The mystery of Antonio Margarito’s hand wraps remains unsolved. News Source: YAHOO Sports. Read full story HERE .

Speculations swirl around why the Golden Boy was not at the Mosley-Margarito fight. News Source: YAHOO Sports. Read full story HERE .

HBO is off to a tremendous start in 2009. Can it keep the momentum going? News Source: YAHOO Sports. Read full story HERE .

Ricky Hatton is close to an agreement to fight Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on May 2. The fight was declared back on again Friday when Pacquiao — coming off an easy win over Oscar De La Hoya last month — signed and faxed his contract to promoter Top Rank in Las Vegas. Hatton’s lawyer, [...]

Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko are worried that promoters will deny them the chance of holding all four heavyweight titles. The Ukrainian brothers currently hold three of the belts — Wladmir is the IBF and WBO champion, and Vitali is the WBC champ. Only WBA champion Nikolai Valuev stands between a historic four-belt family sweep. News [...]

Former welterweight titleholder Antonio Margarito had his license suspended Wednesday by the California State Athletic Commission while it investigates a plaster-like substance found under the boxer’s hand wraps before his loss last weekend to Shane Mosley. The commission also suspended the license of Margarito’s trainer Javier Capetillo and asked both to appear at a hearing [...]

The California State Athletic Commission announced Wednesday that Antonio Margarito and his chief corner man, Javier Capetillo, had their licenses temporarily suspended. News Source: YAHOO Sports. Read full story HERE .

Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton formally agreed Wednesday to fight for Hatton’s 140-pound title on May 2, ending several weeks of negotiating and posturing. Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs), generally considered the world’s top pound-for-pound fighter, will go after Hatton’s IBO junior welterweight belt at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. News Source: YAHOO Sports. [...]

It’s official: Manny Pacquiao will face Ricky Hatton is Las Vegas on May 2. News Source: YAHOO Sports. Read full story HERE .

Las Vegas, NV (USA) – The fastest growing sports organization in the world, the Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) in partnership with New Evolution Fitness Company (NEFC), today announced plans to launch a nationwide and global network of UFC gyms. News Source: UFC.com. Read full story HERE .