Tag: Boxing champions

  • Mayweather to go for Martinez Instead of Pacquiao?

    Floyd Mayweather is busy these days with legal problems and pleading guilty in trials, but on the sports side of his life, there’s no advancement in the talks with Manny Pacquiao. Sergio Martinez, the best Middleweight fighter and #3 on the pound-4-pound lists, might be the next option.

  • On the Possibility of a Pacquiao – Khan Fight

    Manny Pacquiao is busy preparing for his third fight with Juan Manuel Marquez, but his trainer Freddie Roach keeps talking about other possible fights – Floyd Mayweather and even former sparring partner and #1 Light Welterweight, Amir Khan.

  • Carl Froch and Andre Ward Trade Warnings

    It moved from October to December, but at least we still got the fight, the final to the Super Six Super Middleweight tournament, between British Carl Froch, the WBC champion, and undefeated American Andre Ward, the WBA Super champion.

  • Thomas Hearns and 3 Legendary Fights

    By the time it’s 2012, less than 3 months from now, Thomas “Hitman” Hearns, an eight time world champion in six different weight divisions, will be inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

  • All the Reigning Boxing Champions From Heavyweight to Junior Welterweight

    All the Reigning Boxing Champions From Heavyweight to Junior Welterweight

    All the reigning boxing champions of the WBA, WBC, WBO and the IBF from the Heavyweight division (all Klitschko up there) to Welterweights (Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr.) stopping with Light Welterweights (Amir Khan).

  • Floyd Mayweather is Fighting Victor Ortiz but Thinking About Pacquiao

    Floyd Mayweather Jr. might be fighting Victor Ortiz for the WBC Welterweight title as his way back into the boxing world, but his sights are set only on one man, Manny Pacquiao.

  • Floyd Mayweather Scared of Amir Khan?

    According to the IBF and WBA Light Welterweight champion, Amir Khan, Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t want to fight him so he can keep his perfect record (41-0) intact. Amir Khan, two months past his title fight with Zab Judah which ended a tad controversially (or even more according to Judah), is planning on Mayweather in case the fight everyone wants, Pacquiao vs Floyd, won’t happen.

  • Boxing Champions Who Retired Undefeated

    A rarity among great boxers – retiring undefeated. Even the best pound for pound fighter these days, Manny Pacquiao, has three losses in his track record. Floyd Mayweather doesn’t, but that’s a different story. Here are the men, some fantastic boxers, some somewhat less, to retire as champions and undefeated from boxing.