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  • Kovalev Beats Hopkins, Suggesting It’s Time For Him to Retire

    Kovalev Beats Hopkins, Suggesting It’s Time For Him to Retire

    Bernard Hopkins doesn’t back down from fights, which is what cost him a brutal beating in the hands of Sergey Kovalev, becoming a Light Heavyweight champion for the WBO, IBF and WBA (super), beating the 49-year old journeyman who simply refuses to retire with a unanimous decision.

  • Froch Over Groves – A Great Way to Finish

    Froch Over Groves – A Great Way to Finish

    It might or might not be the end to the career of Carl Froch, but it’s a special way to go. The 36-year old WBA and IBF super middleweight champion provided a fantastic show and knockout victory against George Groves as more than 80,000, a record-crowd for a British boxing bout, watched and cheered the Cobra win the rematch.

  • Klitschko Beats Leapai – Predictable, Easy & Boring

    Klitschko Beats Leapai – Predictable, Easy & Boring

    It couldn’t get any more one sided than the way Wladimir Klitschko manhandled Alex Leapai in brisk and efficient fifth round knockout to retain his WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO & The Ring Heavyweight title belts, once again showing his complete dominance over a decaying weigh class, which makes it hard to judge how good he really is on a historical level.

  • Bernard Hopkins Not Too Old to Beat Tavoris Cloud

    Bernard Hopkins Not Too Old to Beat Tavoris Cloud

    There isn’t such a thing for too old to still be dominant in boxing, or win a title belt. Not for Bernanrd Hopkins, as B-Hop became the IBF Light Heavyweight champion, thus breaking his own record for oldest champion in the history of boxing after beating Tavoris Cloud by a unanimous decision.

  • Aftermath of the Klitschko vs Mormeck Title Fight

    Wladimir Klitschko hardly broke a sweat. He said he got hit by a jab that stung his eye, but no one actually so it. Jean Marc-Mormeck was way out of his league, as the younger of the Klitschko brothers retained his IBF, WBO and WBA heavyweight titles by knocking out the 39 year old Frenchman early in the fourth round.

  • Amir Khan Gets the Peterson Rematch He Deserved

    Amir Khan shouldn’t be without the WBA and IBF belts right now, but he lost points on some shoving calls, some unauthorized person messed around with the scorecards and the judges, resulting in Lamont Peterson causing the upset that night in Washington. Now, after months of back and forth between both camps, the rematch (May 19 in Vegas) is a done deal.

  • Amir Khan – From Mystery Man to Peterson Rematch

    Amir Khan will get a rematch against Lamont Peterson for the Light Welterweight title, according to the WBA. The IBF will also look into what happened during the fight, from the referee decisions to the Mystery man that shouldn’t have been there and will probably do the same as the WBA.

  • Amir Khan vs Floyd Mayweather Fight Takes Shape With Peterson in the Way

    First Lamont Peterson in Washington, a fight Amir Khan said he’ll invite president Barack Obama to watch. Then? Welterweight, and Floyd Mayweather Jr. According to Khan, Mayweather has verbally agreed to fight him in the near future, probably some time around 2012.

  • 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).

  • Amir Khan Eyes Mayweather Fight After Beating Zab Judah

    Amir Khan dominated Zab Judah for four and something rounds, knocking out the former champions in the fifth, unifying another Light Welterweight title. No matter who he fights next, his long term sights are set on Floyd Mayweather Jr.