by Charles Jay Was Amir Khan the victim of “home cooking” as was suggested by a crew of HBO announcers who had much more of an interest in Khan winning Saturday night’s fight than the eventual winner, Lamont Peterson? I’m going to suggest that was not the case. Not the …
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By Johnny Walker On the undercard of the Khan-Peterson bout last night, American heavyweight prospect Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell defeated Uzbek veteran Timur Ibragimov in surprisingly quick fashion, stopping him by TKO at 2:48 of round two. A quick scan of various boxing boards shows that the Seth Mitchell bandwagon is …
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Team Khan/GBP Official Statement Firstly, we would like to congratulate Lamont Peterson on his performance against Amir Khan. Not only has he shown that he is a tremendous fighter inside the ring, but also a great man out of the ring. Following the decision in the fight, Team Khan and …
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By: William Holmes “We haven’t had a fight this big in Washington D.C. since Sugar Ray Leonard left town” The excitement in the air was palpable. As the crowd gathered outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the quote cited above was overheard by this author from a random fan …
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by Hans Olson, ringside On December 14, 2004, Joachim Alcine knocked out local hero Stephane Ouellett in the opening round for the biggest win of his career at that point. The win solidified his status as one of the top fighters in Quebec at the time, putting him on the …
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By Jaime Feal Jon Jones passed the Lyoto Machida test to continue his reign as light heavyweight king. Likely clinching MMA Fighter of the Year with the win, Jones has a limitless future in the sport. Still only 24 years old, Jones may have not reached his full potential, which …
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By Jackie Kallen Last weekend’s Cotto/Margarito fight played out exactly the way I figured it would. No surprises. But this weekend’s big fight–Amir Khan/Lamont Peterson is a little tougher to call. If you ask the oddsmakers, they will tell you that Khan is the favorite. But if you talk to …
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by Charles Jay So Erik Morales figures he can beat Floyd Mayweather. I’m sure the game plan has worked so well, over and over again in his imagination. Photos: Hogan Photos Then, of course, the bell sounds, and things take a dramatically different turn. I don’t know that anyone would …
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By Jaime Feal Jon “Bones” Jones, the youngest ever UFC champion, defends his light heavyweight championship for the second time Saturday night, live from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Jones will be looking to do something that hasn’t been done in the light heavyweight division since Chuck “The …
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By Hans Olson Can Lemieux Bounce Back? Saturday evening at the Bell Centre in Montreal, David Lemieux will step into action for the first time in 8 months since losing the only fight of his career. That April night, he was stopped in the 7th round of a WBC middleweight …
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