"It will be a great fight. I need eight weeks of training, which I just started, so I cannot tell you what I predict because I need to see how I do in the eight weeks...the only thing I’m thinking about is Macklin and I will not think about anybody else at this moment. I want to respect Macklin because he is a great fighter, and I need to train properly for that fight...I’m doing the same thing Macklin is doing for me read more ...

Promoter Lou DiBella has advised BoxingScene.com that middleweight contender Andy Lee (27-1, 19KOs) is ready and willing to fight WBA champion Felix Sturm (36-2-2, 15KOs) - and the Irish boxer has no issue with traveling to Germany to make the fight happen read more ...

According to Top Rank president Todd DuBoef, if Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0, 31KOs) retains his WBC middleweight title on February 4th, when he faces Marco Antonio Rubio in Texas, the next possible opponent is Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30KOs) of Puerto Rico - and that fight would place in the month of July in a city to be determined read more ...

WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31KOs) is tired of the verbal attacks by Sergio Martinez. Last week, Martinez branded Chavez as a «coward» for not agreeing to fight him. During last month’s WBC convention in Las Vegas, the sanctioning body named Martinez as the mandatory challenger to Chavez’s title, but then failed to force the fight, which made Martinez vacate the WBC’s Diamond title read more ...

Sergio Martinez held a press conference in Argentina to announce that he’s vacating the WBC Diamond title. Martinez expresed his anger over the WBC’s failure to honor their promise of a mandatory fight with their full middleweight champion, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. At the recent WBC convention at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, the organization ordered Chavez to defend the title against Martinez by the end of March read more ...

The middleweight champion of the World Boxing Council (WBC), Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., is being pushed to defend his title against the mandatory challenger Sergio Martinez - or in the alternative he must vacate the belt. A few months ago, WBC president Jose Sulaiman gave Chavez permission to make a voluntary defense against Peter Manfredo Jr read more ...

After reading several of the pieces involving the verbal battle between Lou DiBella, promoter of top middleweight star Sergio Martinez, and Russias Kirill Pchelnikov, the co-promoter and financial supporter of WBO middleweight beltholder Dmitry Pirog (19-0, 15 KOs), BoxingScene.com reached out to another member of Team Pirog to get his opinion on several topics read more ...

World title belt or no, Sergio Martinez (48-2-2, 27 KOs) once again showed why he is regarded as one of the top three pound for pound fighters on the planet on Saturday at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, fighting through a possibly broken nose to knock out undefeated challenger Darren Barker (23-1, 14 KOs) to retain his titles in round eleven of a closely contested bout read more ...

WBC diamond belt middleweight champion Sergio «Maravilla» Martinez (48-2-2, 27 KOs) scored an eleventh round KO over previously undefeated European champion «Dazzling» Darren Barker (23-1, 14 KOs) on Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Barker crowded Martinez and fight defensively, but Sergio adjusted to broke Barker down over the long hall and finished him with a right hook. Time was 1:29 read more ...

According to various sources in Ukrainian media, highly regarded Kiev-based Russian junior middleweight Zaurbek Baysangurov (25-1, 19 KOs) will soon go for the biggest prize of his career to date. WBO #4 Baysangurov, 26, who is also ranked #2 by the WBA, #8 by the WBC and #13 by the IBF, faces 38-year old WBO #5 Brazilian Mike Miranda for a vacant WBO interim light middleweight title read more ...