Boxing

Evidence of competitive Boxing can be traced back to ancient civilisations in Rome, Greece and Egypt. Professional Boxing however was formed in the early twentieth century and is now an Olympic sport. Some of sport’s most iconic figures have come from professional Boxing, none more illustrious than Mohammed Ali, who arguably became the most significant figure in Boxing history. Other important Boxing fighters include Mike Tyson, Carlos Monzon, Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler and Oscar De La Hoya.

New Zealand heavyweight boxer Shane Cameron won his hyped fight against John Hopoate in Melbourne on Thursday night after the former rugby league star was disqualified in farcical circumstances.
Hopoate repeatedly held on to Cameron and did not pull away to box, forcing referee Malcolm Bulmer to disqualify him early in the second round. Bulmer had [...] Read article

WBA and WBC super flyweight boxing world champion Vic Darchinyan injured himself inflicting a brutal beating on Mexican Rodrigo Guerrero on a historic night for Australian boxing.
The Sydney fighter completely dominated the contest in Rancho Mirage, California, but gutsy Guerrero somehow survived and the champion had to settle for the first 12-round points win of [...] Read article

In 1995, the boxing world was stunned as a labouring Irishman by the name of Peter McNeeley fumbled his was to a knock-out victory over a bankrupt and battle worn Mike Tyson.
Many were disappointed by the fact that they had been led to believe that Tyson was on the comeback trail and were left [...] Read article

Danny Green hopes defeating one of the men that beat “the man” will smoke his arch rival Anthony Mundine out of his rabbit hole and into a rematch.
IBO cruiserweight boxing world champion Green, announced an April 14 title defence against Puerto Rican Manny Siaca at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
It is the same venue at which [...] Read article

Roger Federer’s victory in the Australian Open has got him to sixteen Grand Slam victories, making him, without doubt, the greatest tennis player of all time. But where does he rank alongside names such as Ali, Jordan, Woods, and Schumacher?
Here is my Top 10 sportspeople between the period 1975-2010:
1. Roger Federer (tennis)
2. Tiger Woods (golf)
3. [...] Read article

Three-time world champion Anthony Mundine continued his five-year unbeaten run with a comfortable victory over Rob Medley in their non-world title fight at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Monday night.
The bout was originally scheduled for the IBO light middleweight world title but eventually it was only Mundine’s WBA International middleweight title that was on the [...] Read article

Anthony Mundine has the opportunity on Monday to extend his family’s extraordinary boxing record against Australian opposition, but fight fans want to know when he will take on a credible international fighter.
Mundine will fight fellow Sydney-sider “Deadly” Robert Medley for the a WBA regional middleweight title at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
They were originally supposed to [...] Read article

Carl Webb intends to let his fists rather than his mouth do the talking on Monday when he becomes the latest in a growing band of rugby league players to have a professional boxing fight.
The North Queensland, Queensland and Australian Test star will fight unheralded Sydneysider Scott Lewis on the undercard of the Anthony Mundine-Robert [...] Read article

The man, the myth, the dribble! Mundine talks an impressive game, but his list of opponents is far from impressive, and once again it is clear that Mundine and his crew are in complete control of the Australian boxing establishment.
A week out from his fight with Medley, he cannot make the weight and then [...] Read article

Manny Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, says the Filipino hero’s planned welterweight mega-fight against unbeaten US star Floyd Mayweather is off because the sides cannot agree on drug testing.
Arum told the Grand Rapids Press, Mayweather’s hometown newspaper, that he thought the American never really wanted to fight “Pac-Man”, who took his pound-for-pound throne during a retirement [...] Read article

It’s not often we, as fight fans, get what we want. With too many official bodies offering too many belts to too many pretenders, and not enough contenders, it seems at times that, as fans of this brutal yet beautiful sport, we are often left feeling like the only ones who get short changed amongst [...] Read article

Vic Darchinyan will embark on a revenge mission after destroying Mexico’s Tomas Rojas in the second round of their super flyweight world-title fight in California on Saturday.
The WBA and WBC champion fired a powerful left hand to Rojas’ chin that left the Mexican flat on his back and unable to get up.
Minutes after the devastating [...] Read article

Australian cruiserweight champion Danny Green has ratcheted up the pressure on Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins by calling the American great out on US TV.
Green, who shocked the boxing world by knocking out Roy Jones Jr earlier this month, was in the crowd at California’s Agua Caliente Casino on Saturday to cheer on Sydney’s Vic Darchinyan [...] Read article

Talking bigger than ever, Anthony Mundine has challenged Danny Green to a rematch that all Australian boxing fans want to see.
Mundine on Friday announced he would drop down another weight division next month to take on Sydney coal miner Robert Medley at 69.85kg for the IBO junior middleweight world title, but spent half the press [...] Read article

“There’s a rumour he was paid five million to take a dive,” said the mug to my left. “The referee shouldn’t have stopped it,” said the fight fan to my right.
We all try and find a way to explain away the unthinkable, as long as it doesn’t involve admitting we were completely wrong in the [...] Read article