This Friday in Moscow, heavyweight contenders Alexander Povetkin (26-1, 18 KO’s) and Manuel Charr (26-1, 15 KO’s) square off in a scheduled 12 round contest at the Luzhniki Stadium. Up for grabs is the vacant WBC International heavyweight title. Also at stake for the former Klitschko victims is a shot at the WBC heavyweight crown, recently won by Bermane Stiverne. It would be a … [Read more...]
Heat Treatment: Heavyweight Division Sizzles With Title Eliminators and Other Treats for 2014
by Johnny Walker If boxing's heavyweight division was, as this writer has contended, underrated in the value it provided in 2011 and 2012, there's no getting around the fact that in 2013 it did kind of suck. When even Klitschko fans can't really defend an aesthetic disaster like the world champion Wladimir 's Povetkin fight, you know times are tough. Actually, even the … [Read more...]
WBO Cruiserweight Champ Marco Huck Rematches Firat Arslan on Saturday in Stuttgart
By Johnny Walker Say what you will about WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck: his fights are seldom boring. Huck (36-2-1, 25 KOs), more of a brawler than an artistic boxer type, is always game for a challenge, as former "regular" WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin found out when the man nicknamed "Captain Huck" (his surname is pronounced "hook") moved up to … [Read more...]
Boxing Media Watch: Klitschkos Garner Some Excellent Non-Derogatory Press
by Johnny Walker It's become so routine to see the world heavyweight champion Klitschko brothers be the victims of lazy attacks from a select group of played-out American boxing writers on deadline, that when one does come across any coherent, well thought-out article featuring one or both of the brothers, it comes as a bit of a shock. Nevertheless, this past week has … [Read more...]
Wladimir Klitschko Aiming To Punish Povetkin
On Saturday, October 5, Wladimir Klitschko 60-3 (51kos) steps into the ring with Alexander Povetkin 26-0(18kos) at the Olimpiyskiy, in Moscow, Russia, to defend his WBA, IBF, IBO, and WBO world heavyweight titles. Historically in boxing, a fight for the heavyweight championship of the world has always been one of the sport’s most important occasions; a time in which, even those … [Read more...]