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Jan Zaveck destroys Isaac Hlatshwayo to win IBF welterweight title
Slovenian Jan Zaveck shocked the crowd in Johannesburg and surprised a lot of the boxing world today with a dominant third round TKO victory over Isaac Hlatshwayo, taking Hlatshwayo's IBF welterweight title. It was Hlatshwayo's first defense of the belt. When asked at what point he felt he took...
Andre Berto standing in the way of Mosley-led doubleheader on Dec. 26
A potentially excellent year-end welterweight double-header from HBO has hit a big roadblock, and its name is Andre Berto. The WBC welterweight titlist has a deal in place to fight contender Isaac Hlatshwayo, and the cable giant wants to pair that fight with a headlining attraction between WBA...
Shane Mosley will fight December 5 in Vegas
ESPN.com's Dan Rafael reports that Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer has been assured by HBO and the MGM Grand that a December 5 date for Shane Mosley's next fight is locked in. As expected, the leading candidates to fight Mosley are Top Rank's Joshua Clottey and fellow welterweight titlist Andre...
Berto-Hlatshwayo being discussed
We failed to make any note of it, but if you haven't heard, Isaac Hlatshwayo won a split decision over Delvin Rodriguez on Friday in Connecticut to win the IBF welterweight title that Joshua Clottey vacated in order to fight Miguel Cotto in June. Scores were 116-112 and 116-113 for Hlatshwayo and...
Ranking the Welterweights: June 18, 2009
The last time we ranked the 147-pounders was January, just after Shane Mosley's emphatic rampage over Antonio Margarito. Since that time, top-ranked Mosley has been inactive, Margarito (No. 2) has been shamed and suspended, Miguel Cotto (No. 3) has fought twice, and top fivers Joshua Clottey and...
Bits and Pieces - Ortiz-Maidana, Afolabi-Ross, and the IBF Wises Up
This week's notebook from ESPN's Dan Rafael has a few interesting tidbits of information that hadn't made it over here before: Ola Afolabi is in the process of trying to work out the first defense of his interim belt with Contender season 4 champion Troy Ross. My gut feeling on this one is...
The ABCs of the Welterweight Division
The alphabet soup has really outdone themselves this time. Yesterday, Joshua Clottey vacated his IBF belt, meaning that there won't be any unification in the welterweight division once Clottey and Miguel Cotto meet up in Madison Square Garden on June 13. Evidently, the IBF said that Clottey...
Ranking the Welterweights: January 2009
The welterweight division is constantly touted as the sport's best, but the truth is with recent evacuations of key fighters, it's really no deeper up top than a lot of other weight classes. Floyd Mayweather Jr. is semi-retired ("retired" say he and Leonard Ellerbe), so he's out of the discussion....
On Tap For '09: Looking at the upcoming schedule
The early parts of the 2009 American TV boxing schedule are starting to come together, with HBO, Showtime and ESPN all lining up a notable series of fights. HBO January 17: Andre Berto v. Luis Collazo for Berto's WBC welterweight title January 24: Antonio Margarito v. Shane Mosley for...
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