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The recent decision loss to Tavoris Cloud was too much for Clinton Woods, 37, to take. The British fighter officially announced his retirement from boxing after a 15-year career that saw him win the light heavyweight crown and face fighters such as Roy Jones Jr, Glen Johnson, Julio Gonzalez and others.
WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch is a month away from making the second defense of his title against mandatory challenger, undefeated Andre Dirrell. The October 10 bout will take place in Froch's court of Nottingham and the fight will be part of the first series of bouts in "Super Six" tournament from Showtime.
Pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao does not plan to be ringside on September 19 when Floyd Mayweather takes on Juan Manuel Marquez, but he gives Mayweather the edge to win the fight. Most experts are not expecting a good fight with the clash of counter-punching styles. Pacquiao told ABS-CBN News that he predicts Mayweather-Marquez will be a "good fight." He says Mayweather "has the edge" to win. Mayweather returns in his first fight since December 2007.
According to Top Rank's Bob Arum, prior to reaching a deal with WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, he offered WBA junior welterweight champ Amir Khan the chance to fight Manny Pacquiao. Speaking with The Daily Telegraph, Arum says the offer was on the table but Khan's team felt it was too soon for the fight to happen and turned the deal down. Pacquiao will meet Cotto on November 14.
Junior middleweight Jason LeHoullier gets his big break when he meets Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on September 12 in Mexico. The fight headlines Top Rank's latest edition of their Latin Fury pay-per-view series.
Known as the greatest Mexican fighter of all time, Julio Cesar Chavez Sr, has squashed the recent rumors floating around in Mexico that he was hospitalized due to alcohol and/or drug use. Chavez was hospitalized for nearly five days. After the doctors ran several tests, a bacteria infection was discovered as the cause of Chavez's recent illness.
Rafael Marquez is not losing patience for a potential fourth meeting with Israel Vazquez. He knows the fight won't happen this year, so he is targeting 2010 for a fourth showdown. Marquez had hoped to fight Vazquez this year. That won't happen. Vazquez plans to make his featherweight debut on October 10 in Los Angeles. The first fight for Marquez since the multiple surgeries to correct a retina injury.
Last Friday in Ontario, veteran Jose Lopez was unseated by the next big thing in the Philippines, undefeated Marvin Sonsona. The 19-year-old Filipino took the WBO super flyweight title from Lopez with a twelve round unanimous decision. Lopez was very surprised by the raw power of Sonsona.
Trainer Buboy Fernandez has inspected the location in Baguio City, Philippines for the upcoming training camp of Manny Pacquiao. The pound-for-pound king plans to use Baguio City to train for the fight with WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto on November 14 in Las Vegas. Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach will be forced to join the camp in the Philippines. He urged Pacquiao to use a facility in Toluca, Mexico. Roach feared the possibility of media and fan distractions if they held the training camp in the Philippines.
According to UK paper The People, ESPN has some interest in televising two upcoming fights that involve two of the biggest names in British boxing. The report states that ESPN is interested in televising David Haye's challenge of WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev, taking place on November 7 in Germany. Haye was due to fight WBC champion Vitali Klitschko on HBO in the next few weeks. He withdrew from the Klitschko deal to take a fight with Valuev and may have burned a bridge with the network.