Featherweight Boxing News

England has been the birth place of so many great boxers over the years, some of the great champions, some amazing contenders and some just falling short of the top.

JOE Calzaghe has told David Haye to keep up his trash-talk and make a clash against one of the Klitschkos even bigger next year.

PANAMA CITY, Panama : Undefeated Jamaican featherweight boxer Nicholas Walters is booked to travel next Tuesday to Haiti where he faces his biggest assignment of his fledgling pro career, on Friday, December 18.

KINGSTEIGNTON super featherweight Jamie Speight's ring education in the paid ranks continued with all the boxes ticked after a fourth consecutive success over Sid Razak at Swindon.

SCOTTISH boxing enjoyed mixed fortunes in Newcastle last night when John Simpson and Alex Arthur featured on the undercard of Amir Khana s WBA light-welterweight title defence against Dmitriy Salita.

HARRY MULLAN, the editor of Boxing News and Boxing Correspondent of the Independent on Sunday, has won the inaugural Professional Boxing Association award for Services to Boxing.

""He is a fast, tricky, boxer with a big heart but once I slow him down with left hook body shots, he won't be so elusive" ALEX ARTHUR" By BRIAN DONALD ALEX ARTHUR says he intends to make a "statement" about his legitimacy as a world lightweight title contender when he takes on Nigel Wright tomorrow evening.

Juan Manuel Lopez will return to Madison Square Garden next month, moving up in weight to challenge WBO titleholder Steven Luevano in the co-main event of a featherweight doubleheader.

Kevin Mitchell is relishing the chance to take on Amir Khan's previous conqueror Breidis Prescott on Saturday so he can step out of Khan's shadow.

's Maureen Shea tangles with ninja Jenna Shiver in a 10 round main event. Ninja? 'When I was a kid all I wanted to be was a ninja or an FBI agent,' says Shiver who trains in Tampa .

AMIR KHAN wants to upset Ricky Hatton's comeback plans by getting in first to face Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez next year.

By Jon Herskovitz Seoul, South Korea - Choi Hyun-mi traded an accordion for boxing gloves, Kim Jong-il's cult leadership for capitalism and the red bandanas worn by North Korean schoolchildren for the World Boxing Association championship belt.

November's ratings from the Canadian Boxing Federation underline that the time has come for three of Edmonton's six nationally ranked contenders to stop dancing and start fighting.

TEN years ago today, Paul Ingle sat on top of the boxing world. The night before, the 27-year-old Edgehill ace had outpointed Mexican warrior Manuel Medina to claim the IBF World Featherweight title following a thrilling contest at Hull Arena on Saturday November 13 1999.

BY ATTY. ED C. TOLENTINO COLUMNIST More than taking away Miguel Cotto's World Boxing Organization welterweight championship, Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao will look to score for the Philippines a major victory over Puerto Rico inside the squared circle.

MIGUEL COTTO will step into the ring tonight determined not to become another footnote in Manny Pacquiaoa s rise to boxing superstardom.

Kampala Sportsmen just like anyone, often have things that drive them to an ultimate goal.

JACKSON Asiku is the new International Boxing Organisation featherweight champion.

Salinas super bantamweight boxer Alejandro Perez is scheduled to make his first worldwide television debut Nov.

FOR first time ever all three of Limerick's professional boxers are set to appear on the same bill.