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Posted: Nov 07, 2009 1:00PM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)

FanHouse has a
Nikolay Valuev vs.
David Haye live blog for round-by-round updates of one of the more intriguing heavyweight fights of the year. Valuev has a clear size advantage over Haye, but don't let that fool you.
Boxing experts are split on who will come out on top of this one.
The pay per view broadcast begins at 3 p.m. ET, with the main event scheduled to start at approximately 5 p.m., ET, from Nuremberg, Germany.
Valuev (50-1, 34 knockouts) vs. Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) live blog: Refresh this page often for minute-by-minute updates.
Posted: Nov 07, 2009 12:28AM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)
Filed Under: WBA, WBC, IBF

Southpaw former world champion
Zab Judah (pictured) scored a second-round knockout over Ubaldo Hernandez on Friday night at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas to improve to 38-6 with his 26th career KO.
The victory was the fourth in the past five fights for the 32-year-old Judah since June 2007, when he was knocked out in the 11th round by
Miguel Cotto.
A former three-time titlist, Judah scored three knockdowns while ending a nearly 12-month layoff against Hernandez (22-20-2, 10 KOs), who, like him, weighed 145 pounds for their welterweight matchup.
Posted: Nov 06, 2009 7:14PM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)
Filed Under: WBC, HBO, IBO

Perhaps
Glen Johnson's best attempt at head-games during the buildup to Saturday night's 175-pound rematch with IBO titlist
Chad Dawson is his refusal to admit defeat.
The facts are that Johnson was not only judged the loser of their first light heavyweight clash in April of 2008 by scores of 116-112 on all three cards, but that the decision was rendered before a partisan crowd in Miami -- not far from the native Jamaican's current home in Hollywood, Fla.
But Johnson's insistence that he was "robbed" clearly rankles Dawson's promoter,
Gary Shaw, and if nothing else, has Dawson so chagrined that he has vowed to turn up the heat when they face off at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn., near the champion's hometown of New Haven.
Posted: Nov 06, 2009 6:00AM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)
Filed Under: WBC, WBO, HBO, FanHouse Exclusive
Paul Williams will be ending a nearly nine-month layoff when he enters the ring on Dec. 5 against
Sergio Martinez, which he calls "a good thing."
Williams (37-1, 27 knockouts) will face Martinez (44-1-2, 24 KOs) in Atlantic City, on the same night he was supposed to challenge WBO and WBC middleweight (160 pounds) champion
Kelly Pavlik (35-1, 31 KOs), before the titlist canceled their bout due to a staph infection on the knuckle of his left forefinger.
"I've got to focus on this guy now. It's a little bit of an adjustment, but it's nothing that a champion can't do," said Williams, an Aiken, S.C., native now living in Augusta, Ga.
"At this point in my career, a win is a win. But any time you get in there, you want to make a statement," said Williams. "And I'm going to make a statement. I'm going to go in there and do what I do."
Posted: Nov 05, 2009 8:18PM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)
Filed Under: WBO, HBO
Champion
Miguel Cotto has a message for challenger
Manny Pacquiao as well as those who believe he can be successful during his quest to win a world title in a record seventh different weight class: "They picked the wrong guy."
"If he thinks he's going to reach a seventh title in a seventh different division, he picked the wrong moment, the wrong fighter and the wrong opponent," said Cotto, all but bristling during Thursday's conference call with the national media.
"If he thinks he's going to beat Miguel Cotto," said Cotto, "he's pretty much all wrong with that kind of thinking."
Posted: Nov 05, 2009 5:55PM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)
Filed Under: WBO, HBO, FanHouse Exclusive

Top Rank promoter
Bob Arum called a recent report that he is negotiating a
Floyd Mayweather-
Manny Pacquiao fight in early March at Cowboys Stadium "total nonsense."
"We haven't talked to Mayweather," said Arum. "We haven't discussed it with Mayweather."
The story, reported by an affiliate of
The Dallas Morning News, quoted Top Rank vice president Bruce Trampler as indicating that Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 knockouts) needed to dethrone WBO champ
Miguel Cotto (34-1, 27 KOs) on Nov. 14, after which Top Rank could focus on making the fight with Mayweather (40-0, 25 KOs) in Arlington, Texas.
Posted: Nov 05, 2009 4:00PM By Elie Seckbach (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Boxing Video, FanHouse Exclusive
Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. As it turns out, boxing champion
Manny Pacquaio has been working on more then just boxing at his training camp -- among other things, he has been working on his "slapping" skills. In this FanHouse exclusive, we visit the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood where Manny is holding his camp. Manny's trainer
Freddie Roach gives us an update on Pacquiao, while friends and fans give us their take on the Nov., 14 Pacquiao-Cotto fight.
Check out the video after the jump.
Posted: Nov 05, 2009 2:57PM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)
Filed Under: WBO, HBO, FanHouse Exclusive

During the buildup of WBO welterweight champ
Miguel Cotto vs.
Manny Pacquiao, the challenger's trainer,
Freddie Roach, says he's having fun at the expense of Cotto and his chief cornermen, Joe Santiago.
Cotto "is slower," and "gets hit so much more" since his 11th-round knockout loss to Antonio Margarito, and "his defense sucks, because he's training himself," said Roach.
See what else Roach had to say after the jump.
Posted: Nov 05, 2009 12:00PM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)
Filed Under: WBC, HBO, IBO

Even though
"Bad" Chad Dawson won by four points on all three judges cards in the hometown of his opponent the last time they faced,
Glen Johnson still believes that he was robbed.
So on Saturday night, the 40-year-old fighter nicknamed, "The Road Warrior," will travel to the 27-year-old Dawson's home turf of Hartford, Conn., hoping to show the young pup that the old dog has learned some new tricks during his quest to become the eldest fighter to win a light heavyweight crown.
FanHouse sought the opinions of some of boxing's experts to determine if Dawson can retain his IBO title and win the "interim" WBC 175-pound crown Saturday night. Posted: Nov 05, 2009 6:00AM By Elie Seckbach (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Boxing Video, FanHouse Exclusive
Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. Bantamweight boxer
Guillermo Rigondeaux owns two Olympic gold medals. But it's his life out of the ring that could be made into a film. Rigondeaux is starting his professional career in the United States after escaping from Cuba in February. In 2007, he was banned from the Cuban national team for attempting to flee to Germany. Now, he is enjoying democracy and boxing. In this video, we talk to him about working out at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood alongside Freddie Roach.
Check out the video after the jump.
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 10:35PM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)

George Foreman was 28 fights into his comeback from a 10-year absence from the ring, had won 27 times, stopped 25 of his opponents, and failed during his first attempt at winning a heavyweight title. But Foreman wasn't going to blow his second chance ...
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 8:55PM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)

Saturday's heavyweight matchup between seven-foot, WBA champ, Nikolay Valuev, and six-foot-three challenger, David Haye, in Germany has the proverbial makings of a "David vs. Goliath" matchup. Valuev (50-1, 34 knockouts) weighed more than 310 pounds ...
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 2:45PM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)

George Foreman still has fond memories of that night 15 years ago tomorrow, when he stopped Michael Moorer to become boxing's oldest heavyweight champion at the age of 45. But it took losses to Evander Holyfield and Tommy Morrison to make the aging ...
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 2:00PM By Elie Seckbach (RSS feed)

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. Rashad "Flash" Holloway has served as a chief sparring partner for Manny Pacquiao, but on Wednesday night, the junior ...
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 8:00AM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)

When Manny Pacquiao emerged from backstage for Tuesday night's appearance on The Jimmy Kimmel Show, he was greeted by chants of "Manny, Manny," from what appeared to be a large contingent of his Filipino countrymen. Near the end of the segment, ...