Fighting for a world title is every prizefighter's dream. However, winning one is a whole different matter. Months earlier, Edrin “The Sting” Dapudong was tapped to fight power-punching Mexican Hernan “Tyson” Marquez to battle for the latter's WBA flyweight title. Dapudong came in as a late replacement at very short two weeks notice. While the results are very much open ...

The only elite prizefighter to remain undefeated in 15 years? Joe “The Italian Dragon” Calzaghe went to win all 46 bouts (32 by knockouts) in his 15-year professional boxing career before he decided to hang up the gloves. In the process, Calzaghe nabbed all four major alphabet titles (IBF, WBA, WBC, and WBO) in the super middleweight division and faced elite ...

Ciso Morales in reality TV After suffering his first brutal loss to then WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel February last year, Ciso “Kid Terrible” Morales (15-1, 8 KOs) is yet to make a bounce back from the setback. Although he earned a unanimous decision victory over Filipino journeyman Eman Labanza last May 2011, the term “comeback” hardly describes Morales' most recent ...

With less than a week to go before undefeated Filipino light flyweight hopeful Jether Oliva (17-0-1, 11 KOs) enters the ring for his first world title shot against tough Mexican world champion Ulises Solis (33-2-3, 21 KOs), Jim Manangquil, Oliva's ex-manager, sees that a win for his former ward will only be realized with an early stoppage. Oliva and Solis ...

With American Robert Guerrero (29-1-1, 18 KOs)  pulling out from his regular WBA light welterweight championship date with hard punching Marcos Maidana (30-2, 27 KOs) of Argentina due to an injured shoulder, almost every boxing fan cringed at the loss of a potential boxing blockbuster. Guerrero and Maidana would have produced more than fireworks in the ring. At least that ...