Some good boxing matches coming up

I haven’t been paying attention lately to boxing so wasn’t aware there are some good fights coming up. An upcoming fight between Kelly Pavlik vs. Bernard Hopkins: Unstoppable. Live Saturday, October 18 on PPV. I really like both these fighters and think Pavlik may be able to knock out Hopkins. This is a hard one to call but Pavlik actually took out Jermaine Taylor, so we will see.

Then I think Roy Jones Jr will fighting Joe Calzaghe on Nov 15. That will be a great fight. I think Calzaghe is favored to win, but I am rooting for my sentimental favorite on this one. I hope RJJ can outbox Calzaghe and avoid being knocked out again. I don’t think he ever really recovered from those 2 devastating knockouts a few fights back.

Of course, the big fight which may in fact be the biggest PPV in boxing history will be between Oscar DeLaHoya and Manny Pacquiao on Dec 6. That fight will be fun to watch. I think DLH will win, but he is getting old. If Pacquiao can outbox or knock out DLH, then he will go down as the best pound for pound fighter. Boxing seems to be getting exciting again.

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craig, October 30, 2008:

i hope and pray dlh beats the living crap out of this guy.why?cause as a foreigner i live here atthe moment in pacquiao country.thwy are the most biaswd people and say the shittiest things against mexcians.they think he cany be stopped.so oscar fight this fight for your mother,mexico and your pride.hit hi very hard.
Pacquiao vs Margarito, October 7, 2010:

Could well be fight of the year, so far Pacquiao has shown he has never been afraid to stand toe to toe with every fighter he has faced.

Could he do this with a man of Margaritto stature.

That alone will be something to behold, small 5’6 guy fighting a 5’11 guy outweighing him by over a stone but the little guy is not just out boxing him he overpowering him, standing there and trading and making Marg take the backward steps and folding under the pressure.

Pacquiao is too goo for his own good, if Juan Diaz said he was going to take on Margaritto people would say it was a mammoth task and Diaz could well take a beating. This is the same Diaz who the same people say Pacquiao ducked.

This is going to be Pacquiao toughest fight and the Pacquiao vs Margarito could be FOTY