The Boxing Truth®

Over the last year a storyline that has continued to interest Boxing fans and experts alike has been the changing landscape of the Light-Heavyweight division. The division has seen three fighters emerge as it’s dominant figures. Future Hall of Famer and current IBF/WBA champion Bernard Hopkins and rising stars in WBO champion Sergey Kovalev and WBC champion Adonis Stevenson. A scenario that appeared would see two world champions face-off with the winner to face the third world champion of the division to determine an undisputed Light-Heavyweight world champion appeared as though it may not come to fruition due to the politics of the sport involving rival networks. This however, changed prior to Sergey Kovalev’s third title defense last Saturday against previously undefeated former IBO champion Blake Caparello in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was announced the day before the fight that Kovalev and Bernard Hopkins had signed a contract to meet in a unification bout in N...

Former WBA Light-Heavyweight world champion Gabriel Campillo has been a fighter who has seen his share of ups and downs throughout his career. Despite being a former world and former European Light-Heavyweight champion, Campillo is perhaps best known for being on the losing end of decisions that some believed should have gone his way in his fights with Beibut Shumenov and Tavoris Cloud. After losing to Tavoris Cloud in 2012, Campillo would suffer two knockout losses in his next four fights at the hands of current WBO Light-Heavyweight world champion Sergey Kovalev and recent world title challenger Andrzej Fonfara. Following his loss to Fonfara there were some who questioned whether Campillo’s days as a top contender in the hunt for a shot at a world title were behind him. Campillo returned to the ring following his loss to Fonfara in May of this year scoring a seventh round stoppage of British contender Ricky Pow. The former world champion looked to build on the momen...

The question leading up to former two-time Middleweight world champion Daniel Geale’s challenge of the undefeated unified WBA/IBO Middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin was could Geale find a way to derail the path of destruction that Golovkin has carved out for himself in the Middleweight division.   Prior to this fight, this observer stated that Geale did have the type of style and skill that posed an interesting challenge for a man in Golovkin who has not faced much resistance since becoming champion in 2010.  Despite Geale’s Boxing skills and ability to be a volume puncher, the former world champion would be unable to nullify the seek and destroy pressure style of the champion when the two fighters met on July 26th at Madison Square Garden. The key to this fight centered on whether or not Geale could establish himself as an elusive target, be able to use his lateral movement, and hand speed to avoid Golovkin’s pressure. As previous Golovkin opponents have...

Following Miguel Cotto’s dethroning of Sergio Martinez last month in what was a dominating performance, Boxing fans will again focus on New York’s Madison Square Garden on Saturday night for another world Middleweight championship fight. Undefeated unified WBA/IBO world champion Gennady Golovkin will defend his world title for the eleventh time against former two-time Middleweight world champion Daniel Geale. Some readers may recall following Golovkin’s last title defense over Osumanu Adama in February that I stated that it was only a matter of time before Golovkin will get marquee fights against top stars. Following Cotto’s win over Martinez it has somewhat changed the landscape of the Middleweight division in that Cotto was not only victorious over the WBC champion Martinez in what was his first fight at Middleweight, but in doing so also defeated the man many considered the number one fighter in the division. This has changed what appeared to be an obvious collisio...