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By Paul Upham: Among a grouping of high quality battles, Amir Khan vs. Marcos Maidana has been selected as SecondsOut’s Fight of the Year for 2010. The rugged twelve round match for the WBA super lightweight boxing world title was held on December 11 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, USA. 
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By Paul Upham: The SecondsOut website computer says this is my 1000th article. It must be right. We know CompuBox never gets it wrong. The column article counter has been ticking over since the year 2000, when I started with SecondsOut.com. It’s not hard to imagine that there was that much to say. Boxing always has a new twist and turn to report.
As part of the journey, there have been some terrific memories to recall.
In 2004, I went to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota
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By Paul Upham: If you are looking for something a little different in a boxing book “BOX – The Face of Boxing” by Holger Keifel and Thomas Hauser may well be exactly what you are looking for. The 198 page hardcover books serves as an amazing tour of the faces of big time boxing from around the world.
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By Paul Upham: Former undisputed super flyweight boxing world champion Vic Darchinyan will get the chance to move forward from his controversial points loss to Abner Mares, when he faces former world champion Yonnhy Perez in 2011 in stage 2 of Showtime’s bantamweight tournament.
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By Paul Upham: The end of 2010 is now drawing to a close. With all of the elite boxers having thrown their last official punch for the calendar year, the time is right to formulate your year end 2010 pound for pound rankings.
Manny Pacquiao still leads the way in my view over Floyd Mayweather Jnr. “Money” may have the undefeated record and could possibly beat “Pac-Man”. But until they get into the ring to prove it, Pacquiao gets the edge on activity and willingness to face and defeat bigger o
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By Paul Upham: One of the worlds’ leading boxing historians, Arnold Thomas is the curator of the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame exhibition at the National Sports Museum in the Melbourne Cricket Ground. His second book “Where Warriors Rest” is evidence of the thousands of hours of research Thomas has spent locating the finer details about thousands of boxers worldwide.
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By Paul Upham: If you like some travelling adventure in your boxing books, then “The Bengu Years” written by British born Dave Wellings and published by Book Pal is certainly one for you.
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By Paul Upham: Australian boxing lost one of its most loyal servants when Gus Mercurio passed away on 7 December 2010. The popular actor, boxing referee & ringside judge died in Epworth Hospital in Brighton, Victoria, during surgery for a heart aneurism, aged 82. He was laid to rest at Diamond Creek in Melbourne on 20 December 2010.
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By Paul Upham: The Contender Australia champion Garth Wood stunned former boxing world champion Anthony Mundine and most of Australia with a 5th round knockout win over “The Man” on Wednesday night December 8 at ACER Arena in Homebush, Sydney.
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By Paul Upham: After a year away from the boxing ring, Parramatta heavyweight “Iron Rhino” Michael Kirby returned with a 2nd round stoppage win over Alipate Liava’a on November 19. The 35 year-old then got into a post-fight feud with NSW heavyweight champion Brett Smith.
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By Paul Upham: Talented Queensland boxer Les Sherrington defends his PABA super middleweight boxing title against former world title challenger Nader Hamdan on Saturday 4 December 2010 at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Broadbeach, QLD, headlining a Jamie Myer promotion.
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By Paul Upham: IBO cruiserweight boxing world champion Danny Green will compete in the epic 2010 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, commencing on Sunday 26 December 2010. A fleet of 99 sailing vessels are expected to undertake the dangerous trek over 628 nautical miles on the waters of Sydney Harbour, the Tasman Sea, Storm Bay and the Derwent River.
37 year-old Green first made his debut in the ocean race last year on the 100-foot yacht “Loyal” on Boxing Day 2009.
After completing his initial
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By Paul Upham: Australian Joel Brunker retained his WBO Youth featherweight boxing title with an eighth round TKO stoppage win over late replacement Roberto Lerio, originally from the Philippines, on Thursday night 25 November at The Cube in Campbelltown, Sydney, headlining a Grange Old School Boxing promotion.
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By Paul Upham: Australian world champion boxer Danny Green gave one of the better descriptions of Sakio Bika a few years ago. “When you fight Sakio,” he said, “you better go into the ring with bricks on your fists, because that’s the only way you are going to hurt him. He is so tough.” Anyone who underestimates Bika inside the boxing ring does so at his own peril.
WBA super middleweight world champion Andre Ward faces Bika in Oakland, USA on Saturday November 27 on Showtime Championship Boxin
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By Paul Upham: Australian Joel Brunker defends his WBO Youth featherweight boxing title over ten rounds against Argentine Ramon Torres on Thursday night 25 November 2010, headlining a Grange Old School Boxing promotion at The Cube in Campbelltown, Sydney.
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By Paul Upham: Finally, we get some balance at this boxing website. For so long, I have been accused of bias. That’s right, around the offices at SecondsOut.com and amongst the people I talk to regularly in the boxing industry they have accused me of being biased for.... David Haye.
In the past of have been accused of overestimating Haye’s ability. I have been accused of pushing his case incorrectly such as here and here and here.
Yes, it’s very nice to get some balance. It seems I rattled
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By Paul Upham: As a member of the Yahoo! Sports boxing poll comprising of 43 boxing writers from around the world I submitted my monthly pound for pound rankings on Monday 22 November 2010. Sergio Martinez arrives sensationally at No.4 after his stunning 2nd round knockout win over Paul Williams.
Juan Manuel Marquez remains at No.3 when taking into consideration his wide body of quality work and his two thrilling close fights with Manny Pacquiao. Michael Katsidis gets the chance to crash Marq
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By Paul Upham: Australian heavyweight cult hero “Big” Bob Mirovic continued his career with a 2nd round stoppage win over Bob Gasio on Friday 19 November at the Revesby Workers Club, Revesby, NSW.
After three consecutive defeats to John Hopoate (twice) and a brutal one round knockout against Ale Leapai on 29 April, there were some suggestions that Mirovic would head into retirement.
However, 44 year-old former national champion Mirovic 30-22-2 (21) was licensed to fight in NSW once more a
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By Paul Upham: Sky Channel in pubs and clubs will show the Sergio Martinez vs. Paul Williams rematch in Australia from 1:00pm AEST on Sunday 21 November 2010 for the WBC middleweight boxing world title.
The highly anticipated rematch of their December 2009 twelve round battle, which Williams won via close majority points decision, will be held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
35 year-old Martinez 45-2-2 (24) from Buenos Aires, Argentina subsequently won the WBC mid
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By Paul Upham: In important positive news for local boxing, Fox Sports Australia will continue its live boxing series hosted by Andy Raymond in 2011 in Australia. Televised every three weeks in 2010, there will be one change in the new year. After a trial of Thursday nights in 2010, the series will revert to Friday nights in 2011.
Paul Upham
Content Editor, SecondsOut.com
uppy@optusnet.com.au
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By Paul Upham: Victorian boxing promoter of the year Peter Maniatis presents a “Lethal Combination” card tonight, Friday 19 November 2010 at Malvern Town Hall in Melbourne, Victoria. In the main event, 22 year-old Health Ellis will face veteran Benny Horra for the vacant Victorian middleweight title.
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By Paul Upham: It was a close fight, but in the final tally, IBO cruiserweight boxing world champion Danny Green simply won more rounds, defeating BJ Flores by unanimous points decision on Wednesday 17 November 2010 at the Challenger Stadium in Perth, Western Australia.
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By Paul Upham: Former New Zealander heavyweight Shane “Mountain Warrior” Cameron won his second consecutive fight at cruiserweight with a twelve round unanimous points decision boxing win over Anthony McCracken at the Challenge Stadium in Perth, Australia on the Danny-BJ Flores undercard.
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By Paul Upham: Danny Green’s IBO boxing world title defence against BJ Flores tonight, Wednesday 17 November in Perth, Western Australia poses some interesting questions to be answered inside the ring.
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By Paul Upham: Australian Danny Green surprisingly weighed in marginally heavier than American BJ Flores on Tuesday 16 November at the official pre-fight weigh-in for their twelve round boxing match at the Challenge Stadium in Perth.
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By Paul Upham: New Zealand's Shane “Mountain Warrior” Cameron continues his foray down in weight to cruiserweight when he headlines the Danny Green-BJ Flores boxing undercard in Perth, Australia on Wednesday 17 November 2010.
33 year-old Cameron 25-2 (20) has been pursuing a fight with Green for the IBO cruiserweight world title. He faces 27 year-old Australian Anthony McCracken 13-4 (5) over twelve rounds for the vacant IBO Asia Pacific cruiserweight title.
Also on the card, popular Aust
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By Paul Upham: I seem to have hit a raw nerve with some readers over my claim on Sunday that both David Haye and Audley Harrison should be fined after their farcical match on Saturday in Manchester.
There were a few who tried to connect the dots by joining the Haye-Harrison debacle with the Danny Green-Paul Briggs controversy on 21 July 2010 in Perth.
I stand accused of letting the Green-Briggs fight slide by without critical comment. Not true.
In the minutes after the match I wrote,
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By Paul Upham: All hail the great Pac-Man. Let us never forget what a virtuoso performance of boxing Manny Pacquiao displayed to the world on Saturday 13 November 2010 at Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Let us also never forget that coming into the match, Antonio Margarito was claimed by some to be the bigger, tougher and meaner Mexican with a point to prove and a reputation to redeem.
Once again, Pacquiao demonstrated that it is not always the size of the boxer that counts, but the speed, techniq
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By Paul Upham: If boxing wants to disappear permanently from the mainstream sporting landscape, just keep scheduling mismatches like David Haye vs. Audley Harrison every weekend.
For a WBA heavyweight world title fight that was watched live in the UK and many other countries around the world, it was a disgrace. Harrison would have been lucky to have landed any more than one clean punch. The 39 year-old should be fined by the British Boxing Board of Control for a lack of effort in the ring in
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By Paul Upham: Before the David Haye-Audley Harrison WBA heavyweight boxing world title event in Manchester on Saturday night, former undisputed world champion Lennox Lewis was welcomed into the arena.
The heavyweight great received a tremendous roar of applause from the crowd inside the MEN Arena, with chants of “Lewis, Lewis.” It prompted the 45 year-old to say, “It made me feel like fighting again.”
After speaking to the crowd, Lewis ushered former opponent Frank Bruno into the ring and
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By Paul Upham: The 4th and final episode of the HBO Sports television documentary Pacquiao/Margarito 24/7 will be screened in Australia on Fox Sports 2 at 5:00pm AEDT on Saturday 13 November 2010.
The Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito fight for the vacant WBC junior middleweight boxing world title will be held at Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, USA.
The twelve round match will be televised live into Australia from 1:00pm AEDT on Sunday 14 November 2010 on MAIN EVENT, FOX SP
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By Paul Upham: Plenty of times after the Olympic boxing gold medallist turned professional he proclaimed “I will be world champion one day”. After his back to back losses to Danny Williams and Dominick Guinn, most people doubted Audley Harrison’s ability to ever reach the top.
Subsequent defeats to Michael Sprott and Marti Rogan prompted some boxing fans to lament his unfulfilled talent. Others thought he was simply overrated and delusional.
But Harrison’s Prizefighter Tournament win in 20
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By Paul Upham: Australian Danny Green’s defence of the IBO cruiserweight boxing world title on Wednesday 17 November 2010 in Perth against undefeated American BJ Flores will be a true cruiserweight match at 200 pounds. 37 year-old Green, who is still really only a light heavyweight in size, will give away considerable bulk to his younger and taller opponent.
Since his comeback in April 2009, Green’s five fights at cruiserweight have seen him weigh-in at 180¼, 179½, 179¼, 184¾ and 184¼ pound
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By Paul Upham: On Saturday night Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito will step into a boxing ring in Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas in front of a live audience of over 60,000 people and televised to millions of people on HBO Pay-Per-View in the US and to many more around the world. It will be boxing’s biggest and most prestigious fight of the year.
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By Paul Upham: American boxing commentator Colonel Bob Sheridan will call his 900th televised world title fight in Arlington, Texas on Saturday 13 November 2010, when he works the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito WBC junior middleweight world title fight at Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
An inductee into the Los Angeles based World Boxing Hall of Fame Sheridan’s televised world title fight career began in 1968 with the Jerry Quarry-Jimmy Ellis match for the vacant WBA world title.
Regularly w
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By Paul Upham: Boxing in Australia flourished in the 1930s and 1940s. A number of stars thrilled local crowds and experts of the day suggested that two of them could have become world champions if they had not become victims of unfortunate circumstances.
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By Paul Upham: American cruiserweight boxer BJ Flores missed his connecting flight to Australia and will not arrive in Sydney on Monday morning as originally scheduled. It is unlikely Flores will arrive now until Tuesday 9 November 2010.
IBO cruiserweight boxing world champion Danny Green will face Flores in Perth on Wednesday 17 November 2010.
When he does arrive in Australia, Flores will spend five days in Sydney training before travelling to Perth
Paul Upham
Content Editor, Secon
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By Paul Upham: Zac “Shaker” Awad won a six round technical points decision over late replacement Tim Kanofski at light heavyweight on Thursday 4 November 2010, headlining a Angelo Hyder “Nitro Boxing” promotion at the Wyong Rugby League Club in Kanwal, NSW.
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By Paul Upham: The WBO featherweight boxing world title match between champion Juan Manuel Marquez and challenger Rafael Marquez will be televised live into Australia on MAIN EVENT and FOX SPORTS Pub & Club Vision. The action from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas will commence at 1:00pm AEDT on Sunday 7 November 2010.
Paul Upham
Content Editor, SecondsOut.com
uppy@optusnet.com.au
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By Paul Upham: The Western Australian Professional Combat Sports Commission announced on Wednesday 3 November 2010 that former WBC light heavyweight boxing world title challenger Paul Briggs would be fined $75,000 of his $200,000 purse after his controversial 29 second loss to Danny Green in Perth on 21 July.
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By Paul Upham: Former IBF super lightweight world title contender Naoufel “Chocolata” Ben Rabah and super middleweight Zac Awad prospect headline an Angelo Hyder “Nitro Boxing” promotion on Thursday 4 November 2010 at the Wyong Rugby League Club in Kanwal, NSW.
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By Paul Upham: It seems the magic memories of the Zab Judah-Kostya Tszyu boxing match from 3 November 2001 linger on. After my story Monday on a new way to pick the winner of the Melbourne Cup horse race, one of the suggested picks Americain charged home to win on Tuesday.
I received plenty of comment and feedback on ”Picking a Melbourne Cup winner with Tszyu vs. Judah”. Some laughed. Some thought it was fun tale. Others thought I was crazy. One reader even labelled it the worst boxing sto
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By Paul Upham: True story. In November 2009, Kostya Tszyu’s website webmaster James came upon a new way to pick a Melbourne Cup horse race winner.
The theory went that as the Melbourne Cup that year was held on 3 November 2009, the eighth anniversary of Kostya Tszyu’s stunning 2nd round boxing knockout win over American Zab Judah, the memory of that fight could help pick the race winner.
Surveying the field, the names of the horses were assessed for their relation to Tszyu, Judah and what
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By Paul Upham: The call went out for a new era of Australian boxers to step forward and make their make on the international level. Daniel Geale and Lenny Zappavigna answered appropriately in recording dominate wins on Sunday 31 October 2010 at the State Sports Centre in Homebush, NSW.
Daniel Geale was superb in stopping Russian Roman Karmazin inside the twelve round distance in an IBF middleweight world title eliminator.
The “Real Deale” Geale proved himself as one of the best middleweigh
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By Paul Upham: With four of Australia’s best boxers in their middle thirties, now is the time for some younger talent to step forward and make a mark on the Daniel Geale-Roman Karmazin undercard in Homebush, Sydney on Sunday afternoon 31 October 2010.
While much of the focus for this promotion has rightly been on Geale, Lenny Zappavigna faces South Korea’s Ji-Hoon Kim in an IBF lightweight eliminator.
23 year-old won the IBO lightweight world title on 6 March and has a goal of becoming an
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By Paul Upham: Australia’s best boxers will be involved in a string of important boxing matches over the next two months commencing this Sunday in Homebush, Sydney when Daniel Geale faces Roman Karmazin in an IBF middleweight world title eliminator.
Eight of SecondsOut.com.au’s top ten rated pound for pound Australian boxers are facing fights where the outcomes will significantly affect their careers.
Adrian Warren, Australian Associated Press boxing writer, has correctly assessed the ex
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By Paul Upham: Water skiing world champion Lauryn Eagle wants to be a boxer. The blue eyed, blonde haired beauty will have her second professional match as a fighter on the Daniel Geale-Roman Karmazin undercard in Homebush, Sydney on Sunday afternoon 31 October 2010.
Such a devastating beauty is Lauryn Eagle there was even recent aspirations for a run at a Miss Universe crown. But that is on hold now. Which prompts the obvious question, why would she want to risk her memorable features to be
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By Paul Upham in Darling Harbour: Junior Talipeau and Shannan Taylor will engage in an old fashioned grudge match over eight rounds at super middleweight on Sunday 31 October 2010 at the State Sports Centre in Homebush, Sydney. But when the media asked the exact origin of their feud, the battle took on a more current format. Allegedly, it all began on Facebook.
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By Paul Upham in Darling Harbour: Their attitudes and demeanour were like a mirror image, even though both boxers are from other sides of the planet. There was not an inkling of trash talk to be found when Daniel Geale and Roman Karmazin came face to face at their “Judgement Day” press conference on Wednesday 27 October 2010 in Sydney.
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By Paul Upham: Australian lightweight boxer Michael Katsidis did not attend the funeral of his older brother, champion horse racing jockey, Stathi Katsidis in Toowoomba, Queensland on Tuesday 26 October 2010.
Katsidis remained in his training camp in Thailand where is preparing for his world title boxing match with Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas on 27 November 2010. Katsidis’ wife Kumi and his daughter Kalia Rose represented Michael Katsidis at the funeral.
30 year-old Ka
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