By Derek Bonnett in Canastota: Any boxing fan who has been considering making the trip up to Canastota, NY, USA needs to stop thinking. Thinking just gets in the way of doing and the second weekend of June 2012 is already approaching.

By Derek Bonnett: Kostya Tszyu reigned as junior welterweight champion for the better part of ten years. He captured his first world championship in his fourteenth bout. Tszyu reigned twice as the IBF champion and also held both the WBC and WBA belts. Between November 2001 and January 2003, he was the undisputed champion.

By Clive Bernath: For a man that had minimal amateur experience, lost his first professional fight and spent nearly five years in prison at age 17 Bernard Hopkins has done very well for himself-very well indeed.

By Jason Pribila: For the second straight year the first Saturday of May featured a contest between the best fighter in the world and my favorite fighter. And for the second straight year I had to turn off my cell phone, as it was flooded by “friends” who somehow found me responsible for the spike in their next cable bill.

By Matthew Hurley: So why should anyone who follows prize fighting believe for a second that Shane Mosley has any chance of pulling off the upset against Manny Pacquiao this Saturday night? Mosley contends it’s the very notion so many believe he will be clobbered into retirement by the Filipino icon that he will leave everyone eating crow. He knows upsets are always in the offing, and all it takes is one shot.

By Matthew Hurley: I suppose I owe something of an apology to Erik Morales. After all, what I thought would be my last article about him, until his hall of fame induction, all but begged him to retire.

By Peter Lerner: It’s finally official that one of the most eagerly awaited all-Italian fights of recent years will finally take place. Ex-Olympian and world bronze medallist Leonard Bundu and Daniele Petrucci – both undefeated – will meet for the vacant European welterweight title.

By Peter Lerner: Vinny Maddalone is so big he could pick up an average-sized man and snap him in two. Emanuele Della Rosa is not averse to putting the odd wrestling throw or headbutt into his combinations.

By Daley James Francis: Finally, David Haye and Wladimir Klitschko should be locking horns in the summer, after a merry-go-round where money, ego and TV have been cited as the reason that the fight has taken so long to be finalised.

By Jason Pribila: On Saturday Night at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Connecticut, USA, Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez defends his middleweight championship against Sergiy “Razor” Dzinziruk. The 2010 Fighter of the Year looks to continue his personal ascension up the “Pound for Pound” ranks while adding to the most impressive title reign since Bernard Hopkins lost his crown in 2005.