Former world welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir won a 10 round split verdict over Amilcar Funes on Friday night at the Estadio Aldo Cantoni in San Juan, Argentina.

The WBC champion has made an amazing late career run while the challenger is still considered one of boxing’s best young talents, but that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for Saturday’s WBC middleweight world title fight between belt holder Sergio Martinez and Paul Williams at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, televised in the USA on HBO’s World Championship Boxing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

WBO ranked bantamweight contender Jesus Ruiz scored a shutout 12 round unanimous points win over Julio Roque Ler on at the Jose Cuervo Salon in Mexico City on Friday.

SecondsOut’s content editor Paul Upham has written his third book, “UNDISPUTED: A Golden Era in Australian Boxing” published by ABC Books and HarperCollins and is now on sale.

By Derek Bonnett: The king is dead; long live the king. Well, not really, but when SecondOut’s reigning 105 pound king, Roman Gonzalez, vacated this position to campaign three pounds north at junior flyweight, he left a distinct successor. However, it’s a shame Gonzalez and the heir to the throne of world’s best strawweight didn’t settle things inside of the ring. Regardless, in the wake of the most impressive four fight run in the division, Nkosinathi Joyi reigns supreme.

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.

By Lwazi Ndzobongo at ringside: Isaac Chilembe retained his IBO super middleweight title by fighting to a draw with Tommy Oosthuizen here at Emperors Palace on Saturday night.

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.

Marco Huck (30-1, 23 KOs) will make a fifth defence of his WBO Cruiserweight Title on December 18 when he faces mandatory challenger Denis Lebedev (21-0, 16 KOs) in Berlin.

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.

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.

Unbeaten Michael “Chairman of the Board” Oliveira returns to his roots on November 20, headlining “A Gala Night of Boxing” pro-am event, at Espaco das Americas in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

By Lwazi Ndzobongo Vusi Malinga has won the right to challenge for the IBF bantamweight title. Malinga beat Michael Domingo via 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night in this IBF eliminator in Mafikeng, South Africa.

Mexican boxers claimed a 3-0 win over their Filipino rivals at the Gimnasio Rodrigo in Chihuahua, Mexico on Saturday night.

By Sean Castle and Jason Archbold at ringside: Daniel “The Real Deal” Geale demonstrated himself to be just that by stopping Russian Roman Karmazin late in the 12th round to set up a title shot against IBF middleweight boxing world champion Sebastian Sylvester in Germany early in 2011.

By Sean Castle and Jason Archbold at ringside: Destructive Sydneysider Leonardo Zappavigna confirmed his shot at the IBF lightweight boxing world title by defeating Korean Ji-Hoon Kim in a devastating first round TKO in the main support to Daniel Geale-Roman Karmazin in Homebush, Sydney on Sunday.

Alfonso “El Huracan” Mosquera knocked out Mexican Joel Juarez in the second round at the Al Brown Arena in Colon, Panama on Saturday night to win the WBC Latin American junior-middleweight title.

Sebastian Sylvester (34-3-1, 16 KOs) made a successful defence of his IBF super-middleweight title in Rostock, Germany on Saturday night by out-pointing Mahir Oral (28-3-2, 11 KOs).

Both boxers are former world title belt holders. Both are trying to get to the very top and become a true boxing world champion at middleweight. One has youth on his side, the other immeasurable experience at the highest level. But that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for Sundays IBF middleweight world title eliminator between Roman Karmazin and Daniel Geale at the State Sports Centre in Homebush, Australia.

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.

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.

IBF Middleweight Champion Sebastian Sylvester and Mahir Oral participated in a public work-out in Rostock, Germany today.

The Contender Australia winner Garth “From The Hood” Wood and team will be heading off to a secret location this week in preparation for his 8 December all-Australian boxing grudge match at middleweight with Anthony “The Man” Mundine.

By Andrew Wake: Boxing bin man Rendall Munroe failed in his fairytale attempt to win a world title by losing a unanimous decision to WBC super-bantamweight ruler Toshiaki Nishioka on Sunday (October 24).

By Paul Upham: Australian promoter Peter Maniatis is expanding internationally by co-promoting a boxing card with Zander Kahn’s ZK International Promotions at the Almendras Gym in Davao City, Philippines on Saturday 13 November 2010.

Sammy Gutiérrez,28-5-2-(19), scored a third round TKO against Luis Carrillo, 10-2-1-(9) to win the WBA interim minimumweight title San Martin Texmelucan, Puebla, Mexico on Saturday night.

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This fight won’t happen in real life, so we’ll hold it at SecondsOut. It is WBC boxing world champion versus IBF/WBO/IBO boxing world champion. Knockout puncher versus knockout puncher. Brother versus brother. But that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for a heavyweight world title match between Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko over twelve rounds at the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany.

The verbal sparring sessions between the Klitschko brothers and WBA heavyweight champion David Haye continued today when IBF/WBO and IBO king Wladimir called Haye a coward and a liar.

World heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has praised Derek Chisora for agreeing to face him where fellow Londoner and WBA champion David Haye failed.

Anthony Mundine and Garth Wood ended months of speculation by announcing they will step onto the canvas for their middleweight boxing showdown at Sydney’s Acer Arena, on Wednesday 8 December 2010.

Vitali Klitschko battered American challenger Shannon Briggs for 12 brutal rounds at the 02 World Arena in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday night to retain his WBC heavyweight crown via unanimous decision.

The champion has made an amazing comeback and impressive run in his late 30’s while the challenger is former linear undisputed boxing champion, but that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for Saturday’s WBC heavyweight boxing world title match between Vitali Klitschko and Shannon Briggs at the O2 World Arena in Altona, Germany.

Canadian cruiserweight Troy Ross begins the long road back to title contention on October 30 when he faces fellow Canadian Carl Handy at the Casino Rama Hotel and Casino in Ontario, Canada on October 30.

One is a young boxing star of today the other a pound for pound great of the past but that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of writers from making their confident picks for a 12 round welterweight boxing match between Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns and Paul Williams.

Super bantamweight Francisco “Panchito” Arce claimed the vacant NABF title via a fourth round knockout over former world champ Isidro Garcia at the Tecate Boxing Tour stop in Monterrey, NL, México on Saturday night.

By Tri Nguyen: Hugo "Incredible" Cazares retained his WBA super-flyweight belt after stopping Alberto Rossel in the ninth round at the Centro de Convenciones Tlalnepantla de Galeana in Mexico City, Mexico.

Rigoberto Alvarez claimed the vacant WBA junior-middleweight title via 12 round split decision against interim champ Nobuhiro Ishida in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico on Saturday night.

World ranked light heavyweight Nadjib Mohammedi of France stopped Djamel Selini of Belgium in the third round retain his European Union light heavyweight title on Friday night.

Robert Helenius will make a first defence of his EU Heavyweight Title against Attila Levin in Helsinki on November 27.

Undefeated heavyweight prospect Alexander Povetkin returns to the ring later this month when he faces Nigerian Teke Oruth in a 10 round bout at the Olimpyskiy Sports Palace, in Chekhov, Russia.

The official weigh-in for the Commonwealth Games boxing tournament will take place 24 hours later (on Tuesday) than scheduled after complaints that the official scales were faulty.

Two years after winning the WBA cruiserweight title Guillermo Jones finally made his first title defence at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City, Panama on Saturday(Oct 2) night.

One is a boxing pound for pound star of today and the other a pound for pound great of the past, both winning world titles at multiple weight classes, but that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for a twelve round super lightweight boxing match between Julio Cesar Chavez Snr and Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, USA.

The premiere of the “Max Schmeling” movie was a huge success yesterday night in Berlin where 800 guests, including many VIPs, athletes and famous actors, enjoyed the first screening.

By Paul Upham: The boxing competition at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India will commence on Tuesday 5 October 2010. The tournament will be held over ten weight classes at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium.

In El Foro, Tijuana, Mexico on Saturday night, WBO interim mini-flyweight champion Ramon García Hirales retained his crown via majority decision against Manuel Vargas.

Krzysztof Wlodarczyk made a successful first defence of his WBC cruiserweight title by out-pointing American challenger Jason Robinson in Warsaw,Poland on Saturday night.

In today’s edition of Ask The Editor (ATE), we consider Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s best win, question Manny Pacquiao fighting at a boxing catchweight and put Antonio Margarito’s handwraps into perspective. The Klitschko brothers and their heavyweight dominance gets a mention, we throw David Haye into the mix, give trash talk and tough chins a run and much more.

IBF Middleweight Champion Sebastian Sylvester will return to the ring on October 30 when he defends his title against Mahir Oral in Rostock, Germany.

By Lwazi Ndzobongo at ringside: Lovemore Ndou retained his IBO Welterweight title on Saturday night by defeating Bongani Mwelase via 12 round split points decision.

World ranked bantamweight Thanthong Kiattaweesuk scored a fourth round ko win over Lande Olin retain IBF Pan Pacific title at the Mahare Corporation in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday.

Heavyweight contender Odlanier Solis returns to Germany in December.The three-time world amateur champion and 2004 Olympic gold medallist is on his way to become the mandatory challenger for WBC champion Vitali Klitschko.

By David Boyle at ringside: The National Boxing Arena Dublin was the venue for a double European title fight night on Saturday, which also boosted an array of Irish boxing talent.

By Andrew Wake: British boxing’s Cinderella Man Jason "2 Smooth" Booth fought well but couldn’t wrestle the IBF super-bantamweight title from Canadian southpaw Steve Molitor, dropping a close majority decision.

The champion won their first fight but had to get up off the canvas three times to do it and wants to prove he is better than that, while the challenger wants to avenge his defeat in a fight he should have won, but that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for Saturday’s IBF/IBO/WBO heavyweight boxing world title fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Samuel Peter at the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany.

Wladimir Klitschko and Samuel Peter stepped on the scales today at Karstadt sports in Frankfurt. Klitschko and former WBC Champion Peter will face off this Saturday at Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany.

When WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa steps into the ring against IBF champ Orlando Salido for his first title unification this Saturday (Sept. 11th).

IBF/WBO and IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko was in a generous mood ahead of his latest title defence against Samuel Peter in Frankfurt, Germany this weekend.

WBO Jr. Featherweight Champion Wilfredo Vazquez, Jr will defend his title against Ivan Hernandez at the 10,500 seat Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee, Flo on october 16

On the undercard of the Felix Sturm vs Giovanni Lorenzo clash last weekend Arena Box Promotions young and hungry talents impressed fans in Cologne with great performances.

The WBC Board of Governors has voted unanimously to name Mikkel Kessler Champion Emeritus and Ambassador of Good Will

IBF light flyweight champ Luis Alberto Lazarte retained his title against Nerys Espinoza with a 12 round points win in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday night.

WBO flyweight champion Julio Cesar “Pingo” Miranda. Retained his title against Ronald Ramos via eighth round tko in Monterrey, Mexico on Saturday night.

Oleydong Sithsamerchai retained his WBC minimumweight title by the narrowest of margins against Pornsawan Por Pramook at Kadchoengdoi Shopping Center in Chiengmai, Thailand on Friday night.

The champion wants to remain on top and put himself forward for a future major pay day while the determined challenger is again attempting to win a world title for the first time, but that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for Saturday’s WBA middleweight boxing world title match between Felix Sturm and Giovanni Lorenzo in Lanxess-Arena in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

By Lwazi Ndzobongo: Mzonke Fana captured the vacant IBF Jnr Lightweight title by outpointing Cassius Baloyi over 12 one sided rounds at Carnival City,South Africa on Wednesday night. The scores were 119-109, 118-110 twice.

In today’s edition of Ask The Editor (ATE), we mull over our recent Sugar Ray Leonard-Floyd Mayweather Jr picks, attempt to dissect the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr non-negotiations, question why David Haye won’t fight the Klitschkos, analyse the direction of Anthony Mundine’s career and much more.

Former WBA bantamweight champion Wladimir Sidorenko returned with a 12 round unanimous decision win over Mbwana Matumla on Saturday night at the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine.

Viacheslav Senchenko defends his WBA welterweight title against Charlie Jose Navarro LIVE on SecondsOutTV.com from Lenin Square, Ukraine tonight, August 30.

Check out this week’s In This Corner TV. James ‘Smitty’ Smith talks about Manny Pacquiao vs Antonio Margarito and much more.

By Derek Bonnett: ALA Boxing Promotions has assembled another sizzling showcase of world class boxing on August 28 at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel in Cebu, Philippines. The card will feature Florante Condes, Jimrex Jaca, Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista, and Milan Melindo in separate bouts.

German promoter Wilfried Sauerland has revealed he hopes to announce he hopes to have WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck involved in a cruiserweight Super Six tournament.

Marco Huck produced a powerful display of punching power at the Messehalle in Erfurt, Germany on Saturday night to retain his WBO cruiserweight title against American Matt Godfrey.

By Teddy Stenmark: Professional boxing in Sweden is struggling, that is no exaggeration. In fact, there has not been a professional boxing card in Sweden since February.

By Jose Santana Jr: At a packed out Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City, Panama, Anselmo “Chemito” Moreno once again defeated Nehomar Cermeño by split decision, however this time the fight wasn’t as close as the scorecards indicated.

By Michael Katsidis: I have remained available to honour my commitment with the WBO and am very pleased to see why it is the WBO remains the most prestigious of boxing’s organizations.

By Paul Upham: When sorting through the thousands of boxing books that have been published over the years, you have to see a lot of covers to find something a little different. In the sequel to his original best seller, author Gary Todd has delivered another winner with “Workouts From Boxing’s Greatest Champs II”

Rendall Munrow met big fight rival Toshiaki Nishioka this weekend and said: “I’m even more confident of beating him now.”

By Lwazi Ndzobongo Phumzile Matyila won the SA Bantamweight title at the Orient Theatre in East London on Sunday afternoon.

By Juan Barjas: Saturday night at the Panama Al Brown Arena in Colon City, Panama, Daniel “The Haitian Sensation” Edouard met up with hometown favorite Alfonso Mosquera

By Mark McKenna: Osaka Born , Perth based WBO No.2 Junior Featherweight Kenichi Yamaguchi is confident of topping Puerto Rico’s WBO Champion Wilfredo Vazquez Jr in bout to happen in the near future.

By Juan Barajas: Saturday night at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra, Ghana, light heavyweights Brimah Kamoko and journeyman Hector Velazco fought for the vacant World Professional Boxing Federation title.

One is a Hall of Fame great who was one of the greatest lightweights of all time, the second is a future Hall of Famer and the brightest boxing star today, both winning world titles in multiple weight classes, but that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for a twelve round welterweight boxing match between Roberto Duran and Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, USA.

Unbeaten German boxers Karo Murat, 22-0-(13), and Alexander Frenkel, 22-0, (17), face the biggest tests of their young careers on September 18 when they travel to Birmingham for a special night of boxing at the LG Arena.

IBF/WBO and IBO heavyweight king Wladimir Klitschko is concerned his latest title defence against Alexander Povetkin could fall through once again after the Russian mandatory IBF challenger failed to show for the first press conference to publicise their September 11 fight.

By Juan Barajas: In Chiapas, Mexico, Fernando Montiel the WBC/WBO bantamweight champion battled for three rounds with Rafael Concepcion before stopping him at 1:07 in the third.

Juan Carlos Reveco of Argentina retained his WBA light flyweight interim crown via a fifth round tko against Armando Torres at the Polideportivo Vicente Polimeni in Las Heras, Mendoza, Argentina Saturday night.

Last week WBA middleweight super champion Felix Sturm reached an agreement with his former promoter Klaus-Peter Kohl (Universum) regarding the end of their promotional contract.

By Paul Upham: Boxing fans may see a familiar face from years past this coming weekend when David Tua competes at the Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. He may be a little bit older at 37, but the knockout punch remains the same.

Tebor Brosch won the vacant Canadian welterweight title in a fierce battle with Justin Fountain at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada on Saturday night.

The champion is being held up as the new rising star of boxing and the challenger is a hard working contender ready to upset the promoter’s future fight plans, but that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for Saturday’s WBO featherweight world title match between title-holder Juan Manuel Lopez and Bernabe Concepcion at the Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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By Tri Nguyen: Ulises "Archie" Solis won a convincing 10-round unanimous decision against Eric Ortiz. Solis dropped Ortiz in the ninth and tenth and rounds on Saturday night.

In today’s edition of Ask The Editor (ATE), we ask who gets burnt if Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather is not made, question the return of Antonio Margarito and preview the Wladimir Klitschko-Alexander Povetkin battle. We lament a possible David Haye-Audley Harrison match, spin the Super Six boxing upset bottle once again and much more.