By Dafydd Thomas of The Boxing Tribune

Continuing with The Boxing Tribune's preview of Pacquiao-Clottey, Dafydd Thomas writes about how he hopes Bob Arum and Bruce Trampler's horrific choice of undercard fights will come back to haunt them.

In case you've been in hibernation for over a year, we're gradually recovering from a recession that has affected everyone, no matter what their financial status reads. Many are carefully counting their pesos, only spending on necessary goods while saving for another rainy day.

For fight fans, any fight involving the pound-4-pound king is a necessity, and on Saturday, 2010's maiden HBO PPV will be aired as "The Event", which will cost $50 or even $60 for the HD broadcast. As you all know, Manny Pacquiao headlines against Joshua Clottey, in one of the highest gross tune-up fight in the history of the sport. Read More...

By Paul Magno of The Boxing Tribune.

Filipino journalist and commentator, Chino Trinidad, has found himself at the center of a manufactured controversy surrounding claims that Floyd Mayweather's publicist, Kelly Swanson, intentionally snubbed the Filipino media during the Los Angeles portion of the Mayweather-Mosley publicity tour.

Trinidad alleges that he and another Filipino journalist were directly told by Swanson that the Philippine media was essentially banned from accessing Mayweather at the press conference.

Of course, some dim-witted bomb throwers were bound to latch on to the issue and milk it for some cheap publicity. Read more...

By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport

Devon Alexander faces the sternest test of his young career when he answers the bell tonight against tough as whalebone Juan Urango at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut.

In addition, two Alphabet Soup titles will be unified—at least until one of them is stripped from the winner—and a future showdown with Timothy Bradley might be in the balance. Read the rest here...

By Paul Magno of The Boxing Tribune.

It's official: James "Lights Out" Toney, one of boxing's modern day greats, is now a member of the UFC.

Of course, the UFC isn't getting the James Toney that outclassed most of the best middleweights and super middleweights of his generation. They're not even getting the post-prime Toney who floored, and ultimately beat, Vassiliy Jirov at cruiserweight or the one who humiliated a shot Evander Holyfield at heavyweight. But, nonetheless, Toney represents the biggest name to ever cross the imaginary border between boxing and mixed martial arts. Read more...

By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport.

The Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley mini-media tour has already dipped its toe into boorishness and it is a shame that Mosley, one of the classiest fighters to step into the ring over the last 20 years, has to be stained by its muck. Aside from his BALCO folly, admittedly a big folly, Mosley has never been anything but a credit to the sport. Now, perhaps for the first time in his career, Mosley is engaged in WWE shenanigans for a fight that needs no selling. Read the rest here...

Wilfredo Vazquez Jr gives his thoughts on his upcoming battle against Marvin Sonsona on the Double Assault PPV. Translated in English for FightFan.com by Ivan "LatinoPorVida" Montiel. Read the rest here...

Colin Linneweber gives his thoughts on how the 80's legend would have fared against boxing's current star.

If they had fought at the peaks of their respective careers, "Sugar" Ray Leonard would have soundly defeated current WBO world welterweight champion Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao. Read the rest here...

An eight-foot bronze statue of "The Brown Bomber" Joe Louis will be unveiled Saturday in the International Boxing Hall of Famer’s hometown of LaFayette, Alabama.

Residents of the town of approximately 3,000 people managed to raise nearly $60,000 over a span of three years to pay for the sculpture to be built. Read the rest here...

Carlos Acevedo introduces the first edition of The Cruelest Sport's Pound 4 Pound list.Check out the list here...

WBC world heavyweight champion Vitali "Dr. Iron Fist" Klitschko announced this past weekend that he will retire from the sport of boxing before 2010 is completed.

Klitschko (39-2, 37 KOs), the owner of the highest knockout percentage (94.9%) of any heavyweight boxing titlist ever, also stated that he would like to fight both WBA world heavyweight champion David "The Hayemaker" Haye (23-1, 21 KOs) and Nikolai Valuev (50-2-0-1, 34 KOs) before he hangs-up his gloves. Read the rest here...