Boxing fans from 110 countries around the world will be watching a world heavyweight title fight this Saturday as Wladimir Klitschko defends his IBF and WBO heavyweight titles against, literally, America’s last chance at snagging a real heavyweight title, “Fast” Eddie Chambers.

If you’re reading this in the United States, though, you’ll have to settle for a $14.95 internet-only pay per view screening on the small screen.

Sounds frickin’ insane.

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For a fight to be labeled “The Event,” Saturday night’s sparring session turned out to be anything but. While none of the blame should be placed on Manny Pacquiao’s shoulders, Joshua Clottey certainly didn’t look like a prizefighter at all. With that said, here are five things I learned from Saturday night’s pay-per-view “event”.

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Jose Luis Castillo has declared his intentions to retire after a one-sided drubbing at the hands of Alfonso Gomez.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship made an interesting move this week with the signing of boxing great James “Lights Out” Toney, adding the boxing champion to the list of boxers looking to make a statement in the sport of mixed martial arts.

Speculation surrounded the situation between Toney and UFC President Dana White for several months and reached a high point at the beginning of the year when the two discussed a possible deal that would make Toney the most notable boxer to make the move to any mixed martial arts promotion.

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There were a lot of championship fights in Mexico last night and Paul Magno has a recap of all the action. See if Giovani Segura and Elias Rojas were able to hang on to their titles. Also in action were Daniel Ponce De Leon vs. Orlando Cruz as well as Lucas Matthysse vs. Vivian Harris. Read on for all the results.

According to nearly every credible source, the rumored Tomasz Adamek-Chris Arreola fight will cease to be a rumor in a matter of hours.

Apparently, contracts are signed, fighters are ready and all that’s left is the official press conference to kick off the countdown to the proposed April 24th date. That official press conference is scheduled for Friday, February 19th, on Arreola’s home turf of Southern California.

While this fight won’t be as significant to the heavyweight division as Wladimir Klitschko-Eddie Chambers or, even, David Haye-John Ruiz, it will be the first time in a long time that fans are getting an evenly-matched, entertaining battle between two guys on the verge of being considered legit threats in the heavyweight division.

A good homework assignment would be to try and remember the last time we were treated to something as all-around good as Adamek vs. Arreola.

If you can come up with an answer, by all means post it in the comment section here because, honestly, I’m having a hard time coming up with anything in recent memory.

In any case, both fighters have a lot to lose on April 24th.

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2010 is upon the boxing world.

While the biggest fight in recent memory has apparently fallen through, that doesn’t mean it won’t happen at all this year. Whether or not Pacquiao vs. Mayweather comes off in March or September, there are plenty of other good fights out there to be made. Here are ten fights that can help boxing continue down its road to redemption.

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As Christmas approaches, families join together to spread holiday cheer. The fighters that make up this list need not to bother themselves with such things; they should be training for the step up in class we know they need. These guys need to step up and face the real challengers in their divisions, or start filling out job applications. Without further ado…….

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The incompetent 119-110 score issued by judge Pierre Benoist after Saturday’s Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez bout has inspired a lot of articles and reports about the awful state of judging in the sport we love.

Just one week after Ali Funeka was robbed of a world title by a pair of suspicious 114-114 scores against Joan Guzman, Benoist’s wide score completely ripped off the scab that had been healing since Gale Van Hoy incomprehensibly saw Juan Diaz utterly dominate Paulie Malignaggi back in August.

But as amateur and professional boxing pundits alike gnash their teeth about bad decisions and their negative impact on the sport, the wheels keep turning and absolutely nothing is being done to alter an obviously broken system.

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By now it has sunk in.

Manny Pacquiao is the greatest boxer on the planet not named Floyd Mayweather Jr. He also might be the worst singer ever to put out an album and sing in a band. Here are ten other thoughts to ponder after Pacquiao’s dismantling of Miguel Cotto.

1. Pacquiao can take a welterweight’s punch.

For me, this was the most important question coming in. How would Pacquiao react when Cotto hit him with clean shots to the head and body? Well Pacquiao laid those questions to rest in the first round when by his own admission, he set out to “feel Cotto’s power”.

Come to find out, he wasn’t all that impressed with Cotto’s power, and preceded to thump him for it. In a potential upcoming fight with Mayweather, whether or not Pacquiao can take a welterweight punch is not a question anymore.

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