1) what former heavyweight champion was often referred to as – Satchel Feet ?
a) Jess Willard
b) Jim Braddock
c) Jack Sharkey
d) Primo Carnera

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Rusty Rubin is the editor-in-chief of the Ringsports.com website and the author of three highly acclaimed boxing books!

This past weekend, on HBO’s Boxing After Dark, veteran Cuban champ Joel Casamayor, 36-3-1 (23) took the measure of Australian Michael Katsidis, 23-1 (20) via a 10th round TKO, at the Morongo Casino. Casamayor keeps the Ring Magazine lightweight title belt, in an exciting fight.

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By David Martinez / Boxing Historian

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Thursday, April 3, 2008 (Versus-TV)
from: New York City, NY
Yuri Foreman vs. Saul Roman (Super Welterweights)
Joshua Clottey vs. Jose Luis Cruz (Welterweights)

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1) Which one of these great champions had the “best” knockout percentage in his career wins ?
the answer is – Wilfredo Gomez

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I have a very important and exciting event to tell you about!

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Rusty Rubin is the editor-in-chief of the Ringsports.com website and the author of three highly acclaimed boxing books!

The highly anticipated match between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez, was, as predicted, a war, and now in two weeks, boxing fans were rewarded by having two fantastic fights.

Normally, you don’t get that much action in a southpaw v. southpaw bout, but we did and more, on Saturday night, a close, hard-fought split-decision to Pac Man.

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By David Martinez / Boxing Historian

Manny Pacquiao, David Martinez and Rusty Rubin

The rematch was exciting, and well worth the wait since their last fight four years ago, in May 2004. When it came to an end, we all had seen another terrific fight.

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Rusty Rubin is the editor-in-chief of the Ringsports.com website and the author of three highly acclaimed boxing books! “Woozel, Boxing and Me” (Authorhouse.com #31810). This book has been rated 4½ stars at Amazon.com. “Off the Canvas” and “Billy Soose, the Champion Time Forgot” #31809, co-authored by Tom Donelson.

Don Kings fight card in Cancun last weekend had a few surprises, one of which was not the 6th round KO of Oleg Maskaev by Samuel Peter. While Peter should be congratulated for his effort, anyone who expected this fight to go the distance has a few to many. Not going the distance was the best bet with these two heavy punchers with questionable chins.

What was a surprise was Nate Campbell easily beating Juan Diaz and claiming his belt. Campbell can fight, but most folks, myself included, thought Diaz, although splitting with King, was still the better fighter. I was wrong on this night.***

Now for the second best fight (which may find a way to supplant Vasquez – Marquez as the early front-runner for fight of the year).

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By David Martinez / Boxing Historian

This past weekend proved to be another exciting and unpredictable weekend in boxing, as I personally picked two of the top three fights correctly. However, I was dead wrong with Nate Campbell’s upset split decision win over previously unbeaten Juan “The Baby Bull” Diaz.

Samuel Peter photo by George Garcia

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