The year is almost over, and fight fans may be feeling a touch anti-climatic right now. With one of the biggest and most brilliantly hyped fights of 2007 now over ( you know which one I mean) there is nothing to look forward to for the coming weeks – super fight-wise, anyway. The new year, however, promises to be another great year for boxing, possibly even better than the last 12 months – as good as they’ve been..
Let’s recap, then anticipate what we’re in for in 2008.
This past year we had big fights involving the likes of Floyd Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera, both Marquez brothers and Israel Vazquez. We saw greats such as Bernard Hopkins, Shane Mosley, Miguel Cotto and Winky Wright in action. We also saw the arrival of a number of new stars, with Paul Williams, Kelly Pavlik, Edwin Valero and Michael Katsidis having very prominent parts to play over the last 12 months. And over in the U.K, we saw some fine performances from the likes of Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Clinton Woods, Junior Witter and, last but not least, Ricky Hatton. Overall it’s been a very good year for fight fans. Sure, there were a number of postponed fights here and there, and up at heavyweight there was nothing to really shout about, but overall, 2007 was a good year for the fight game.
But what excitement can we get ready fo
