He also said that his hands had started to pain after the push-ups. However, the adrenaline pump kept him going until the end of the match. The win made Hopkins the most aged fighter at the age of 46 to win one of the major world championships. He rates this undisputed 12-round win over the 28-year-old Pascal as the second best win of his career. He rates the win over Felix Trinidad at Madison Square Garden in 2001 as the most memorable fight of his career. Hopkins has made many defenses for the middleweight title in the history of the title.

According to him, it is getting harder every year. He says there have been challenges all through his life. He also points out the various questions people have been asking him. They want to know when he will hang up his boots and what keeps him so motivated. He says that he is even ready to continue fighting till 60, as he will not be able to stop doing things that he has been since the time he was a Blue Horizon fighter. He also says that he has wisely invested his earnings that count up to millions.

Further, Hopkins states that he has a very disciplined and strong mind that allows him to fight like a new boxer, who is trying to make his name in the boxing industry even after so many years of being in the same field.

About the match against Pascal, Hopkins says that he had Pascal mentally even before the night of the match. Hopkins says that he understood that Pascal was scared of him when he started accusing him for drug use. Hopkins clears it by saying that there have been many accusations in the past. Some of them were baseless, while some were true. However, he has never cheated in the ring and will never do it. That was when Hopkins understood that he had Pascal mentally and was playing inside his head. This way, he was able to irritate Pascal and knocked him off.

Boxing as a sport is governed under some rules and these were formed as early as 1867. The winner of a boxing bout is decided according to the points, which a boxer collects during the fight. The points are given on how well a fighter makes contact with his opponent. These days, boxers fight with the opponent in the same weight category and there are different classes of weight, with the flyweight category being the lightest and the heavyweight being the heaviest.

Boxing has always been associated with betting even during the 18th century when the British characterized the sport with wagers to put on either fighter. The winners were awarded prizes. Since then, the concept to bet on boxing began. Boxing was in its peak phase during the 1960s and 70s when there were fighters like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali. However, in the more recent times, boxing has receded a bit on the levels of popularity.

Despite all the vicissitudes, professional boxing is still alive and with that betting on boxing also thrives. The world’s gambling capital; Las Vegas has boxing odds for all categories and provides the bettors the opportunity to place a wager on their favorites. However, if you are new to betting on boxing, take a good tab from the experts before putting in your money.

The concept to bet on boxing is as old as the sport itself. One cannot think of boxing without betting. In fact according to some sports analysts, the concept has somewhat hampered the growth of the sport in the real sense as it heavily depends on gambling. Big money is involved in fights where popular boxers are contending. It is better to be acquainted about the fighters and with the bets offered. In addition, you should know that the bets for the popular fighters are highly inflated and at times different with different bookmakers. Therefore, it is always beneficial to shop around and compare the bets amongst various bookmakers.

Katsidis 27(22)-2(1) has fallen short twice before. In a close fought battle with Joel Casamayor and a one sided beating at the hands of Juan Diaz. ‘The Great’ now 30, has bounced back with 4 straight wins and claims to have never been better, and his recent 3rd round demolition of promising British prospect Kevin Mitchell did nothing to hurt that sentiment.

However, teaching a young gun a trick or two is a hell of a lot different from defeating the revered Marquez. We’re talking about a different animal entirely.

In a clash of styles that makes the mouth water and adds another ‘0’ to De La Hoya’s bank account, Katsidis will look to suffocate Marquez with pressure from the off. Staying tight on his chest and roughing him up on the inside, the Aussie will plan to be an unstoppable force that’ll make them old legs wilt.

Ironically, Marquez will welcome these tactics, believing Katsidis will be playing right into his hands. The notorious counter-puncher will intend to wear Katsidis down with counters all night and eventually take him out late on in typical Marquez fashion. Assuming of course, the ageing Marquez doesn’t run out of gas, in which case we could see a Hatton-Tszyu type affair unfold.

It’s blindingly obvious what Katsidis’ game plan is going to be; but the question is, can Marquez stop it?

After that Hatton has won many significant welterweight competitions, including the WBA title, and has beaten some of the best boxers in the world. In the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, December 2007 he fought against Floyd Mayweather in the so called one of the biggest fights in the history of the sport where Mayweather defeated Hatton by TKO in the tenth round. His next match was against Juan Lazcano on 24 May 2008, Hatton beat Mexican Juan Lazcano in front of his home crowd of 55,000 by unanimous decision with scores of 120-110, 120-108 and 118-110. The comments after the match were that Hatton did well while boxing and he controlled the range.

On 22 November Hatton fought Paulie Malignaggi at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas where Hatton dominated for all of the fight and defeated Malignaggi by 11th-round with TKO.
On 2 May 2009 again at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Hatton met in the ring Manny Pacquiao at light welterweight but he was defeated in the second round by a KO.
Hatton fought Manny Pacquiao. The fight was the sixth weight category Pacquiao has fought at, and is the weight at which Hatton was previously undefeated.[32] Pacquiao won, after knocking Hatton down twice in the first round. After the last match Hatton has put his career on pause but in June 2010 he stated: “Boxing started off as a habit and it ended up giving me some money and making me a little bit of a better person. But I don’t think I will have a fight again. But you can never say never as I have not announced officially that I won’t be boxing. At the moment I don’t have any fire in the belly for a fight or to get myself to a gym. But it has been only 13 months and I am only 31, so never count me out. “

His first true achievement – becoming a world heavyweight champion came in 1962 by beating Floyd Patterson. In 1963 he defeated Patterson again with a knock-out in the first round. In 1964 Liston fought against Cassius Clay but he refused to come out for the second round because of shoulder injury and the winner of the mach was Clay. Liston was accused of throwing the match. In 1965 after his rematch with Ali, where he lost in the first round there were made similar accusations and some even claimed that Liston was not actually hit by the winning punch of Ali.

In 1969 after a series of wins Liston had another attempt at the heavyweight title but that ended with being knocked out by Leotis Martin. He won his last fight in 1970 against Chuck Wepner by a knock out. After a year his wife found his body in their home in Las Vegas and although his death still remains a mystery, some believe that he was a victim of a murder.

During the 1980s Tyson defeated a string of heavyweight champions and in 1988 he was crowned world heavyweight champion after dethroning Leon Spinks. He remained undefeated for couple of years until his fight against James “Buster” Douglas in 1990, in Tokyo.

Tyson was as much dangerous in the ring, as outside of it. In 1992 he was sent to prison for raping an American beauty pageant contestant. After getting out of prison in 1995 he staged a series of ‘comeback fights’ until he lost in a boxing match against Evander Holyfield. Two years later, Holyfield and Tyson met again in the ring. This was Tyson’s most discussed fight because after receiving what he saw as intentional head butts from Holyfield, he bit off a portion of Holyfield’s ear. After his last win in 2003 against Clifford Etienne (49 seconds into round one), he was named 16th on a list of a hundred greatest punchers of all time. Tyson continue with losing three fights before he finally retired in 2005.

In 1965 he became a professional boxer and it took him only 5 years to pick up his first heavyweight title after winning against Jimmy Ellis. There were many challengers for the title, starting with Muhammad Ali who in 1971 won in the match known as the ‘Fight of the Century’. No matter the loss he manages to respond in the rematch with a victory, becoming the first fighter to beat Ali in his professional boxing career.

Very much Frazier’s career has been defined by his fights with Ali and this culminated in two matches in 1974 and in 1975, respectively. Unfortunately, Frazier lost both matches but in the second game in 1975 ‘Thrilla in Manila’ one can see how well-suited they were. That was one of the closest meetings in the history of box. The coach of Frazier refused to let him back on the ring for the last round, because both men were fighting in extreme conditions. After losing to George Foreman in the sixth round in 1976, Joe Frazier retired but his rivalry with Ali continued and Frazier provoked Ali any time he could.